What am I doing...courier messages

[Amish John]

Regarding your tweet on the home page, what is your concept for creating the messages in game....or is it too early in development to even discuss the concept?

[norb]

It's an idea that's been around for a while, but Jim & Mark took it and went postal on it! I'm just trying to keep up.

The concept is that you create the message, giving specific orders. If it goes to a human, they can read it. If it goes to the AI, they follow the orders. If the courier is captured or killed by a unit under your chain of command, you can read the orders.

What they did is define the gui in such a way as to allow these things to be created in an intuitive manner, we hope Can't really give more details than that right now.

[IronBMike]

This is gonna be one of the best new features!

[Gfran64]

I can't wait!!!!!

Greg

[Amish John]

norb wrote:

It's an idea that's been around for a while, but Jim & Mark took it and went postal on it! I'm just trying to keep up.

The concept is that you create the message, giving specific orders. If it goes to a human, they can read it. If it goes to the AI, they follow the orders. If the courier is captured or killed by a unit under your chain of command, you can read the orders.

What they did is define the gui in such a way as to allow these things to be created in an intuitive manner, we hope Can't really give more details than that right now.

If an army commander (AI or human) sends a courrier to a corps commander (AI) will that corps commander generate a separate courrier to each brigade and then will each brigade commander send a separate courrier to each regimental commander? This is especially relevent if the units are spread out over a wide area. Even at the brigade level one regiment could be out of the immediate area of the rest of the brigade. I'm just wondering how many courriers I'll have a chance to capture after the message is issued from army command.

[Jim]

That's we have beta testers, to look at things like this. B)

-Jim

[Little Powell]

Amish John wrote:

norb wrote:

It's an idea that's been around for a while, but Jim & Mark took it and went postal on it! I'm just trying to keep up.

The concept is that you create the message, giving specific orders. If it goes to a human, they can read it. If it goes to the AI, they follow the orders. If the courier is captured or killed by a unit under your chain of command, you can read the orders.

What they did is define the gui in such a way as to allow these things to be created in an intuitive manner, we hope Can't really give more details than that right now.

If an army commander (AI or human) sends a courrier to a corps commander (AI) will that corps commander generate a separate courrier to each brigade and then will each brigade commander send a separate courrier to each regimental commander? This is especially relevent if the units are spread out over a wide area. Even at the brigade level one regiment could be out of the immediate area of the rest of the brigade. I'm just wondering how many courriers I'll have a chance to capture after the message is issued from army command.

This will be first on my list of things to test when the courier system is finished.

[Hancock the Superb]

Sounds like we are getting what we asked for!