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Thank you, mercenaries, for the update. [:)]

The game looks better and better. And since it looked awesome from the beginning... [&o] [:D]

any uddates plz? [:D]

ORIGINAL: Selus

any uddates plz? [:D]

nothing new

I have been working on the report dialogs. I have (mostly) finished the reports for armies, fleets, cities, fortresses, and provinces.

Here is a sample of the report dialog for a fortress. Each icon can be selected to get details of that attribute or the "control" icon will give general details:

Here is the same dialog with one of the attributes selected:

I'll post more screenshots and some notes on the game's progress on Friday.

But, I'll anticipate some questions and give a little unhappy news. I have been dealing with a very serious illness in my family and I have to admit that the Fall of Rome will not be ready until some time next year. [:(]

I realize that this REALLY stinks and I am quite embarrassed at how long the game is taking. But that is the state of things right now.

Thanks for your interest!

[&o][&o][&o]

1- Editor available?[;)]

2- Asterix and Obelix at the least?[:D]

ORIGINAL: rico21

[&o][&o][&o]

1- Editor available?[;)]

2- Asterix and Obelix at the least?[:D]

I'd like to at least make some kind of scenario editor for custom scenarios. I don't know about Asterix and Obelix themselves: the Gauls are gone by the time the game begins. But the scenario editor could certainly include some mechanism for editing the name pools used for the various nationalities.

Here is a screenshot with the revised experience markers and the legion designations for 'Marian' legions.

I am not going to include unit designations for all the units after the reforms of Diocletian and Constantine. But I am going to feature the "classic" legions which existed before then. They have an administrative and economic role in the game. The core of the legion will also contain the legion's skilled workers and thus qualifies as an armaments factory. So the marker is necessary to show that the core of the legion is present in an army or a garrison - rather than a detachment of some of the legion's cohorts.

Sorry to hear about your family illness Mercenarius. Health and family are the two most important things.
But high up in the lesser tier are games - even the gods play games (though not dice, apparently).
I have to say that your Second Punic War game is, by a country mile, the best historically-based computer game I've ever played - and I've tried a lot.
So it's great to know that you are still on the case with your second game, and striving for that combination of playability and accurate historical feel that seems to make HRCSPW so unique and replayable.
Fall of Rome looks very ambitious and wide-ranging from the bits you've shown - so just remember nulla tenaci invia est via (for the tenacious, no road is impassable - I hope)

I am sorry to hear about the illness in the family. And take your time with the game. Family comes first.

Thank you for the update. The game looks awesome. [&o]

Yes. I love this game! Really looks awsome.

Wow, I started this topic in 2012 and it's still going! The new game keeps looking better. And the old game is still a favorite....

Just a reminder that HRC is on sale now. for a paltry CAD $13.99. Buy it!

ORIGINAL: mikerolf1

Wow, I started this topic in 2012 and it's still going! The new game keeps looking better. And the old game is still a favorite....

How many games have you played now?

Any prognosis for the new year?

ORIGINAL: Orm

Any prognosis for the new year?

Cold and dark, turning to widely scattered light in the spring.[8D]

Wow, I started this topic in 2012 and it's still going! The new game keeps looking better. And the old game is still a favorite....

I forgot to say thanks for this. Thanks!

Any prognosis for the new year?

Well, I have set a firm goal in my mind that the game must be published no later than the end of 2018. I'd like to say summer or fall, but I just don't know if I can make that happen. I don't think that I can.

I agree that more than 5 years ought to be enough for any game.

Sounds like Christmas 2018 might be saved. [:)]