COH: Europe In Ruins

The dev team is planning an open development meeting on EIR's future on April 30th at 10 pm GMT. Anyone is welcome to attend and you will have a chance to put forward ideas, thoughts and whatnot. Simply be on the vent server at the designated team.

See you then!

Why the 30th?
why not on saturday or something?

really shitty if you have a job and want to listen.

Well it's when most people on the development team were available, with the 1st being a holiday in most european countries.
We just wanted to open this development team meeting to the public as well.

Make it the 1st. Drunk meeting is best meeting

oh yea, keep forgetting that day, dumbest day ever.

Names of devs who gonna be there?

Myself, Unknown and Nikomas Im fairly certain.

I also think we'll get some shows from other people who will be involved, like Salan and Mysthalin - Im not 100% sure.

The topics will be what to expect in the overhaul which will be announced before the meeting.

killer and gren shoulda be in meeting tbh, epic silence lol

I would quite like to see Killer and Gren have a Ventrilo argument.

I would love to listen wat u guys have for the future development of EIR 2 , I am better off listening then giving any ideas coz i don't have any so i trust u guys everyone who is involved in the development and I am sure it will be even better , keep up the good work.

Wait, wait, wait.

EiR 2 = Coh 2 Mod

or

EiR 2 = Coh 1 Mod

And btw. I'll be there :P

Call it eir 2 or a a 'relaunch' of the base mod, whichever. Though if COH 2 ever happens we can just port whatever we work on now.

can u track who is talking to ya in vent? i mean via IP or other stuff?  ::)

Why the hell would I care?

If I wanted to hack/track you - Id have done it via the website already - stop over-inflating the value of your existance shab ;p

tries to smurf on vent, uses same voice.

Sadly ill miss this event, but hopefully there will be some sort of minutes posted about the ideas outlined and discussed.

Mockup of a possible mechanic change for company building/specialisation

http://imgur.com/V52gLb6

I like,  this is very Table top in terms of deployment.
Which is what wwe need I think.

Would certain docs be more oriented to extra armor or inf  slots tho ie
Infantry and armor.
Terror and blitz respectively.

Indeedy.

Its a way to make each 'doctrine' feel different, and call them specialisations rather than 'doctrines'

Excellent, I personally feel we made the docs to mirrored in terms of offence/defence strengths and weaknesses.

Granted reward units could be used to help plug these gaps as they are a finite resource but things like faction wide fj sniper were a bad move.

So the talk, it was interesting to say the least.
I may not be bursting with happiness with the tought about just changing EIR into wargame in the CoH engine but i  suppose it would make EIR a better game.
well i guess if this would be to fail wed still allways have OMG.

Also, can we please make a wiki page? that Gamepedia crap is utter shit, all we need is a host for Media wiki and i can make the rest.

some of us could not get in vent by that time you guys set it up..

can we get details for what is coming and what about you talked yesterday?

Just buy a game called Wargame, that should explane almost everything to you.

lol... any details, because saying wargame is like saying : "We're going to make a big-ass maps + 3-4 hours per match"

yea icelandic ur so genius

can some1 give us detail tbh

I dont like it. :)
By the way, one reasson why I doesnt play OMG is because the EIRR Launcher looks better for me...

Yeah, no.

The changes are removal of pop to this platoon based system (where spamming is fine, and an actual tactic) to a pts to call in system will be trialed (which, other people likend to wargames system sort of).

In other words, removal of pool - slot based company creation, and a different 'callin' system is what was mainly discussed.

Missed it :/

Who are the devs these days?

like fortress europe?. cuz that mod was terrible.

Wait that thing happend?
i tought it quit ages ago.

They are doing what EIR said, Also the slot system EIRmod posted it pretty much really really similar to Wargame.

it never really happened but iwas a tester and it was silly.
the call in of 8 stuarts vs 7 marders was a little wierd.

Didnt he also try to make it extremely realistic?

Vehicles will probably stay individual call ins. Or be like 2 in one platoon at most.
Call-ins for the other units would be no more than 2 - 3 units.

If you want historic company compositions, go have a chat with Volsky...

do i get it right? you want force player get 2 - 3 units call ins? What for? OMG mod has this retarded minimum 8 pop call in rule. It sucked hardcore

You have to remember there would be no population restrictions ingame, the only restricting factor would be ingame 'cost'. We are thinking of running with some sort of 'credit system' ingame similar to the one that you use in the launcher to purchase the platoons. In game you would have a set income of these credits and a starting amount which allows you to field platoons, more map control increases your income but all units fielded also have an upkeep cost that decreases your income (like MP in COH). This means that population would completely disappear, it's a relic of the original COH and we really don't need it in EIR.

Also, players will still be able to call in individual units probably, but of course that means you are using a slot for just one unit when it could have fit multiple.

ofc i use 1 unit per slot. That way company becomes way more flexible in sense of countering what enemy have. In OMG i hated dat min8 pop call in. Funny thing was coming tank and u have fucking 6 - 7 free pop and cant call ATG cuz fucking 8 pop.. Than losing some shit to get dem atg and ofc countering tank u must call atg + mg, engie or fucking jeep. Hohoho

dafuq is wrong with the current pop system now?. why do we need all this currency nonesense and stuff.

Sounds like u want to just take the vanilla coh mp income and name it different tbh.But well .., lets see