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Couriers

Posted: Wed Nov 26, 2008 7:06 pm
by Gfran64
If we capture/kill a courier in MP will we be able to read all or part of his message?

Greg:)

Re:Couriers

Posted: Wed Nov 26, 2008 7:14 pm
by BOSTON
Interesting!:)

Re:Couriers

Posted: Wed Nov 26, 2008 8:29 pm
by Amish John
Gfran64 wrote:
If we capture/kill a courier in MP will we be able to read all or part of his message?

Greg:)
I assume in MP the messages will be actual messages composed by the players and not the generic type messages in TC2M. Therfore, the MP messages would possibly have much more valuable information rather than something like "move to the position indicated on the map", etc.

Which brings up a question for the NSD team. Are you planning on having a more sophisticated single player message system than in TC2M? It seemed in TC2M there were about twenty messages you could receive and sometimes you seemed to receive messages one after the other in fairly rapid succession.

Back on the MMG forums, at one point we had discussed with either Norb or Adam, I believe, the use of a period script for the messages rather than a message than looked like it had been composed on a typewriter. Also, please no ragged parchment looking paper.

Re:Couriers

Posted: Wed Nov 26, 2008 9:41 pm
by ironsight
Greg Wrote: If we capture/kill a courier in MP will we be able to read all or part of his message?
Only if he didn't eat it first! :laugh:

Re:Couriers

Posted: Fri Nov 28, 2008 1:47 pm
by Hancock the Superb
Couriers weren't captured that often, if they met an enemy regiment, they would turn around and head through the woods.

Re:Couriers

Posted: Fri Nov 28, 2008 10:59 pm
by norb
My current plans are to allow a captured couriers messages to be read in MP.

Re:Couriers

Posted: Sat Nov 29, 2008 12:51 am
by JC Edwards
norb wrote:
My current plans are to allow a captured couriers messages to be read in MP.
Better watch out now Hancock!:lol:

Re:Couriers

Posted: Sat Nov 29, 2008 11:04 am
by estabu2
Excellent, although I think there should be a percentage of messages that get destroyed or only a percentage of messages that can be read. As Hancock said the message boy would have either destroyed the message or turned and went the other way before they could be captured.

Re:Couriers

Posted: Sat Nov 29, 2008 12:20 pm
by Amish John
estabu2 wrote:
Excellent, although I think there should be a percentage of messages that get destroyed or only a percentage of messages that can be read. As Hancock said the message boy would have either destroyed the message or turned and went the other way before they could be captured.
"Message Boy"????