Looks and Sounds Great!

[Avernus]

The game is looking great please keep up the good work. I also downloaded the first mp3 file released and it sounds _excellent_. I assume it is the same person doing the music for Caesar IV that worked on Children of the Nile they sound so damn good. Very powerfull music keep it coming!

Curious though it says that the engine was specifically developed for Caesar IV but I just assumed it would be another rev of the CotN (Empire Earth) engine which amazingly works quite well. Must have taken LOTS of work. Looks simular to CotN in the pics but more refined with higher res textures and of course diagonal roads.

Anyways I can't wait to go back to Rome. I hope the Military elements get some special attention. I wanna see them red shields again :) Wasn't it nice to see a wharehouse full of them? I forget was it just weapons or weapons and armor back then?

/rant off

[wodinoneeye]

The game is looking great please keep up the good work. I also downloaded the first mp3 file released and it sounds _excellent_. I assume it is the same person doing the music for Caesar IV that worked on Children of the Nile they sound so damn good. Very powerfull music keep it coming!

Curious though it says that the engine was specifically developed for Caesar IV but I just assumed it would be another rev of the CotN (Empire Earth) engine which amazingly works quite well. Must have taken LOTS of work. Looks simular to CotN in the pics but more refined with higher res textures and of course diagonal roads.

Anyways I can't wait to go back to Rome. I hope the Military elements get some special attention. I wanna see them red shields again :) Wasn't it nice to see a wharehouse full of them? I forget was it just weapons or weapons and armor back then?
/rant off

The COTN engine was a third party product and no doubt had severe limitations (and C4 will most likely have expanded requirements).
A whole new contract and payment would be needed to apply it to another game and it would be likely that other engines would be investigated and considered.

If TM is doing in house development on this new engine (did they develop all of it, or are adapting another engine they bought the source code to ??) they will have certain advantages of customizing it to do exactly what they need, instead of trying to force a more general engine (and often there are significant troubles getting the engine company to do modifications/fixes and certainly delays).