Good News

**dvk901** · January 01, 2008, 05:31 PM

LT1956, whom I've been in contact with for a while, has offered to do the unit balancing for RS2....to in his words, "give RS2 something of SPQR in it's battle system."

He's also offered to make a 'garrison script' for RS2....which I think would be a cool idea.

**Drtad** · January 01, 2008, 05:54 PM

Originally Posted by dvk901

LT1956, whom I've been in contact with for a while, has offered to do the unit balancing for RS2....to in his words, "give RS2 something of SPQR in it's battle system."

He's also offered to make a 'garrison script' for RS2....which I think would be a cool idea.

Very good! That is indeed good news.

**aja5191** · January 01, 2008, 09:11 PM

I thought we were trying to stay away from scripts.....

**Roman_Man#3** · January 01, 2008, 09:19 PM

Something like that is relatively small and doesn't cause slowdown. I think we're staying away from EB's script.

**aja5191** · January 01, 2008, 09:42 PM

Hokay then.

I'm all for it!

**dvk901** · January 01, 2008, 09:56 PM

EB's script is so massive I'm sure a computer programer had to have written it. RS will have nothing like that.

**swhunter** · January 01, 2008, 10:15 PM

what is this ?
thanks..

**Keravnos** · January 02, 2008, 03:26 AM

Nothing but respect for LT1956.
I remember upgrading my Ram to play SPQR a while back.

I also think he will be a great help in unit balancing.

**rory o'kane** · January 02, 2008, 12:20 PM

deffo. i really liked the balance in SPQR. good fun it was. how exactly does the garrison script work? does it jsut spawn a random garrison when you attack a city?

**dvk901** · January 02, 2008, 01:32 PM

You have pre-chosen units that are spawned.

**cherryfunk** · January 02, 2008, 01:38 PM

I'm all in favor, I love the battles in SPQR...

**Mulattothrasher** · January 02, 2008, 03:42 PM

Does this mean that if you win a massive victory over their army outside a city, a magical army still appears inside the city once its besieged?

This won't become a "Siege: Total War" thing will it?

**Drtad** · January 02, 2008, 08:08 PM

Originally Posted by Mulattothrasher

Does this mean that if you win a massive victory over their army outside a city, a magical army still appears inside the city once its besieged?

This won't become a "Siege: Total War" thing will it?

No, its actually kind of a historical thing, I mean, when Jerusalem was besieged, or Edessa, and the army was off somewhere campaigning or was destroyed, they were still able to levy some troops to at least put up a fight against the besieging troops.

Also, it would severely slow expansion and keep faction balance intact for a while.

**aja5191** · January 02, 2008, 08:11 PM

I think we're all for that.

**dvk901** · January 02, 2008, 09:30 PM

Yes...besides perhaps an occasional rebellion, this was the only thing I wished RS had in terms of a script. It is one of the poorest playability issues of RTW, and very unhistorical that a beseiged city would have nothing to defend it.