i never written that. i clearly wrote that i wanted to stimulate active players to play 1v1, so their rating will be more accurate. losing rating of complete inactive is side effect not more, for example borg is 1st on ratings board, but he is not active, so move him from throne is not bad idea.. I wasn’t proposing a radical change to the rating system that many players are already used to. I suggested adding a small new feature alongside it.This isn’t a drastic change — it’s actually quite mild. In the first month, a player would lose only 4 Elo. I didnt catch ur arguments about some problem (whats the problem actually?). u operated with a lot of terms, but without solid idea, i understand only that my solution not matched with patterns u have ever seen. but it is not an argument.  

What do you think of this: if I capture someone else's vassal settlement, the units it spawned when it was their's, become mine

Yes, that would be the usual differentiation. Hippobatai were mounted hoplites for example, they just used the horses to travel to the battlefield. @Emacz, @Outis, it’s really unclear to me about which civs you are both talking about. Greek cavalry did not use shields before the Hellenistic period (at least not in big numbers: https://www.degruyterbrill.com/document/doi/10.1524/klio.2009.0017/html). This could be a tech then, maybe your mod could change the appearance of units with techs? And in an accurate way, because if I remember correctly, the base game makes hoplites evolve with experience the opposite way they did historically (which should be from heavier to lighter armor). For this subject I recommend On Horsemanship, by Xenophon (https://www.gutenberg.org/files/1176/1176-h/1176-h.htm). There’s an interesting part where he says “we would recommend the newly-invented piece of armour called the gauntlet, which protects the shoulder, arm, and elbow, with the hand engaged in holding the reins, being so constructed as to extend and contract; in addition to which it covers the gap left by the corselet under the armpit. The case is different with the right hand, which the horseman must needs raise to discharge a javelin or strike a blow”. Now, many things to disentangle here: 1) neither there not in the rest of the book shields are mentioned, 2) we wouldn’t call that a gauntlet, seems a long shoulder protection, 3) I doubt this was eventually implemented in great numbers by the Greeks, 4) anyway it means is that someone invented such a thing around his time, and apparently it was the Persians (no wonder Xenophon being aware), from this figure shown of an “Achaemenid Dynast of Hellespontine Phrygia” in the center:   I found that image striking, because it looks quite similar to the shoulder protection of the samurai, which is not surprising if we understand how samurai armor evolved: Japanese warriors used shields early on, eventually the elite class becomes mounted warriors, archers in particular, and for this, in which both hands are needed, shields must be ditched… or actually, adapted, becoming part of the armor, and migrate to become the iconic squared shoulder protections: Thus, in the Hellenistic world something similar seems to have developed, just not at the same scale. I have not read much about this, but my guess is that heavier armor made the “gauntlet” somewhat unnecessary, while the Japanese used lighter armor for a variety of reasons.

That was only a suggestion, please bear in mind i have a 6 month old baby . I really dont know the next time i can sit down and do something in my private time. I hope not in 18 years .    Me too... Let me dwell on this a bit.   Welcome to my world. It is soul-crushing... The only sw i want to handle is 0 A.D.

Yes, so "lancers" have +1 range over a regular spear, or 2, id have to check.  But than Cataphracts have an additonal 1 or 2 meters on top of that... but it sounds like the xyston is a long 1 handed thrusting spear.  Not a lance.. so I may need to change it even more... what would the advantage of a 1 handed thrusting spear be vs a 2 handed lance... the companion cavalry still didnt use shields... they were also still considered schock cavlary, but not quite as damaging as cataphract but also a lot more mobility....  lots to think about!