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Well, might be usefull to recall the optional rules discussion-
what about the political combinations ? Poland, Kindom of Bavaria, Conf. of the Rhine, Kindom of Italiy, Westphalia, etc. ?

Do certain minor corps become a movement allowance of "4" simply for being french controlled ?

Alternate Dominant Powers, achieving or losing dominant status ?

Political restrictions of peace ?

Peace treaty and allied limited access, forced access ?

If the 4 corps per depot rule is too hard to introduce then what about these two variations;

1)Each depot can supply an unlimited number of corps but supply costs double for every four corps above four it supplies

or

2) For every preceding depot in a supply chain supply costs are increased. ( again unlimited and doubled costs per depot in chain over 1)

Since we have a computer doing the maths why not a combination of 1) AND 2) with decreased supply penalties individually ie. square root 2* costs.

Now I shall sit back and receive your insults at my leisure.

Well, I've been waiting for this game like most of you since even before Matrix took over the project, and been monitoring this forum on an off for a couple of years now... I love this game and I don't have any problems with waiting for its release, it's a monster game and Marshall and his team have been giving it all they had for the past years for all I know, so I'm greatfull for their effort (without it we would have nothing to expect), but it seems is not EiA anymore... a lot of the game rules are left out and EiH rules have been incorporated (I've got nothing agaisnt EiH, just think that the rules swamp the game a bit) all of which I humbly think that change the game dramatically, the game is called EiA right??, so if its not EiA (all though it'll look like it in a corny sort of way) it shouldn't be called like that and sadly I rather keep playing cyberboard to actually get the right feel out of the game...

Tanan,

Unless a different decison has been made there is supposed to be an option to play with the EiA classic rules only.

Yohan

Thank you so much for your quick response Yohan, I really appreciate it...

Maybe I jumped to conclusions after reading through this thread without having all the information...

This option you mention, does it include all the rules in the original EiA game?, or will some be left out like some optionals?

Once again thanks for answring my post...

MY Best

You are welcome Tanan but I guess we'll have to just wait and see...

Great.  We went from "weeks until release" back to "months until release."  Sigh.  And to think I emailed out the previous update info to friends. 
 
yamma

What the $#%$#%^?

Where did you see months again Yamma?

Javajoe:

We're hoping for Winter '05 BUT looking at the deviation list, we may need to wait, depending on your input. Some folks are wanting it all now and others are content with much of their request in patches. Tough call...

Suffice to say, that we will not be able to include over 20 years of mods / options in version 1.0. There are so many additions / optional rule sets that we could spend 1-2 more years of dev time to finish this thing! It's a tough call to let some play now with 75% of the game done or try to please the other crowd that won't buy it until 100% of the game is done????!!!!????

In summary, I'll let the testers / Matrix tell me when we're ready to release. Meanwhile, back at central control, I'll keep hacking out code as fast as I can while trying to keep food on the table for the family! I do enjoy the project BUT I don't enjoy missing dates for you guys!

Thank you

I infer the now longer wait from this reply by Marshall. Of course I hope I am wrong.

lynn

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Javajoe:

We're hoping for Winter '05 BUT looking at the deviation list, we may need to wait, depending on your input. Some folks are wanting it all now and others are content with much of their request in patches. Tough call...

Suffice to say, that we will not be able to include over 20 years of mods / options in version 1.0. There are so many additions / optional rule sets that we could spend 1-2 more years of dev time to finish this thing! It's a tough call to let some play now with 75% of the game done or try to please the other crowd that won't buy it until 100% of the game is done????!!!!????

In summary, I'll let the testers / Matrix tell me when we're ready to release. Meanwhile, back at central control, I'll keep hacking out code as fast as I can while trying to keep food on the table for the family! I do enjoy the project BUT I don't enjoy missing dates for you guys!

Thank you

I infer the now longer wait from this reply by Marshall. Of course I hope I am wrong.

lynn

I think you missed the date on that reply, it is from September of 2005. The most recent comment on when it will be out is in the "August Update" thread dated from about 10 days ago. While there is no promise of when, it certainly sounds sooner than months. I will now lapse back into silent waiting.

HOLY COW!!  Cool.  I am actually glad I made a mistake in my reading.  Weird to be a happy idiot.
 
yamma

Phew, right Marshall??

That was several delays ago...???
 
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