War in the Pacific 2?

[Ian R]

ORIGINAL: Moltrey

The last time we had a WITP 2 go-around, Alfred participated and downplayed any likelihood of a new version happening. Nothing unusual about that.
However...

At the end of the thread, he made a cryptic post that said something to the effect of:

Matrix Games is open to listening to serious offers.

Obviously I am paraphrasing here as I can't find the thread, but my reaction reading it at the time was WTF??

Perhaps he will drop by and enlighten us as to what he meant by his statement at the time. I was too frustrated at the thread to bother replying weeks later when I finally saw his reply, so it ended.
Personally, I think it would take a new development studio with another scope statement on the pacific war. But, as others mentioned, perhaps we, good wargamers, are just a dying niche that can't hope to compete with the new "Fortnite" world.

As the couple on HGTV loves to say... "How do we eat a whale? One bite at a time."
One can dream I guess.

Six figures right side of the decimal. You need to pay a talented coder to work on it 40 hrs/week for two years.

[fcooke]

And that swastika leans left not right.

[Ian R]

ORIGINAL: fcooke

And that swastika leans left not right.

Yes, your other right.[;)]

[RangerJoe]

ORIGINAL: Ian R

ORIGINAL: Moltrey

The last time we had a WITP 2 go-around, Alfred participated and downplayed any likelihood of a new version happening. Nothing unusual about that.
However...

At the end of the thread, he made a cryptic post that said something to the effect of:

Matrix Games is open to listening to serious offers.

Obviously I am paraphrasing here as I can't find the thread, but my reaction reading it at the time was WTF??

Perhaps he will drop by and enlighten us as to what he meant by his statement at the time. I was too frustrated at the thread to bother replying weeks later when I finally saw his reply, so it ended.
Personally, I think it would take a new development studio with another scope statement on the pacific war. But, as others mentioned, perhaps we, good wargamers, are just a dying niche that can't hope to compete with the new "Fortnite" world.

As the couple on HGTV loves to say... "How do we eat a whale? One bite at a time."
One can dream I guess.

Six figures right side of the decimal. You need to pay a talented coder to work on it 40 hrs/week for two years.

Actually, to the left of the decimal, you do not want just fractions of the base monetary unit, you need many thousands of multiples of the base monetary unit.

[fcooke]

Is that the right to drink a beer? I know it is a tad early before noon.

[RangerJoe]

ORIGINAL: fcooke

Is that the right to drink a beer? I know it is a tad early before noon.

It is never to early to drink bier. It is much better than some waters even if it comes from a municipal system. One half percent alcohol is enough to kill the bad bugs that cause things like Cholera and Typhoid in the bad water.

[BBfanboy]

ORIGINAL: fcooke

And that swastika leans left not right.

The figure RJ posted probably pre-dates the Nazi swastika - a "good luck" symbol that goes back centuries. The look of the coat of arms RJ posted says "Poland" or other Eastern European royalty to me. He is trolling the people who accuse him of being a Nazi sympathizer just because he speaks German - my take on it. At that point it is time to stop the cycle of flaming. [:-]

[Ian R]

ORIGINAL: RangerJoe

ORIGINAL: Ian R

ORIGINAL: Moltrey

The last time we had a WITP 2 go-around, Alfred participated and downplayed any likelihood of a new version happening. Nothing unusual about that.
However...

At the end of the thread, he made a cryptic post that said something to the effect of:

Matrix Games is open to listening to serious offers.

Obviously I am paraphrasing here as I can't find the thread, but my reaction reading it at the time was WTF??

Perhaps he will drop by and enlighten us as to what he meant by his statement at the time. I was too frustrated at the thread to bother replying weeks later when I finally saw his reply, so it ended.
Personally, I think it would take a new development studio with another scope statement on the pacific war. But, as others mentioned, perhaps we, good wargamers, are just a dying niche that can't hope to compete with the new "Fortnite" world.

As the couple on HGTV loves to say... "How do we eat a whale? One bite at a time."
One can dream I guess.

Six figures right side of the decimal. You need to pay a talented coder to work on it 40 hrs/week for two years.

Actually, to the left of the decimal, you do not want just fractions of the base monetary unit, you need many thousands of multiples of the base monetary unit.

Yes, that right side of the decimal.

[RangerJoe]

Here is another thread with some problems note:

WitP II?

https://www.matrixgames.com/forums/tm.asp?m=3830837

[Yaab]

Can't DOD finance this game? Can't Congress legislate that WITP:AE 2 is a national heritage or something? Get Nicholas Cage to promote this new national treasure?

[fcooke]

That was good Yaab. I liked the reference to National Treasure......

[Rusty1961]

ORIGINAL: BBfanboy

ORIGINAL: fcooke

And that swastika leans left not right.

The figure RJ posted probably pre-dates the Nazi swastika - a "good luck" symbol that goes back centuries. The look of the coat of arms RJ posted says "Poland" or other Eastern European royalty to me. He is trolling the people who accuse him of being a Nazi sympathizer just because he speaks German - my take on it. At that point it is time to stop the cycle of flaming. [:-]

[:-]

[Maallon]

ORIGINAL: BBfanboy

ORIGINAL: fcooke

And that swastika leans left not right.

The figure RJ posted probably pre-dates the Nazi swastika - a "good luck" symbol that goes back centuries. The look of the coat of arms RJ posted says "Poland" or other Eastern European royalty to me. He is trolling the people who accuse him of being a Nazi sympathizer just because he speaks German - my take on it. At that point it is time to stop the cycle of flaming. [:-]

Yes you are right, the swastika was already widely used before the Nazis took it for their flag and it was mainly a good luck symbol. In all honesty it's not that elaborate of a symbol and invented by a lot of cultures worldwide independently.
The key difference is that the Nazis have rotated it to the left by 45 degrees and only that symbol, with the black swastika and white background, is actually a symbol of national socialism.
But after the Nazis did their "stuff" the swastika fell quickly out of style no matter how it was rotated.

[RangerJoe]

Some more:

"Will there ever be a sequel to WITP? "

https://www.matrixgames.com/forums/tm.asp?m=3859139

"WitP II?"

https://www.matrixgames.com/forums/tm.asp?m=3830837

[RangerJoe]

your dreams about witp 2

https://www.matrixgames.com/forums/tm.asp?m=3503529

[RangerJoe]

ORIGINAL: Yaab

Can't DOD finance this game? Can't Congress legislate that WITP:AE 2 is a national heritage or something? Get Nicholas Cage to promote this new national treasure?

Please keep the politics and the politicians out of this game.

[RangerJoe]

This is the thread about the PDF manual revision:

AE PDF Manual Revision

https://www.matrixgames.com/forums/tm.a ... age=1&key=

But there were updates after this date.

[rustysi]

AE PDF Manual Revision

AFAIK that never materialized. Correct?

[RangerJoe]

ORIGINAL: rustysi

AE PDF Manual Revision

AFAIK that never materialized. Correct?

Correct.

But now you know another reason why he is so knowledgeable and can cite the manual fairly well.

Did you read that thread?

[rustysi]

Did you read that thread?

I read it all when it was going on back in the day.