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Indeed. I feel like whatever bonus a Wonder gives should be automatic or free. The worker downtime used to build the thing, plus its cost, justifies the notion that whatever the benefit of building a Wonder, it has already been paid for.

Any way we can make it account for biome? The option is already there in each biome json.

DE has the Chang Jiang skirmish map all ready to port over.

Mainland Random Map Script - "Nubia" biome

Also, "Decoratives" "Tree" doesn't seem to be used, at least not by Mainland.

@Angen @wraitii When I try to make this happen for the India biome: "chicken": "gaia/fauna_peacock" It doesn't work. It always defaults back to fauna_chicken. It doesn't matter what animal I put there, it's always overridden to fauna_chicken when the map is generated. Any ideas?

Mainland RMS Sahara Mainland RMS India

https://github.com/JustusAvramenko/0ad_terrains_overhaul

Working on improving biomes for Random Maps. @maroder has also helped. Mainland with an updated temperate biome:

In history, pikes were used en masse to pin down enemy formations so the skirmishers and cavalry could pick the enemy apart with flanking maneuvers. Without hard battalions or formation fighting, the only way to simulate this is to make the game's phalangites very very tanky ("meat shields", "damage sponges"). And to prevent them from being OP, their speed and attack has to be unusually low.

BOOM https://github.com/JustusAvramenko/delenda_est/commit/5bebda22855a8efcca4a066447617c9045e17348

In tests with 30 elite archers, it took those 30 archers 4+ minutes to take down a wooden defense tower. It took 2+ minutes take down a palisade tower.

A defense tower or a siege tower? You have said this before, and I decided to do some tests in Atlas and a "small group" of archers does not take down a defense tower in 15 seconds.

We weren't talking about rams. And some siege towers walking past a CC and taking it down seems lame to me. lol Is that really how you envision a siege tower should work?

Lol, siege towers in general, even in EA, are weird and lame. The game is just not built (yet) for interesting siegework. Siege Towers need a lot of work.

Atlas really needs the option to choose the biome of the random map the designer is generating. Mainland random map, for instance, has no option to choose a different biome. It always generates an Alpine biome map. There is no drop menu, as in game setup, to choose the biome it ill generate.

That's just simply wrong? It's very plain to see the CC is representative of the administrative center of a town or city.

Fenris Wolves in Age of Mythology have a similar bonus. The bigger the pack, the faster they move for instance. In Delenda Est, phalangites have the "Massed Pikes" aura that improves their combat effectiveness when fighting in groups. Hoplites have their own aura, called "Shield Wall" which improves their armor values when fighting next to each other.

Building farms around the CC isn't some immutable law of the Universe or something. It's simply based on positive and negative incentives (and the lack thereof), which can be changed.

Bactriana (2 players) added. Any ideas for 1 more? Maybe from DE or an area of the "game world" not yet done.

I got one here for DE. Basically, the champion swordsman ("Veteran African Infantry") replaces the champion hoplite ("Sacred Band Hoplite") if you choose Hannibal as your hero. Perhaps I can also do this for the champion cav. Swap the Sacred Band Cavalry for Veteran Numidian Cavalry if you choose Maharbal as your hero. @wackyserious Do you think you could make 3 or 4 new scutum textures for this guy? You're the G.O.A.T. when it comes to textures!

Playtesting seems to be haphazard across the board. Can't really force people to playtest every single change though.

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