JTS The Seven Years War Released

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No, thank you to read my ravings 

Ummm i cant enter in facebook to see the 3D image (i dont use it, i never was on this social "tools") but i notice somebody is doing 3D soldiers for game, if you are SDC in matrix forums you know what i want say.

In the UI improvements... if you are working in a new M&P title (another first day buy) is possible at same time work in improvements for SYW, until we see something official maybe we can see a mod.

I remember in REN see 3D released later but is true that i dont remember now if patch come or not with a new .exe.

Saddly i cant say more about that mod for 1776 because i learn about it after was removed.

Well, i have more time today and test it a little more, i really like the solution you find for the commanders, have units out od command detach them and limit their tactical use is a simple but elegant solution but a little question, in other Tiller titles when an unit is out of command range apart appear in detached status the unit name (the one that appear in the unit box, under the portrait) change to a gold-yellow colour to made players notice easy when the unit is out of command... is possible do this to in SYW??? now appear the word detached under the unit name box but is in the same white colour and unit name stay in white.

Thanks for the reply and good job done in SYW, expect we can see improvements and more M&P titles, with them and the new impulse to update other Tiller "forgoten series" next years are going to be fun.

SDC at the Matrix board is me  - I hadn't been there for years, and I guess I had a profile called that there (actually a couple that got merged) - as it happens the SDC profile was the first password that I got re-set.

Some of the changes that you are talking about above would be programming changes that I would not be able to give you anything other than an opinion on how it might be changed. When talking about letter colour, I imagine that there is a hexidecimal code that determines the colour of the writing you see.  It should be possible to change it to any other code.  On the other hand that is just a general programming observation on my part - I have never seen the code for any of these titles and am not a programmer  (I have done some in the past, enough to know what is what and where things go ... not really the same thing).

If that is something that you want to see, it is probably best to contact Rich at the support email address on the John Tiller Software site.  The same for any UI changes you thing would be good. Generally speaking someone in my role isn't going to be able to guarantee any are changed, we can ask, but it asking is not always having it happen. Where I currently am at is at an earlier stage than where I would be worried too much about that sort of thing -yet.

What I will be doing is working with combat modelling , OOB's , and things like that. As far as mods go - what I had done in the past is take an OOB, change some things around (like unit and leader names), not change weapon names for when there are something different - and then put them in to a map.  Actually I have done that already.  I'm sure I'll do more in the future too.  The Musket and Pike engine is a lot more versatile than people might think.

For example I had some combined pike/shot unit ... I know that this isn't entirely new in the series, but I was looking at ones with different ratios of pikemen and shooters (and made some heavy use of the modifiers to account for this) ... since it was awhile ago, I can't say more about this -as it is something that I set aside while working on Gary's project.