Slitherine

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ORIGINAL: RedArgo

Just curious, any update on this?

Thanks.

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ORIGINAL: Kingmaker

HiHi

I would endorse Andrews sentiments entirely, "great game" etc, etc,, but must admit RG I find this, With the exception of tweaking the levies, most of what comes is added features not "fixes" , extremely disturbing; of course I may have misunderstood your comment but to me as it stands it would indicate that a load of new stuff is going to be loaded in on top of an AI that doesn't seem to be able to cope with its current work load let alone take on a whole heap of new stuff, my apologies if I have got the wrong end of the stick but ... ?

In case it's been missed the PBEM community as a whole has found and reported via the various MB's a whole host of stuff that doesn't seem to work or could be improved on just some of which are contained in Terje's thread

http://www.matrixgames.com/forums/tm.asp?m=2280129

An expression I quote a lot in RL work environment is, "Get the little things right & the big things will fall into place" and believe me there are a lot of little things in CoG EE that do need "Fixing".

Again I reiterate it's a great game (that could be absolutely f..urking Brilliant!), but I fear that too many folk the shear frustration of not having it up to scratch as designed/advertised is beginning to tell, whilst it's merely my personal opinion I feel if all the Patch is going to do is add some fancy 'Slash & Hack' stuff then you will lose a lot of the so far dedicated PBEM players.

All the Best
Peter

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There is a little problem with the 4 way games; it seems that in each case 2 of the 4 ai nations (regardless of major or minor) seem to be brain dead. As 4 way games are easier to set up and generally faster to play, it sure would be nice if this situation could be improved a bit.

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ORIGINAL: Pistachio

FWIW I'm not buying any more Matrix games. At least not until this one is fixed. I know I'll offend here - and I'm sorry about that, because I also know the Western Civ and Matrix people do have lots to do and generally do it well and with courtesy and professionalism - but my experience with COGEE is that single player, in its current condition, is a half-assed piece of unmitigated crap. Only "B-17 Mighty Eighth" was a bigger waste. COGEE crashes to desktop, AI players don't seem to recognize surrender terms (e.g., territories don't get ceded), you can't liberate territories by treaty, treaties and alliances conflict and don't work and you end up with great relations with a country you're in a total war with. It's sorrier than a half-painted house. I honestly think the game just tries to do too damn much. "Features" are NOT the way to go until the basic "If...then" is sorted out. There are so many determinates and conditions that I think after awhile it just gives up.

Speaking of which. Maybe I'll check for an update in a year. Or not.

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ORIGINAL: kosmoface

Any news on that? I am on the verge of buying COG:EE, but if there's no support anymore I won't.

Sorry, I know small publishers have a hard time and need every penny, but I won't shell out money for games with bugs (ok miinor ones maybe) and what Pistachio claims is not very encouraging. Furthermore: there is no Demo, so I can't judge myself.

So my question is: Any estimates when you can release a Patch? Any information would be very welcome.

your potential customer

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We still cannot promise a date for the next patch, but we do plan one.