Work complete!
SoundRTS 1.0 beta 6 is available in English at: http://jlpo.free.fr/soundrts
This translation of SoundRTS is not perfect, but I hope that the game is playable.

Well, Gothador does fairly well with humungous maps in coordinates, some as much as 500 tiles square. However from your description it does sound as if the atmospheric elements of the game played a fairly major role, ----- also, as an exploration nut, I love the idea of wandering around that much space seeing what there was to find.

Now, on to sound Rts!

Appologies for not replying to this topic earlier, unfortunately I had some work to get in to my tutor fairly swiftly today, ----- and trying to balance that andsubpress my enthusiasm to constantly play this game was not fun. I certainly enjoy the game, though being as some of the manual is obviously stil in beta stage, it did take me a while to work out how the targiting system for commands worked etc.

As I said, I deffinately like the game, however sometimes I found the menue and targiting system slightly slow, particularly when selecting the wrong targit for a command and having to start giving it again. It might help if only the relevant targits would appear in the list for each command, ----- eg, when building things, the meado is automatically selected as the targit.

Then as Cx2 said, some overview functions would be extremely good, ----- perhaps also including messages. Quite often I find myself scrolling through four or five peasants just to check where they all are and what they're doing.

Also, I'm having miner trouble at the moment with attacks, sinse usually the enemy attacks first, and I have to scramble around to find which of my units has been attacked.

finally, I was wondering if you could please answer some questions, sinse there are several commands which I don't seem to be able to work out the function of, particularly reguarding military units. What, for example, is the difference betwene "go to" and "patrol to?" and what are rally points and the "mode deffencive" commands for?

I'm afraid i also have a question about the squares on the map. Sometimes, when in one square (whether controling a unit or not), I notice I'm able to pick up objects in the squares next to each, also, occasionally I use the "go to" command, and even though my object moves, it stil stays in the same square?

Many appologies for the questions and such, I'm deffinatelyc ertain things will become clear as I play the game (I've managed to get through the first two chapters thus far), then of course, being a beta version, perhaps the manual isn't as complete as it could've been meaning I had to work out quite a few things by trial and error. Also, sinse there haven't been many audio stratogies at all along these lines, I've never really had chance to get used to their workings. I'm certain though, that everything will become clear in time, and I'm deffinately looking forward to playing other people across the net eventually.

all in all I'm deffinately impressed with the game, and I can tell it's one I'll be playing for a good long while once I've got used to things.

Thanks for your replies. Don't apologize for the questions, since I need this feedback!
I'll try to add the features you mention, even if I have sometimes some troubles choosing a good keyboard location for the extra commands.

Cx2:
At the moment, to know the exits you can use the arrow keys to check if you can move to the next square.
For the enemies, when you are attacked, use F5 to know the square of the last alert.

Dark empathy:
You will find the targetting system faster if you use the Backspace key to give the default order.
For the targetting of only the meadow for a building, you are probably right: in Warcraft you have to choose the location of the buildings (there was a funny noise if you chose the wrong location), but in SoundRTS there is not much choice anyway, so I'll try to simplify this.
When you select the "patrol to" command, the unit will patrol between its current location and the targetted location.
If you set the rally point of the townhall to a goldmine, the new peasants will automatically exploit this goldmine. (I realize that the tutorial doesn't explain this point clearly.)

hello
I like this game and played it today for a long time. I have a suggestion for a newer version: I like the
chapter system. What do you think about including a level or mission editor? So, the user could create
own missions, maybe with new enemie types or new soldirs and objects for you and stuff like that. So, the
game could be modified.
greets
Niklas

Hmm, nice idea if possible. Personally I'd love to have themed armies of troops, ----- reenacting the battle of pelenor fields for example. but I'm not sure how possible that sort of thing would be given that the game mechanics seem very strict, and an the sound files for the names and reactions of the units are already recorded.

similarly,  user created missions etc are always good, ---- though it will all depend upon how workable it is.

thanks for the advice people, and I'm glad my rambling questions vaguely made sense. Appologies if some of my posts seem a litle incoherent, I was up all last night batling betwene a desire to play Sound Rts and the need to get work done (which probably didn't do much for my chances of defeating the enemy).

Soundmud, I've also posted a message about Sound Rts to the Audeasy mailing list, an E-mail discussion list about accessible games.

quite a few people there have also downloaded and played the game, and if you are looking for feedback about it, you might considder checking the list.

The list also has several Audio game developers subscribing, so more tech related discussion of the game might work there as well. You can subscribe to the list at:

http://audyssey.org/

Oncemore, congratulations on the game, I've bene waiting to try something like this for ages.

Your welcome.

Obviously the main priority is to get the game working as well as possible, before considdering upgrades, sinse there's already plenty in the game to be going on with I think.

Towers were essentially fixed positions for either arrows or cannons in warcraft 2. They are like turrets in other strategy games in a way.

I think I've found a bug by the way. I built a workshop before a stable, and the game wouldn't allow me to upgrade my keep to a castle.

Ah I was missing the saw mill

Perhaps the dependencies could be added to the manual in time. It does seem mildly different to  Warcraft 2 which I was basing my plans on.

Also is there a fixed limit of 20 food rations maximum? I hit this fairly easily on the third non-chapter map and then couldn't build any more troops, and couldn't suicide them against the enemy since the enemy had little in the way of troops. Yes I know I could have won, but I was  wanting to try out mages and catapults.

What's up with the sound named flying machine. What is that. There's no description in the manual
about a flying machine. Optional music would be nice, too. Realy good game, congratulations.

Yes, for the moment I removed the flying machine because it was not enough different from the other units without some amount of work. I wanted this machine to be able to transport units to avoid choke points and destabilize defensive players. It may be nice for scouting too.

Moreover the flying units should fly through obstacles, and this is not yet the case, so the flying machine can be destroyed by archers at the choke point. The problem is that I don't know if I must keep the isolated squares system which has pros and cons.
Pros:
- the map is easier to understand
Cons:
- the archers and the catapults are less interesting near the bridges and the paths