I have read the manual both in game and online, played some games vs AI and here are some things still unclear to me:
What is the purpose of the loot stat? Do you get the amount specified when you kill an enemy unit? What about when you delete a unit / building of your own, do you get loot? What if you capture an enemy building?
If a building gets destroyed do garrison units die or do they come out like when it gets captured by the enemy?
In spearman description it says 3x against cavalry, 3x what? attack? armor? both?
Does a basic swordsman counter a basic spearman in 1v1? i say basic because different civs have the same units just with different names
How does the bribing mechanic work, it has to be researched from Civic Center (Espionage), then what?
I know in the welcome screen it says formations are still work in progress, do they give any bonuses now? mousing over them gives no info
History of Britons and Gauls says they gather food faster but their women and men have 0.8 and 0.6 food gather rate which is the same as every other civ, how much is the bonus and is it displayed somewhere?
When infantry gets +1 hack and pierce armor from that technology from Blacksmith, the stats of any infantry unit do not change on right click info screen, is that a bug? they only change on rank up
Is there a way to choose what resource you get from traders? if not, do they choose randomly or do they trade the resource you have less of?
Roman Temple of Vesta is the exact same as a normal Temple?
Roman armor bonus in Roman territory does is also count ally or even enemy Roman territory? Unit armor stats on right click info screen do not change when in Roman territory, is the armor bonus of 10% so little that it gets rounded down?
and finally more of a suggestion than a question, i have the impression that some civ bonuses are not being mentioned anywhere in game besides the history tab, for example the Athenian metal mining bonus gets mentioned on a tooltip when you mouse over the Age upgrade on the Civic Center but the Roman territory civ bonus is not visible on right click screen info of a unit, or the Macedonian bonus / debonus, or the Iberian price reduction of cavalry units etc
and besides some civ bonuses only being mentioned in history tab, shouldn't unit bonuses / debonuses in general be visible in a unit's right click info screen? like blacksmith upgrades, how can i see what upgrades a unit has other than going on Blacksmith and seeing what upgrades are not available anymore?
thanks
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12.What does the small dot before a player's name mean? has he marked me as buddy? or have i marked him?
13.If i mark someone as Buddy can i join his games as spectator if he only allows Buddies or does he have to have marked me as Buddy for this to happen?
14.How can i join a game that has already started, and i was not initially in, as a player (assuming a player has left)? if i click to join an orange lobby it asks me to join as observer not as a player
15.Some units / building say they fire more arrows per unit garrisoned, the interval stays the same? for example if the basic is 1 arrow per 2 seconds and i garrison 10 units does it go 11 arrows per 2 seconds? and do all units count? even women?