Most Popular and Best Games to Test Changes with ?

beelee

Global 40 2nd Edition, Revised and WAW ? as most popular ?

Iron War, 270 BC , NWO ?

What maps should be tested if an engine change made ?

TheDog

@beelee
Which version of 270BC ?
270bc_wars as that would push the TripleA engine and is probably the best version?

What about napoleonic_empires ?

beelee

@thedog sounds good. Total World War and maybe Over the Top ?

Was thinking a list could help the iSU kids and hopefully others, when they start there project

Edit
Oil and Snow probably another involved one

TheDog

@beelee
I dont play WW1 or WW2 games so I cannot really comment.

For the ISU project I would add in The Shogun as it has a very big map in pixels and uses lots of RAM like 270bc_wars.

There are a lot of fantasy maps so we should have one of them, like Warcraft War Heroes or middle_earth ?

Warcraft War Heroes is a very big map, good looking with lots of xml stuff
middle_earth / Lord_of_the_Rings_War_of_the_Ring appears to be popular by the number of views/interest?

So the list could be?
270BC Wars
The Shogun
Napoleonic Empires
Over the Top
Total World War

A Fantasy map?

beelee

@thedog yea looks good. I was thinking more the complexity of maps that pushes triplea to the limit as opposed to themes.

Lets ask @cernel for his opinion

Edit
Oil and Snow another involved one. Another World as well. Probably just need a few for testing. Just some thoughts

Panther

@beelee

IMHO the impact of changes on core game rules (different rulesets) should be tested with the core games, that are the WWII v1-v6 Versions and Global1940 2nd Ed. games.

However to save some time one could exclude v4 and v6 from testing, as those are simplifications of v3/v5.

Of course I don't deny to test other great games such as those already mentioned in this topic.

Cernel

@beelee said in Most Popular and Best Games to Test Changes with ?:

@thedog yea looks good. I was thinking more the complexity of maps that pushes triplea to the limit as opposed to themes.

Lets ask @cernel for his opinion

Not a strong opinion, but I do believe 270BC Wars was by far the heaviest game of TripleA when it was released.

As far as I know, only WW1 and WW2 themed games are any popular.

World At War is certainly the most popular TripleA-original game. Amongst the basics, Global Second Edition and Revised (non-LHTR) are by far the most popular ones.