Why make a Rome game when the market is flooded with countless excellant RTS's, turnbased, ect games based around rome, and VERY frew around the Greek world?
Personaly i think this company has found a niche that it should continue to exploit by bettering their current game Hegemony.

Right now Hegemony feels like half a game (an excellant half though). The diplomacy system could be expanded upon, Metagame right now is non existant beyond supply lines, how about adding city building features? Keep the current system of capture cities on the map, but let the players build structures within that city that might improve units made, or unlock new unit types that can be built there? Cities just feel lifeless in their current form.

Dont get me wrong, Hegemony is a great game, but i think the devs are jumping to quickly onto the Rome bandwagon, when they have a diamond in the ruff with Hegemony?

Dropshadow, keep in mind that there are certain limits to the engine that was used in Hegemony: Gold. By having a new game in a new setting they have given themselves the opportunity to rewrite lots of code and to 'remake' the game engine how they want. So you want upgrades and new buildings....this is possible with a new engine but would probably require some messy work-arounds with the old engine.

The point of doing a new game setting means that they can sell their new game as a new game rather than as just an upgrade pack of the same world and story. Quite frankly, from the sounds of things this is going to be a whole new game. Lots of new and interesting content and ideas. I was a little turned off by their choice of timeframe and scale at the beginning but the team seems enthusiastic that they can do it; the enthusiasm has rubbed off onto me.

Like to be able to add buildings, it gives a choice to the player. Instead of marching off immediately, he can build and then advance.

I was wondering if the AI will be alot more aggressive in ROME? i.e actually expand and attack one and other, rather than remaining stagnant until you made contact with thier borders. This was a major reason for the game going stale for me personally.

To answer tumbitiger: Rob posted this response on Nov 11, here's a link to the thread
... do you plan on coding in a Campaign AI that will attempt to expand at the expense of other AI factions

Yes, it is the plan to have options for more aggressive and expansionist AI in Rome. We had hoped to do that for Gold but it proved too ambitious for our timetable due to performance and balancing issues. We've got a lot of ideas for expanding the sandbox mode, some of which have been implemented already and some that are still on our wish list, so stay tuned for more news.

Cheers Brushy :)