The Designer Diary

[statusperfect]

http://pc.ign.com/articles/437/437980p1.html?fromint=1

At first i was sceptic to the conquests just wanting improvements to core game. But man, this got me drooling. Can't wait to get my hands on this conquest

[G'Kar]

I'm drooling too, I can't wait to hear more about the rest of the scenarios.

[Myrddin]

If it is true that all the changes in the Conquest scenarios will be available in the editor, then there are huge number of possibilities for changes to the game;

eg if units stats can be changed by technology acquired, then an arms race, like the naval competition between Britain and Germany in the early 19th century, can be modelled sensibly without having to create new graphics for each new class of battleships

This will be the really interesting part after the release of Conquests, not the conquests themselves

[Louis XXIV]

That gave me the impression that the unit is simply upgraded

Is it possible to currently upgrade King units?

[ixnay]

Wow, this sounds awesome.

[Vince278]

I was drooling before the release of MOO3 also.

[statusperfect]

Originally posted by Vince278
I was drooling before the release of MOO3 also.

Mindless drooling is OK for expansion packs.

[MattH]

Originally posted by statusperfect
Mindless drooling is OK for expansion packs.

Quite right! We need a :drool: smiley .

From the article, it seems that the author made the scenario from scratch with no previous experience... that sounds good for casual people like me .

[Mellian]

whoa, this is awesome. so want to play that scenario now!!!

one thing i am curious...will there be a script language finally, which the 'arrival of the portuguese' suggests?

-Mellian

[Sheik]

This expansion is looking very promising. I am waiting to order though to see what others have to say. Though if a special pre-order offer came up on Amazon I might take advantage.

The Japan scenario is looking sweet.

Mellian, that is an interesting question and it has been talk about for some time. Though don't get your hopes up, I remember reading a quote from a developer that made it seem like a scripting langauge was out of the question.

[Falconius]

Originally posted by Mellian
one thing i am curious...will there be a script language finally, which the 'arrival of the portuguese' suggests?

The Arrival of the Portuguese could easily be a kind of 'tech' in the tech tree.

[Louis XXIV]

Or even a civ that arrives around the right time period.

[statusperfect]

Events (like the ones in the stacraft editor) could be in. After alll you HAVE to have events to make a "professionally designed scenario"

[Sheik]

there will probably be some kind of events just not full scripting abilities. I assume we will be getting the same editor they used, which by their description is "robust."

[WarpStorm]

Originally posted by statusperfect
After alll you HAVE to have events to make a "professionally designed scenario"

No you don't. It means that you have to pay your scenario designers.