Achilles_Knee

wow....this thread is pretty borderline.... I take it there are no women who come here...I know more then a few who would go ballistic if they saw the title of this thread....

Yeah the Empires DMW Wonders are very well done... In fact Empires is kind of the benchmark RTS out there right now, IMO. It's got the best gameplay since AOK.

Thanks very much for the background. I do know some good programmers that I will indeed needle into at least looking at this site. I'm in the Seattle, WA area so obviously there are plenty of them around here... I'm very excited to hear about the size of your team; that is great news. The project has a decidedly 'linux' open source kinda feel to it. Which is cool. I'll have to read up more about the other projects you mentioned here. I can tell without even attempting to get on my soapbox that you guys are marching down the right path; we SO need a timeless 3D RTS based on this time period that sticks to the original and successfull rock/paper/scissors AOE ideal. I feel strongly that the big developers have gone completely off the deep end; trying to add feature after feature to something that frankly does not need it. To me the Titans is an example of how hideous a thing can become when it forgets it's lineage and has tons of money and the wrong kinds of influences thrown at it. The stuff I have read here it's like "yeah! exactly! exactly what I would do!" when I'm readint it so obviously, the excitment factor for me is way up there. Thanks again for the insight.

a flame or two is typically what turns a topic into a 3 pager (unfortunately)

Looks Russian. Here is what Babbel Fish thinks it says: I play from and- no clubs. ELFtheHUNTER otdolzhil to me 20 kr. To paladins: Sometimes I will straighten out in BK from kompa of my bratana. (but very rarely) IP can change. Attention! Battle is finished. In all by you it is substituted the loss: 331 HP. It is obtained the experience: 634. attention! Battle is finished. In all by you it is substituted the loss: 324 hp. It is obtained the experience: 726. attention! Battle is finished. In all by you it is substituted the loss: 522 hp. It is obtained the experience: 1135. (it occurs and such) =) Attention! 10.05.03 15:27 you successfully passed checking in the paladins My calculation in the bank: 244326295

no worries there...I'm a sysop at a software development company (not gaming) so I know how projects of this magnitude can slip in scope and schedule... the skeptic in me is saying "OMG this is the coolest RTS ever they will never pull it off!" But hey; I've no clue it could be running already for all I know!!

Hi everyone, I'm an (ahem) older RTS player; started on AOE, went to AOE_RoR; AOK; AOKtC; a litte EE, AOM (for about six months, Titans expansion lost me); now playing Empires DotMW Demo and will be playing that game pretty much exclusively when it ships. I've always felt that the RoR time period is extremely neglected in terms of RTS and was so very dissapointed in where AOM ended up...been eyeing this project for a while now with equal parts of excitment and skepticism (no offense). Anyway; thought I'd finally join up and at least show my support for such a great idea for a game. The background information on this site is without a doubt the most researched and comprehensive of any RTS out there; and seeing as this is not a commercial project that is very impressive. Any links to the status/schedule of this project would be appreciated; but mostly this is just a: Hello everyone from a HUGE RTS fan!