General gameplay discussion
Hello there, to make a quick introduction to you: I'm Darc Reaver, leading gameplay developer on Company of Heroes: Eastern Front, and part of the development team "Archaic Entertainment". I've played RTS throughout the last 15 years, and played a fair share of, I'd say... 20000 games or more. I've played many different titles, starting with games like Settlers, Age of Empires, Warcraft 3, Company of Heroes, Battle for Middle Earth franchise and of course Command and Conquer. I've yet to know ab
Fields as map control element? Sounds overall interesting, but then you need to make sure that it's possible to create defensive options for your farms. But overall this seems to be a nice idea and gives your militia men a point. Either use women who are defenseless for harvesting fast, or use citizens to have a defense and harvest slower. However, you'd need the option to create defensive positions earlier in neutral territories - like palisades and wooden towers and maybe houses to protect you