I was shocked when all of a sudden one day I saw a video on YouTube explaining the news that Rome Total War had been re-mastered. My first thought was, "Thanks, but we wanted that about 8 or 9 years ago!" Still, my love for this old game got the best of me, and I got sucked into thinking about it again. A few years ago my data drive on which I had EVERYTHING.....all the research, files, historical data, graphics, units etc. gave up the ghost with a loud 'beeeeeep!', and there was nothing I could do to save it. Fortunately, I had various backups of a lot of stuff in other places, but a lot was lost. To be quite blunt, I gave up modding RS3 because of a lot of personal RL issues and in particular, my slowly failing eyesight. I just couldn't work on this as much as I could before, and it seemed that interest in RTW and RS were dying anyway. Sorry I just seemed to disappear. Sometimes things happen, and that's just the way it is.
I am going to get the Remaster and have a look at it. I know the guts and workings of this game so well that a good look at what they did might well tell me what can and cannot be done.
As far as forming another team to port this mod into the new engine, whomever wishes to do that....you have my blessing and support. This mod was a 'labor of love' for us, I guess you'd say, and it would be wonderful to see some new life pumped into it. I was personally most impressed and awed by the units that Tone created...they are works of art that I don't think are surpassed anywhere in the RTW world. I know how much work he put into them, and I was always honored and grateful to have him as my partner in this effort.
So have at it people....let the younger generation show what they can do!