Interview at Gamespot..
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What? You doubted me? I told you not to panic a few months ago. Some things just take a bit more time than others to make their first appearance.mandead said:Nope, Great Britain. Been campaigning for it for agggeeesss, especially since seeing screenshots of England during the American Revolutionary War.
Still, now I've seen proof that GBR is in the game, I iz a happy bunny, innit
About the port-icons...really, can we have them made a little better? Round quays? I must say I never fancied docking at such ports...not that there are many of them...crustav said:
Why not a simple jutting-out straight quay and perhaps a lighthouse, if not just give us back the basic anchors.
Otherwise the graphics are shaping up, although the tremendous depths of the Öresund and Bält seems a bit exaggerated, would have been nice if there were shallow waters and depths according to the charts, but thats perhaps a little too much detail.
I like the square flags of the troops, please keep them.
Looking forward to try the product in January!
MrT said:
Noooooo, Massa' Tee!
(Of course I never doubted you...)
This is interesting. Compare Denmark in earlier builds of the game, where they had their CoA (the blue lions on yellow) as a flag. Now they have the Dannebrog!
With any luck, this will mean the other countries' flags are changed to their correct versions, such as the St. George's Flag, and of course the Princevlag
I think CoAs and flags look much better than just CoAs (ie, with the CoA on the flag, as opposed to the correct actual flag), though I'm not sure what's to be done about Burgundy.
I'd probably give Spain the Burgundy Cross, and Burgundy its CoA.
But hey, what do I know?
(patiently awaits upcoming dev diary...)
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MrT said:
Of course we never doubted you MrT.
*walks off thread whistling innocently and trying hard not to look sheepish*
Ayeshteni
Thank you for screenshots! they are very informative! I like that ships have a lot of properties.
It has to be fun to combine a cheap but powerful fleet by combyining different types of ships. Can we get some information on how is the sea battle organised?
Another question: Does two flags under the british ship mean that there is an army on board? Or is it just 2 fleets?
Another question that I have is:
Why is here
a trade center for a native american tribe in 1454 - Malacca???
It has to be fun to combine a cheap but powerful fleet by combyining different types of ships. Can we get some information on how is the sea battle organised?
Another question: Does two flags under the british ship mean that there is an army on board? Or is it just 2 fleets?
Another question that I have is:
Why is here
a trade center for a native american tribe in 1454 - Malacca???
Verenti said:
I beg to differ. At the time that Nova Scotia was Acadia, modern day New-Brunswick (the Mic Mac province) was not populated. It's the reason why when Acadia was ceded to the british, Mic Mac stayed under french control.
Now french colonization of Mic Mac only started well after the british takeover of Acadia ; most of it happened after the deportation of 1755. Those who weren't deported fled to Mic Mac and île St-Jean (modern day Prince Edward's Island).
So it is perfectly understandable that only modern day Nova Scotia (without Île Royale, modern day Cape Briton, because that stayed in french hands too) would be called Acadia and not modern day New Brunswick.
To the gentleman in top of me, I'm unsure where the malacca province is, but are you sure that it is not a spanish or british owned province at that time in history?
It is in south-east asia, in Malaysia.Featauril said:
This problem existed in EU2 too, if the North American Trade Cenenters died of lack of competition.
I hope they fix it till release.
Read this today at work. Excellent interview Johan, thanks.
Best part: Late January is the expected release date.
Best part: Late January is the expected release date.
Featauril said:
Malaysia. Also the 'British' as an entity didn't exist in 1457, neither (for that matter) did Spain.
Ayeshteni
Will there be shadows under the giant 'wicker men' (even greyish blobs would do the job)?
Also, I assume that amongst the "hundreds of different unique unit types that add a certain national flavor to the game", there will be bog standard infantry and cavalry types?
Also, I assume that amongst the "hundreds of different unique unit types that add a certain national flavor to the game", there will be bog standard infantry and cavalry types?
Featauril said:
Known Culture List:
* french
o cosmopolitan_french
o gascon
o normand
o aquitaine
o burgundian
o occitain
o wallonian
It's just one culture for the standart french...
I don't like this name.
Johan stated a few weeks ago that he turns off the shadowing for his screenies here. They've existed all along, we just haven't seen them.Sir Humphrey said:
As for native American tribes trading in Malacca, well, that's a problem that arises because every owned province has to trade somewhere. The only historically reasonable solution I can see is for each native country to have their own CoT and a pain-free global embargo, until such time as they are 1) conquered or 2) accept a trade agreement with another power (at which time their CoT disappears and they begin trading at that other power's capital's CoT).
-Pat
Alerias said:
No, It was the FRENCH proper name. From 1604 to 1621, The Province was French. In 1621 there was a order of Baronets, The Baronets of Nova Scotia, and It was basically an effort to Colonize Nova Scotia for the British. From then until 1713 it was contested, In 1713 the French claim was surrendered as were Their mainland Nova Scotian colonies and in 1755 They were completely driven from the greater province. That's also the same year the Acadians, at this time a minority of Farmers, were delivered an ultimatium "Become good British citizens or be forcably removed" and we sent most of them packing.
To reinterate, unless your French it's not the proper name for the period.
edit: Okay I didn't see this second one
The Acadian colony (and Nova Scotia up til the creation of New Brunswick) was Nova Scotia, Cape Breton, New Brunswick and a chunk of Maine. It was so at it's creation, and I imagine, They thought it so until they lost it to the British. And because it remained French, Wouldn't it make sense for the half of Nova Scotia/Acadia that remained French for most of the EU peroid to be named after the French name and the English Half named after the English name?
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A small quibble: IIRC (books aren't at hand) during this time, most 3-deckers in the RN were under 100 guns. That was certainly true in 1793.
Also, it seems the message popups will work as in EUII. I wonder, will the settings be something we can mod? I'd love to have the message + pause, without a record in the history. And I would very much like to see a reversion to the EUI order, oldest on top.
I do agree the sprites look big to me, but that's not very important. What does matter, is making them easy to select.
Also, it seems the message popups will work as in EUII. I wonder, will the settings be something we can mod? I'd love to have the message + pause, without a record in the history. And I would very much like to see a reversion to the EUI order, oldest on top.
I do agree the sprites look big to me, but that's not very important. What does matter, is making them easy to select.
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Interesting read. I can't wait to try out Venice as my first game. I want to see how the naval warfare is in EU3, as I think it is almost never represented fairly.
George LeS said:
Maybe the sizes are moddable? Not sure, but wasn't that possible for example in Civ4? Would be nice to have it here too.....