Hotseats with PI

[Cookiegod]

Dear Makers of Paeninsula Italica,
I have various questions about your mod, but let me first explain the reason:
As you might imagine, also in the german community (totalwar-zone.de), the release of your mod is gladly expected, and I have a great interest in that period myself.
Due to my speculation, that PI soon is going to be released, I prepared a hotseat with this mod.
As you can see if you follow the link, there's great interest for it, and I think it's quite likely it's the same in the other communities.

Still, I have some questions:
1) It's an often placed question, I know, and I don't want to stress you, still I have to ask that question:
When is this mod going to be released?
According to that post, it's going to be quite soon.

2) Is this map still true?

btw: are you reaching the various limits, like 199 regions, 7 (?) cultures, about 30 countries, aso.?

3) How is the map looking in the start, which regions will the factions control in the beginning?

4) Is this Faction list still true?

Latins:
Roman Republic
Sabine Cities

Etruscans:
Etruscan Federation (Rasenna)
Etruscan Federation (Tyrrheni)
Etruscan Federation (Tusci)
Umbrian Cities

Oscans:
Samnite Confederation
Lucanian Tribes
Brettian Tribes
Apulian Tribes

Greeks:
Greeks of Italy
Syracuse
Epirus

Phoenicians:
Empire of Carthage

Gauls:
Senonic Tribe
Boiian Tribe
Cenomanic Tribe
Insubrian Tribe
Ligurian Tribes

5) Is there going to be a hotseatmode in the first version released?

Thank you

[SigniferOne]

Dear Makers of Paeninsula Italica,
I have various questions about your mod, but let me first explain the reason:
As you might imagine, also in the german community (totalwar-zone.de), the release of your mod is gladly expected, and I have a great interest in that period myself.
Due to my speculation, that PI soon is going to be released, I prepared a hotseat with this mod.
As you can see if you follow the link, there's great interest for it, and I think it's quite likely it's the same in the other communities.

Thanks! It's good to have your work be appreciated, so this certainly makes me hopeful that our work will reach eager players.

1) It's an often placed question, I know, and I don't want to stress you, still I have to ask that question:
When is this mod going to be released?

It is in a near-releasable state right now, but I keep adding things that I deem to be important for a release. Right now I'm finishing up battle animations (post), and after that I am considering making the hoplite animation.

2) Is this map still true?

Yes.

btw: are you reaching the various limits, like 199 regions, 7 (?) cultures, about 30 countries, aso.?

We are approaching many of those limits.

3) How is the map looking in the start, which regions will the factions control in the beginning?

It's a bit hard to describe that in a post like this, I guess you'll have to go see it in-game My best hint would be that we tried to make it as historical as possible (for example Rome owns 3 provinces that constitute the little slice of the western coast of central Italy).

4) Is this Faction list still true?

Yes.

5) Is there going to be a hotseatmode in the first version released?

Probably not for the beta, as I'd like to have all the features working first, but I don't see why not for the main public release.

[Cookiegod]

Thanks for your fast reply.
Well, I imagined you would do it as historical as possible, so I think I can quite well localize where they are, but I'm not sure about the Etruscan Federations and the Italic Greeks.
Rasenna, Tyrrheni and Tusci were, if I remember it right, just the same name for the people in different languages (etruscan, greek and latin), I only think I can localize the umbrian cities somewhere north of Rome.
The greeks hold many colonies in Italy, but they weren't acting as one nation, so I don't know which of their cities you are giving them and which ones you want to make to rebels.
I only can imagine that their most important cities (Taras & Kroton) will also be some of their starting regions.

[born2dive67]

To SIG

ok this raises a question for me. I never chose which faction I would like to play as that usually ties in with their starting location as well as what troops they have. For this mod I am guessing that postion will be my biggest factor. With that in mind I see that your response to where factions are starting is to reply wait and see in game. Will a faction selection be recognizable on the overall campaign map in the begining? I have played other mods where you select a faction and you get an indepth intro to them but the map doesnt change nor show you where on the campaign map they are.

[SigniferOne]

Rasenna, Tyrrheni and Tusci were, if I remember it right, just the same name for the people in different languages (etruscan, greek and latin)

These are all just different names for the Etruscans, whose cities will be split up into three leagues. Thus one league of Etruscan cities will be facing to the south, one will be east, and the other to the north, facing the Gauls.

I only think I can localize the umbrian cities somewhere north of Rome.

Deep in the Apennine mountains. Here's a sample image:

Spoiler Alert, click show to read: 

The greeks hold many colonies in Italy, but they weren't acting as one nation, so I don't know which of their cities you are giving them and which ones you want to make to rebels.
I only can imagine that their most important cities (Taras & Kroton) will also be some of their starting regions.

Taras will be leading the league of Greek cities in the south.

To SIG

ok this raises a question for me. I never chose which faction I would like to play as that usually ties in with their starting location as well as what troops they have. For this mod I am guessing that postion will be my biggest factor. With that in mind I see that your response to where factions are starting is to reply wait and see in game. Will a faction selection be recognizable on the overall campaign map in the begining? I have played other mods where you select a faction and you get an indepth intro to them but the map doesnt change nor show you where on the campaign map they are.

If what you're asking is whether each faction will have an image showing its starting provinces (ala vanilla), then the answer is yes.

[born2dive67]

Thanks SIG that answered my question perfectly

[ignoramus maximus]

Are the Veneti going to be included?

[Cookiegod]

Sig, could you please make an ingame picture of the minimap in the first turn?
Just for me to localize the different nations^^

[Tenerife_Boy]

just for you ? wtf...

[SigniferOne]

Sig, could you please make an ingame picture of the minimap in the first turn?
Just for me to localize the different nations^^

This is an old image to help you:

[Cookiegod]

thank you :-)
Is this map more or less still up to date?

[SigniferOne]

Yes. Current map also includes all of Carthage in africa in addition.

[Cookiegod]

and Epeiros in Greece^^
So Carthago holds all the African territories and Epeiros that one on the right side near the bottom?
and just one more issue, I just discovered this map does not show any ports in Epiros and Illyria/Dalmatia.
I just hope you wont forget them :-P

[SigniferOne]

Just to warn people, we are not developing the Illyria/Dalmatia coast at all at the present moment. The coats are not smoothed out, and this is why you see the gigantic provinces. That wholle araa is simply a placeholder atm.

[Cookiegod]

So, are the Veneti going to be included?

[emperor77]

They are on the map, aren't they?

[SigniferOne]

Veneti are too minor to be ironed out and polished as a separate faction. They're coded in but for now will remain just rebels.

[ElSypatiko]

It is in a near-releasable state right now, but I keep adding things that I deem to be important for a release. Right now I'm finishing up battle animations (post), and after that I am considering making the hoplite animation.


Sorry but is was last 2 years in a near state

[SigniferOne]

Well yes, but it obviously had far less 2 years ago than it does today. I could've released it the first time I had a basic menu and a 'Paeninsula Italica' in the title.

[born2dive67]

Well yes, but it obviously had far less 2 years ago than it does today. I could've released it the first time I had a basic menu and a 'Paeninsula Italica' in the title.

Yeah you could have but thank goodness you didn't LOL

SO how go the latest animations????