STRANGE CHOICES

**Spartan 666** · May 03, 2007, 08:58 AM

well,i downloaded rtr pe1.8,doubtlessly great mod...
but i can t absolutely understand some choices made by the developers.
first of all,the map.excellent from iberia to mesopotamia...but then it s ugly! central asia is desert or steppe,and here it seems they are fertile areas like italy or gallia! then the names of the settlement is totally wrong as well as their position and the morphology of the ground. the area from media to india is almost totally plain,instead of mountains,valleys and hills...then the area east of the lake aral:the oxus and jaxartes rivers follow different routes...
and some neighbouring settlements are not linked by roads...

i'd suggest the developers to have a look at mundus magnus map...it's perfect besides the settlements are too few!

then the hoplite units: they use the SPEARMAN and SWORDSMAN skeleton,causing them incredibly stupid behaviours:if an ememy unit attacks them from behind,they keep on holding the spear at 45 degrees,but bracing it to the enemy! and sometimes if some one attacks a phalanx from the flank,the phalanx turns itself showing the flank to the enemy!
i gave all hoplite units the HOPLITE skeleton,so these problems are no more...

and the spartans...they wear only that stupid red dress!

it would be a perfect mod if there werent these unbelievable mistakes...hope they will be corrected in the next release!
good work guys!

p.s. sorry for my ugly english!

**florin80** · May 03, 2007, 11:15 AM

The next main version of RTR will be RTR 7. RTRPE is just a port of RTR 6 to the engine of RTW v1.5 .Plus a few things.
The map of RTR 7 is pinned in the main RTR sub-forum here, but since those pictures were done a lot of work was put into it and most of the borders/provinces and some terrain have been changed so the pinned thread is not a the map in its latest from.

**Spartan 666** · May 03, 2007, 11:50 AM

understood...that map looks really great!

**Maximus Lazero** · May 06, 2007, 05:42 PM

Originally Posted by florin80

The next main version of RTR will be RTR 7. RTRPE is just a port of RTR 6 to the engine of RTW v1.5 .Plus a few things.
The map of RTR 7 is pinned in the main RTR sub-forum here, but since those pictures were done a lot of work was put into it and most of the borders/provinces and some terrain have been changed so the pinned thread is not a the map in its latest from.

Shoot I'm gonna have to redo the boundaries on my version?! -_-

**Darth Caesar** · May 07, 2007, 02:39 AM

spartans...wrong era mate

**Maximus Lazero** · May 10, 2007, 07:16 PM

Originally Posted by Darth Caesar

spartans...wrong era mate

Yeah, they already dine in Hell.

**Marcus Camillus** · May 20, 2007, 02:50 AM

As Florin states, RTRPE is simply a port (conversion) of RTR6 to run with the RTW v1.5 game engine. For a new updated map, the upcoming RTR v7.0 will have a new map based on satellite imagery. You can't get much more accurate than that. I believe the RTR7 team will be taking into account the slight coastline changes that have occurred since the ancient Roman time frame.