Leipzig Update

**SaFe** · 08-23-2007, 13:11

Originally Posted by Martok

My bigger beef is simply the time period CA chose. However, I can't really
fault them for acquiescing to the wishes of the fans -- I know the majority of TW players wanted a game set in the colonial/gunpowder era. I'm just not a fan of the period myself.

To be honest, the majority of the fans wanted a Rome2 consideriung the vote on Totalwar.com.

**Caerfanan** · 08-27-2007, 13:14

"All sails ho!!! To unknown lands!!!"
"Aye Captain"

Naval Battle, and powder. Excited. Need big computer, now....

**Martok** · 08-29-2007, 23:04

Hey Caerfanan! Long time, no see.

Originally Posted by SaFe

To be honest, the majority of the fans wanted a Rome2 consideriung the vote on Totalwar.com.

Well first off, the people on the .com forums aren't the only TW fans around.

Second, even if Rome 2 was the preference of the majority of the *entire* fanbase, I seriously doubt CA would've made another direct sequel right after having just done Medieval 2.

**ChaosLord** · 08-30-2007, 01:53

I'm still hoping(against hope) that they do a China: Total War sometime. If there was any period perfectly suited to the total war gameplay its the Three Kingdoms period. I'm in the same camp alot of the others go as far as muskets and artillery go, never been a fan of it. Only thing that might make me try it is if they actually devote time to improved AI, but that hasn't happened with other revolutionary titles so i'm probably hoping for too much.

**Martok** · 08-31-2007, 00:33

Originally Posted by ChaosLord

I'm still hoping(against hope) that they do a China: Total War sometime. If there was any period perfectly suited to the total war gameplay its the Three Kingdoms period. I'm in the same camp alot of the others go as far as muskets and artillery go, never been a fan of it.

Originally Posted by ChaosLord

Only thing that might make me try it is if they actually devote time to improved AI, but that hasn't happened with other revolutionary titles so i'm probably hoping for too much.

Well CA has said that they're programming the AI for Empire TW differently from how they have in the past; supposedly, the diplomatic & military AI will finally be combined into one. They've admitted that in the previous titles, the diplomatic AI and military AI didn't really speak to each other that much, thus leading to the well-known phenomenon of factions signing treaties and then breaking them a turn or two later.

Now of course there's no way to know just how well it'll actually work out, but at least CA has acknowledged the problem and are trying to solve it. We can but wait and see.