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You did a great job on the new Badlands cliffs! Need ones in that vein that for Savanna, Temperate, Tropic, and Desert. Would be awesome. Maybe eventually someone can use these and code a cliff feature for Atlas. ( MUCH LARGER VERSION: 4K )

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I just wanted to share this terrible idea i had while sketching hoplites

Also, here it is a preview of the archer ranged attack ive done testing:

To be fair it seems everything is under debate historically speaking

In case we have the spearman of the reference, since seleucids already have player color on their helmets. A good amount of references show the use of blue on the helmets and red specially spearmans and the peltast's

Those weren't new civilizations though, just existing ones polished and released to the public. Not saying that there wasn't any work done on them, just that most of the work had already been done. Not sure that has to have all that much relevance to decisions made now as release cycles are longer, but in either case I would suggest not judging what to do based on past process, but on what end result is wanted.

To add my opinion, which is definitely needed due to the shortage of people who care about this topic (There is not a hint of sarcasm there), I'd say that the team should focus its efforts on fleshing out one single existing faction. They get a full tech tree, unique flavour when it comes to their units, and the whole works. Developing new factions is a great thing, and we shouldn't discourage that, but the existing factions seem to be little more than skeletons of what they would actually be. After one faction has been done this way, there can be an effort to do so with the others as well. Maybe work out one faction per alpha as a minimum threshold.

Painted helmets reference:

<GenericName>Wolf Warrior</GenericName> <SpecificName>Wulfaharjaz</SpecificName>

Age2 DE showmatches starting in a minute here: https://www.twitch.tv/escapeaoe Not sure if they'll be uploaded to yt after stream is finished. Enjoy!

Ho fatto un'altra mappa, ma questa volta è una mappa scaramuccia, questa mappa è una mappa continentale con molti biomi e con 6 giocatori. Questa mappa è totalmente inventata. Great Island.xml Great Island.pmp

Finally did it! improved the mining animation:

Nice man! I can't wait for plume! Will look nice on thureophoroi type Hellenistic units.

I'm a little skeptical. I've heard the claim before. Even saying that it would destroy the Amazon. A hyperbole assumption if you ask me, considering that the Amazon didn't just disappear the last time the Sahara was green (though it was smaller). About the plankton, some studies have shown that global plankton populations have already dropped by more than 40% since 1950, while others note rapid plankton growth in the North Atlantic, both phenomenon directly tied to global CO2 levels. A greening of the Sahara could significantly reduce global CO2 levels, cooling the climate, and rather lead to the stabilisation of plankton levels. The dust also mostly comes from a specific place in the Sahara (Bodélé Depression), so, if we just leave that place a desert, we should be ok. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/North_African_climate_cycles (of course, human activity is making things way worse than it needs to be)

Sure, to be honest i was just taking a break of animations and helmets making this brooch:

I agree. Adding civilization only to add civilization, without having a minimum of documentation about them can be problematic if a nitpicker like me appears. Joke aside, faction like the early Germans are tough to document correctly. But I think one day they need to be include to make the transition to the part II. Currently we should focus on those with enough documentation and on the current factions that are in an upgrading process (thanks to people like you). Anyway I don't see why it should be a problem. Most of the differences are cosmetics/esthetics. All the factions follows the same basis for the buildings and the units, so clearly to bring enough diversity, the game need to include a lot of factions.

hele_thracian_b8: Missing hair and cheeck. Edit: Added cheeck:

When was that ? I don't think I ever saw that I would totally love it though Well we still have the performance issue lol but yeah things have change. The increased dow load size might be though (over a certain size you have to have multiple files on windows IIRC) not to mention countries with pay per MB connection (we do have a lot of south america fans) I wish our only issue was adding civs though...

ugly things

I don't think the art department works like that It's more like "Heh look at this flower, it could be better, let's improve that" *Sad bear in the distance* Not really ? I mean the point of part II is to cover another era not to increase the number of civs of the previous one ?

It just takes someone to make a decision: "This and this and this are the Wonders we need for these civs, and they are a priority. So, let's get crackin'." Well, isn't that the whole point of "Part II"? lol

I'm thinking about it (Though they need to be finished first in any case) They will be in a separate mod called part II. You can just enable both I just need to check with the design document whether addind a gazillion factions is against the original founders idea of the game or not. Back on topic Shouldn't the generic name be hammer man or axeman ?

Nice visual particle effects.

New hele phrygian B1, as replacement of the Hele_Phrygian_B (The initial Phrygian i've did) With a better geometry having less useless faces. 1K textures for the art repository. Reference:

Desaturated 10% for match the other sele armor: (Missing the top crest).

Or, you know, add Imperial Romans and Germans to the core game.

Maybe I hadn't understood the nature of skirmish maps, to be honest.

Are you still using A23b or SVN if the later then @vladislavbelov needs to be notified because his crash fix didn't work Yes. If you want transparency instead of player color you should use basic_trans.xml there is also basic_no_trans.xml iirc in case you don't want transparency. If you want to add a specifi color to the transparent areas you can use objectcolor.xml The rest of the materials are made to use special maps You're welcome keep on modding !

noooo it never worked like that stop it stop that the seleucids took over 2 years to finish come on now dont you like my TREES

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Forgot to mention that following some references i made an alternate version of bow stretching animation (the timing between frame 0 and 20) before releasing but i consider the archer firing rate too fast. Archers should be reworked for historical accuracy and giving a bit more timing for aim. They are arches not gattling guns. But thats my opinion. generally speaking it rather reduce the archers firing rate while increasing the piercieng damage and also increasing the aiming time before release.

Okay. Thanks for explaining some of the technicalities that prevent a more streamlined system. It would be nice if there was an easier way to access that information for moderating purposes, but there are more pressing concerns than just the multiplayer scene I'm sure.

Well, it used to work like that, in a bygone era of epic productivity when the game added complete civ sets of artwork every 3-4-month alpha release. Granted, but it would add quite a few civilizations to the mix. I look at the games my son plays, like LoL and others, which have dozens, if not hundreds of different characters to choose from, each with unique and customizable attributes and I don't think a couple dozen civs is all that many for a game of this theme, type, and magnitude. Previous RTSs just had major hardware and software limitations.

I was under the impression that the interpretation of stelae is under debate in regards to "painted" helmets.

Partly, I think it's because Empires Ascendant hasn't yet been stripped out of the core mod and made into its own mod. Then it would be relatively simple to create an Empires Besieged official mod to cover "Part II." Depends on how you look at it, because none of them are active anymore. They've "passed it on" to the current keepers of the flame, who are then free to put their own stamp on it. I think you could use the old design as a touchstone when discussions arise, but you aren't bound by it by any means.

@Bigtiger @LordGood feel like fixing those ?

If I'm not mistaken, the game sees those as being multiplayer, so you'll have to select either multiplayer or singleplayer/multiplayer.

You say the texture looks very clean?

i don't know if im too used to Aztecs of AoE 2, however i think the cherry top on america's pre-colonial factions would be dirtier and desaturated walls with lots of cracks and ivy or moss growing all over the wood, for show the difference between the faction -500 years ago.

New concept art:

Fixed hoplite stance:

If you really want action on this post the evidence that it happened find where on your computer the replays are stored then post the relevant replay here. Enjoy the Choice

It's very common that 1v1 low level players quit. I am loosing all my games because of that, every time I am going to win they quit. Ej: player named 1071 (last one)

lol. 0 A.D is AoE IV