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Boats: Request: Boats should be made more intuitive to use with visual or sound indicators. Problem 1: Sometimes you think you should be able to go somewhere in a boat but you can't because: The passage is too narrow The water is too shallow (I think). It should be clear to the player where they can go. Ideas for solutions: Make the water incrementally lighter the shallower it is. Play a sound effect if you click to travel on an area a boat can't actually go on. Play a sound effect if the boat takes a path significantly longer than the straight-line distance to the destination.  (So you know right away if its gonna take the long way.) Problem 2:  Sometimes you think you should be able to garrison/ungarrison or repair a boat but you can't. Ideas for solution: Have a docking mechanism with a visual or sound indicating that the boat is now docked, so it can be repaired, garrisoned, or ungarrisoned. The dock-able positions should be defined and intuitive.  Players should be able to recognize them.  For example, beaches.  (I think that is already how it is basically.) If you attempt to dock but cannot, there should be a sound indicating the location is un-dockable. Attempts to garrison a docked boat should never fail if the unit is coming from an appropriate level.  (For example, if the boat is docked on a beach, units on an adjacent cliff cannot board. This also means that when you click to have a unit garrison a boat, the boat should not automatically start moving towards the person.  So that would have to be changed from the current boat behavior.

I've thought about it before. Its an idea with a lot of grey area. Should they block vision too? How would the implementation work to try to shoot over the walls? I'm sure it could work, but it would take a lot of figuring out, and I'm not sure if it fits with the abstraction level of the game. @Grapjas this could be something interesting to try out with your mod.

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I'm unsure whether this is just a glitch or an underdevelopment but in real life you cannot shoot arrows, rocks or javelins through a wall. Those rocks aren't paper thin, they look like they could withstand a shot from a Panzer and stand there unfazed like Donald Trump when some loser tried to assassinate him.   Anyway, this would be a great feature for iberians as currently it doesn't make any sense how people can shoot anyone within the iberian walls.

I think we should split, that is, the factions, since this post is too big. Late Germanics Early Goths... Etc...