minor name/city accuracy issues

[Mangudai]

Toledo IL is a mistake. The town at that railroad junction is "Tolono" IL.

Urbana IL is and was a much larger town about 10 miles north of Tolono. Urbana had a train station and water and coal depots for locomotives. During college I walked or rode my bike through the abandoned wasteland where those facilties used to be almost every day. Remnants of an old wooden water tower still stand by the tracks. Today that land is in Champaign IL, but at the time of the Civil War "Champaign" was known as "West Urbana". Urbana-Champaign has lots of old brick buildings that predate the civil war, including more than a few industrial/warehouse buildings near the tracks.
The east-west railway bypassed Urbana because the area west of Urbana was too marshy before drainage techniques were implemented. The area around Tolono is higher and drier so that is where the railroad went, however Tolono is an insignificant little village.

"Urbana" is the best name for that settlement in the game. "Tolono" is all right. "Toledo" is simply wrong.

[caranorn]

I just noticed Meade has his first name mispelled in the game as "Goerge".

[HAZBONES]

I need to "represent" my home state by pointing out a couple minor things I found poking around the Texas map...

First, Dallas was not in Kaufman Co. My parents live there now and Kaufman still is just a tiny little country town that never even got growing until the railroad made it to the town long after the Civil War. Funny that they still named the county after Kaufman. Dallas was in Dallas County in 1861 and I think Ft. Worth (in Tarrent Co.) should be represented on the map west of Dallas since the Fort was established in the 1840's and is now the 18th largest city in the US.

Ft Worth was built on the Chisholm Trail, all you John Wayne fans know as that trail where all the old cowboy movies depicted the cattle drives taking place. There were a whole line of minor forts (like fort Richardson) around Dallas and along the Trinity River in Texas to gaurd the settlers from the natives and I think at least showing Ft Worth would surfice in representing the line of forts in the Dallas area.

Great game btw. Keep it up!
Haz

[johnnyreb6]

Cristianburg in southwestern Virginia should be spelled Christiansburg. Also, Drummond, MD in Worcester should be part of Virginia since it is in Virginia's Eastern Shore.
Anyway, it is a really good game.

[Gray_Lensman]

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[HAZBONES]

The regions are not counties per se, they are just geographic references. If they were counties, there would probably be 10 times as many (county) regions.

I understand that and Texas had more counties than a majority of other states did in 1861 so trying to add all counties would make a really crowded map. My only issue was the fact that Kaufman, which was a town only a fraction the size of Dallas in 1861, is being used to represent the region which Dallas is in was sort of odd IMO.

The other thing was that there were so many forts constructed all the way from the Red River down to Dallas in the 1840~1860's that not having at least 1 being shown on the map was also strange. Dallas county was known as the "edge of the west" in the 1860's. Hostile indians inhabited everything west of Dallas. I suggested placing a fort west of Dallas (Ft Worth) to represent this line of forts (like a side box as you did with Arizona Terr, etc).

Just some suggestions to help add some more local realism to the game.

Haz

[Gray_Lensman]

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[BedfordForrest]

Hi Folks,

This is my first post and I must say I'm loving the game so far! Only a minor thing, but on Maryland's eastern shore, the city of Denton is too far north. Denton actually lies on the northern bank of the Choptank river (on the map it would be smack in-between the Choptank and Chester Rivers), and on the map it's on the north bank of the Chester River. That spot on the north bank of the Chester is actually Chestertown, which like Denton was an important boat-building city of the time.

Thanks and keep up the great work!

[Gray_Lensman]

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[berto]

Gray, fabulous work as always, and much appreciated.

But, as you go along:

--Do you ever take into account game play considerations, or do you always favor utter historical accuracy when making a change?

--Do players ever report game imbalances and/or drastic changes to smart game play by your changes?

For instance, I can see where removing that RR running south along the west side of the Mississippi River might drastically impact Bigus' Trans Mississippi scenario.

I'm not saying you shouldn't fix the historical inaccuracy. Your work greatly enhances AACW's appeal. I personally value historical accuracy and plausibility above all else in my historical/war games, game balance and favored strategies be damned!

[Gray_Lensman]

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[BedfordForrest]

Unbelievable responsiveness! That's awesome! Too bad my hometown of Easton is now swallowed up by Denton though I think it was pretty much just a RR connector to Salisbury in it's day...

[Gray_Lensman]

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[MarkCSA]

One very small map error...... which doesn't affect gameplay one bit:

The European countries map shows a (post-1945) 2008 map of the Netherlands, including the Province of Flevoland (which was raised from the sea in the 20th Century) and 2008 borders.

Just my 2c

Does this area even do anything in game btw?

[lycortas]

Hi, sorry for the late changes but i just purchased the game.

You show "Piedmont" in western Maryland. Pidmont is one area to the southeast in West Virginia along the river. Where you show Piedmont should probably be Westernport, Maryland, the furthest west steam vessels could navigate up the Potomac. Also, it is one of the few gaps in the bluffs so there could be a port.

Second, um, no Fort Wayne, Indiana? I believe it was the largest city in Indiana at the time and you have at least one city in Indiana i have never heard of... but no Fort Wayne.

Third, you have a "Grand Port" in western Michigan. There is no Grand Port. I assume you were going for Grand Haven, but that was never more than a small town. Kalamazoo or Battle Creek south of Grand Rapids were both larger and important railroad towns.

Thanks for the great game,

Michael Johnson

[Gray_Lensman]

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[johnnyreb6]

Williams in James City should be called Williamsburg.

[Gray_Lensman]

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[johnnyreb6]

when should the next official patch be out?

[Heldenkaiser]

Union general Hurlbut is mispelt as "Hurlburt" in the game, in case it hasn't been noticed already.

[Rear Rank 2]

Hi,

Awesome game!

Running 1.10- In the state of Georgia, the region southwest of Atlanta that is called Paulding should be called Coweta (Paulding is northwest of Atlanta) and it was called Coweta during the Civil War. The town of Newman in the same region is spelled Newnan with an 'n' not a 'm'.

It's the town I live in now.

Thanks.

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[mikee64]

Very minor, but In the element detail screen Lee's nickname is shown as "Mars" and not "Marse".

Also Joe Johnston has the nickname "Old". This might be better displayed as "Old Joe"?

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[mikee64]

Minor typo errors in Virginia:

- The unit "Tappahanock Militia" should be changed to "Tappahannock Militia" which matches the correct spelling of the town on the map.

- The town of "Cristianburg" should be changed to "Christiansburg"; the name of the militia also needs the last "s" added.

edit: difficult region name change requests removed

From a request made last July; the Tappahannock Militia unit is still misspelled; need the second "n". In Christiansburg, the first "h" was added to the town, but both the town and militia still need the last "s" to make it plural.

Multiple sources available upon request. Or you can just come visit me.

[GShock]

'tis unbelievable how he just snaps his fingers and rebuilds map, harbors, cities, rails...simply unbelievable.

[mikee64]

The support is amazing, no other word for it. I have tested other games before but there is no doubt the original crew of Pocus and Phil etc. combined with the help they have enlisted such as Gray (and many others I forget) are the best ever to work with.

I only bumped this to the top because at the time I originally posted the game was undergoing more important fixes.

Gray will have this one fixed in days I bet. Then he can visit Garnett's grave in Tappahannock w/ the Tappahannock Militia and I will give him a tour of the Tappahannock monument on the Rappahannock river..

[mikee64]

There is a tooltip message related to destroying a depot which is very misleading. If you attempt to use a locked unit to destroy a depot the tooltip says "A depot cannot be razed if it is level 2 or above."

In fact it has nothing to with the size of the depot (don't even think there is a "level 2" depot?), but rather the unit doing the destroying. Not a big deal for vets but this could be seriously confusing for new players.