GENERAL: Will Call to Power ever continue ?

[Solver]

Ktulu,

Here is the current situation with CtP. The Activision team has indeed been disbanded, and there will be no official continuation to CtP.

However, about a month ago, Activision, after a long conversation with Apolyton, has agreed to release the source code for CtP2 - all of it. Well, it won't include the sound system, but that's a minor issue.

In the light of that, the people here who still play CtP and have some programming ability are going to modify the source to provide better stuff for CtP2 - fix the bugs, possibly add new feautures, etc.

As of now, a number of very good mods have been created for the game, but having access to the source will enable us to do anything we want.

I suggest you take a look at the other threads in this forum .

[Tamerlin]

I don't think it is a good idea to tinker with the unit costs but many things can be achieved through SLIC programming. Ahenobarb has posted a Complete Guide to SLIC a few days ago that can be downloaded from the Directory.

[st_swithin]

CTP is a dead franchise, at least that's how Activision left it hanging.

If you have a load of money you want to waste, you can probably license it from ATVI for cheap. Heck, they might even sell the whole k n' k. According to what accounting told us, we didn't make a dime on it. That's why the entire studio was completely dissolved after CTP2 was released.

[Dale]

You trusted an accountant?

I thought I knew you!

[st_swithin]

I didn't say I trusted him. MUDSLINGER!!

;p

[The Big Mc]

But you made no loss??????????????

[st_swithin]

After marketing costs were amortised, our bottom line was a big fat 0.

So no, we made no apparent loss. But we also had no apparent profit, thus rendering the studio unprofitable, thus rendering all of our jobs obsolete.

[The Big Mc]

seams off to me

[Tamerlin]

Unfortunately the only goal of a company is to make money not to provide a job to the people who need money in order to eat. A department that is not making any profits is thus useless and closed, they don't care a dime if people are thrown naked in the street as a result.

Some call it modern society...

[The Big Mc]

You can only blame the company if a section is unprofitable you just take a closer look maybe re order the management and give it more time

[st_swithin]

Well, somebody's gotta take the fall, and the producers sure as heck weren't going to lose their jobs. Which, not surprisingly, they didn't.

[The Big Mc]

do you know how much of the ctp 1/2 team still come on to apolyton I would really like to talk to the people who made the units

[Maquiladora]

Big Mc has an obsession with the beta war walker sprite

I wonder how much the license costs for ctp though.

[The Big Mc]

and the beta star cruiser

[Locutus]

Originally posted by st_swithin
If you have a load of money you want to waste, you can probably license it from ATVI for cheap.

Do you have any idea how cheap is cheap? Are we talking thousands of dollars, hundreds of thousands of dollars, millions?