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Eric, does this imply that on-going games will not be compatible for this new patch? Have a number of PBEM's going and wondering if it is worth it to continue them.

ORIGINAL: Deerslayer

Eric, does this imply that on-going games will not be compatible for this new patch? Have a number of PBEM's going and wondering if it is worth it to continue them.

I'm afraid that will probably be the case.

ORIGINAL: ericbabe

(If one of our sequel products is the Anabasis we'll have to expand these rules ten-fold. [8D])



Or a computer game version of "The Warriors."[;)]

New commander names come from data files. In the Data\ directory see CmdName1.txt - CmdName8.txt. This is editable, just be sure to use underscores ("_") instead of spaces (" ") in any names that you add/change.

I do plan to add renaming of any unit as this is a popular request, but not sure if it'll make it in the next patch. Similarly, disbanding units is something I'd like to add but not sure it'll make the next patch.

Hey Eric, I hope you will not be able to change Leader names. Otherwise players will rename Napoleon do folks won't know where to find him.

ORIGINAL: ericbabe
I can easily add a bit of code so that teleportation after war won't send units to islands. Don't know why we haven't done this before...

If the player has no choice in selecting where the units are teleported, it may be sufficient to teleport the folks to the nation's capital.

Bump

I'm holding my review for this patch. Is there an ETA?

ORIGINAL: Yohan

New commander names come from data files. In the Data\ directory see CmdName1.txt - CmdName8.txt. This is editable, just be sure to use underscores ("_") instead of spaces (" ") in any names that you add/change.

I do plan to add renaming of any unit as this is a popular request, but not sure if it'll make it in the next patch. Similarly, disbanding units is something I'd like to add but not sure it'll make the next patch.

Hey Eric, I hope you will not be able to change Leader names. Otherwise players will rename Napoleon do folks won't know where to find him.

Ahhh, he will be the one with 4 stars

you can name all the one star leaders you want, and it still should not confuse anyone

[:-]

ORIGINAL: Bismarck

Bump

I'm holding my review for this patch. Is there an ETA?

Approximately one week, assuming things go relatively smoothly.

LOL
well, now that would be a change

ORIGINAL: ian77

Congratulations H-S!

After several hundred hours of game play, this is the first time I have ever seen a new commander appear like this!!

Now all we need is the patch[;)]

Ian

Sounds like someone got their money's worth. [8D]

Well, if Ian got a couple of hundred in, I think I got him Beat

but must say, if we can get some of the other things in, and keep everything else that is in, working right, this is going to be a great patch

and not trying to butter any one up, but from what I have seen so far, I wish Eric and crew many, many great games down the road

Well, if Ian got a couple of hundred in, I think I got him Beat

Well that's good to hear! If I remember right, weren't you one that had posted an 'I quit' type message? Glad you stuck it out instead?

shhhhh

don't remind people [:-]

but even then I didn't stay away

ORIGINAL: Hard Sarge

shhhhh

don't remind people [:-]

but even then I didn't stay away

Glad you didn't! Great game and I wholly concur with your earlier sentiment... "...I wish Eric and crew many, many great games down the road..."

wait till you see it in little bit

By the way, where can I dl the 1.1 patch again?

go to the members area and log in then look for Crown of Glory title and click on the link to download the patch.

ORIGINAL: Ralegh (b) I have argued (strongly) that the feature should be removed - troops should march back: that would remove the problem all together, while adding realism. Anyone agree with me?

Yes, very much. I've had it happen several times as France where Austria surrenders, and pretty much my entire army will "teleport" back to Munich and/or Switzerland and I'll suffer very significant foraging losses. That's very irritating. I've ordered my units to reduce or eliminate my forage losses as I drive to destroy the Austrian and Russian armies, and I really don't like taking losses because the computer moves all my forces to one or two provinces when I can simply move my armies/corps out of Austria. Additionally, sometimes my forces get moved to a location that leaves them vulnerable to an unsurrendered enemy attack and I then have to fight them -- whereas I may have been luring that army in or something. Perhaps having an opportunity to immediately direct where each unit should go would suffice.

Did you have the case that sometimes some corps were still in the ex-foe's land and weren't teleported? Then you need to violate its neutrality to move them around the land and back to your home soil. Therefore, should the game better be made so that we will have (at least) one month's time to move our own corps instead of being surprised to see how our treasured fighters are taking such a great toll while marching back chanting victory?

Hmm... no, that hasn't happened to me. I like your suggestion about length of time to vacate your opponents territory, though. It makes a certain amount of sense that you would have until the treaty is ratified for your forces to leave the territory -- particularly if you've chose forced access as a condition (I've never done that, personally, but it might be that this already occurs if you do choose access).