Yet another revelation of lost features

**Kraxis** · 04-20-2005, 02:24

True enough, but not as you might think. This has nothing to do with the game working badly, but to do with the features that never made it into the game.

I was looking through the files in UI (need to be unpacked though) and happened to look at the tga files of MESSAGES. What a treasure of dusty old and forgotten features and messageimages. There are images for almost ever instance in the game. Even lowly instances such as that of hiring a unit or retraining it (even agents). But those that were interesting were those of the spies and assassins. There are images for kidnapping, rescues, scandals, thefts and poisoning the water. Another set of images related to decimation of the army (cool image btw), creation of new cities and wonders, various other means of taking cities (threatening and infiltrating), recruitment of ancillary unit (must be taken to mean auxiliary), named ancillaries and a whole lot of disasters...

I must say that the developers at CA had high hopes for the game. Just too bad none of these made it.

**Marcus Maxentius** · 04-20-2005, 02:53

Some of those would've fleshed out diplomacy and more reasons to go to war other than I like your land now give it to me.

**slackker** · 04-20-2005, 06:07

perhaps u could post this in the mod forumn, and let the modders have a look :)
after all its the modders who still keep the game on my hdd ;)

Cheers

**tai4ji2x** · 04-20-2005, 06:43

i doubt modders could do that much. seems like lots of hard-coded stuff. or at least we don't know the triggers/codes/whatever to enable certain actions/events

**Marcus Maxentius** · 04-20-2005, 07:04

couldn't it also be a brainstorming list or stuff that was sketched not but never seriously worked on past the planning stage? Pictures and words might all that is there.