Paradox please make ETW type game

[stuka80]

In your opinion, perhaps.

The scope for ahistorical results is far, far greater in Hearts of Iron III than in any Total War game. As poor as the Total War AI can be at times, its strategic choices tend to be more logical than many of those I have seen in the Hearts of Iron III forum.

Regards,

Austen.

What strategic choices about the TW AI are you talking about? There is none. the AI is the worst i have seen in a strategy game. The AI's idea of strategy is

- having dozens of armies with 3-4 low tier unit stacks wander around the map aimlessly
- offer you a peace treaty or an alliance and then break it the very next turn by blockading a backwater port with a single ship
- refuse to accept any type of peace no matter how generous when they're getting their ass handed to them and have 1 or 2 cities left
- never do any type of amphibious invasions
- never send troops to help their allies
- get idiotic messages like "their request: please dont attack"
"their offer: accept or we will attack"

And that's just the very tip of the ice berg, there's a whole laundry list when you look at the other dimensions of the TW series. The bottom line is CA either is incompetent to make a decent workable AI or they just dont care. My guess is a bit of both.

 

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What strategic choices about the TW AI are you talking about? There is none. the AI is the worst i have seen in a strategy game. The AI's idea of strategy is

- having dozens of armies with 3-4 low tier unit stacks wander around the map aimlessly
- offer you a peace treaty or an alliance and then break it the very next turn by blockading a backwater port with a single ship
- refuse to accept any type of peace no matter how generous when they're getting their ass handed to them and have 1 or 2 cities left
- never do any type of amphibious invasions
- never send troops to help their allies
- get idiotic messages like "their request: please dont attack"
"their offer: accept or we will attack"

And that's just the very tip of the ice berg, there's a whole laundry list when you look at the other dimensions of the TW series. The bottom line is CA either is incompetent to make a decent workable AI or they just dont care. My guess is a bit of both.

Well said i totally agree

 

[delra]

There's Lionheart: King's Crusade coming (or did they release it already) that looks very Total War-ish... If it sells, maybe sequel will be something bigger than that.

I like naval orientation of Nitro and wouldn't wish their games to become more land-oriented. There's a few companies "faking" TW games already (CA being biggest of them ), while there are almost none doing the kind of naval trading games Nitro do. Genre will die again if Nitro go TW...

 

[RisingSun]

When Paradox released this game, i wasnt crazy about it. I do like the gameplay and all, but i wanted to play the Pirates and didnt care for the major nations at all.

I know there a mod out there, but not that good. Wondering if they ever will make one to play the Pirate for ETW?

 

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When Paradox released this game, i wasnt crazy about it. I do like the gameplay and all, but i wanted to play the Pirates and didnt care for the major nations at all.

What game are you talking about?

 

[Warsmith]

When Paradox released this game, i wasnt crazy about it. I do like the gameplay and all, but i wanted to play the Pirates and didnt care for the major nations at all.

I know there a mod out there, but not that good. Wondering if they ever will make one to play the Pirate for ETW?

First expansion for EIC is called the pirates bay, where you get to play a....

pirate.

 

[RisingSun]

First expansion for EIC is called the pirates bay, where you get to play a....

pirate.

I know, but wasnt that great. Wanted something much bigger epic like ETW.

 

[Greybriar]

As long as Steam isn't required, I would not object to Paradox making a game similar to Empire: Total War.

 

[RisingSun]

As long as Steam isn't required, I would not object to Paradox making a game similar to Empire: Total War.

I agreed, when i first saw steam after loading up the game, it was ridiculous. Didnt like it, wish that game was avab without it.