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ORIGINAL: db99
I usually pause the AI while I take my turn which seems to eliminate any mouse hopping or brief pauses although those issues haven't been much of problem for me.

I for one am having fun playing the game

Now back to the W front...

ORIGINAL: Erik Rutins

I can't really speak to that, since AGEOD in this case was in charge of development and primary testing. However, in our internal pre-release testing, we did not have hangs or crashes. Also, AGEOD's post-release support is excellent, so I expect that if anything did get through their testing, it will be fixed quickly.

- Erik

My one word summary: confusing.
And if I was allowed another: buggy.
Three words ... I'm not really sure it's worth three words ...

But I'll persist after my blood pressure goes down again. <g> Half the time
I have no idea what's going on -- this game has possibly the least useful
manual of all time, you're right -- and as soon as I think I do know what's
going on ... crash. Roughly every twenty minutes, usually during the (what's
going on!?) combat resolution ...

And this is version 1.03 already, I'd hate to have suffered through the
earlier versions ... it still looks promising, but it sure as hell isn't a
finished game. Maybe it makes more sense if you'd played the boardgame.

******

Naval combat is broken. Land combat is inscrutable & probably broken (it's
hard to tell).

Grand campaign, August turn. Germans engage the Brit BC squadron in the
north sea & win, Brit BBs don't show up. OK so far, if a little
disappointing for the RN, but then the high seas fleet turns up off the east
coast of Africa -- these guys get around -- and is engaged by reinforcements
from the Brit BBs who leave that morning & get there in less than a day.
These guys get around *more*. The Germans are wiped out, but refuse to give
up & the game gets stuck on "waiting the opponent engages his units" when he
didn't have any ... maybe they're waiting for reinforcements from somewhere
else on the other side of the planet ...


There are bugs & mysteries aplenty: There doesn't seem to be any ZOC in
land or naval combat or if there is it doesn't work, units just walk past
each other all the time; units retreat from combat forwards to besiege
cities behind the lines; sieges happen with no besiegers & no besieged units
(with the only option being to delay the siege); unit info writes over the
top of the message info now (it's like someone set out to break the old
ageod interface ); the naval combat dialog is just a mish mash of writing
over the top of itself, different messages pile up without clearing or
scrolling; there's a phase for options which says it's also about
diplomacy, but it isn't, and it's followed by the diplomacy phase (huh?);
the whole thing is *incredibly* slow ... and what is it with WWI games &
phases, why? Why? <sob>

ORIGINAL: 06 Maestro
I turned the spites off and started using the square 3d icons. That and moving a couple of sliders to a lower position eliminated any jerky movement by the mouse. I even turned the map up to full scroll speed with no problem-I was very relieved. The mouse getting caught on provinces was a little aggravating.

ORIGINAL: Adam Parker

ORIGINAL: Erik Rutins

I can't really speak to that, since AGEOD in this case was in charge of development and primary testing. However, in our internal pre-release testing, we did not have hangs or crashes. Also, AGEOD's post-release support is excellent, so I expect that if anything did get through their testing, it will be fixed quickly.

- Erik

Erik, here's two posts from a gamer on the Newsgroup whose opinion I trust:

My one word summary: confusing.
And if I was allowed another: buggy.
Three words ... I'm not really sure it's worth three words ...

But I'll persist after my blood pressure goes down again. <g> Half the time
I have no idea what's going on -- this game has possibly the least useful
manual of all time, you're right -- and as soon as I think I do know what's
going on ... crash. Roughly every twenty minutes, usually during the (what's
going on!?) combat resolution ...

And this is version 1.03 already, I'd hate to have suffered through the
earlier versions ... it still looks promising, but it sure as hell isn't a
finished game. Maybe it makes more sense if you'd played the boardgame.

******

Naval combat is broken. Land combat is inscrutable & probably broken (it's
hard to tell).

Grand campaign, August turn. Germans engage the Brit BC squadron in the
north sea & win, Brit BBs don't show up. OK so far, if a little
disappointing for the RN, but then the high seas fleet turns up off the east
coast of Africa -- these guys get around -- and is engaged by reinforcements
from the Brit BBs who leave that morning & get there in less than a day.
These guys get around *more*. The Germans are wiped out, but refuse to give
up & the game gets stuck on "waiting the opponent engages his units" when he
didn't have any ... maybe they're waiting for reinforcements from somewhere
else on the other side of the planet ...


There are bugs & mysteries aplenty: There doesn't seem to be any ZOC in
land or naval combat or if there is it doesn't work, units just walk past
each other all the time; units retreat from combat forwards to besiege
cities behind the lines; sieges happen with no besiegers & no besieged units
(with the only option being to delay the siege); unit info writes over the
top of the message info now (it's like someone set out to break the old
ageod interface ); the naval combat dialog is just a mish mash of writing
over the top of itself, different messages pile up without clearing or
scrolling; there's a phase for options which says it's also about
diplomacy, but it isn't, and it's followed by the diplomacy phase (huh?);
the whole thing is *incredibly* slow ... and what is it with WWI games &
phases, why? Why? <sob>

No offense to you at all but what service is AGEOD and Matrix doing to the hobby by releasing and supporting such... a product?

Best,
Adam.

ORIGINAL: 06 Maestro

I'm having an irritating situation with the game. I was able to get through the first month last night, but that was apparently due to dumb luck. The game reaches a point where it will not let you advance to the next phase because something is not completed yet. The problem is, I have no idea what I'm suppose to do. I have gone through the manual, and also scanned the window for any clue, but no luck.
Running on only 1 gig of ram may have something to do with it-not sure. I can say this is the first time I have had such a problem with a game.

ORIGINAL: db99



It's not the AI that's not done is it? I've 'unfrozen' the game a couple times by hitting the Pause key a couple times until I either got the 'AI paused' message or one of the 'AI busy' messages.

Does it give you a tool tip when you hover over the Next Phase button? Usually there's at least a clue there of where you need to look, although from there a lot of times it's just trial and error until I happen to get it right [;)].

ORIGINAL: Crimguy

Some words of support from Phil at Ageod:

Hi All,

We are going to fix quickly the freezes a few of you have experienced. We'll improve also fast some of the slowlyness experienced by others...

More generally, we shall post here tomorrow a general policy declaration where we shall tell you about:

- Fixes policy
- Updates frequency and timing
- Help to players
- Commercial attitude and position of AGEOD

As was clearly mentionned earlier, WW1 is a third-party game with a new engine. It is different from our usual AGE engine and has not been "tried" with 4 different games before, therefore it's 'new' and lacking 'return of experience'... but it will have our support and full comitment and attention.

Thanks for your patience and understanding

Philippe Thibaut
AGEOD
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ORIGINAL: GShock

Ageod has brought in the industry several ultra-revolutionary concepts which i would like to list (some of these are exclusively tagged AGEod):

1) Public beta pre-buy option.
2) Patch Retro-engineering.
...
5) Public betas.
...
8) 24/7 customers support with most resolutions taking place at the speed of heat.
9) Very high concern for players' requests on future improvements for existing games.

AGEOD:
The plan is to get out the first patch as quickly as possible to address stability and hardware compatibility issues. A second patch should follow in a few weeks which will address the most serious game play bugs. Beyond that, as there have always been for our games, there will be further patches until the game realizes its full and ultimate potential. Finally, we are aware that the initial game manual is inadequate and that providing a copy of the board game rules for download is no substitute. Concurrent with coding and testing, we are working on a complete and comprehensive manual.