Good news on the patch!

[Attalus]

My two-bobs worth...

I hope to see the vanishing armies and tactical withdrawals fixed or refined.
No more 3000 mile routs by the enemy after a good whuppin'!!

Diplomacy...no more 'We'd rather put a genitals in a blender than sell you our map' for no apparent reason.

Assassins that have the capability to...erm...actually KILL something from time to time...

BTW...how cool are those new Spartans? Can't wait to see what's next.

For the new Campaign or expansion

The Peloponnesian war....(Thermopylae as an historic battle)

The Punic wars...

Vercingetorix/Caesar in Gaul...

Marius/Sulla...

(Oooh...I'm a member now!! I won't let you down!!)

-Attalus-
Fool me once...shame on you
Fool me twice...prepare to die

[ghostcamel]

I hope to see the vanishing armies and tactical withdrawals fixed or refined.
No more 3000 mile routs by the enemy after a good whuppin'!!

I agree to some extent, but i think it could be unfair to the AI. The AI never seems to chase my troops if i decide to withdraw. But i can chase down and kill them with ease.

Maybe just for boats then?

Diplomacy...no more 'We'd rather put a genitals in a blender than sell you our map' for no apparent reason.

Assassins that have the capability to...erm...actually KILL something from time to time...

BTW...how cool are those new Spartans? Can't wait to see what's next.

Great suggestions. I like the new spartans alot myself also.

For the new Campaign or expansion

The Peloponnesian war....(Thermopylae as an historic battle)

The Punic wars...

Vercingetorix/Caesar in Gaul...

Marius/Sulla...

Sounds good.

But lets be 'realistic'. The expansion needs to deliver one thing above all, 3d naval battles. I dont think theres any possible new feature that has the broad appeal of 3d navies.

Heh i wouldnt want to see the emails if they cant get that into the expansion

[Voigtkampf]

Take time with multiplayer issues, respected gentlemen of CA. Please. I have played Shogun an entire summer long, up to 4-5 hours a day. To be frankly, even longer than that. I played it again and again in the next years until Medieval showed up. I played Medieval twice as often as I did play Shogun. I played it all the way until few months before the release of the Rome. I always played SP, never MP. Bad connections issue, I had only a modem back then.

I stopped playing Rome SP for more then a month now. It is not as nearly seductive to me as both previous games are. I wrote a review for the pc gaming magazine I work with and rated the game dazzling 95%. It beats all opposition easily, but it can’t match up its predecessors by far.

I played several MP games, but the lag/failed to connect issue is devastating, not to mention the cheating issue. If the next patch doesn’t considerably fix MP, I’m off to play Medieval and chess online. Not that anyone would care, of course, since MP is only 1% of sales. But I personally would find this most unfortunate.

[Uesugi Kenshin]

I think the expansion should also add a whole ton of units, because otherwise there would not be as much of a difference, just a different map.

Just my 2 cents!

[Attalus]

But lets be 'realistic'. The expansion needs to deliver one thing above all, 3d naval battles. I dont think theres any possible new feature that has the broad appeal of 3d navies.


Agreed. Shiver me timbers. Buckle me swash. Fetch me another cabin boy, this one be split.....(it's a comma thing, trust me)

Could it be that hard? (For an expansion I mean)

Still...I do kinda miss those little FMV's from Shogun.

Maybe something like that for sea warfare? Better than...CLICK...you lost...CLICK...you lost again...CLICK...erm...lost...CLICK CLICK CLICK..

-Attalus-
Fool me once...shame on you
Fool me twice...prepare to die

[Duke John]

Lets be even more realistic. This thread is not about an expansion, it's about the patch.

[Nigel]

Yep, getting back on topic.

I do hope that most of the MP issues have been fixed.
I know this is the SP forum here, but if we talk about the patch, the MP side was really most in need of it. Among other things my main issue is that you cannot have two players of the same faction (other than Romans) in the game. Make battle re-enactments nearly impossible

[Praylak]

I’ll be putting hard cash down to wager that the AI, campaign and battles are going to be quite different after the patch. There are many things I’d like to see fixed, most already mentioned but the campaign map AI is foremost. In many ways it directly relates to the problems in some battles, so fixing it will help the battles in itself even if they didn’t look into the tactical side. It has already been stated that both are getting worked on.

Just a wild guess here, but I think the hourglass on the RTW project dropped it’s last grain a wee bit sooner than they had expected. The result of which lead to the development of some “quickie” scripts. Making it function is not necessarily the same as making it work as intended. These scripts are time buyers and would explain some of the totally challenged things I’ve seen in the game.

So I’ll make the appropriate sacrifices to the appropriate Gods and hope for the total best.

[ulyanov]

So after 2 weeks the patch thread is quietly deleted?

What happened at CA?