The Official Hopes, Dreams and Fears Topic

[General_Someone]

I'm sure I speak for at least a few people, that the cities should be more realistically sized and varying , I mean in RTW the largest population I've ever seen is 20,000 and Rome had hundreds of thousands and it was sprawling city not a clone of Athens, both of which had hills which should be incorporated as well, cities are hardly ever on perfectly flat plains. And many cities were built on rivers for trade, or at least had creeks or streams in them. So in the end one of my main hopes is, basically, more realistic cities so that there are obstacles in the fewer sieges we, hopefully,will have. Add more variation to sieges, before they were the same thing with slightly different circumstances, defenses, and the size of the opposing armies, which is why I only played Medieval 2 for about a week before putting it on the shelf to collect dust when I realized all it would be in the campaign was constant, and boring, siege battles. A siege is fun every once in a while but not for EVERY SINGLE BATTLE.

[anders]

Im with Lady Ann, lets have a faster-paced military operational scale together with a slower political and economic side of things.

that way we can have realistic marching times, and still have economic and social development progressing slowly.

[The_Reckoning]

A siege is fun every once in a while but not for EVERY SINGLE BATTLE.

They've stated that they very much want to avoid this. Like how they're actually making it a problem for an enemy army to be marching around outside your cities, so you'll actually want to go meet them in the field more.

[Mailman653]

Id like to see a cool intro cinematic for the playable nations like in the last TW games, maybe like a general in his tent talking with his officers about a nation with maps and books or something similar to MTW2, an old historian in a library dusting off some old history books.

[Sabuti]

This is probaly one for the next game after Empire:

Factions w/ differnent play styles based on the predominant play styles of players. Theses play styles would be randonly assigned to the factions at the start of each campaign. Maybe also add a flexibility rating too that would determine how much that faction is willing to deviate from its style. A change in government type could change style too.