New factions?

[satalexton]

i think thats' cuz that ball-less chap nicked a helluva silver and used it to become a major asia power...dun quote me on that tho...

[Aemilius Paulus]

i think thats' cuz that ball-less chap nicked a helluva silver and used it to become a major asia power...dun quote me on that tho...

Sorry, but what exactly are you talking about? I'm having a hard time interpreting what you have just said.

[Admetos]

why couldn't the Mauryan Empire make it into EB II? Most of it is already represented in the EB map, just as Eleutheroi.

Huh? Most of the Mauryan Empire is already represented in EB? Ok...

Yes I have read Pergamon's history, General Appo. But why not have Kyrene, Halikarnassos, Zankynthos, Emporiai, Massalia, Olbia, Agathe, Alalia, Kroton, Kydonia, Byzantion, Heraklea, Odessos, Phasis, Pantikapaion, Pitoys, Kerasos, Mallos, Side, Antipolis, or Tanais? I am not criticizing the EB team for choosing Pergamon, I am simply arguing with the people who think Pergamon was so important and unique.

Again, I think your history is lacking. If you had read up about Pergamon, you would know that they had controlled a large portion of Asia Minor.

Are the cultures so hard-coded that the EB team cannot create a new culture?

There is a limit on the amount of cultures, so to create another one, another has to be lost.

[Aemilius Paulus]

Huh? Most of the Mauryan Empire is already represented in EB? Ok...

Again, I think your history is lacking. If you had read up about Pergamon, you would know that they had controlled a large portion of Asia Minor.



There is a limit on the amount of cultures, so to create another one, another has to be lost.

Q1:It is, or at least the western half of the Maruryan. Having a part of the Mauryan Empire is better than none at all. What did I say that was wrong?

Q2: This is from the EB II FAQ by MarcusAureliusAntonius:
"Q: Will the Koinon Hellenon be devided into a Spartan, Athenian, and Rhodian Faction?
A: The Koinon Hellenon will remain as a faction and will not be divided up. Individually, each city-state was not strong enough or expansionistic enough to warrant the usage of a faction slot during this time period. Based on the EB system of deciding factions, if the Koinon were divided, it would be best represented by strong rebels. Therefore, the Koinon Hellenon will remain as a united league."
I would say the exact same thing about Pergamon.

Q3: You're right about that. However, doesn't eve the CA know how to change/crack that hardcoding, if such thing is possible?

P.S. How's Asia Ton Barbaron coming along? I'm really looking forward to it.

[Foot]

Mauryan Empire (the green one in India):


Having about 2/3rds (and the important 2/3rds like with all the major cities and stuff) off the map instantly makes such a faction impossible to do. Without including India on the map the Mauryans are just not a major player.

As for Pergamon. They had an important part to play in Asia Minor, were a powerful city-state with some expansion within our timeframe. Compared to Athens, Sparta and Rhodes, who did bugger all outside of their Koinons, Pergamon is a far more viable candidate.

Of course CA knows how change the max number of hardcodes, they coded it. Its not the matrix, there isn't any magic to it, seven isn't some mystery number that just popped up, they plugged that in because thats all they needed. We did ask them to increase the culture limit, but CA, for whatever reason, did not do so in there latest patches. My guess is that either the time taken to re-code that area would have taken too long to do with very little return (they aren't going to make many more sells from such a specific change that doesn't alter anything their end), or that recoding it introduced new bugs or hogged up the system's resources too much.

Of course, with faction limits we have to make choices. At this point most of the major players are already in. One of the main considerations we have is that we have people on the team willing to work on the area and that there is actually information on a specific political entity that we can use to create a faction. Why is so much of eastern europe empty? Because so much of eastern europe is devoid of evidence of what the hell went on there during our timeframe.

I hope this has helped some people understand what is going on.

Foot

[Aemilius Paulus]

I hope this has helped some people understand what is going on.
Foot

Thanks Foot, it sure did.

[Admetos]

Thanks for the support Aemilius, it's coming along nicely.

[Puupertti Ruma]

Thanks for the support Aemilius, it's coming along nicely.

Well, if the picture Foot just posted is from AtB, I'd say: Whoopie! Keep up the good work and make us more EB goodness to play!