Discussion of Screenshots 1 and 2

unmerged(485) · May 9, 2003

Originally posted by Energizer
But what about Adolf Erik Nordenskiöld? He was one of the most important explorers in 19th century and he discovered the North-Eastern passage 1878 - 1880 (and he made several other voyages before that). Surely You are going to include explorers like Livingstone, Stanley and what-not in the game, so why leave this out?

They left Lewis & Clark (and others like McKenzie & Thompson) out of EU2 due to PTI - so it is not surprising that others should be left out.

peo · May 9, 2003

Originally posted by Energizer
But what about Adolf Erik Nordenskiöld? He was one of the most important explorers in 19th century and he discovered the North-Eastern passage 1878 - 1880 (and he made several other voyages before that). Surely You are going to include explorers like Livingstone, Stanley and what-not in the game, so why leave this out?

That they found it isn't exactly important since it is hardly used even now.

unmerged(2695) · May 9, 2003

Originally posted by Johan
And no comments about my nice new map-engine

The map engine looks great - what we've seen of it - and I demand you use it for EU3. But you have to do something about the Bremen blob.

w_mullender · May 9, 2003

Originally posted by Johan
And no comments about my nice new map-engine

Just wondering if this format allows for border adjustments due to the overlay?
Looks good though

Galleblære · May 9, 2003

Originally posted by w_mullender
Just wondering if this format allows for border adjustments due to the overlay?
Looks good though

Could be. Some commented on the lack of rivers. Perhaps borders, rivers, terrain etc are easily modded by the players. Would be fantastic if it was possible!

Although I can imagine there will be heated debates in the beta forum!

unmerged(9214) · May 9, 2003

Originally posted by peo
That they found it isn't exactly important since it is hardly used even now.

Yes, it isn't very useful as a waterway. But explorers should/could give international prestige and also add some chrome to the game. It certainly isn't any game-breaker, but I can't see why it should be left out either.

unmerged(2695) · May 9, 2003

Originally posted by Galleblære
Could be. Some commented on the lack of rivers. Perhaps borders, rivers, terrain etc are easily modded by the players. Would be fantastic if it was possible!

Although I can imagine there will be heated debates in the beta forum!

There are rivers: The Göta Älv is represented by a blue line - unless it is the Göta Canal.

I don't think the map is quite finished yet.

Generalisimo · May 9, 2003

Originally posted by Hardu
There are rivers: The Göta Älv is represented by a blue line - unless it is the Göta Canal.

I don't think the map is quite finished yet.

sure the map is not finished...

Habbaku · May 9, 2003

*twitch, sputter, gargle*

Johan...If this new map-engine is moddable, you'll have some very, very happy players on your hands.

unmerged(15764) · May 10, 2003

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One cool thing would be to show the industrialization on the map say the forests slowly start to dissappear in some ares the ground gets a bit darker you can see railways and smoke from cities, it would be more realistic, visual and just fricking awesome!
what do you think?

and an overlay would be cool to but how would you know which province was which like for the numbering? it would cause some problems i thinks if they use current system of provinces. but it would be great, then i could finally make hexes and have a realistic grand strategy game yay... hoppsan hejsan!

Bismarck · May 10, 2003

Originally posted by Eochaid

Now I know some people will think I'm trolling or being over-critical, but I'm just worried that the PE maps get uglier by the game. The EU2 map was an improvement over the EU map, but HoI looks really ugly, and yet HoI looks really cool compared to this one.

Now I realise that the look of the game shouldn't be what we focus on, but a nice map shouldn't be considered optional, esp. since we'll be using it for hours and hours of gaming.

Am I the only one here that LIKED the HoI map.... I loved the dotted line borders on the two closest views... I thought it was a good concept for the game design....

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unmerged(15764) · May 10, 2003

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yes but wouldnt it be great if we could see the map change over time see above

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MacRobert · May 11, 2003

Seems like in every game we get screenies of Denmark!

unmerged(10945) · May 11, 2003

Originally posted by MacRobert
Seems like in every game we get screenies of Denmark!

What the distingushed gentleman is trying to get across is that we would like to see some place like East Asia, North America, or even Central Africa. Thanks!

unmerged(5664) · May 11, 2003

But let's be honest with ourselves - the first place Paradox starts with is Sweden...

unmerged(10262) · May 11, 2003

Originally posted by BarristerBoy
But let's be honest with ourselves - the first place Paradox starts with is Sweden...

What is the problem?

unmerged(5664) · May 11, 2003

Originally posted by knott
What is the problem?

In Victoria's time period Sweden was a no-account backwater

HVC · May 11, 2003

Originally posted by BarristerBoy
In Victoria's time period Sweden was a no-account backwater

That's it, no beta for you!!

Syt · May 11, 2003

Originally posted by MacRobert
Seems like in every game we get screenies of Denmark!

And Holstein! Yay for Holstein!

unmerged(2238) · May 11, 2003

Originally posted by Sytass
And Holstein! Yay for Holstein!

lol. Yes, we musn't forget Holstein. More on topic, it would be pretty awesome if the map itself could be modded... that would be so cool.

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