tdragonblood

Aw bugger. Oh well, guess I'll make do. Is it possible to change the minimap on the galactic map? It's pretty ineffective and inaccurate.

And this might go along with the formation thing, but is there a way to tell my AT-ATs on land to face one direction and stay that way? I was slightly amused/annoyed watching my AT-ATs in circles to cahse some infantry around while tanks were coming down the chokepoint lane, lol.

In regards to the Galactic Conquest Lag, is it possible to make the background more static? Like instead of having a layer of nebula floating on top of a layer of stars, just flatten it and make it static? I'm not sure if that will help the lag, but it might for scrolling on slower computers (like mine, lol)

Oh and for the record. You guys did an absolutely fantastic job. This TC is off-the-chart amazing. I literally gave up on Star Wars a few years ago (sad i know), but this totalllly reminded me what I loved about it.

Maybe I'm not familiar enough with Empires at War, but I don't know if there's a way to create/maintain/lock formations. Maybe i've been playing too much Total War, but watching my Star Destroyers and Frigates get all mixed up results in some messy warfare.

I think one thing I'd like to see is someway to control the launching of starfighters from battleships. Its a bit annoying when I send 3 star destroyers across the map, only to see them deploy starfighters that get left behind unless I tell them to join.

Again, maybe I'm unfamiliar with EaW functions, but Is there a way to zoom out of the Galactic Conquest map (even further, like an expanded minimap) so I can actually see what is going on? The expanded Galactic map makes it really hard to see everything going on.

Ah, this topic makes me so sad. But to answer the original question, Kacen is right on the money. The Special Editions is where is started, although not quite as obvious. Is it really necessary to make Mos Eisley, a spaceport and "wretched hive of scum and villainy," super populated with giant creatures? Greedo shooting first? The Jabba-Han scene... eh, I could live with it, but I didn't think it brought that much to the table.

I really wondered why they made a number of their changes. Greedo shooting first takes away from Han's personality, showing the abominable snow monster on Hoth takes away a huge amount of tension and mystery from the scene, and the musical scene on in Jabba's palace changed the atmosphere of his palace from scummy to cartoonish.

The Prequels basically took the same idea of those changes and made 3 movies from it. There was really bad characterization, considerable lack of tension, and it was quite cartoonish. Jar Jar Binks? Making everything bright and colorful? The horrendous script? How would you describe Anakin's, or heck, ANYONE'S characterization in the prequels? Qui gon jin was relatable, but outside of that? There was little to no synergy between characters. It was just a mess. The actors were fine, the directing and the script were terrible.

Oh well, at least we get awesome TC's like Phoenix Rising to remind us how awesome Star Wars can be.