I Really want a single player... I am actually really annoyed at the fact that I purchased a multiplayer expansion... although its a little fun and something new but why should I have to play online with a bunch of other M&B drug addicts who play 24/7. When I should be able to take my time, enjoy commanding an AI army, taking over cities and forts, letting my soldiers pillage & rape, the usual =D
Though it also concerns me that only european nations are put on this game... whereas the important Ottoman Empire, the American rebels, The Chinese splintered empire, the Afghan guerillas, possibly even the barbary & italian states.
I personally want to have a single player version of this game, with all these 18th century weapons/armor/nations and all the latest new tricks, like warcry, no aim zooming, crouching, etc...
But, I want to continue the good old stuff and bring in some new stuff. I want to lead a group of milita and armed citizens to take over a city and form the People's Communist Party (although this was done in the 1900's =D). Form a republic of some sort, gain commerce from trading weapons and stuff.
Pillaging armed caravans and villages, slaughtering innocent villagers and burning their houses down! or smashing the enemy to pieces (literally, a big bloody mess) using artillery.
Those of you who want to stay in multiplayer... thats fine, but dont you dare try to stop the developers from making a SP mode. some of us dont have the time or the laziness to sit on our arses all day, playing M&B.
beside that:
I have a few ideas i'd like the developers to possibly look at.
1> customising your nations uniform/weapons/horses (so that all soldiers can actually Look like their on the same team...).
2> allowing eastern nations such as China, Japan, Korea, Afghanistan, Persia, Turkey(ottomans) Egypt, Barbary states, Mughal India.
3> Once you have control of a village, you can expand it (through a list of buildings) into a small town, big town, city.
4> Purchasing housing, businesses, factories, weapons & uniform factories, banks, food markets, etc.
5> Being able to have (once owned) customisable weapons/uniforms crafted by your factories.
6> Being able to recruit villagers & Townspeople, but then able to train and Manually equip (or auto-equip) all units of that type.
7> Being able to recruit generals, advisors, strategists, elite militia/line infantry mercenaries.
8> Able to become king/president/chairman/or a customizable title.
9> Be able to build and customize your republic/empire, using many different buildings: for example (cities = Barracks - trains all soldiers/generals within the city. Farms = provides food, population growth & commerce (selling farm products). Armory = Stacked with government (your government) issued weapons and so on.
10> Actual ambushes and raids: when attacking a caravan, the caravan should continue its normal route while in the battlefield, however soon as You or your Ally's forces are Spotted, the caravan stops and its protectors "dig in". Raids on villages: actual raids, enter the village as a battle ground and begin murdering the villagers & possibly burning down their houses/farms (also capturing POW's once the battle is over).
11> As a leader of a nation/city being able to create, arm and supply troops to caravans & patrols.
12> Offering bandits/outcasts/deserters a place in your army/patrol (higher persuasion decreases cost & increases chance they will accept).
13> Actual destructible buildings, land, bodies (people).
14> Blood & Gore effects
15> As a leader: Prisoner exchanges, defensive pacts, trade rights, neutrality agreements, arms & uniform trading, etc to different nations.
16> Naval warfare, trading & raiding.
Graphics are not to much of a problem, but I would definately pay for another expansion if it included all or most of the things I have spoken of. As for the gore, rape, etc... the age rating doesnt really matter, because in nearly all countries even children as young as 6-8 playing games that are 18+ and watch movies that are 18+.
If this is to be one of the best games (and so far in the RPG genre, I personally believe it is and can be one of the best games in the world) if only the developers would accept, cast votes (or just do it) and implement them into the game!