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I've asked @Vantha to look at that ticket.

There's the idea of having unit-specific techs, but I think they should wait for: https://gitea.wildfiregames.com/0ad/0ad/issues/7666

Right after this, I'm imagining that Hamilcar says something like, "Use our ships to scout the coastline for a good harbor!" But your ships are attacked and sunk immediately by Iberian fire ships when your ships venture outside the landing zone, lol.

DE pauses the game while the Hero Choice dialogue is open

It used to be an unlocking tech, so that you were forced to choose cheaper techs or faster research before the full Forge tech tree could be enabled. Had that for a long time, but then decided it would be nicer for the player for it to be a choice they could make whenever it was convenient. The effects obviously have less impact the later you make the choice, but who knows what may come up. I agree that Special Buildings are a great place for such pairs.

In DE, I've actually pared down the number of paired techs significantly over past alphas. But one paired tech I've kept and that could be particularly interesting for EA in some capacity is in the Forge: The tech isn't required, but presents an interesting choice that helps you as you tech up. Since EA doesn't have the glory resource, the cost for Forging could be time, while Metallurgy costs resources but low/no time.

That is true. I'd only use them as a design decision, not as some kind of fix for something.

\art\animation\biped\citizen\pray.dae It's used here: \art\variants\biped\gather_praise.xml

Praise

Add something like this to the unit template: <UnitAI> <DefaultStance>violent</DefaultStance> <RoamDistance>8.0</RoamDistance> <RoamTimeMin>2000</RoamTimeMin> <RoamTimeMax>8000</RoamTimeMax> <FeedTimeMin>15000</FeedTimeMin> <FeedTimeMax>60000</FeedTimeMax> <Formations disable=""/> </UnitAI>

Very awesome, successful games have these attributes. I don't oppose it at all.

Not quite the same thing. OP is asking about making Gaia units wander around like deer do. In Gallic Fields, a Gaia soldier is spawned and tasked to go to a certain point.

But it is, in my example. I'm not talking about combining existing techs into pairs.

Sure, but in my example you didn't have that choice at all before the 2nd tech was added. It's additive in this example.

Ironically enough, trenches/ditches were definitely used by the ancients in pitched battles and during sieges.