Position: Video editor Do you understand that Wildfire Games is a non-commercial project, work for 0 A.D. is volunteer, and work is done for free? Yes Do you agree to distribute all your work for Wildfire Games under Creative Commons Attribution Share-Alike license? Yes Are you sure you are not wanting to work on something programming related? (Then you don't need to send in an application form.) Yes Name: UnRick Email: rtbeeke@gmail.com Location: Amsterdam, Netherlands Availability: 2 - 4 hours a week Age: 35 Occupation: Work, family life, newborn baby Skills and Experience: I've been a motion designer/editor for about 12 years now. Started in game design and for work i create videos everyday Motivation: I just love videos and motion it gives me great joy and at work we actually all play 0 ad together when we have some free time on our hands so it would be great to edit videos for you and show them off to my collegaues :p  Personality: Joyfull, positive, hardworking Short Essay: Years ago when we first started playing 0 ad, i just love the whole game and where it is headed. Interests and Hobbies: Games, movies, music. Im playing Age of Mythology while i am sending you this form haha Staff: no Community: reddit and ign only Favorite Game: currently it's the Dyson sphere program. My all time, the whole God of war series but mainly the new ones now. they are just so cinematic Work Examples: https://www.linkedin.com/in/rickterbeeke/ https://rtbeeke.wixsite.com/website my portfolio is not super up to date but gives you a glimpse of what i do. This involves 3D, 2D and everything in between

Well, if some small path appears, I agree, although not for a paved road, you could end with some weird street layout if where random units are walking is taken too seriously.

Indeed, but how historical seem to you many of these fortresses, and how much just a product of nostalgic AoE2 cloning? (something that I've seen discussed many times already). I don't think removing them from some civilisations, not only to make it more historically accurate, but to differentiate civilisations more, should necessarily mean to unbalance the game, but that balance should be found in their differences, otherwise it's just "similar vs similar" (agreed that it would take more work). On a somewhat different note: shouldn’t Germans not have stone walls? At least less so than Sparta (which eventually had, but late, and still this doesn't appear in the game).   People are complaining already :P, and will even more when poorly garrisoned ships are stolen like a candy to a baby. Regarding damage distribution, I'd say leave it to the player to decide, by ordering the cards of the units garrisoned (and have some panel somewhere where you can set a default order, to greatly reduce micro). Calculations is something to test, surely in some mod first, and then decide, hard to know beforehand those details, but this is the only simple nice way I see to have siege engines do something that resembles actual siege, and use something more realistic and engaging than capture points (wasn't proposed by me, I just extended the idea to ships). EDIT: I misremembered, virtual combat was proposed for ships and normally garrisoned units, and I extended it to siege and proposed base garrisons in place of capture points:  

I entirely agree. Capturing buildings should be difficult but rewarding. And the buildings should be tied to the territory. I find it absurd when someone loses his CC and he destroy every buildings before the capture. A fortress should be also able to create a new territory but smaller than the CC, to have a territorial anchor.  True. We don't want a bland AoE clone. The difficulty behind virtual combat is how to make it good with only calculation because the player would not control which unit are getting the hits. People can get frustrated if the damage are distributed evenly and they would get frustrated as well if we give the damages preferentially to specific types of unit. There is also the issue of calculating the damaged of ranged and mounted units. People will complain.

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