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ORIGINAL: Pocus

ORIGINAL: SeaMonkey

One more. I want to be able to research "speed" for my infantry so that it can use extended movement, ie. motorize, and keep up with my armor.

Well come to think of it, why not artillery and AA too.

I mean there were self-propelled varieties of each.

dunno, one can consider that armored units embed already infantries, and that the infantries you have are of the footed sort.

ORIGINAL: Joel Billings

ORIGINAL: solops

After a couple of hours of play I must say that 2x3 and Matrix have a good and interesting product. I ran into two things almost immediately that I would like to see modified:

1. The Neutrals color is too close to the same as Germany's. I'd like to see more color differentiation between ALL of the countries.

Glad you like the game. You can modify the color yourself by going into the art.txt file in the dat directory. The next to the last few lines in the file have the colors for the different players (including neutral). You can play around with these colors by just changing the values and saving the file. You probably need some kind of art program (I used Adobe Photoshop Elements) to get the color values for what you want. Maybe an artist out there help you. I see there are two numbers in the file for each player. IIRC the first is the normal color and the second is the frozen color. Be sure to rename the original file so you still have it in case you want to go back to it. Also, leave the ,0 and ,1 at the end of the two UN lines as one is for British and the other is for US colors.

Great game

1)
BUT FOR HEAVENS SAKE quit the mouse tapping frenzy. When i move supply i have the option to move 1 or all. either make Ctrl move in stacks of 5 or make it so i can hold down the mouse button!!!!!!! This is so typical in matrixgames that it makes me sick at times. I now own 7 of your games and it pretty much the same in all of them, to few hotkeys and interface interactivity is a bit on the poor side.

2)
Get rid of that last combat report, instead give us a overall report for all combat last turn. With sections so we can see who lost what, ofcurse still with respect to the FOW.
I hate not being able to see how many transport ships i lost.

3)
Make it so i don't have to press U then C then U again, give me the abillity to see how much supply is in a area while im still able to see the amount of units and rail.

4)
Give me a button in the production screen to set the rest for supply.
You can already do this to some extend in the research screen where it show how much you have left and can then allocate acordingly, but with no choice as to where you produce the research.
Its ok that we have to build supply but make it a bit easier.

5)
In the production screen let me use the arrowkeys on my keyboard to scroll the countrys, and the areas in the countrys. and when on the map let me so the map scroll with the arrowkeys to. You where able to do this back in the days of Dune II and now we write 2005.

ORIGINAL: solops

How about being able to set different sides at different "Hardness" levels? I'm at my office and cannot remember the set-up screen, but in planning my next game that would be a nice option.

ORIGINAL: Barthheart

ORIGINAL: solops

How about being able to set different sides at different "Hardness" levels? I'm at my office and cannot remember the set-up screen, but in planning my next game that would be a nice option.

That's easy and already there. You can manually change the supply bonus, transport bonus and combat modifier in the game pref. screen for each country regardless of the difficulty setting.[:)]

It would be REALLY handy to have "Spacebar":
* Close any open dialog box
* Exit the combat screen
* Similar functions.

Like others, the combat animations are Fun...but only every once in awhile. If a simple tap of the spacebar would end combat (and then close the "resolution box" that would be VERY handy.

SamF7