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I can't wait for this amazing release!

Hi, I've been playing 0ad for almost a year now. Overall, I'm impressed that the opensource community has created something of this quality. Keep the good work up! However, I feel that naval gameplay is kind of lacking at this point. As far as I'm aware, the winning strategy to use when at sea is to spam triremes along with your cheapest troops to fill them. This is not unique to 0ad: I've played AoE 2 and the strategy is pretty much the same. So, here's my 2 cents: Attacks: Ramming: This is already slated for implementation. I think that a successful ramming attack should deduct a lot of HP from the rammed ship, but if it survives, it keeps losing HP. This is to simulate the ship taking on water and sinking. This is also useful to get your precious soldiers off before it sinks completely. There should also be a tech in the city phase to eventually stop the sinking phase. This would simulate the technique of throwing an old sail under a hull to stop leaks. Boarding: From what I read, this was officially cut because of the complexity of showing soldiers fighting on ships. However, I have a way to implement boarding without all that complexity. Here are the stages of the attack: The attacking ship throws grappling lines to the attacked ship. Of course, this requires that the ships be side by side. Each ship has a loyalty bar in the same manner as siege weapons. and the total health of each soldier onboard is added. Citizen soldiers(incuding horsemen) have the same DPS, champs have slightly higher DPS, and heroes have the highest DPS of all. When the enemy soldier's health bar goes to zero, the ship loses loyalty and eventually becomes the property of the attacking state. Of course, if the attacker's bar is depleted first, it becomes property of the attacked state! Missile: Only archers garrisoned onboard ships can fire arrows. Ships: Fisherman class: can garrison 1 unit. It has boarding capability, but as you may imagine, it has no chance against even a trading ship. Bireme class: has boarding capability, but no ramming. Mainly useful to protect merchants and fishermen. Trireme class: The staple of the navy. Has both boarding and ramming capability. Quintrireme class: The siege weapons of the sea. Doesn't fire projectiles when empty, but fires long range projectiles when garrisoned with catapults. Can both ram and board, but is slightly slower than other classes to prevent the boarding attack being OP. Merchant class: For trading. Has boarding attack to give it a bit of defensibility. If you got through all of that, thanks! I put quite a bit of effort into this. Hope this was of use, Buckethead

@elexis I wrote a simple script: https://code.wildfiregames.com/P122 (it creates a test mod folder with the test page), it shows, that we have many errors in translations (including not included in the release).

well the Zapotecs have champion healers with a powerful aura, I'll have to make a note of the larger canoes for light warships.

What? Most games last 30 minutes to an hour, sometimes more. How much slower can you get? Offensive towers are a completely legitimate tactic, just like offensive fortresses which is pretty standard. The issue with lag is complicated, and is probably a result of bad design in terms of the network architecture the game uses. Lag should be fixed, rather than worked around, and it especially should not be a motivation for changing the gameplay. If some specific element of the gameplay were to blame for the lag then ditching it might be understandable, but as far as I can tell there's no good reason why the game should lag as bad as it does. What? Offensive towers are bad but making it so that capturing an enemy building allows you to build a tower in their base is good? That's insane. Ranged siege weapons already have an operator as part of their model set. Given that they also cost a significant amount of population that would just make the game more of a pain and more turtle friendly. Feeding the turtles isn't a good way to improve anything. There have been plans for implementing siege-equippable ships for a long time, but who knows when that will ever be implemented. I agree that sea is kind of crappy, but fixing it isn't really simple. You mean no suicide? Meh. Suicide is kind of awkward, but you still need some way to deal with buildings blocking your units if you happen to screw up. People would then need to be able to attack their own buildings, or maybe have an un-build command to reclaim some of the resources. Also that'd be a significant nerf to capturing. Why? Commerce is painfully slow already even if you spam traders (which in addition to eating up population are very expensive) and the resources you get are random, which means that mostly trade doesn't produce the resources you actually need, and upgrading it takes resources away from actual combat-related things. Heroes aren't that op, and they're also very expensive and slow to build. Promoting units isn't necessarily a bad idea but it'd be complicated to implement cleanly and would be just one more complicated game mechanic to give players more pain.

Hi there. Mayorcete here again. Glad you liked my last 0 A.D. video. I'm sure it will bring a lot of new players to the game and I do it totally on purpose. I love this project and I want people to know it and play it. Plus. This kind of videos grant me a lot of views and subs. Anything related to AOE that is not AOE makes for an awesome and trending video. About the Spanish community I can really back what you say. Spain has a good lot of AOE lovers. But we shouldn't see the situation on my channel as somth which has to do with the viewers, but the other way around. I've been in YT for quite long and I've been trying to promote strategy (and overall RTS) on a massive scale. So you can tell that the situation of the Spanish community is one of a kind. You could say that we are not as many as we seem, but we have a better stablished community thanks to the content we are making. I've even encouraged other YT friends to play AOE and similar games (see Matakito on YT), going one step further. You see; after all Mayorcete Gaming is not only the biggest AOE channel in Spanish, but in the entire world, so the way it affects the public is rather unique and difficult to analise in terms of interest over RTS. All I can say is... Keep working on this wonderful game. I'll keep promoting it. New factions like the kushite will always let me make new vídeos for sure, and new alpha versions will serve as well. Nice work and keep it up. BTW. Now vídeo:

@Alexandermb Congratulations for this gorgeous piece of work! Now, only the cross on the church remains to do

A crown for the saxons:

Hi Temple Thanks for confirming the bells use in A23. Like Lister, garrisoning all units was very handy when the enemy was running amok within your city. In the near future, would be nice to see this feature re-added but understand the reason for removing due to bugs, although personally, I didn't notice any of them.

the 0 vision range was for always keep infantry/cavalry near the packed buildings so players don't just move their buildings around, so yes you actually lost your buildings if you don't migrate with units.

Indeed we need the very first error. I assume that either an alpha 22 mod is enabled for alpha 23, or that some leftover files exist in the mods directory https://trac.wildfiregames.com/wiki/GameDataPaths

@Lion.Kanzen salmon + pink

Merged the two topics together, and relocated to the appropriate sub-forum. Also, removed the "glory" resource from all techs.

In singleplayer and replays, hit Alt+D and disable the camera restrictions. You can also zoom in a lot, change the camera orientation to look over the shoulder of a unit, press the follow-unit hotkey (F) and then order the unit around while the camera remains behind the unit. You can change the zoom levels and other camera options in the user config file too. https://trac.wildfiregames.com/wiki/HotKeys https://trac.wildfiregames.com/wiki/GameDataPaths

If gameplay desing is the main objective then you need to see what others RPG has that RTS don't for example Warcraft 3 Heroes gameplay, Spellforce Hero gameplay, Mount and blade Bannerlord Siege gameplay combat, you need to leave the basic RTS Schema behind thats what 0AD already has, you need to focus on the players who likes the big RPG Games but like to have those features in a mass battle management game, imagine Skyrim with the 0 AD scale or like the mod Hyrule conquest, he brought the zelda series to a massive scale of RTS and before releasing his mod he already has a big public awaiting for every faction and update because Total War is just a game for controling infantry and not buildings, people thinks 0 AD is a free copy of AoE 2 but 0 AD has left behind in visual and unit desing AoE some time ago, now is time to leave that gameplay desing behind if the game want to achieve his own potential and go for a new RTS public, some examples are the mods Delenda Est and 0 ABC wich has another gameplay features but the game base per se is what people feels a copy of AoE and thats need to be fixed before avancing to Beta phase. Imagine 0 Ad controling not just an infantry spearman but a Citizen soldier and later you choose what you want him to be, Spearman, Swordsman, Slinger, Skirmisher, Cavalryman, Archer etc, cities burning when attacking. Cavalry dismount needs to be for get rid of the same AoE Schema, Siege weapons needs to be stationary and have a better visual impact of firing slow reload, fast shot, fast projectile speed and spawn dust at the hitspot not flames, and disable rotation for the big ones seeing those big turrets turn around like if they had some kind of rotatory base is just wrong sometimes, for scorpios are ok but for the big Ballista seems wrong.

Something i never seen before is a mix of genre between "Civ City Rome" or "Imperium Civitas" and "Warcraft" and i'm not saying factions or fantasy but the gameplay, a whole economic city building game with full combat unit command features, always the economic city builder game has an auto AI wich you only click a button and they go and attack the enemy alone and you can't target who to attack, or they are like Grand Ages Medieval if you have a big city you only have a few selection for build and a tab of buildings to "auto build" and the armies are a huge batallion but they aren't a batallion you made, they are already pre designed so whats the fun to the pc to play for you? the principal idea of a batallion economic city building game is to recruit unit per unit and if you desire to make a batallion you take a lot of units of them 15+ and make a batallion for better defense (Maybe moral?) and if you don't wanna use it anymore you can only desband by dropping the formation and done. Other gameplay feature i could imagine is that every faction start with a basic infantry "levy" unit lets take for an example the Spartan faction, you start with a guy with basic clothes and sandals with only a sword as weapon, then after you build barracks you could decide if you want to upgrade the unit into Hoplite or to Better rank swordsman, perfect then you have a Hoplite. If the Hoplite has enough rank/experience and your city has a blacksmith then you can upgrade the Hoplite into Champion Hoplite (Or their respective champion spearman) and if you build a archery range you can upgrade the levy into Javelinist or any ranged related infantry, and the same goes for Stable units.

This modification is located at: https://github.com/0abc/0abc-a24.git (version 0.0.24 “Alpha XXIV: Xšayāršā”) https://github.com/0abc/0abc-a23.git (version 0.0.23 “Alpha XXIII: Ken Wood”) https://github.com/0abc/0abc-a22.git (version 0.0.22 “Alpha XXII: Venustas”) 0abc is an acronym for “0 A.D. is Actually Before Christ”. This mod tweaks, rebalances, and improves upon what already exists in the game. It does not include any new factions. Amongst other things, 0abc implements a new unit template structure tree with many more unit types, has new civilization and team bonuses, has a fourth damage type, thrust, uses resource trickles to represent taxation and upkeep, and adds one new resource, silver. Instructions (for A24; replace "a24" with "a23" or "a22" if you want the A23 or A22 version): Download the repository directly: https://github.com/0abc/0abc-a24/archive/master.zip or use: git clone https://github.com/0abc/0abc-a24.git Place it in your /0ad/mods/ folder: GNU/Linux (e.g. Fedora) typically: ~/.local/share/0ad/mods/ Apple macOS typically: ~/Library/Application\Support/0ad/mods/ Microsoft Windows typically: ~\Documents\My Games\0ad\mods\ Launch 0 A.D., click “Settings” and “Mod Selection”. Select “0abc”, click “Enable” and “Save Configuration”. Add, remove, or move up or down any other mods, click “Save Configuration” and “Start Mods”. Click “Learn To Play” and “Structure Tree” to see the mod(s) implemented. Improvement suggestions are welcome, as are bug reports and other kinds of feedback. If you encounter errors or warnings, please copy them from the `interestinglog.html` (see https://trac.wildfiregames.com/wiki/GameDataPaths ) and post them here.

I think a lot of ppl are experiencing connection problems just before the game starts.

36€ until the 29th, but yeah, one needs to consider what one is willing to spend. I'm "having" to force myself not to buy many new games since I haven't played a lot of the ones I have bought already. The trouble with all the deals all the time =) "I better take advantage of this, I know I want to play it eventually, and it is a good deal"... =)

No problem. I'm taking into account that i'ts an "Alpha" after all.

Hey @Revan Shan Thanks for the promotion, and apologies for the lag in the lobby that'll be fixed soon.

Remember goal is to start the packaging fun this week, let me know when you guys are done

Updated changelog Millennium AD 0.23 Changelog · Update GUI and actor files to be compatible with vanilla 0.23 Alpha (s0600204) · Maintenance updates and fixes since last release (leper) (s0600204) · Use folder.DELETED for backgrounds (leper) · Update the home menu logo (wackyserious) Byzantines · Implementation of Byzantine faction (template, actor, aura and other files) (wackyserious) · Cataphract cavalry armor (Alexandermb) · New byzantine textures and tweaks (wackyserious) · Byzantine shields and helmets (Alexandermb) · Add lamellar + Chainmail armor (wackyserious) · Tagmata Helmet (Alexandermb) · New chainmail textures and Oval shield textures for Byzantines (Lordgood) · Byzantine Paramerion (Alexandermb) · Add new cataphract rider texture (wackyserious) · Byzantine fishing ship (wackyserious and Alexandermb) · Update Byzantine AI names (wackyserious) · Byzantine Houses (Alexandermb) · added Byzantine Bow (Alexandermb) · Byzantine Parma shield (Alexandermb) · Lamellar texture variants (wackyserious) · Byzantine helmets (Alexandermb)- Burgh Castle Archer Feathers · Byzantine coifs update and basic helmets variants (Alexandermb) · Byzantine a and b (Lion.kanzen) · Byzantine Civic Center + Eyecandy decorative building (Alexandermb) · Byzantine fences and columns (Alexandermb) · Byzantine Barracks + Blacksmith (Alexandermb) · Byzantine Storehouse + Dock (Alexandermb) · Byzantine farmstead (Alexandermb) · Byzantine Market (Alexandermb) · Byzantine corral (Alexandermb) · Byzantines (Alexandermb)- Added Walls Eyecandy and Skirmish Temple Blacksmith update Old blacksmith modified as armory · New Byzantine Emblem (Alexandermb)(Lion.kanzen)(wackyserious) · Byzantine round and plain oval shield (Alexandermb) · Byzantine spear flag (Lion.kanzen) · Byzantine Chi-Rho symbols in Scutatoi (Lion.kanzen) · New Byzantine Elite unit textures (wackyserious) · Add Byzantine portraits (wackyserious) · Byzantine defence tower (Alexandermb) · Byzantine quiver (Alexandermb) · Byzantine sentry tower (Alexandermb) · Byzantine 1st Dromon (Alexandermb) · Byzantine bireme (Alexandermb) · Byzantine Greek fire ship + template naming schema for other civs ships (Alexandermb) · New Byzantine elite unit textures (wackyserious) · Byzantine ram (Alexandermb) · New dyed padded cloth textures for Byzantine infantry (wackyserious) · Byzantine axe + concentric helmet (Alexandermb) · Byzantine Merchant & Fishing Ship (Alexandermb) · Byzantine traction trebuchet (Alexandermb) · Byzantine Fortress (Alexandermb) · Byzantine Wonder "Hagia Sophia" (Alexandermb) Anglo-Saxons · Enabled Brixworth church (Anglo-Saxons) (Alexandermb) · Anglo-Saxon defence tower (Alexandermb) · Offa of Mercia (Anglo-Saxon Hero) - Infantry Swordsman (wackyserious) · Anglo-Saxon banner (Lion.kanzen) · Anglo-Saxon axe animations and fixes to barracks and houses (Alexandermb) Carolingians · Implementation of Carolingian faction(template, actor, aura and other files)(stanislas69) · Enhanced Carolingian structure texture (Alexandermb)(wackyserious) · Frankish tunics (Dyed) (wackyserious)- Based on the depictions on the Stuttgart Psalter · Carolingian kite shield textures (wackyserious) · Carolingian elite unit textures (wackyserious) · Carolingian aventail helmet and caro civ enabling. (Alexandermb) · Enabled Cathedral of Aachen (Carolingians) (Alexandermb) · Added Carolingian infantry spearman and another props for Carolingians. (Alexandermb)- Adventail B Coil · New Carolingian church/dock/towers (Alexandermb)- Sentry Tower, Defense Tower, Church, Dock, Scaled Coil helmet aventail B · New Carolingian armor textures (wackyserious)- Scale armor and long byrnie. · Basic dyed tunics for Carolingians (wackyserious)- Colors are based on the Stuttgart Psalter depictions · New Carolingian structure texture (wackyserious) · Carolingian unit portraits (wackyserious) · Add Catholic priest textures (wackyserious) · Carolingian priest portrait (wackyserious) · Carolingian armorican cavalry armor (Alexandermb)- Added armorican cavalry (carolingian champion cavalry), Added ao to church actor. · Add Carolingian female citizen textures (wackyserious) · Carolingian royal dress texture (wackyserious) · Add Carolingian champion cavalry unit portrait (wackyserious) · Add Carolingian champion infantry (wackyserious) · Add Carolingian trader (wackyserious) · Carolingian siege trebuchet (Alexandermb) Carolingian banners (Lion.kanzen) · Carolingian walls Part 1 (Alexandermb)- Added walls, long-medium-short-tower · Carolingian walls Part II (Finished) (Alexandermb) · Add Carolingian fishing ship (wackyserious and Alexandermb) · Carolingian market+ corral (Alexandermb) · Carolingian traction trebuchets (Alexandermb) Norse · Norse tent eyecandy- Addition of Norse tent's for eyecandy usage (Alexandermb) · Norse ships updated (Alexandermb)- Drekar Added, Karvi Added, Knarr Updated and Snekkja Updated. · Norse Ram + Eyecandy fence + tweaks (Alexandermb) · Norse sentry tower (Alexandermb) Changelog Millennium AD 0.23.rtf

That trap mechanics could be used in 0AD with the new destructive damage right ?

Implementing that isn't too hard once we can nuke the unitmotion component from unpacked siege (which requires the unitmotion rewrite and some refactoring), but one also needs to think of the gamplay aspect, as not rotating means it can only fire in 1 direction, so siege would become much weaker, I suppose.

Hello @coworotel, This bug is being fixed as we speak, you can find the latest progress here. https://code.wildfiregames.com/D1512 Sorry for the inconvenience, hope you enjoy the game anyways.

less saturated around near be gray.

@Lion.Kanzen

Have fun with the roofs, i'm gonna try alternate bricks for variants

Yep i'm on it, i feel the same i'm looking wich texture can be tweaked for have the orange look it feels like a wonder but after looking grey it reminds me how is everything turning grey in here:

Added some flora:

We can use it as a reoccuring reminder that this resource copied delenda est techs has to be removed from that asian civ.

Hi @Stanislas69, Thanks for quoting those links... I can certainly see the efforts and vast work that goes into such features within the game. And the commits and changes that are made, on what seems like such a small and tiny aspect of the game.... However, there is way to much info in there for me, and not sure what I am following... Obviously there are changes. 1) Could the above 2x tracks / changes be explained in layman's terms please. 2) Are the changes, permanent, or can/will they change back. ie: Just being tested to see how people feel? 3) Personally, I felt the way the "Raise The Alert" feature worked much better in A22 and previous releases. (although I've only been playing since last 2 or 3 builds). 4) Now this game supports mods, could this be a patch / mod, that could be installed (back to how it was) on a user basis? Thanks for an amazing free game... lots of enjoyment from it !!! Play it frequently at home.... and AT WORK !!! lol Thanks, Lister

Hello there and welcome to the forums, Unfortunately while models made it in the package they won't appear in the main game as playable buildings until further balancing decisions. The only exception would be the Macedonian workshop which has always been in the game and just got a visual update. However a few skillfull modders have already started using them in their mods. So you can look toward them to see a glimpse of what 0 A.D. may look like in a further release. Hope you'll enjoy the game anyway. Have fun @JonasTuo

About the resolution, I'm sorry but there isn't much we can do. The minimum resolution is 1024x768, and a lot of people are pressing us to even drop that one. So I'm afraid your friend either has to find a bigger screen, or try to play with the scaling by editing a file called user.cfg in his appdata folder and add gui.scale=0.75 in there. About the lag, that's something we are working on but it's not trivial to fix, the more AI the more memory used.

Indeed it will be for part 2 which will cover the battle of Hastings in 1066 featuring Harold Godwinson and William the Conqueror.

Hi, guys still missing screenshots and installation guides and few other things but more or less here is the first draft of the announcement: The Council is both happy and proud to announce a special new release!!! /Above should be the new logo that is in the main menu. What is it? Millennium A.D. is a total conversion mod for 0 A.D. focusing on the Middle Ages. It is divided into two parts, this first one is focusing on the first half of the Middle Ages; the timeframe of Charlemagne and the Viking Age. The name of this release is Xýlo. This is a byzantine word for wood, in recognition for vanilla 0AD’s founder. That is respectful for the new release What is new? Thanks to Alexandermb talented modder is responsible for the majority of the new models, Wackyserious our versatile texture artist, Stanislas69 our artist and Lion.Kanzen icon and texture artist, we are happy to introduce you to two new civilizations Byzantines and Franks(Carolingians), as well as Anglo-Saxons and Norse faction, are considered complete this release. The Byzantines The mighty civilization which has its roots in Eastern Roman Empire dawns with this release. Franks(Carolingians) The time of Charlemagne has come and you will witness the might of his Franks. The Norse Prepare for the new naval battles with the Norse. Since last release the Norse got new longboats and ships are fully animated. The Norse also got new houses, docks, watchtower, ram … Anglo-Saxons Anglo-Saxons got many new textures, buildings, and heroes. Many smaller changes were made in this release too, but it would be too elaborate to list them all. Who are we? The Council of Modders was formed up of two small modding teams and a few newcomers: Aristeia (about the bronze age), Millennium A.D. (about medieval times) and Rise of the East (East civilizations) CoM aims to create an umbrella for all wannabee modders and help everyone needed and of course create their own projects. How to: Unzip the download but leave the inner archive intact. Place the unzipped folder into /binaries/data/mods. You'll see another folder there called 'public'. Launch the game and enable the mod in Options>Mod Selection. Press 'Start Mods'. Enjoy the mod! Download: ModIO installation: Go to URL Mod.io Pyromod installation: Unzip the download but leave the inner archive intact. In the last few years, some members retired leaving us shorthanded. We are currently especially in the need of artists. So if you're a talented artist with a passion for history and you would like to help us out, please contact us using a PM or (preferably) in this thread: Wildfiregames...showtopic=18412 Thanks in advance! Our thanks go to everyone that helped us to achieve this mod through contributing, playtesting or in another way! If you have tips/suggestions, feel free to let us know. Also if you find bugs, let them know too. Support 0 A.D. if you like us: Play0ad.com The main menu background is made by Alexlinde from Deviantart. You can find him here: Alexlinde.deviantart.com The soundtracks are created by Antti Martikainen. You can find more of his work here: Anttimartikainen.bandcamp.com and Youtube.com

That sounds really nice. Would be could to have some campaign missions where you control a little squad of hoplites and have to get them somewhere alive.

I once had the idea that you would train a "Tribute Wagon" which basically looks like a beefed up trade cart, you'd send it toward your ally and then their units could "gather" it like a treasure. This seemed a little much micro to me once I thought more critically about it. However, I don't think there's anything to prevent such a thing from being possible in a mod, even with current code.

Abstraction vs simulation. give resources instantly is that thing you do instead create a carts and send the gif to the friends by diplomacy. Donate units can be nice too.

I would try to be realistic for my features request list: Campaign mode (almost finished, if I'm right) Trigger interface in Atlas studio Finishing differentiation buildings between Athenians and Macedonia Differentiation between Gauls and Britons units. Finishing Seleucid and Ptolemies units (almost finished) Minor improvements and optimizations. Bonus: Integrate Xiognu and Chinese to the main distribution

*Even more distant African chuckles* Sorry bros, lol... I always feel a bit bad about posting architecture/building-set suggestions... Of course I never expect you to do all the work, but I'm aware that in reality, if the idea is liked/accepted (by you ), like 90 to 100% of the work would fall on you... So I'd like to emphasize that I'm just someone who likes to brainstorm and fantasize about the perfect RTS. So I just put my ideas and opinions out there... It's up to you and the greater community to see if it's actually feasible/desirable. I'd also like to emphasize that the "only" structures that would need to "evolve" from phase to phase are houses and the CC (other structures are already tied to later phases anyway). It would be more than enough to generate that feeling of evolving from village to city. The subconscious feeling would a greater sense of emotional attachment to your settlements (because you saw them grow/evolve/mature). As Lion said, some if it can be done like: Although the standard Carthaginian houses evolving in to those pretty apartments is ideal in my opinion. Another thing is that, if it's not tied to individually upgrading CC's, it would have awkward effects... Like, if you reach city-phase, and all CC's upgrade simultaneously, you could end up with a highly ornate CC, and a pretty city apartment next to some fields in the middle of nowhere, which would also break immersion... I think individually upgrading CC's, and visual differentiation between phases go hand in hand, and would make 0AD even more awesome...

And a very limited choices to make of faction, infantry desing and variety and don't have citizen soldiers. i played Stronghold 2, i'm someone who likes to play alone agains't IA and you have a whole map for you and the enemy spawns in a corner attacking sometimes.

Yes please 0 Ad left behind long time ago AoE, i never get bored of 0 AD but i do from AoE 2 (and thats the best of the serie). +1 +1 Some civ structures have two floors it could be a start having a first floor and develop the 2nd floor at the town phase and all kind of rich decoration in the city phase. For houses i can only imagine the structure construction materials for wood buildings and for empires like persia size and numbers of floors. +1 +1 Black and White 2 have this feature, the terrain shows green/yellow/red colour when placing a farm that shows the fertil zone for better farming. +1 Maybe but it will be better if mines are divided into caves/deposit's instead of rocks scattered around the map, and better specific zones for mining unable to build a proper economic city (farming land). More resources more complexity even better, i didn't have any complain with the high number of resources of Empire Earth series even when some resources become useless in advanced era (literally useless).

Yes, please! This would also allow phasing out phases If I recall correctly, something like the following was present in Rise of Nations. Settlements started out as a town and have both a (large) territory radius and a (smaller) city radius. Markets and civic structures could only be build within the city radius, whereas defensive, military, and gathering structures could be placed anywhere in your territory. Once a certain number of different structures (e.g. 5) was present within the inner radius, an individual town would automatically upgrade to a city, which has increased health, attack, territory influence, and a larger city radius. When the number of different structures within a city radius was doubled (e.g. 10), the city was automatically improved to a metropolis, again with increased health, attack, territory influence, and a larger settlement radius. Furthermore, some structures also affected city stats, e.g. temple increases capture points by 50%. Also, there were many wonders, each with different bonuses, but they were civilization-independent; each wonder could be constructed only once per map/campaign.

Yes please My additions to those would be: - Battalions - Villagers - Visual differentiation between phases: simple village house → townhouse → city house, same thing for Civic Center: vilage center → town center → city center - Individually upgrade CC's. So you could end up with 1 city phase territory, and a couple of villages or towns on the periphery. This would make properly defending your "capital" more important. - Map-tiles should have "properties" which determine if you can farm there (fertility). Then desert tiles would be barren (non-farmable), while areas close to water/good soil would be fertile. Maybe a fertility gradient? Perhaps an overlay could help identify arable land, as well as clearly show the location of all other resources. - No more farming at the CC... Please... Just build a farmhouse already... A town center should be town center and not a farm/fields/plantation. - Storehouse split into "lumber camp" and "mines". Mines are placed on specific slots in the mining area. - Mining: 1) "Alluvial deposits": mined just like they are now, are close to your beginning CC-area and deplete easily. 2) "shaft mining": always done in rocky/hilly/mountainous areas. away from the beginning CC, and don't deplete easily. - The introduction of "coin", acquired through: trade, gold/silver-mining and a dedicated economic structure, specific per civ (like plantations/cash-crops or royal workshops). Coin would be used in trade, paying mercenaries, certain technologies, even building certain structures like the wonder or special buildings. - The introduction of "brick" as the third logical building resource. Helps add a lot of necessary nuance to building costs. Brick and wood for common structures. Stone and wood for temples, castles etc. Some structures cost brick, stone and wood (CC). Bricks are produced from a brick-maker, placed at a clay-pit. Gauls, Britons and Iberians would have a wattle and daub maker instead, likewise placed at a clay pit. (Clay pits don't deplete quickly, akin to farming/deminishing returns from a pit over time) @elexis So does Fields of Meroë have some Nuba merc camps as gaia villages (huts and nuba tribesmen), on the opposite bank of the river? I didn't see any in the latest screenshot... Some Nuba merc camps could be added to other Sub-Saharan biomes as gaia as well...