Yay! Great news!

With the PoM update, do we just run that and let it install? Or do we have to put it somewhere? I'm downloading now and I guess when it finishes, if I just run it my question will be answered, but just to make sure.....

Yes, now I see, it is actually the full game. I wasn't sure. Cheers. All installed and ready to go!

Grabbed them both thnx everyone, especially for the PoM fix, i'm one happy customer, Rob's my Hero! :D

In addition to my comments on the other thread rejecting the new icon ideas, I can state that the icons provide a significant FPS lag when moving the region map around. This is noticeable on my high end gaming box, is probably much worse on a slower box.

i'll give it a try instantly. Hear you later
EDIT: darker coin means recruits available, brighter food, right? I like it! (you gonna change the icon when you decide to keep that, right?)

Hello again ;-)
Is-it planned to upgrad Steam version of "H:PoM" and one information update about cost and others caracteristiques linked to the touch "F1"?

So, I have my serial for Gold from a few versions back.

How would this upgrade work with the Steam version of Hegemony?

Edit: Ah, just noticed that the talk from post above might also be concerning gold or just patch?

So, I have my serial for Gold from a few versions back.

How would this upgrade work with the Steam version of Hegemony?

Edit: Ah, just noticed that the talk from post above might also be concerning gold or just patch?

not sure if youre asking about the Gold or the PoM update.

the Philip of Macedon download is to fix a bug. atm its just beta to make sure its stable.
if u download and run it, it will automatically find the currently installed games installation path no matter where it is, even if its steam and on a different partition or drive, and it will overwrite your current version (unless u choose to manualy install it elsewhere which is an option during installation, in which case it would be a stand-alone game outside steam and at any time u could launch either the 1.1.4 beta version that u downloaded here or the 1.1.3 version downloaded from steam). once 1.1.4 has been deemed "safe" it will be made the version that Steam downloads for all current and future Steam version owners.

the Gold Beta is a stand-alone version of the game meaning u can play either PoM or Gold without either affecting the other. Gold does not interact with Steam in any way. once it has been properly tested and tweaked it will be released for sale to the general public, both on Steam and directly from here, and will completely replace PoM since everything thats in PoM is in Gold plus lots more of course. those of us who have been lucky enough to be around for the special offer Longbow has been running (and which ends in about 1 week) will already have our serial key for the final release for free, in return for us play-testing the Beta.

Hope somewhere in there is the answer to your question :)

I have been gaming for a fairly long time, having started with Avalon Hill and a host of board games and cardboard counters, not counting chess, of course. I have been doing computer wargaming since the beginning, my first computer having a whopping 8 megabits of RAM. State of the art. I have not encountered a gaming franchise that has been as responsive or as responsible to the client base as you have been. It is most refreshing. Thank you for setting what ought to be a standard for the industry. I look forward to future efforts.

Au fait, comment fait-on pour capturer les navires?

After another very long block of playing, I have two comments:

1. My resource management has become much more reliable. I have broken down my resistance to the idea, but I now do much better and getting food distributed and then use large groups of slave and worker to move the food to destinations. This is generally making my operations run a bit smoother on the campaign.

2. I am no longer resistant to the new top-down resource icons. I quickly became used to them and I think they are largely responsible for my improved management of food. I systematically recruit and move units to regional training hubs as it simplifies process and increases efficiency to send workers in advance to a central hub for breakdown into reinforcements and units.

A few comments from me:
1. I really miss the aggressiveness of AI as seen a couple of betas before. The Balkan tribes don’t attack me anymore. You may as well delete the task of defeating 10 tribal cavalry. Not possible anymore. Olosson has NEVER been attacked in my recent game. No more attacks from Epirus. I miss that. Fair enough if that was a conscious decision to alter AI because it was too much for novice players. But on expert it’s just too easy. I don’t have to worry about the unguarded flanks and rear and just focus on where I want to expand.
2. The food and manpower bars/icons slow the game really bad, the mouse operations in particular. I’m experiencing a significant lag when trying to select and click on the right unit in a tense battle. It’s a nice feature but the drawbacks of slower graphics are not worth it in my view. Selectable from menu, similar to click method – yes, 2 thumbs up to that.
3. On the bright side – sieges work great, very well done. I very much like the way the garrison takes loses and that the quick trip outside doesn’t mean you have to build your defences from scratch.
4. I like the fact AI sends workers to mines. Have you considered turning them into slaves when captured inside mines?

I've had a very sedate game. So much so that I no longer wish to play. Other than Athenians dropping greek cavalry and peltasts on the coastline whenever I try and raize walls.

By the way, how do they make to capture ships?

@Daniela

I don't think that you can. You can only sink enemy ships.

I may be wrong, but there was one time in a previous beta that I managed to 'touch' a ship at the exact moment that an enemy unit had disembarked from it. That may have been pure luck, though :p