Does anyone know if CA or Sega reads these threads

[Budwise]

It would be kinda nice to know that our creative talking and ideas are actually going to good use. So I guess my question is, are their anyone that helped design this game reading these threads? For instance, there has been talk about the speeches and that seems like a very easy fix so I was wondering if on the expansion thats due to come out (Come on, common sence) or a patch will fix this little problem and make the game more enjoyable.

[econ21]

Threads with posts by CA staff in are marked with a purple and white CA shield - you'll see the speeches one has that mark and includes two posts by Captain Fishpants who is in the English part of CA (ie the part that did not make M2TW). He tends to browse the forums fairly regularly (ie almost on a daily basis).

[sapi]

There are also a number of other CA staffers who browse the forums from time to time, but company policy and common sense prevents them from posting much

[Lorenzo_H]

Threads with posts by CA staff in are marked with a purple and white CA shield - you'll see the speeches one has that mark and includes two posts by Captain Fishpants who is in the English part of CA (ie the part that did not make M2TW). He tends to browse the forums fairly regularly (ie almost on a daily basis).

What does the British part of CA do then?

[econ21]

What does the British part of CA do then?

I believe they are working on the "next generation" of TW games. STW and MTW were first generation; RTW and M2TW are second generation - ie those pairs share basically the same engine.

[Captain Fishpants]

What does the British part of CA do then?

Ummmmm... we invented the whole Total War thing. That's what we "do".

Those colonial chappies in Oz are johnny-come-lately types.

As to what we're "doing" at the moment, that is a secret protected by sigils so hideous that even to glance at work in progress is to risk your sanity being blasted by the awful non-Euclidean geometry and eerie palimpsests displayed on our screens.

Or something -- possibly with less HP Lovecraft. (As an aside, does anyone else think that HP Lovecraft should be some sort of perversity involving brown sauce?)

One of the current code names for the project is Fast As a Shark II: Yeah, Baby! It's going to be good.

[sapi]

Good to hear from you fishpants, though i'm not so sure about those aussie colonial comments - I seem to remember that we beat you blokes at some game called cricket recently and you apparently still haven't recovered

We may be colonials, but we're colonial winners

That said, a HP Lovecraft: Total War would be interesting, to say the least; though I'd personally stick to a real world: total war for now

@Budwise, diablo - does that answer your question? - CA guys are around, and they read so much they've even gone slightly bonkers, to use an english term

[crpcarrot]

umm didnt u assies also LOSE the ODI tournament final?

not to mention the whitewash by the black caps???

i know i know its hard to accept ;)

i'm Sri Lankan by the way good luck with the world cup chaps

[Odin]

the scary thing for me when reading this thread is I know you guys are talking about cricket, and I am an american. My brother in law is from London, he keeps saying something about a bloke name Kevin Peterson and how they stole him from South Africa. that and some ashes win last year :)

Anyway its nice to know that CA does look at the boards, if you read the back of the manual for MTW2 they give a thanks to the org forum members.

[Callahan9119]

i rarely see any CA people here, except fishpants....but he doesnt work on tw games as far as i know

and if he has nothing to do with the development of TW i dont see why he posts under a CA tag, as it gives a false sense of interaction between the devs and the community

he seems like a genuine nice guy though

and if he reads this, i would like him to politely send me his address, so that i may kidnap him and hold him for ransom until CA puts back glorious achievments

[pike master]

you mean there are actually CATS roaming around this forum?i oftentimes wondered if they did, waiting to pounce on some unsuspecting ranter.

[Captain Fishpants]

i rarely see any CA people here, except fishpants....but he doesnt work on tw games as far as i know

and if he has nothing to do with the development of TW i dont see why he posts under a CA tag, as it gives a false sense of interaction between the devs and the community

he seems like a genuine nice guy though

and if he reads this, i would like him to politely send me his address, so that i may kidnap him and hold him for ransom until CA puts back glorious achievments

Doesn't work on Total War games? Doesn't work on them!?

Oooh, my dander is up now, I can tell you.

Harumph!

Pshaw!

Grrr!

I'm one of a select (for "select" read "amazingly small") group of people to have worked on them all, you wee scamp! No, hang on, I didn't do anything for Alexander...

But still. Double Grrrr!

[Quillan]

As to what we're "doing" at the moment, that is a secret protected by sigils so hideous that even to glance at work in progress is to risk your sanity being blasted by the awful non-Euclidean geometry and eerie palimpsests displayed on our screens.

Are you certain that doesn't have national security implications, Captain? That sounds awfully like some secret project during the war, something about a joke so deadly it would kill people who heard it.

[Callahan9119]

sorry, i said as far as i know. but anyways, its not like you ever reveal anything if you did work on m2tw i can at least put a name to my curses in the night as i lament the loss of glorious achievments

so how did you get the good fortune of not having to work on alexander

[Lord Ovaat]

This was a pretty interesting thread until some of you foreign guys started talking about playing with crickets. That's disgusting...............and very disturbing. I just don't want to know what you do with them.

[Roy1991]

BTW Captain, now that MTW2 is in stores, can you please tell use what the never discovered easter-egg in RTW was? :)

[pike master]

crickets are high in protein

[FactionHeir]

BTW Captain, now that MTW2 is in stores, can you please tell use what the never discovered easter-egg in RTW was? :)

Go to heavengames to find out. Fishpants posted it in the easteregg thread there.

[pike master]

i thought it was the oliphaunts.

[pike master]

ok my interest is piqued. i looked on heavengames and i cant find the thread.

what is the easter egg for rome total war?

[Carl]

The name of the Hun horse temple is the name of a famour racehorse spelt backwards.

[pike master]

8| thats it?

[sapi]

I think the op's question has been well and truly answered, and this is going far off topic (which is partly my fault )

As always, if the op wants this re-opened, he can pm me