An appeal and an apology to CA. (And several suggestions.)

[Puzz3D]

if they want the kind of MP community that forces them to shut down the public chat to stop the abuse, then they should stick to the RTW gameplay.

I hope MTW/VI multiplayer doesn't get shutdown because a lot of effort is going into NTW, DUX and STW mods for multiplayer. The gameplay you can get in MTW/VI with mods is not achievable in RTW/BI.

[Lord Adherbal]

I hope MTW/VI multiplayer doesn't get shutdown because a lot of effort is going into NTW, DUX and STW mods for multiplayer. The gameplay you can get in MTW/VI with mods is not achievable in RTW/BI.

let's hope Activision's financial department doesn't notice the "Gamespy MTW lobby hosting" line on their bill

[Puzz3D]

let's hope Activision's financial department doesn't notice the "Gamespy MTW lobby hosting" line on their bill

Right now Activision is still selling MTW and VI in the USA, but soon MTW Gold will replace them, and Sega publishes that.

[Ness]

I didn't know is Multiple Choice Poll

edit:I only vote for better AI

[The_678]

I agree with most of the points, but my biggest gripe to me is the victory conditions. This is new news to me and once again I am dissapointed with CA for this. One of the reasons MTW was so good was that it was totally free-form, with you being able to anything you wanted to win. Conquer 60% of the world. With that you could play the game differently every time. But with Victory conditions you are forced to go in the same or a similar direction every time. Using the English as an example, what if I just wanted to conquer Europe? With this conditons you will be forced to attack Rome and Constantiople which I may not want to do. They are taking away the freedom of the game. The more I hear of the game, the more I wish I hadn't lost Disc 1 of MTW and could just play that and have no worries about restrictions or inferior AI.

[econ21]

One of the reasons MTW was so good was that it was totally free-form, with you being able to anything you wanted to win. Conquer 60% of the world. With that you could play the game differently every time. But with Victory conditions you are forced to go in the same or a similar direction every time.

Alternate victory conditions would be nice - so either "conquer the world/60% etc" or some glory goals. Then that would please people like you who want the freeform game and people like me who find "conquer 60%/50 provinces etc" a bit of a yawn. I loved the MTW glorious achievements - especially the crusades and some of the more idiosyncratic ones (the Krak de Chevalier).

I guess the Council of Nobles missions might give some of the character of GAs - just as the Senate missions did in RTW. I rather like some direction to the game and really liked the Senate missions. They were usually appropriate and the carrots/sticks were just the right magnitude (=> so the missions were optional but nice to pull off).

Generally speaking, customing victory conditions to the faction as BI did makes a lot of sense. EB also does this very well.

[Myrddraal]

Personally I have no problem with those victory conditions. If you had the kind of victory conditions Ignoramus suggested, they could replace the lot by "Replicate history".

I could script you a RTW campaign where all you do is watch history unfold if you like? I don't think many people would enjoy it though.

Slower battles is very important. I'm really really really hoping for a speed bar.

Better AI speaks for itself and is greatly needed.

[NodachiSam]

I though you could only pick one option so I picked better diplomacy. I guess that explains the priority as I see it :P

[Grifman]

Using the English as an example, what if I just wanted to conquer Europe? With this conditons you will be forced to attack Rome and Constantiople which I may not want to do.

Did they move Rome and Constantinople without telling me? I thought they were in Europe. Damn CA! :)