Is the serie dead???

[BigDuke66]

OK lets ignore programming.
If anyone wants new art on the quality level of Petersburg we have to wait for a wonder. In almost 20 years there wasn't anything done by anyone that JT regarded as good enough to incorporate it officially, like it was done in the FWWC series. But at the same time it was also not outsourced to anyone to be improved. Doing these graphics, and doing them good, isn't easy even for a professional artist, and I'm not even taking about the hand drawn maps.
AFAIk some of the delay of Petersburg came from art that had to be finished, and Bill Peters recently mentioned that the latest Napoleonic game will likely not make it this years because he has to wait for art to be finished.

That just leads to one conclusion, a graphical improvement in the scale of that of Campaign Petersburg will only come if there is a change behind the scenes and that change is in my view WDS taking over this series, but as their plate is full it's unlikely to happen in the foreseeable future, and even than I hope they go for the Napoleonic series.


Regarding map art space, JT already provided a small download version of Petersburg that has none of the hand painted maps. But I wonder why anyone worries about this kind of size in these times, there are games out there that are 40-50GB if installed, that is maybe large compared to the usual SSD sizes of 1TB to 120GB.