An interesting development

**RTKCharlemagne** · 01-10-2006, 08:33

Very good points Elmo.

**Oswald** · 01-11-2006, 00:06

<sighs>

**ElmarkOFear** · 01-12-2006, 06:18

I am setting up a thread to collect a wishlist for the next TW game. Please participate in it and point out what absolutely must be in the next game to make MP work well and be attractive in drawing in new players.

Example: CD-Key-to-Player-Username feature so CA will not have to shut down chat to stop the current problems with harrassment etc . . Need to be able to permanently ban/ignore players from your chat screen and games. Also, in extreme cases, a player could be banned from the MP lobby altogether.

Things such as this. It may not do any good, but now would be the time to present a list since CA's attention has been drawn to MP with the shut down of chat. I am sure they would like to avoid that in the next game and will be more susceptible to take a close look at the MP community's wish list as long as it is non-critical of the current game and lists a valid reason why the item would be good for the game (MP and/or SP).

I will also post at the .com asking for ideas/wishes.

I am willing to come back to TW if they bring back features of old, which made the MP game so much fun to play. Atmosphere is what is missing from RTW MP. For some reason it just doesn't have that "THANG" which keeps you coming back. :)

**RTKCharlemagne** · 01-16-2006, 09:43

My latest post at the RTW forums...

In a conversation I had with Choja several weeks back, he stated that in a personal meeting with 2 upper level Sega managers concerning the lobby issue, the Sega representatives made a comment alluding to a perception that MP had only 200 people playing. The comment was made in relation to making decisions investing more money to fix the chat issues based on such a small number of people playing.

At this point based on the lack of response from Sega, I have no reason to doubt his statement. Where is our answer Shogun???

The wait, along with the unresponsiveness of Sega is unnaceptable.

**cromwell** · 01-16-2006, 16:30

Maybe we need another letter from the community, with sigs attached. We could mail this directly to Sega, and put pressure on from another angle. Forget going through "shogun" and the .com. There are more than 200 people all told, it's just that the online atmosphere sucks.

If Sega isn't concerned due to the small amount of people online, I wish CA would just release a server patch, and let us run our own servers. This takes them off the hook, and gives us some control.

Later all

Cromwell

**Squirrel_of_hatred** · 01-17-2006, 06:44

HA hA hAaa

Dont you see the stupidity in that statement about only being 200 people online.

The Bloody online thing dosent fully work, ITS DEFECTIVE -thats why!! sheesh.

Its a fair testament to the people who do play online despite of this, putting up with "Cannot connect to host", "Gamespy has encountered an error" and so on when trying to join games then, with those that can host "the game has desynched" style error messages. Many people can host but not join games!!! the list go's on.

By right im suprised anyone play's under these conditions when you have the latest flash and dazzle, online, fully working titles but amazingly the community puts up with these hardships to say the least, and gets the above statement which contradicts itself.

If there are hundreds of people willing to be patient with a defective, frustrating, flawed online game imagine how many people would be interested in the same game that actually allows people to play online with out these afflictions. Look at the effort put into the top quality mods!! I like to call it common sense.

Not to be entirely negative i would like to thank CA/Shogun etc. for implementing the last patch and putting the option of removing the fairy sparkle effect a gripe of mine and also making the cav / infantry balance more realistic and plausable and for fixing the replays i do appreciate it and you deserve some positive feedback every now and then im sure though people arent likely to post just to say everything is working dandy, -for the patches thank you and keep it up.

Celtic Tiger...

**RTKCharlemagne** · 01-17-2006, 09:29

Dont you see the stupidity in that statement about only being 200 people online.

Of course I do.

There is obviously more than a mere 200 people in MP, and with a properly working MP there would obviously be many more. However the reason I quoted Choja there was to make the bigger point that Sega is not willing to invest in a fix because they don't see a return on their investment by doing so, due to their percieved lack of people who even play RTW/BI mp.

Based on their actions, or rather their lack of it so far, it looks like Sega is willing to sacrifice the entire RTW/BI MP community over this whole issue....

After 7 weeks, and no workable solution put forth so far by Sega or Shogun, it looks like what Choja said to me reflects reality through Sega's eyes. Hopefully Sega/Shogun will prove my conclusion false, but so far neither has done anything to convince me otherwise...