Create EU3 ourselves?

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Inferis - The hosted forum is now on my site, you can see it here...

You are a moderator of your forum Inferis, the current working title is "exploration & expansion" until i hear otherwise.

 

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This sounds like a VERY cool project and as a developer i obviously would like to help out! I'm not so sure about using C# though. It's easier to code i agree but i think performance is an issue and that's where C++ shines.

Happy to go along with every language you choose though.

 

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Originally posted by Ollie
This sounds like a VERY cool project and as a developer i obviously would like to help out! I'm not so sure about using C# though. It's easier to code i agree but i think performance is an issue and that's where C++ shines.

Happy to go along with every language you choose though.

Great, now we have two developers!

 

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As Captain Krunch suggested in the other thread, I suggest we'd continue the discussion at our own forum.

Did some more thinking and the chances we'd get our own forums here is very small. And it's better to be "independent" anyway.

So, please continue at Exploration & Expansion!

 

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This indeed looks cool.

 

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Originally posted by Inferis
Thanks for the support, Achinz!

About forums and websites...
I still think it is best to use "foreign" forums, since we don't know how long an alternate game development thing will be welcome here. Would be a pity too lose all those threads if we get "closed down" here. ILCapitano's idea of keeping a sort of mirror thread here sounds good, though.
I'll send one of the Paradox people a PM to see how they feel.

About names
So far:

• Open Universalis
• Freeu (or FreEU, or FreeU ?)
• GNUniversalis
• Freeu4ya
• Exploration & Expansion

I'm still inclined to go for the first.
Maybe we should get a poll?

Technical stuff
After a chat with NapoleonXIV, I got redirected to a very nice looking 3D engine. Don't know if we can use it, since the code is not GPLed. Anyway, I was thinking about using a 3D engine to display the map; this doesn't mean that the map will be 3D: the freedom of movement will be limited a 2d plain "hovering" above the map. No fancy different camera angles and stuff. Sort of like the Maxis people are doing with SimCity4.
Good idea?

Other thing: I'd like to code this using the .Net framework, in C#. (mainly). This would limit us to the Windows platform, for now. Anybody got a problem with that?

Edit: added Exploration & Expansion name

Exploration & Expansion is probably the safest name it also sounds very good. I don't understand what you mean when talking about a 3d map? Why not keep it flat just like EU2 but with better province distribution.

 

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After stumbling over this (thanks again, NapoleonXIV), I assume it would be very wise to continue our debate on our own forums.

Unless I hear "different sounds" from Paradox, I ask not to post any more here.

Moderators, don't close this thread just yet (or the other), please.

 

[Inferis]

After talking to Patric, all development will now certainly occur on our own forums. Can a moderator close this thread, and the Open Universalis Request thread too?

Thanks!