Hi Highlander,
i'm from Italy and very found of M&B.
I just found out I can send Personal mails through here.
Hope it doesn't bother you I throw to you some writing I did months ago and never had an answer.......I understand you are probably very busy.
I really think you did a great job with 1866.
Also with GUNS, ANIMATIONS, SOUNDS, ENVIROMENT ETC ETC.
I think you'd deserve to be paid for the HUGE job you have done!!!!!
Actually i'm proposing now to start a donation or something like that for you and in general all good modders (like the other guy of the great China battlefield), like.....1 us$ per person (see how many downloads you had!!), i.e. could become even a business for you and a source of GREAT mods for all of us!! I am serious,
you guys are too good and you are THE REAL REASON OF M&B SUCCESS!!
I'd like to ask you some more things and hope you could make them (PLEEEEEASE):
-new 1866 version for WB...I love kicking, shoot&melee guns and other features of WB and the great graphic. Plus I noticed many new items you created for only multiplayer.
-Improve missions like surching more than 1 man in the villages or towns (they can also hide and shoot at you when you enter the location, even in towns and castles) or the great train mission over a steage coach (like John Wayne in 1939!!) or leading Pioneers, Cows, Horses in a REAL MAP, from point A to point B, going through woods, rivers, hills, while
fighting Indians, bandits or enemies, loosing the least lives/animals you can.
What about locations like Mines, Canyons, Graveyard or HUMAN ghost Towns more often in the map? And use items for extrcting gold? And start a farmer activity,? Why dont you make a big standalone map
like Your Crazy Bill but PLAYABLE in real time with locations like in Gun Activision with
1 town, 1 or 2 villages, 1 or 2 indian villages, 2 farm locations where you could start a farmer activity?
-Characters from movies and comics to impersonate (Lone ranger, Bonanza, having your own DOG like Rintintin or Lassie and own horse you can call whisseling or make attack with orders,etc)
-Civil war battles (good battle structures from russia 1917) with usable cannons, gatling and ships. Even for multiplayer you could just do CS army using USA textures but grey....by the way why i can only make USA bots? I dont have good internet connection so I usually make my own local battles but only USA can be BOTS-
-Hunting locations with buffalos. deers but also wild animals like wolves, coguars, and you'll never know when you enter these hunting locations what you are going to face(even Indians and bandits or enemies ambushing...!) . Just put a Hunting Location Sign....enter at your own risk!!!
-beeing able to hide from enemies and more rocks bushes, hiding things. i dont like for enemies or beasts to always be able to find you in towns or wilderness. For this reason would be nice to be able to lay down (see China Btlfield)
-saloon fights with guns and hand to hand combacts (fists and kicks) with breackeble items (tables, chairs)
-Last but not Least an Old Frontier Mod in the 1700's, between The Last of the Mohincans period and Indipendence war....You can work on the 1011 m&b Liberty or death MOD and put the "fitting" items and textures there.....SUPER PLEEEEASE, I LOVE THIS PERIOD OF FREEDOM AND ENTHUSIASM-
I am 45 Years old and have two kids, both found of M&B.
In their name thank you for your clean and not nasty mods...I love i.e. The Wedding dance....but what is the purpose of so many nasty contents?!?!
Keep going with your great job and THANK YOU A LOT FOR GIVING TO ALL OF US DAYS, WEEKS, MONTHS OF GREAT ENJOYMENT! FEEL FREE TO CONTACT US FOR SUGGESTIONS
P.S. ooooh, and what about your old great 300 and Paleolitic mods ported and improved to WB???? ...Yes we played also them a lot