Macroing the Campaign

[PROMETHEUS ts]

Hi all ...

This is an idea feature that will probably never be implemented in total war games, and surely not for Rome II , but the hope is the last to die so here it is my idea for a more continuous and detailed campaign .



Imagine that the campaign could allow macrofocusing ... like when you access a new Macroregion a bigger larger campaign map opens with a much more indetail campaign for that region ..

In particular :

Northern Europe with Gaul , Britain and Germania

Southern Europe with Italy , balkans and Greece

Egypt with Egypt , Meroe up to Axum

The middle east with Turkey , Palestine , up to Babylon

The far east

All the regions up to Indus valley

the Arabia the whole peninsula

the West

the northern and Spanish areas



those macroregions woudl be like the main campaign map with a major subdivision of regions and towns ... so the ones that might not get the "sieegeability" option woudl be small towns and not large cities ...

So the map woudl work like that :

1 option for normal campaign and normal gameplay

2 option for the Macrocampaign , that whenever you access a new area can load the macro region , you will always be able to zoom out to the normal campaign map to see what's going onelsewhere .

but macrocampaign woudl also require more turns per year , perobably at least four or even 8 turns per year ...

And have the option to pick the time of starting the campaign and the period ...

Ok I am just dreaming I guess ...

[nomercysniper]

Pretty good idea, very very unlikely to see though.

[Karnil Vark Khaitan]

isnt what they already háve done i the campaign. with the province system?

[Woodrow Skillson]

isnt what they already háve done i the campaign. with the province system?

What he is talking about is a game with a campaign map that expands in scale as you progress. Like, you start with Rome, and have a campaign map that consists of Italy alone, with like 30 provinces. Once you conquer a certain amount, the map zooms out and the scale changes.

This is a cool idea, but would be absolute hell to code and balance. How does it work when you move an army from the zoomed out map into one of the zoomed in areas? Are the units multiplied by 2, 5, 10? A million other thing coudl go wrong or be super complicated.

[Chris Death]

but macrocampaign woudl also require more turns per year , perobably at least four or even 8 turns per year ...

And have the option to pick the time of starting the campaign and the period ...

Your idea did sound well until these two lines - there you lost me.

~S~ CD

[Emperordh]

Good idea but to late in game development to do thing like that...

[Sharpe]

Question - In regards to playing video games what does "Macro" mean?

[Emperordh]

Question - In regards to playing video games what does "Macro" mean?

Useing more details like Gaul open to more cities then when you zoom in, and from top only the major ones you see..

[PROMETHEUS ts]

Question - In regards to playing video games what does "Macro" mean?

http://www.thefreedictionary.com/macro

[Sharpe]

http://www.thefreedictionary.com/macro

I already know the meaning of the word, I'm not sure how you would "Macro" a campaign though.

[TotalWarker]

Seems like an interesting game idea but a different game nonetheless.

[Toho]

dont fix what is not broken.

[nameless]

Not going to work.

You're talking about putting several expansions into one game.

For example, Medieval 2 total war Kingdoms added new campaigns which did a blown-up version of several sections from the previous game. Each were separate of one or the other.

To have it where you zoom out and then zoom in then what's going on in the other regions at the same time?

Also this takes away the grand scaling that Total War aims for. It's about mass scale, not minor skirmishes.

What you want works more in expansions or DLCs with separate campaigns. Not for the grand campaigns not CA goes for.

[vietanh797]

such system already exists
play Hegemony Gold from Longbow Entertainment and you will see

[Karnil Vark Khaitan]

such system already exists
play Hegemony Gold from Longbow Entertainment and you will see

Great game HARD AS HELL!

[vietanh797]

@OP, you should change the tittle of your discussion because it is misleading. I suggest you change it to "Micro regions idea".

@vietanh797, I think the idea that Prometheus presented is different from that of Hegemony which is an entirely different game.

I knơ I mean Hegemony have similar idea about "map expand" even though it is just minimap but it somewhat similar

Great game HARD AS HELL!

I can play Sparta quite well so I think it not really hard

[BunnyPoopCereal]

@OP, you should change the tittle of your discussion because it is misleading. I suggest you change it to "Micro regions idea".

@vietanh797, I think the idea that Prometheus presented is different from that of Hegemony which is an entirely different game.