Yar, India is really good for making lots of money.

As UK I made an alliance with Marathas and pwned the Mughals and conquered their cities... but then Marathas are very aggressive and started a war with me, then my saves got corrupted and I could not continue.

As France after 2-3 turns I sent one stack to take over Mysore (which is an Indian country with 1 region in the middle of the southern India), the battle was kinda tough but I made it, its a very good starting point for invading India, except that at the beginning it does not have a port (so no exportation possible). Then Marathas took over Goa from the Portuguese and were about to start a war with me I think... then my game got corrupted also.

Now I think sending one expedition to Mysore and create lots of Indiaman ships to take over the trade nodes are going to be stuff I am going to do on turn 1 of all my GC when CA fix the corruption bug, trade is definitely the way to go to make money.

My india already reach the Objective Goal ...United the whole India already but it need hold until year 1750 ...but my India reach the goal at year 1711 LOL...now need hold 39 years from british invading LOL.

Playing India at last you need attk GOA mean u will fighting with portuguess and British which is Portuges Allied. But this also benifit you because France and Spain will allied with you becasue they hate British alot....Wahahahahaa


BTW in Empire Total War i like United State and France Most....Fight British to the ends!!!!!!!!

This post has been edited by RegentCid: Mar 19 2009, 02:03 PM

Did you ever see the UK trying to invade you actually? (I am actually curious about it)

As Marathas I would say it's not too hard since the AI almost never carry troops by boat, so UK can't do much to you in India except pirate your trade routes (which can be annoying though)

Same for Portugal in Goa, you will have to bother with only what they can build in there, they won't bring back reinforcements from Europe.

Hard mode they really bring tropps by SHip come towards you

Then you are the exception because from what I can read on forums it's a known bug the AI will almost never ferry troops by boats (CA has also recognized it's bugged), whatever the difficulty level

During my French campain I played on VH/H and I did not see anyone else in Indian except me and the ones that started there. When I played UK I left it undefended and nobody ever tried to invade

Good to know it at least "can" happen until CA fix it.

This post has been edited by Gormaz: Mar 19 2009, 02:14 PM

Sigh all the bugs btw do you guys still have problems with sounds? I hope I do not get my saves corrupted.

I did not notice much issues with sounds, sometimes artillery does not make sounds but seriously I can live with that until they fix it. Not being able to play a grand campain for more than 20-30 turns is way more troublesome for me than any sounds issue I coud be getting getting.

For me it's not really my saves get corrupted but more than after a while during AI turns it's crashing on some minor faction's turn, giving me a white screen for few seconds and then CTD. If I reload the campain after that, same story.

If I reload a save few turns before, it works for few turns then same story. I am not going to go back and forth to try to progress.

Still no news of the patch btw, the "early this week" of CA is getting stale

If you learnt from experience...you would take CA's time frame with a pinch of salt...Note the time frame for the Empire demo(coming soon) and the insanity it created...lol

What's important is they are working on it. They already spent nearly 5 years working on this game, they will update this game(and engine) as often as they can.

I just found out this Empire no support SLI...WTH no wonder my 9800GX2 keep on lag when i turn all into ultra setting =.= ll

Yar, I do give them some leeway in the patch, I just hope sometimes they could communicate more with the players by giving some updates about the patch etc.
There are pros and cons for both way (telling people updates or keeping them in the dark) anyway, I just personally prefer to be told what is going on whether it's good or bad news.

And yar, SLI is not supported, multi-core neither. They are supposed to use add multi-core support in a much later patch.

They would need to work very hard to tackle the CTD problem, since this problem only affected certain players.

I have seen that Gormaz had a hard time on this issue but I am already running for more than 30 turns and I never encounter ANY problem mentioned.

haiz...

what is the recommended setting to play this game i means for MAX setting.

my fren using HD4870 is kinda lageee.....but the sea is nice

Mine 9800GT at all high settings at 1280*1024, not much lag.

Geforce 7900 (on dell laptop) here

No much lag but I have most options at low/medium (and I cut the useless options like shadows or nice sky for battles)

Yar, I seems to be one of the few that are pretty badly touched by the bugs, I am not the only one but seems my case is one of the worst I have read. But even if my config is pretty low some folks are getting same as me with much higher machines.

Good to know at least others are enjoying the campains


Oh, and I need a new machine >_<

I hope I do not get the same problem, ohh well I think I better finish the RTI 1st.

Multiplayer Marathon later today...8pm...meet up in the community chat room

Hope can log in ....too many bug on this game..even multiplayer also got LOL...so bad luck for me today...Just now battle who win?

Me and fuj...it was a close battle...did you check your steam download region is set to Singapore? The spectator mode seems borked...

ya....download is singapore

help.. how to speed up the end turn????
it takes too long time