how about we all look forward to different features in different games and not look at what has made other games good.

indeed, it was a bit of a contradiction.

back on topic; yes, there'll be larger maps.

however, there's a good reason not to see SupCom's 81KM maps in Demigod; it'd be a stupid idea! part of DG (and to a lesses extent with other titles in this genre) is the fact the fighting starts straight away. there's no eco. whoring, nuke-rushing, nor long ferrying times to grind through before the good stuff starts -- the fighting. 

i sure as hell don't want to spend 17 minutes wandering through the abyss between my and the enemy's citadel. there's a fine line between to small and too big, such a line is dependant on genre, and GPG walks this line well. they did it in SupCom (as large maps are perfectly fine there), and they'll do it again here (where not so large maps dominate).

gkrit, being right on the money, is saying that you can't take all the successful ingredients from previous games and put them all togheter in a new one. Just because they were awesome in previous games, does not mean they will mix in a good way for the new game. Different new games will adopt different features of previous games.

I for one strongly disagree with "winding down" graphics. The beauty of the graphics is what sold this game to me. If the producers cheapen the graphic output of the game, then yes, it will be playable on more computers, but that is not the same as selling more copies of the game because you will also lose customers who now think that it isn't worth the money. I trust that GPG will make the right decision there.

And now I am going to say something that I think many will not agree with. The performance of this game, ie the graphic output, is not a problem that needs to be fixed. Yes, there is a problem in 2D - many who could run it previously without hickup, suddenly can't. However, I can run this game on a LAPTOP that is 3,5 years old. You can't lessen the demand any more than that. There has to be a cut-off point, and I say it is a good cut-off point at the moment (not counting the problems 2D brought).

With that said, if there were options to reduce the graphics in order to gain performance, then I don't think anyone would mind being given those options. Just don't force them on all of us.

yeah, the graphics are fine as they are (obviously there's no such this as too much polish). DG is not SupCom, it never was meant to compete in the proper RTS genre (and to be honest it's not really an RTS at the moment), stop expecting it to.

and to the comment on "what really drives enjoyment in RTS"; beauty is in the eye of the beholder. 

some people get enjoyment from small, intense, battles. some people don't, neither is better than the other. if one isn't your suit, then don't play. but please accept that others have different opintions to you.

I think having a map about twice the size of what we've already seen should be the upper limit.  With all the speed boosting, warping and teleporting options in the game maps like Cataract can seem tiny at times.

The bigger that maps get, the more heavily dependent on speed and teleportation the gameplay would be.

If you thought the massive teleport dependency was bad on a relatively small map, imagine how bigger maps would be, where the only way to get from point A to point B efficiently was teleportation?

bigger maps can be filled with goodies why is there such a lac of imagination here!

Demigod is uninstalled on all clan rigs now. To be honest i held a lan and the boys all wanted to play it great you may think, but just 45 minutes later it was shelved. And not the in reach of spiny chair shelf, the dusty place where titles such as redalert 3, empire earth and other dissapointing shit is kept.

   So then the lan continued to sins which was good until we discovered that with 10,000 fleet cap the game eventually gets to a continuous mini dump or crashes no matter how clean and stable the systems and network are oh well shelf near spiny chair for that one.

WE N33D SM4LLER MAPZ CUS I DUN LIEK TO W4LK

but anyway. the game isnt based on walking for 2 mins to get to the middle of the map to get your health draned by towers and other demis so you get to walk back for another 2 minutes.

Amulet of Teleportation is so good on leviathan/crucible/brothers/mandala!

Post necromancy FTW?

Hey Slurple long time no see!  First time I can recall agreeing with you, but you are 100% correct here.  More small maps are needed ala cataract and prison.