damezzi -> RE: Yet Another Wishlist... (1/31/2010 6:18:00 PM)
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In fact, from the contact I had with Ralph while implementing the graphics mod, I could infer that he is pretty independent in what concerns his thoughts on Toaw future, while being very receptive to ideas. I’m far from being an eastern front addict – I’m not even a WWII addict, like most here – and I may agree that eastern front sometimes seem to monopolize the energy of some good designers, while the true potential of Toaw (reproducing multiple conflicts) is let aside. This is so that Boonierat extraordinary work on the Vietnam war feels really like an exception to the rule. But Ralph has really nothing to do with it and designers working for free will do what fits their tastes better. Trying to find developers for Matrix won’t help. Good promotion of the game may help, though, but that doesn’t seem to be a concern for people here as it is in forums of games not half as valuable as Toaw. Toaw has it’s flaws and it’s easy to point them; the challenging thing is to point the alternative game… the one that does what Toaw does without Toaw’s flaws. In what concerns naval warfare, even those who like eastern front on this forum seem to agree that a better naval model would be desirable. It may take long, but so what. Better have a slow and continuous support than nothing at all… and most games of the type, after selling their share, just come to a halt. What we have to lose by playing the game in it’s actual state? It’s an excellent game after all and if some substitute shows up, then we’ll be happy to have an alternative. Toaw just can’t be the game that each and everyone, individually, wants it to be. “I don’t care for that!”… well, others will care; “I would like to see that implemented!”… well, it’s the right of anyone, but wait in the line… just see the size of the wish list. Toaw is one of the most important references in computer wargaming, a lot of players here just can’t let it aside and find a substitute and yet, the most common sentence on this forum is: “The problem with Toaw is…”. It’s a kind of whining realm.
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