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As I understand it, rather than it being for a single entity it is tethered to a building, and every unit within the range of the building is garrisoned. Will the "Bell Tower" be garrison-able?

The Aztecs fall well outside the time span of 0 A.D.; if I remember correctly, the earliest time they came to the Valley of Mexico and became culturally distinct was in the thirteenth century, more than seven hundred years after the latest point in time that 0 A.D. is projected to draw content from (simply put, Part 1 will feature civilizations which existed from 500-1 BC, and Part 2 will have ones from 1-500 AD). The best candidate for a Mesoamerican civilization to be included in 0 AD would be the Mayans, which were at their height or approaching it during the time frame of Part 2. For context, the collapse of the Maya civilization was around 900 AD. Lo que sigue es una traducción automática, que en realidad no hablar, leer o escribir en español. Los aztecas están muy por fuera del lapso de tiempo de 0 AD, si no recuerdo mal, la primera vez que llegó al Valle de México y se convirtió culturalmente distinta era en el siglo XIII, más de 700 años después de que el último punto en el tiempo que 0 AD se proyecta extraer el contenido de (en pocas palabras, Parte 1 contará con las civilizaciones que existieron 500-1 aC, y la Parte 2 tendrá los 1-500 dC). El mejor candidato para una civilización mesoamericana que se incluirá en 0 AD sería los mayas, que eran en su apogeo o acercarse a ella durante el plazo de la Parte 2. Para el contexto, el colapso de la civilización maya fue de alrededor de 900 AD. Me disculpo de antemano si algo de esto hizo poco o ningún sentido, recuerda que acabo de utilizar Google Translate para conseguir esto.

Fantastic. Looks fabulous! Love this game, and love where it's going!

As far as gladiators go, all that would really need done are textures (body, props) and prop meshes (helmets, armor, weapons, e.g. a trident). They could pretty much just reuse the dude meshes and animations already in the game.

Looks like we should use Demotic Egyptian when at all possible. We need: House/HouseholdStorehouse/Mining Camp/Lumber CampFarmstead/GranaryFarm Field/Farmer's Field/FarmCorral/Livestock Pen/BarnDockPalisade/Wooden WallOutpost/Scout TowerBarracksBlacksmith/ArmoryCivic Center/Town Center/PlazaTempleMarket/Marketplace/BazaarDefense Tower/Fortified TowerStone Wall/City WallWall Tower/Wall TurretCity GatesFortress/Citadel

Yes, but if we are not going to animate them, then it makes more sense to have them closed.

In synaptic the very first thing in the list is 0ad :-p makes it easy for linux users

Gladiators were already in the list. I don't have much time to update the list with my studies, but from time to time I'll take a look at this thread and update it.

If I recollect (and complement a bit): Destroying an enemy building adds a new bought-able unit at your marketplace based on the type of building was destroyed. Call it "slave". This slave is cheaper than a citizen both to produce and to sustain.Killing an enemy unit has a very small chance to generate a slave at your market place. Killing a chariot or a war elephant or multi-manned siege units doesn't bring more slaves than a normal unit does (does it?). (However, how many low-morale people per catapult?).For slavery purpose, a warship is equivalent to some building as far as your warship takes time to collect men at see (this wasn't quite expected by this time). This could mean that a warship is immobilized as long as the wreck animation and remain is still visible. This requires a special button or a manual switch to stand-ground in the few first seconds the enemy ship is vanquished.The slave is a worker (whose gender is determined by his origin) without any attack who can specialize like citizens in some gathering techniques (does he?). He doesn't benefit from a citizen female nearby but from a male citizen-soldier nearby. Its gather value is less than a citizen's.The slave is also a fifth economic resource that can be exchange at the market place (but not with traders ?). That's mean that you can buy some without having captured any yet. This is a City phase feature.The number of slaves you can afford (as a unit or in whole, marketplace pool included ?) is capped according not only your maximum population cap but to the number of non citizen units as well. It is thought that the militaristic Sparta (say champion Spartan, even if Spartan citizen soldiers were Spartan military too) was partly caused by the need to control the number of hilotes. Champion mercenaries are counted, as well as elite citizen-soldiers (often akin to champions). I'm not sure about the ratio slaves/(champions+elites).Capturing an enemy formation automatically convert some of its units as slaves. The surrender/capture follows some rules as: - must be granted/ordered by a hero unit or a formation commander (if implemented) by: selecting the hero, clicking on the capture button, and clicking on the nearby enemy formation. - the formation must be surrounded and locally outnumbered 4:3 at least (see below in the spoiler). - if a morale system is implemented, it should interface with the surrendering feature. - this can't occur near fortifications or defended building: they keep shooting at the enemy. - this can't occur while the formation is sustaining casualties. - this feature is automatic (should really the enemy player be asked to accept this local surrender?) but maybe, the enemy player could prevent the capture either by ordering a stand your ground stanza, or "sacrifice" his unit by attacking and trying and break the surrounding. This could change should a morale system be implemented (to allow for a "stand your ground and fight to the death" and "surrender" at the same time). A quite simple system: Other ideas related to capture/slavery: Captured citizen units (from captured formations, see above) are degraded:Firstly, they loose one level of experience from shame! Secondly, they could be automatically change to skirmishers (of their own culture), a bit like Spartans would use light/medium infantry from subjugated states at their left wing to purposely absorb the much powerful enemy pressure there. This degradation could be seen as a preventive measure in case of revolt. Captured champions (from captured formations) are not degraded and are more akin to mercenaries, although more prone to be captured back by their former culture soldiers. Whereas this doesn't sound good regarding Spartans, let's consider Xenophon's Anabase.Killing a cavalry unit has a very small chance to act like a horse capture (decreasing cavalry cost as you gain horses).Raiding was normal warfare:- Destroying a field earn you food directly to your pool. Destroying a mill/other resource deposit earn you an amount of resources. - Soldiers (only citizen soldiers?) can ravage/spoil an area. In a enemy controlled area, you may lay waste of animals (bred, wild) and plants (fruit, lumber). It could be an option when only the town center is heavily defended and most of the economical zone is poorly defended. Retreating your workers to safety in buildings wouldn't be enough to save you from economical doom. This "ravage" could be ordered by selection a group of units or a formation and click on a button, to a visual immediate scattering to resources (except mines). - Conversely, you could order your own troops to apply a scorched earth strategy in your own territory, destroying plants and animals all around them (without collecting them). Whereas 0 A.D. is not really a strategical game, this could still impede enemy advancement even before having to oppose his troops. - Currently, like in AoE or American Conquest, you have to send forward gatherers near the enemy town to deny the enemy those resources. I'd barely call it a scorched earth strategy. - Maybe you could still earn some resource while ravaging/spoiling. Ransoming instead of capturing a formation:Should you accept to pay say one third of the surrendered units value (to be discussed), the whole formation would walk back to your first or main civilization center, managed by the AI until it reaches its destination. Although it is seen as neutral (no AI attacks), an enemy human player could still change his mind and manually order an attack on the ransomed formation on its way back to home. The formation would immediately revert to a controlled status but the treacherous human player would never be allowed to ransom anymore (plus huge diplomatic penalties). Remember the way the Spartan granted free return to home to the "Thousand", the Argian elite phalanx still intact and surrounded at Mantinee. Remember some Gaulish or Germanic commanders granting free return to Romans after a brave resistance (that was before the Roman's reputation would be tarnished). Ransacking/Spoiling convoys:When your units perform one of the actions previously described (capturing, enslaving, spoiling, destroying, ransoming), instead the earnings go directly into your economy spool, they generates trader-like units who delay the use of those earnings until they reach a marketplace or a dock of yours. Call them slave traders, "baggage" units, treasury ships, .... Until reaching un-crossable water, they change to merchant ship and revert back to caravan when landing. Either they have to be managed or they are A.I. controlled. They are vulnerable to capture by skirmishing and raiding civilizations. This doesn't apply to captured units, only to slaves of course. As a conclusion, I know well that such ideas are more adapted to a greater scale strategy game, but who knows? One day the map and the unit cap could grow larger!

Yep, that's how it's going to be. Sentries = Unlock default arrows. Night's Watch = Double default arrows. Engineering Crews = Towers shoot siege bolts (think "ballista towers", only certain civs would get this).