A. Does enabling GLSL in the menu fixes that ? B. IIRC formations were disabled in A17. C. This is too be improved but is normal. D. This is due to swordsman and spearman having a huge range. This is planned, but not likely to be fixed soon.
For this mod can't really tell since trinketos is not around, but Aristeia needs new building ie : http://wildfiregames.com/forum/index.php?showtopic=19614&page=2#entry303750
Okay, I hope it's safe I'm more looking in how to handpaint stuff myself to avoid those problems. If you want to model more things let me know Thank you for working on this !
c++ for core js for ui and unit ai Json for civs lua for premake python for lobby There is a github branch for pathfinding I dont have the link right now If you are a student you can get a visual studio pro licence else you can go by visual studio express or code blocks. To get the code you will need a git client or a svn client like tortoise svn. Depending also on the platforms you are on. Read the getting started for programmers in the wiki.
@Trinketos, could you provide a link to get all the new models you made ? So we could make the public access them, As far as I know you haven't commited them here : If you need more info on how to this, I will help you.