SPQR 5.0 and 6.0 coming to a theater near you. lol

[lt1956]

Hello,

I THOUGHT i should let the fans know that 5.0 is almost done and will be ready soon for all to enjoy. It will be a little while yet due to testing and conditional reasons. But 5.0 will be for 1.2

Now the Surprise is SPQR 6.0, because CA released the patch for RTW and because they did it right, SPQR will be porting over to 1.5 patch. BUT its called 6.0 because it will be different from 5.0. For one it will use a different map (Icetorque's map) second some small mods will NOT be in 6.0, the Burn Mod, and Wall mod will not be as there are no compatible version for 1.3/1.5 But Most of 5.0 will be in 6.0, its just because of the map and larger size, the game will not be a siege fest or have 5 battles in one turn. It will also be harder to block the AI as there is more maneuvering room. Plus the larger size slows down the expansion of the AI a little and the player.

Resources will be tighter in 6.0 because there will not be as many on the map. ZOR will change as because certain provinces will not be in 6.0 other provinces will have to be home of the named Legions. There will be a new README (Please READ!) for SPQR 6.0, a must READ for all the players.

Over all I think BOTH version will have their aspects of Play and Fun. After these mods will be released I will begin work on my Late Republic Mod for SPQR.

I thank you for your support and hope you will enjoy the new versions as much as I am. And the new roman fort is awsome when defending it!

Sincerely,
Lt1956

[andymate]

What is a thread name without a LOL in it haha? Anyway lt great work, good to see your still pumping this project out! Cant wait for 6.0!

[DeeDee]

Yay 5.0 and 6.0

Could you plz post us a bit of a more in depth preview a sort mini readme of what to expect in 5.0 and 6.0

Thx Lt for SPQR

[lt1956]

Will try on the readme, lot of work and I have 2 versions plus work for EB testing I am doing at the same time. lol Plus trying to learn 3Dmax/Gmax and Sigs editor. I think I will drink my poison now. lol

Andymate!!!! Glad to see your back! I missed you, I could use your testing later on, I hope you stick around? I wanted to recommend you for a Civitate but you disappeared on me. ;-)

Dont forget the Late republic mod also. That one will be a little different, plus I still have to make a small mod for the players that want Egypt to be greek, I gave my word to them, to bad so much delayed me. I didnt want to release it and then have to redo it because of 5.0. Plus I may do a Unified Rome for some who like that. But its down the Road.

You should have seen the new unit sizes AI 240 men you at most 180 mostly 160. lol Works good and more challenge to the battles. Also I figure out how to make some better forts IMO and they work REALLY good, I had a blast defending a Roman Camp with 700 men from 2000 carthaginians! I won, but had to use tactics. 3 archer, 3 javelin, 3 aux infantry.

[humvee2800]

woooot

is this new spqr for bi?

if so i cant wait too play it,if not itll still be awesome but it wont fill the void in my life
(dont worry NOTHING FILLS THE VOID)


is the new spqr gonna be released on sunday?

[nahirean]

Will try on the readme, lot of work and I have 2 versions plus work for EB testing I am doing at the same time. lol Plus trying to learn 3Dmax/Gmax and Sigs editor. I think I will drink my poison now. lol

Andymate!!!! Glad to see your back! I missed you, I could use your testing later on, I hope you stick around? I wanted to recommend you for a Civitate but you disappeared on me. ;-)

Dont forget the Late republic mod also. That one will be a little different, plus I still have to make a small mod for the players that want Egypt to be greek, I gave my word to them, to bad so much delayed me. I didnt want to release it and then have to redo it because of 5.0. Plus I may do a Unified Rome for some who like that. But its down the Road.

You should have seen the new unit sizes AI 240 men you at most 180 mostly 160. lol Works good and more challenge to the battles. Also I figure out how to make some better forts IMO and they work REALLY good, I had a blast defending a Roman Camp with 700 men from 2000 carthaginians! I won, but had to use tactics. 3 archer, 3 javelin, 3 aux infantry.

You know I am here if you need testing LT.

[DeeDee]

Ok fair enough, ty looks like you got your work set out for you.Where do I find out info about the late republic mod.The Egypt Idea of being Greek is a wonderful Idea just to get rid of that last fledging Fantasy aspect of RTW.

[Sidmen]

1.6 will be for a patched version of BI, and 1.5 will be for plain RTW patched at 1.2

Plus, i'd like for egypt to be greek (or at least the mod to make it greek) becuase I love the area they are in, just hate the units themselves, they just seem wrong fighting imperial roman legionaries.

[andymate]

Yeh i dissapeared because ive been working alot of hours lately Work sucks haha!

Anyway i have to test rtw with the new patch, i havent yet but i heard that sieges, river crossing battles have been fixed. Also some issues with slowdowns i was having have been fixed. These were my main gripes with 1.0 to 1.3!



edit: So what is this about larger unit sizes? You can actually implement them now?

[Triarii]

Are landbridges being removed from 6.0?Now that the AI can do proper naval invasions landbridges aren't really necessary anymore.

[makeshift52]

No, what has happened, is he is using the original unit limits - but he is putting all the enmy sizes as high as they can go, and increasing Romans by a small amount to make it harder!

[LordSaradain]

Lt, do you think you'll be able to release be4 christmas? Why not on christmas, it would be a great christmas present!!

[makeshift52]

No before - I am going skiing on Christmas Day! Must play before!

[Flanus]

Huh ! So many great news. I am lost little bit...I thought Late Rep. would have been SPQR 5_0 and now I undesrand it, there is going to be 5_0, 6_0 and Late Rep. beside it ?

[jegui]

Good news LT!

I'm looking forward to SPQR 5 and later on... SPQR 6 :-) will victory conditions (50 limit) change in 6 or are they bound to BI only?

Anyway good work and happy festivities to everybody!!!

jegui

[makeshift52]

The Late Republic will be completely separate! And SPQR 5.0 and 6.0 are for 1.2 Patch RTW and 1.5 Patch RTW respectively!

[slackker]

um i have a question, i'm going to reinstall RTW(stopped playing it cos of the bugs) and 1.5 seems to fix a lot of stuff since 1.2(where i stopped). so juz a question, do u have any release date for spqr 5.0 and 6.0? and if i patch rtw to 1.3, will it have any conflicts with spqr 5.0?

wouldnt want to patch it and install ur mod LT and end up ruining the experience

oh and 1 more thing, are the carthginians fun to play? the last time i touched them was in vanilla ^_^

cheers and many tks

[Alcibiades of Athens]

Great news, new map and patch compatibility !

Will 5.0 and 6.0 be released in close proximity to each other ?

[lt1956]

They should be close depending on when I can release SPQR 5.0 I cant release for sure until after EB open Beta,

Lt

[LordSaradain]

They should be close depending on when I can release SPQR 5.0 I cant release for sure until after EB open Beta,

Lt

How come you cant release 5.0 before the EB open beta?