Unexplored areas

**johhny-turbo** · 10-05-2007, 20:53

In M2TW the western and southern portions of the map are unexplored and just appear as an area of blackness. I'm wondering, could it be possible that some factions have different unknown areas? For example a good portion of Germania could appear to be unknown to the Romans until they decided to actually explore though of course Germania would be known to the Sweboz and maybe some other factions though the Sweboz will be in the dark as to what lies in a good portion of the map.

**Bootsiuv** · 10-05-2007, 22:26

I'm fairly certain something like this is already being implemented in EB 1.

It has something to do with placing spies at the beginning of the game, and then immediately disbanding them via script....different factions will know different parts of the world.

Take that response with a grain of salt, as I'm not a member.

I just remember hearing something about this already.

**skuzzy** · 10-06-2007, 03:27

Sounds exploitable to me, albeit a good idea :)

**MarcusAureliusAntoninus** · 10-06-2007, 06:30

The dark areas (different from FOW) are a layer in the map. This means that it cannot vary from faction to faction. It has to be the same for all factions.

**iceman7291** · 10-07-2007, 05:04

Originally Posted by MarcusAureliusAntoninus

The dark areas (different from FOW) are a layer in the map. This means that it cannot vary from faction to faction. It has to be the same for all factions.

Not true at all, in the Americas campaign in Kingdoms there are different unexplored areas for EVERY faction.