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RE: War in the Pacific 2?
Posted: Fri Jun 11, 2021 9:53 am
by 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.
RE: War in the Pacific 2?
Posted: Fri Jun 11, 2021 10:38 am
by fcooke
And that swastika leans left not right.
RE: War in the Pacific 2?
Posted: Fri Jun 11, 2021 10:57 am
by Ian R
ORIGINAL: fcooke
And that swastika leans left not right.
Yes, your other right.[;)]
RE: War in the Pacific 2?
Posted: Fri Jun 11, 2021 11:01 am
by 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.
RE: War in the Pacific 2?
Posted: Fri Jun 11, 2021 11:05 am
by fcooke
Is that the right to drink a beer? I know it is a tad early before noon.
RE: War in the Pacific 2?
Posted: Fri Jun 11, 2021 11:14 am
by 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.
RE: War in the Pacific 2?
Posted: Fri Jun 11, 2021 11:57 am
by 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. [:-]
RE: War in the Pacific 2?
Posted: Fri Jun 11, 2021 12:36 pm
by 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.
RE: War in the Pacific 2?
Posted: Fri Jun 11, 2021 2:15 pm
by RangerJoe
Here is another thread with some problems note:
WitP II?
https://www.matrixgames.com/forums/tm.asp?m=3830837
RE: War in the Pacific 2?
Posted: Fri Jun 11, 2021 3:19 pm
by 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?
RE: War in the Pacific 2?
Posted: Fri Jun 11, 2021 3:35 pm
by fcooke
That was good Yaab. I liked the reference to National Treasure......
RE: War in the Pacific 2?
Posted: Fri Jun 11, 2021 7:59 pm
by 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. [:-]
[:-]
RE: War in the Pacific 2?
Posted: Sat Jun 12, 2021 4:48 am
by 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.
RE: War in the Pacific 2?
Posted: Sat Jun 12, 2021 8:50 am
by RangerJoe
RE: War in the Pacific 2?
Posted: Sat Jun 12, 2021 10:15 am
by RangerJoe
RE: War in the Pacific 2?
Posted: Sat Jun 12, 2021 4:32 pm
by 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.
RE: War in the Pacific 2?
Posted: Sat Jun 12, 2021 6:32 pm
by 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.
RE: War in the Pacific 2?
Posted: Sun Jun 13, 2021 3:38 pm
by rustysi
AE PDF Manual Revision
AFAIK that never materialized. Correct?
RE: War in the Pacific 2?
Posted: Sun Jun 13, 2021 4:09 pm
by 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?
RE: War in the Pacific 2?
Posted: Mon Jun 14, 2021 6:11 pm
by rustysi
Did you read that thread?
I read it all when it was going on back in the day.
