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Just rome though right? No one else should have p4 at moment. Spartiates are pretty good once you mass them, and you need to phase up as they get some phase up bonuses. Otherwise they mighjt be too OP if they had all their regular stats in p1

Or we could just give Carthaginians some good trading bonuses

The Carthaginians are descended or somehow related to Phoenicians. I was playing Spartan, and the SPARTIÁTÊS seemed pretty bad. Also, in the structure tree I saw: the IV is off the window type thing

Aren't the Carthaginians often referred to as Phoeicians? yes the starting warrnings I get too, i need to fix or or 2, the rest im not quite sure whats causing them, something to do with the ai units.

We could add the Phoenicians, we could do mostly Carthaginian structures and units, but maybe they are more trading and economy based with some good water trading bonuses

The only other mod I was using was a simple one that changes settings (like resources and population) at the start of the game. Here is the mod: newsettingvalues(28).zip Also this one

Thank you! I haven't had that come up. Are you playing with advanced bot or any other mods? Some of that warnings don't make sense to me ie foundation undefined PartOfArmy undefined. I'm gonna play vs ai and see if i can recreate, sometimes that helps me figure out where to look to make the fixes. Otherwise I usually just ask @Atrik

I was just playing Spartans with you mod, and I got this

The biggest problem for me with adding new civs is I have zero art skills, so we would just be using the same actors/portraits as other civs and rename them. We could use some AI... but I actually think there are a decent amount of civs in the base game. Sythians are already in as mercs, but just their archers.... Maybe created some merc horse units? Where they employed, allies of any of the current civs. Similarly the Thracians are in as merc. I have heard/read about the Sarmatians a little. We could potentially start with one, that overlaps the least with currenty civs/territories. But again the artwork will be problematic. Unless you are an OP graphics artist I am not the greatest at art or model design (unless we want a stick figure civilization ). Is there an art guy on the forum that we could ask?

The biggest problem for me with adding new civs is I have zero art skills, so we would just be using the same actors/portraits as other civs and rename them. We could use some AI... but I actually think there are a decent amount of civs in the base game. Sythians are already in as mercs, but just their archers.... Maybe created some merc horse units? Where they employed, allies of any of the current civs. Similarly the Thracians are in as merc. I have heard/read about the Sarmatians a little. We could potentially start with one, that overlaps the least with currenty civs/territories. But again the artwork will be problematic. Unless you are an OP graphics artist

How about more ideas of civilizations? I did a search of lesser known civilizations and this is what it said: Garamantes: Desert dwellers of North Africa known for advanced irrigation systems in the Sahara. Nabataeans: Masters of desert trade who constructed the rock-cut city of Petra. Illyrians: Balkan raiders who successfully resisted Greek and later Roman expansion. Scythians: Powerful nomadic horsemen dominating the Black Sea and Eurasian steppes. Sarmatians: A later wave of horse-riding nomads on the Eurasian steppe. Thracians: Skilled metalworkers and warriors from the Balkans. Bactrians: Traders on the Silk Road located in modern-day Afghanistan. Arameans: Nomadic conquerors who spread the Aramaic language and culture across the Near East.

Some time ago I posted 20 points with: Now I've compiled another 20 points of maybe not so trivial (or even controversial ) things, some that have been discussed around. Maybe the first two have already been discussed and decided, since I was surprised when I came across them: 21) Free repair seems too simplistic. Maybe for HP below 50% it should cost 50% of resources. That way, by not letting it go below 50% repairs would be free, and repairing an almost destroyed building would take around 25% of its total cost. Or something along those lines. 22) Same with fields giving infinite food. I’d give them a small food cost (the seeds), maybe wood cost (the tools), and the time it takes to sow again would seem important. They could be set on automatic sowing. I think their allowed superposition maybe should be removed (if there's no penalty for that already). I'm not sure if there are fertility considerations with terrain and weather already. 23) When ending an alert, everyone should return to what they were doing. My farmers end up chopping wood often. 24) Land workers should be able to fish near the coast, and hunting seems a bit too easy, prey barely escapes and predators are slow and weak. I would make the fauna a bit more dynamic in general. 25) Dead animals should slowly rot. Lately there was a post about this, and resource regeneration. It would be a nice addition, the same with growing trees or berries. Overexploitation or sustainability would then become part of the gameplay. 26) Units seem to go through each other, most noticeable with ships, which doesn't seem very nice. 27) Showing 2 charts in the Summary seems a bit arbitrary. Maybe one could choose how many rows and columns of charts to see (at most a couple of rows and 3 or 4 columns), including 1x1. Could choosing the time interval be implemented? 28) Regarding the charts, it seemed to me that an “at any time” option was missing when counting numbers of units, structures, etc. Then “population” would be redundant with “units” “at any time” and could be removed. 29) Maybe a complete interactive tech tree from where one can decide and perform research would be nice, one wouldn’t have to go through each and every building (maybe some are just into that). 30) Ships should have a button and indicator to dock or beach them so for sure troops would be able to (un)garrison (which should happen gradually, faster near a port, maybe only for certain big units). 31) Often threaded paths could show wear, creating roads that make movement a little bit faster. Paths on a field should make it less efficient. 32) Units reaching full experience when garrisoned cheapens experience. Training and battle experience should be quite different. Either there should be a cap for experience learned through garrisoning, or they could garrison only to learn proper complex formations (or abilities, if introduced at some point). 33) Battle mode: this has been asked and it’s a good idea for both SP and MP. There could be scenarios reproducing famous battles. Also, after setting resource values, players could make up an army spending them. Then each places their army, and goes to battle. 34) After winning, don’t keep repeating the short victory music over and over. Maybe some people want to continue playing to check some things, but the music gets too repetitive after a bit. 35) Portraits in the panel of multiple units of a single unit type should do much more. I double click them and nothing happens, the view should center on the selection (something I haven’t been able to do when having more than one unit selected). And why not, the icons could be expanded on a per unit portrait (don’t be afraid of sidebars), where their individual info could be displayed when hovering over them (a small HP bar would be helpful). 36) Siege units should be capturable, but one could only move them (no attack) until an arsenal is built for the first time. I still think that they, together with ships and buildings, should have an inbuilt base garrison acting both as capture resistance and turn around limiter. 37) As has been mentioned lately: night, day, seasons, weather and natural phenomena. Empire Earth had the later ones, but caused by the priests, which I didn’t like. They should be random events. 38) Stealth, for spying, ambushes, and to make use of the night. Important as possible abilities of certain units or possible scenarios like the Battle of Lake Trasimene. 39) Better to use interesting historical names, like "Kripteia" and "Agoge", instead of things like "Unlock Neodamodeis". 40) Better to use technologies actually developed at the time of the game (500 BC - 1 BC), instead of generic things that have existed for thousands of years. Regarding the last 2 points, along with other things, I’ve been preparing a post about the Spartans.

Nice to see Millenium A.D. being updated

Thanks! Athenian storehouse and forge also have both roofs combined, but I could check out how it looks with the just one kind of roof.

well we actually made spartaites kinda OP but because of that and yes the fact it was a city state we brought back the old popluation limit they get 10% of max population... ideas ideas ideas and with "evidence" to back up those ideas

Windows 11, same as me. Same game version, stable connection, clean computer, etc... It works over hamachi but connection is not stable (she drops of server occasionally). Through lobby it worked perfectly.

Oh my bad, answered too quickly; That's strange. What version of Windows is she on? cc @Dunedan

I know, she did, and the result is this message I think this issue is more complex...

He needs to enable TLS in the game options

The reason is scenarios are new or updated maps of each version, and there were no new and updated maps for R28

Night/Day and terrain are not exposed to the simulation so no. Rain are particles, so you can spawn and unspawn them.

Do you know if you can change map settings (like night/day, rain, etc.) during the game?

Honestly reading through these posts, I would recommend if any of you have total war rome 2, to check out the Divide et Impera mod. Granted TW is a in a completely different ballpark in terms of genre, but the DeI devs have managed to make every unit type unique across the various cultures, sub-cultures, and factions. Take for example some of the celtic and gallic factions, they managed to balance 5 different playable factions (scordisci, boii, nervii, galatia, and arverni) to each have different strengths and weaknesses in terms of roster balance. Managed to steal kindly borrow this chart from the DeI devs. Their reasoning for it was they wanted all the playable celtic/gallic factions to be equal in terms of overall strength, but each are specific in what they're strong/weak in, all represented in the 1-5 relative scale scoring, with 1 being the weakest, and 5 being the strongest in terms of unit strength. For example, the Scordisci have some of the strongest hoplite/phalanx/shieldwall units (weird TW specific term, just refers to units that have access to a phalanx like formation), mostly reasoned because they were in contact (and probably conflict) with the illyrians, dacians/getae, thracians, and greeks. In contrast, the boii, who live in/close to the germanic peoples, do not, but they have far better archers. Granted all of this is purely stat balancing, but that encompasses stuff like weapon stats, shield and/or armour stats, entity stats (aka the actual soldier stats like movement speed, melee attack chance, melee block chance, etc) and other things.

Maybe you have already reduced SPARTIÁTÊS (the really good guys from Spartans), but maybe there should be a limit of SPARTIÁTÊS you can get, each mess hall increases it by ten; Sparta was a city state, it wasn't that big, so to get a big army they would have to expand, it might make it somewhat historically accurate (Sorry if this is confusing )

As mentioned, slingers are indeed good offensively (the Inca would split swords and kill horses of the Spaniards), but weak defensively, take a lot of time to train, and not being benefited by many techs (quite the opposite regarding training time, should get worse).