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Yeah, yeah, Aircraft Carrier - Akagi(Red Castle) or Kaga(Increased Joy) or Shokaku(Happy Crane) or Hiryu(Flying Dragon) or Zuikaku(Lucky Crane) or Soryu(Green Dragon).

Aichi 3A2 Val(bomb under fusilage and bomb under each wing, carrier-borne, single-engine dive bomber), Mitsubishi A6M2 Zero(bomb under each wing, carrier-borne fighter), Nakajima B5N2 Kate(torpedo or bomb, single-engine torpedo bomber).

and

Mini-subs

[This message has been edited by YaRiTe (edited 01-06-2004 @ 10:03 AM).]

Modern age: just like empire earth,
and more ships, like anti air ships

though I love the more modern ages in the game, as well as the earlier ages, I think I'm more looking forward to an xpack which will cover the ages before the Middle ones. That would suit me just fine.

by marketing it will be the antik times, for sure.
Third X-pack will be modern times and future, i guess.
But i really hope, next to marketing strategies, already released ages will get more units, too. For example indo times.

Just being dreaming: Why not open Empires for community made units? Maybe just a folder where to copy into or an 'integraion' wizard. It was really fun to hack own units and mods in games as e.g. SWAT ...
By marketing strategy this could of course only be part of the last x-pack ;-)

I hope they don't make any new ages. Five is more than enough. Why don't they just focus on the exsisting ages by adding new civilizations (Germans are missing in Med-Imp, good one to add)?

Aye I'd like to see a Med-Imp Germany (i.e. Prussia or Austria) and perhaps the UK could have the option of becoming the US at Imp age with another age added onto the US. I'd also like to see an Ottoman/Turkish Civ in Med-Imp. In addition to that, I'd just like to see some more units and some improvements to Sea combat.

Also, something I would like to see (for the Russians) is a randomization of models(i.e. Male and Female) with Conscripts and Snipers, similar to Empire Earth with Male and Female citizens. Just a thought for a little touch.

i think that they should bring in Spain. You could upgrade from the Franks in the imperial age. Or they could bring in the Aztecs...

Bring USA to the imperial age. (The Patriot with Mel Gibson rocks so much) And add more units.. Many great ideas have been posted.. And I hope SSSI makes a new x-pack. And make sure they have more commercials.. Many people that I've spoked to has never heard of Empires

I am looking forward very much to the earlier ages pack, but, I really do not want them to go beyond WW2. The digital and nano age in EE were terrible (and the space age made me cringe), and I like realistic, historical games, not futuristic star wars crap. What I hope SSSI will do (however unlikely it may be) is make the pre-medi ages pack, and then for the third pack, simply add more civs and units and featuresto the existing game. That would be awesome, and that's what I strongly reccomend they do. They might do something like that, though, since after WW2, what's there to add besides Modern age (assuming they don't go all futuristic and whatever), which means they'll only have to make 1 age, freeing their time up to work on other things (such as adding new civs and units to existing ages).

I want them to focus on more modern ages. There is currently no big-time historical-modern RTS out (besides C&C Generals, which is psuedo-modern/future).

However, SSSi should not go beyond the present time. In fact, I believe up to the end of the Cold War should be sufficient. Beyond that (possibly a little later), I don't think a "historical" game can be developed. It will be more fantasy than history.

Um you know what they should add in the xpac?
A GOOD game.

AnitAmi & Azn, I agree with you strongly that there should be no "Future Age" expansion packs for this game, as that would, as you've said, be entirely not in keeping with the level of historical accuracy that SSSi have obviously toiled to achieve. As much as there's been minor uproar about certain things concerning real life balance innacuracies, I happen to think that they've done a pretty damn good job to get this many civs already balanced (assuming post patch) with such diversity.

My only reluctance to see more ages is that the distinctions may become fairly insigificant, as with EE, but if the same amount of thought and effort goes into them as with the first 5, then....well....bring them on.

Cheers

Whati like to see? I guess you all know that, units can walk ON the walls

More people who like this game and other rts's tend to not like the future era of games. I strongly agree, I didn't like the future of EE and I'm sure I won't like it if they add it to Empires. I think only one more age is need (forwards), and that is the modern age.
For the previous ages, which i really hope they do; I don't know when I think it should start... perhaps it could start right at the beginning, like EE...

Ya, I am not a fan of adding a bunch more ages. I think it would be nice to add more civs to choose from and maybe...maybe add 1 more age...........

I'd like to see maybe an earlier age (for greece & rome), but no other ages. I'd like to see more (unique, obviously) civs, a complete mid east building set (if not a civ itself), and more attention to the scn editor (scn editor only buildings, units, more conditions and effects, taking out the ancient and unused relics from ee, etc...)

I think it would be cool to see some units that punch/kick, besides using weapons and blood come out every punch
That would make more people play this game probably. Also for those who are scenario editors, at least one punching unit would be cool. Think about it, punching units, look at the action. I understand it is not so realistic, but when units get to a certain range to a unit, you should be able to punch, because in real life wars, when a person gets too close to an enemy they have the choice of hitting the enemy with their gun, punching, or shooting. The main reason, is for the scenario editors. If they could include at least one for the scenario editor, that'd be good.
Crazy idea, but hey, think about how cool it'd be.

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I agree

I think action matches starting from Bronze Age cannot end in WW1 or empirial Age cause gold will finish in Middle Age lol

"The Barbarians are Coming" monday January 19, 7:00ET on the History Channel. Looks like it will be pretty good with four parts into the forgotten history of the Vikings, Goths, Mongols and Huns.

Don't forget that as much as pre-nano sucked, it was by far one of the most popular game settings. I don't think they should go all the way back to the stone age, but I think adding the ancient ages would be great.

I also want to see Japan in both the medieval and WW ages, Spain in the medieval ages, and China in the WW ages. Having the US in Imperial age would be great but that's probably not feasible for gameplay.

Yeah, adding China would be good in WW1 to WW2... and maybe some Middle-Eastern civs in Med to Imp...? After all, its Empires : Dawn of the modern world... not Empires : Dawn of the World Superpowers...

Also, i think that it should start at Bronze or Copper Age, not all the way from prehistory... (Cos i like farming )

[This message has been edited by Space_trader (edited 01-15-2004 @ 01:56 AM).]

Well, I'll throw my personal wishes out here..

I'd like to see the modern age added, but no higher, as many have said. I rarely played higher than the modern era in EE as I too hated the future/sci-fi stuff.

I'd also like to see the anti air gun boats added back in. I rather liked those.

And of course, some cool new civs, like others have mentioned Spain and Japan would def be good ones to add.

I also liked the way EE handled the unit upgrades better. Having just one upgrade allowed per unit seems like a step backwards to me. But I doubt we'll see that included back into Empires.

Lol, I think I'm just looking to have EE2, which Empires technically isn't. EE just needed a graphic overhaul and some optimization to keep it current..

maybe 1 more age connecting to ww1-2, less expesive teching options, and give germany access to rockets in ww1! i never get to use those sweet buzz bombs!

It would be nice to have the crossover to 'modern' occur a little earlier: nations like Russia, Germany and the U.S. etc. appeared before wwi and it would make it more interesting. I also think Japan would be useful to have, in all eras. Then you could have samurais and that sort of stuff and also could do a decent wwii situation.

Actually, I really liked playing Digital-Nano in random map. I think there's room for a Digital Age in the Modern x-pack, they just need to take a more realistic approach to it...