First Impressions of EB 1.0?

[PSYCHO V]

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Nothing's changed. Good to see you at your benevolent best there Dave.

On a more positive note, congratulations to the team. Generally the game has been improved significantly from previous versions.

I do however have some problems with accuracy which I will post in detail when I get the chance. Disapointing considering the whole.

my2bob

[Aymar de Bois Mauri]

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I'm impressed, hair to heel!

Installation is pretty smooth, no need to be a nerd, and it completes as fast as could be expected from such a heavy mod. Initial loading took 6-7 minutes for me but I couldn't give up my emule and mü-torrent at the background -the latter continuously seeding EB. No serious lags either on the the campaign map or in the battles until the notorious memory leak hits.

The historical insight is just amazing! I'm reading almost every bit and piece, from loading screens to traits and building/unit descriptions. A few typoes here and there but professional games have got as much, if not more of them.

Loved the calm strategy map! No pointless expansions, no useless warmongery. People () are getting on, trading and occassionally taking on the Eleutheroi. The battles are satisfying! No more easy bloodfests. Victory comes with its price and you really worry that you might really lose a struggle!

The campaign map is plain beautiful! Love everything you added. The true potential of the game is unleashed. If only there were much fewer hard-code restrictions, or none at all.

My first session lasted six hours. More sleepless nights of mine shall be consumed with EB, no doubt. Well done, thanks and congratulations once again.


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Thanks, Mouz. Very good to know that you are enjoying it. Long time coming your first play. But all the better, since you can enjoy it more now.

[Mouzafphaerre]

Thanks, Mouz. Very good to know that you are enjoying it. Long time coming your first play. But all the better, since you can enjoy it more now.

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Absolutely! It's been worth the wait.
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[CrownOfSwords]

Here are my first impressions:

I really like the new units they look really good as always what I would expect from the EB team.

But I have two major pet peeves:

#1 There is a MAJOR performance slowdown, turns take forever it shouldn't be this slow I have 1.5 gigs of RAM and my computer is being pushed to the max. The game nearly runs so slow that it becomes unappealing after just a few turns.

--comments about new music deleted - if you can't be polite at all then just leave-- (Teleklos Archelaou)

[Foot]

#1 make sure there are no background programs running. I have 1gig of ram and the turns take 1min tops.

#2 The old music is still there. We aren't sorry that you don't like it, we do. It is a fantastic representation of ancient celtic music, which we were able to use thanks to the kindness. So how about you don't insult us, them and their music and be a bit more tactful next time?

Foot

[The_Mark]

I've always wondered what's the fuss about AI turns taking long. Even on my old computer, which was a piece of , turns went past like water. Well, at least, like syrup, but they never took too long. Loading times, they were hell, at least for a scripter who has to load the game tens of times just to test whether or not he got the number of empty lines (which is random) between two random monitors right.

[Zaknafien]

mine also runs incredibly smooth, always has. I always wonder why some folks have such problems.

You do realize you can switch off the "watch AI moves" part, right?

[Sakkura]

mine also runs incredibly smooth, always has. I always wonder why some folks have such problems.

You do realize you can switch off the "watch AI moves" part, right?

That does help quite a lot. Much more than it did in vanilla RTW, presumably due to the larger area under fog of war.

[Oleander Ardens]

Nice to hear from you, Oleander Ardens. Everything fine with you?

Nice that you liked the Rhaetic units.

All fine Aymar, I'm deep into a Sweboz campaign, 245 BC by now and under the top 5.

So far it runs very smooth, even on my old system. Takes some time but no CTD so far.

Great work so far

Cheers
OA

[CrownOfSwords]

Look ive been playing RTW as long as anyone here, I even helped beta test this mod back in the days of its creation. And I say there is a slow down in performance, i'm not stupid my settings are correct as they have always been.

And I was not insulting anyone about the horns, but that music is simply not fit on the battlemap!

[Thaatu]

I do however have some problems with accuracy which I will post in detail when I get the chance. Disapointing considering the whole.

Just remember to be polite and maybe even squeeze in a few jokes to lighten the mood. Try to give a solution to the problem, but don't demand it. If those steps are followed, we might get through this without the need for peacekeepers.

Thank you for your cooperation!

[Aymar de Bois Mauri]

All fine Aymar, I'm deep into a Sweboz campaign, 245 BC by now and under the top 5.

So far it runs very smooth, even on my old system. Takes some time but no CTD so far.

Great work so far

Cheers
OA

Thanks! Enjoy...

[PSYCHO V]

Just remember to be polite and maybe even squeeze in a few jokes to lighten the mood. Try to give a solution to the problem, but don't demand it. If those steps are followed, we might get through this without the need for peacekeepers.

Thank you for your cooperation!

.. will do.

[Bonny]

mine also runs incredibly smooth, always has. I always wonder why some folks have such problems.

You do realize you can switch off the "watch AI moves" part, right?

You haven't played vanilla (or any mod without script) recently. The vanilla Ai turn is a matter of seconds (~1-5) while the eb ai turn is near 1 minute (~30 seconds to 1 minutes and if you catch the eleutheori on an bad turn it takes even longer).

Play a bit FATW (or just eb without the script) and you will notice that EB ai turns take a damn large amount of time compared to any other tw game.

After you have played it for a while you won't notice the long ai turns any more, but i can assure you that they are there.

[olly]

Hello

Finally had time for a couple of hours play last night.

Again an excellent mod, installed easily, no CTD's or bugs, and no slower then the 0.8 version I had before.

Had a go as KH and instantly got Athens nicked from me by Macedon but thanks to Epiros eating up a lot of their army I am stabilising a bit now and pushing them back.

Not sure what to make of the sea at the moment but then again I have been used to the same old blue for a couple of years now!

Thank you very much for another excellent mod. Really enjoying it.