Matrix Games Forums

 Forums  Register  Login  Photo Gallery  Member List  Search  Calendars  FAQ 

My Profile  Inbox  Address Book  My Subscription  My Forums  Log Out

RE: Announcement from the development team!

 
View related threads: (in this forum | in all forums)

Logged in as: Guest
Users viewing this topic: none
  Printable Version
All Forums >> [New Releases from Matrix Games] >> Empires in Arms the Napoleonic Wars of 1805 - 1815 >> RE: Announcement from the development team! Page: <<   < prev  1 [2] 3 4   next >   >>
Login
Message << Older Topic   Newer Topic >>
RE: Announcement from the development team! - 10/11/2006 7:30:26 PM   
Montbrun


Posts: 1498
Joined: 2/7/2001
From: Raleigh, NC, USA
Status: offline 		Ok - I'm ready - where do I pay

(in reply to Marshall Ellis)
Post #: 31
RE: Announcement from the development team! - 10/11/2006 10:01:17 PM   
Ursa MAior

 

Posts: 1416
Joined: 4/20/2005
From: Hungary, EU
Status: offline 		Right here. 2132-45645454545456454545454-4545454545554. We accept preorders.

_____________________________


Art by the amazing Dixie

(in reply to Montbrun)
Post #: 32
RE: Announcement from the development team! - 10/12/2006 2:33:12 AM   
Joisey

 

Posts: 161
Joined: 8/3/2006
From: Montgomery, New Jersey
Status: offline
quote:

ORIGINAL: Monadman

quote:

ORIGINAL: Joisey

The foraging values look like they've been shaved down in this area of the map from the orginal.  A "2" for Posen?  Warsaw and its environs are hardly the same as the Russian Steppes!

I would be interested to hear the rationale for this design choice.  Is it to make it harder on the French for an extended campaign in the Meta-game?



Hi Joisey,

The Posen forage value is one of many graphical errors that are currently being addressed (that’s what we’re told) but it was coded correctly. In the insert below, you can see the two supply options available to the Prussian IV corps; forage and depot supply.

1) The forage value is 3 (not 2) and the modifiers to the die roll are -2 (+2 for winter, -1 for own territory and -3 for unused movement points)
2) The cost to use depot supply from Berlin is $4 (2 areas away during winter)

Richard

Edit: Oh and btw, the white highlighted areas show the movement range that the corps has and the winter land movement option (double cost) was not in use for this example.





Thanks for the reply! Ya know, if you posted the entire map, you could get tons of free help from your online fans here to find those pesky errata (hint hint)

_____________________________

"Glory is fleeting, but obscurity is forever."
- Napoleon Bonaparte (1769-1821)

(in reply to Monadman)
Post #: 33
RE: Announcement from the development team! - 10/12/2006 2:50:19 AM   
Monadman


Posts: 2085
Joined: 12/6/2005
From: New Hampshire
Status: offline 		I understand you will be seeing it, I just don’t know exactly when and for how much.

Seriously, we are patiently waiting to see the map errors, which were already identified, finally fixed.

Richard


_____________________________


(in reply to Joisey)
Post #: 34
RE: Announcement from the development team! - 10/12/2006 6:23:34 AM   
Joisey

 

Posts: 161
Joined: 8/3/2006
From: Montgomery, New Jersey
Status: offline
quote:

ORIGINAL: Monadman

I understand you will be seeing it, I just don’t know exactly when and for how much.

Seriously, we are patiently waiting to see the map errors, which were already identified, finally fixed.

Richard



Okay, and thanks again for the info. Once again, great work guys.


_____________________________

"Glory is fleeting, but obscurity is forever."
- Napoleon Bonaparte (1769-1821)

(in reply to Monadman)
Post #: 35
RE: Announcement from the development team! - 10/16/2006 11:41:15 PM   
Frank McNally

 

Posts: 42
Joined: 8/29/2003
Status: offline 		Is there any way to toggle the size of the garrisoned city markers smaller?  The giant rooks seem excessive and clutter the board.  The little flags would be enough to show a garrison. I know it would not be as pretty as some might like but I'd rather have a number in a square there (color indicating nationality).


(in reply to Joisey)
Post #: 36
RE: Announcement from the development team! - 10/16/2006 11:50:24 PM   
Marshall Ellis


Posts: 5630
Joined: 10/2/2001
From: Dallas
Status: offline 		Frank:

Not at this point. We can look at this a little later depending on how many requests/ideas we get. I don't think would happen until after IP play is done. This is my best guess as of today. All of this is subject to change :-)

Thank you



_____________________________

Thank you

Marshall Ellis
Outflank Strategy War Games



(in reply to Frank McNally)
Post #: 37
RE: Announcement from the development team! - 10/17/2006 3:16:50 AM   
Frank McNally

 

Posts: 42
Joined: 8/29/2003
Status: offline 		Thanks Marshall. I'll be buying this either way and the map looks nice, I just would like to less of it covered.

(in reply to Marshall Ellis)
Post #: 38
RE: Announcement from the development team! - 10/17/2006 3:25:42 AM   
Marshall Ellis


Posts: 5630
Joined: 10/2/2001
From: Dallas
Status: offline 		Frank:

I did add a zoom window option at the bottom so that you can see an up close version of the area without unit stacks all over it. This was done so that you can see the area uncluttered...




Attachment (1)

_____________________________

Thank you

Marshall Ellis
Outflank Strategy War Games



(in reply to Frank McNally)
Post #: 39
RE: Announcement from the development team! - 10/17/2006 4:31:53 PM   
Joisey

 

Posts: 161
Joined: 8/3/2006
From: Montgomery, New Jersey
Status: offline 		Kewl

_____________________________

"Glory is fleeting, but obscurity is forever."
- Napoleon Bonaparte (1769-1821)

(in reply to Marshall Ellis)
Post #: 40
RE: Announcement from the development team! - 10/17/2006 6:04:38 PM   
Frank McNally

 

Posts: 42
Joined: 8/29/2003
Status: offline 		nice

(in reply to Joisey)
Post #: 41
RE: Announcement from the development team! - 10/17/2006 6:24:30 PM   
bOrIuM

 

Posts: 182
Joined: 2/13/2006
Status: offline 		how you know a city is a fortress and how many fleches they have ? adding to this, are the towers in the background of the city representing the towers for the garnison ?

(in reply to Montbrun)
Post #: 42
RE: Announcement from the development team! - 10/17/2006 7:20:27 PM   
Joisey

 

Posts: 161
Joined: 8/3/2006
From: Montgomery, New Jersey
Status: offline 		I take the spires on the screen shot to mean exactly the same thing as in the original game.

Your question about the Flechettes is a good one, however. What's the answer, Marshall? How do we know from the map where the fortresses are?

_____________________________

"Glory is fleeting, but obscurity is forever."
- Napoleon Bonaparte (1769-1821)

(in reply to bOrIuM)
Post #: 43
RE: Announcement from the development team! - 10/17/2006 9:35:57 PM   
Marshall Ellis


Posts: 5630
Joined: 10/2/2001
From: Dallas
Status: offline 		Hey guys:

Correct the spires (circled in red) are the city size and we've added fortress towers (circled in blue) as the city's fortification value.

Again, I apologize for the fuzzy graphics. Looks much better uncompressed.

Thak you






Attachment (1)

_____________________________

Thank you

Marshall Ellis
Outflank Strategy War Games



(in reply to Joisey)
Post #: 44
RE: Announcement from the development team! - 10/18/2006 8:49:05 AM   
Camile Desmoulins


Posts: 115
Joined: 9/15/2003
From: Madrid, Spain
Status: offline 		Marshall:

Remember than in the board game (and in your game too) there are a Spanish city called "Cuidad Real"

The really name of this city (past and present) is Ciudad Real

_____________________________

"Scis vincere, nescis uti victoria" (Maharbal)

(in reply to Marshall Ellis)
Post #: 45
RE: Announcement from the development team! - 10/18/2006 9:33:30 AM   
Ursa MAior

 

Posts: 1416
Joined: 4/20/2005
From: Hungary, EU
Status: offline
quote:

ORIGINAL: Marshall Ellis

Hey guys:

Correct the spires (circled in red) are the city size and we've added fortress towers (circled in blue) as the city's fortification value.

Again, I apologize for the fuzzy graphics. Looks much better uncompressed.

Thak you







On the second picture above Belgrade the city is called Temesvár. not Temesvara. If we are after typos. :D


_____________________________


Art by the amazing Dixie

(in reply to Marshall Ellis)
Post #: 46
RE: Announcement from the development team! - 10/18/2006 2:57:46 PM   
Marshall Ellis


Posts: 5630
Joined: 10/2/2001
From: Dallas
Status: offline 		Ursa:

We've got MANY map issues to be fixed (spelling mostly). You're looking at a draft map so don't spend too much time proofing since most issues have been identified and docuemented for the graphics team. I'm just illustrating the city symbols.

Thank you



_____________________________

Thank you

Marshall Ellis
Outflank Strategy War Games



(in reply to Ursa MAior)
Post #: 47
RE: Announcement from the development team! - 10/19/2006 10:38:39 AM   
Ursa MAior

 

Posts: 1416
Joined: 4/20/2005
From: Hungary, EU
Status: offline 		No pun intended, just wanted to let you know. Looks like I forgot the smileys.

BTW which version of the names will you use the contemporary or the current? You knwo in east europe most city have names in 3-5 different languages and these are used according to the political situation.

_____________________________


Art by the amazing Dixie

(in reply to Marshall Ellis)
Post #: 48
RE: Announcement from the development team! - 10/19/2006 2:34:39 PM   
Alan_Bernardo

 

Posts: 204
Joined: 5/17/2002
From: Bowling Green, Ohio
Status: offline
quote:

ORIGINAL: Ursa MAior

No pun intended, just wanted to let you know. Looks like I forgot the smileys.

BTW which version of the names will you use the contemporary or the current? You knwo in east europe most city have names in 3-5 different languages and these are used according to the political situation.



Actually, Matrix is going to provide mouse-over information which will show the names on the map in 424 different languages. And then in the manual, more map-name translations will appear, from all the languages that ever existed since the world's beginning.

This way, Matrix is sure to satisfy everyone, dead or alive.


Alan

(in reply to Ursa MAior)
Post #: 49
RE: Announcement from the development team! - 10/19/2006 5:29:14 PM   
Joisey

 

Posts: 161
Joined: 8/3/2006
From: Montgomery, New Jersey
Status: offline 		And if they don't, what? Will Muslim hordes start burning cars in France?

_____________________________

"Glory is fleeting, but obscurity is forever."
- Napoleon Bonaparte (1769-1821)

(in reply to Alan_Bernardo)
Post #: 50
RE: Announcement from the development team! - 10/19/2006 5:42:30 PM   
Ursa MAior

 

Posts: 1416
Joined: 4/20/2005
From: Hungary, EU
Status: offline 		Just asking, just asking.

_____________________________


Art by the amazing Dixie

(in reply to Joisey)
Post #: 51
RE: Announcement from the development team! - 10/19/2006 5:53:45 PM   
ktotwf

 

Posts: 182
Joined: 6/25/2004
Status: offline
quote:

ORIGINAL: Ursa MAior

Just asking, just asking.



Well don't...just ask.

(in reply to Ursa MAior)
Post #: 52
RE: Announcement from the development team! - 10/19/2006 10:16:31 PM   
Ursa MAior

 

Posts: 1416
Joined: 4/20/2005
From: Hungary, EU
Status: offline 		Why? I was not rude or impolite or anything. Why may I not ask? The thought police will intervene?

_____________________________


Art by the amazing Dixie

(in reply to ktotwf)
Post #: 53
RE: Announcement from the development team! - 10/19/2006 11:06:33 PM   
Monadman


Posts: 2085
Joined: 12/6/2005
From: New Hampshire
Status: offline
quote:

ORIGINAL: Ursa MAior

BTW which version of the names will you use the contemporary or the current? You knwo in east europe most city have names in 3-5 different languages and these are used according to the political situation.


Ursa,

Generally the names provided on the EiA or EiH maps (correct or not) unless Marshall spelled it wrong and the art people missed the correction then it would called current.

Richard


_____________________________


(in reply to Ursa MAior)
Post #: 54
RE: Announcement from the development team! - 10/19/2006 11:17:51 PM   
Ursa MAior

 

Posts: 1416
Joined: 4/20/2005
From: Hungary, EU
Status: offline 		thx

_____________________________


Art by the amazing Dixie

(in reply to Monadman)
Post #: 55
RE: Announcement from the development team! - 10/20/2006 9:18:30 AM   
Camile Desmoulins


Posts: 115
Joined: 9/15/2003
From: Madrid, Spain
Status: offline 		In the city that I said (Ciudad Real, and is the same problem that Ciudad Rodrigo, and I forget it in the upper post), the question it's not the translate: It says in the same manner in Spanish than in other languages. But the english people frequently changes the place of both characters (I don´t know why, but is frequenty in the past and in the present). The translation of "Ciudad" is city, or town. The problem is like if I say "Yorktonw" in the place of "Yorktown", for example.

It's not a language problem (both cities are allways in castilian), but wrong writing. Never was Cuidad, neither in spanish nor in english

Camille

< Message edited by Camile Desmoulins -- 10/20/2006 9:22:23 AM >

_____________________________

"Scis vincere, nescis uti victoria" (Maharbal)

(in reply to Marshall Ellis)
Post #: 56
RE: Announcement from the development team! - 10/20/2006 10:44:11 AM   
Ursa MAior

 

Posts: 1416
Joined: 4/20/2005
From: Hungary, EU
Status: offline 		Sh sh we wont be allowed in the forums anmore if we carry on.

< Message edited by Ursa MAior -- 10/20/2006 10:47:03 AM >

_____________________________


Art by the amazing Dixie

(in reply to Camile Desmoulins)
Post #: 57
RE: Announcement from the development team! - 10/20/2006 12:06:33 PM   
Norden_slith


Posts: 166
Joined: 8/27/2003
From: expatriate german
Status: offline 		Trust me, some of the german (and close by) principalities with their english names, I didnt even recognize them, if not for their geographical location.

Kleves? A small city named Kleve, hmm ok, I guess...
Duchies?
Palatinate?? Ahhh, "Pfalz" or "Kurpfalz" if electoral.


and,
shouldnt "Hesse" be "Hessen",
"Hanover" be "Hannover",
"Wittenburg" be "Wittenberg"?

and so on.

In Denmark, "Esbjorg" is "Esbjerg" and until around 1890 or so, housed all of 20 fisherman. Compare that with Flensburg or Schleswig (the actual name of the Duchie from where I come).

To be frank, the game plays just fine, even with these errors and Im sure there are hundreds of them. When the game starts, other things are much more important .


_____________________________

Norden
---------------------------------------------------------------
Hexagonally challenged

(in reply to Ursa MAior)
Post #: 58
Question to the development team ! - 10/22/2006 8:18:01 PM   
La Provence


Posts: 153
Joined: 7/16/2006
From: Toulouse (FRANCE)
Status: offline 		Do you edit a french version of the game ?
.......a game with all the legends in french ?

Thanks

(in reply to Monadman)
Post #: 59
RE: Question to the development team ! - 10/25/2006 10:38:42 AM   
vanmi


Posts: 87
Joined: 1/28/2006
Status: offline 		Yes like LA Provence, do you release a complet french version ? and the game release ?

It's too hard to wait !

(in reply to La Provence)
Post #: 60
Page:   <<   < prev  1 [2] 3 4   next >   >>
All Forums >> [New Releases from Matrix Games] >> Empires in Arms the Napoleonic Wars of 1805 - 1815 >> RE: Announcement from the development team! Page: <<   < prev  1 [2] 3 4   next >   >>
Jump to:





New Messages No New Messages
Hot Topic w/ New Messages Hot Topic w/o New Messages
Locked w/ New Messages Locked w/o New Messages
 Post New Thread
 Reply to Message
 Post New Poll
 Submit Vote
 Delete My Own Post
 Delete My Own Thread
 Rate Posts


Forum Software © ASPPlayground.NET Advanced Edition 2.4.5 ANSI

1.734