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To me, the "native names" (SpecificNames) are just a minor aesthetic feature to placate those who want a little more authenticity and like that kind of thing. Most (English) players, IMHO, will want to see Spartan Hoplite instead of "Hoplítēs Spartiátēs." At least for clarity in the middle of a frantic match.

This already looks like a great improvement. Perhaps a custom setup option/toggle to give the players a free starting Dock if desired.

Just swap them into Centurions? Did we debate this one already? I forget.

You're absolutely right. For some reason I only downloaded the 'preview' images. Got the large ones now. If you don't mind, I took the liberty of increasing the contrast of the normal map to pull out more detail. The diffuse and spec maps I reduced to 512x512, while I kept the original resolution for the normal map to get the detail. I might make a podium for it like the other statues have. I'll export this version in the screenshots and a smaller version as a possible structure prop. Toggle these below to see the difference in normal maps: And here's a cool "epic" screenshot: 4k version here: https://i.imgur.com/6FwT5V0.jpeg

Looks great in-game! A couple things though! The textures can only be power of 2 for our engine. So: 2x2 4x4 8x8 16x16 32x32 64x64 128x128 256x256 512x512 1024x1024 2048x2048 (absolute largest we want, only used for civ structure sheets, some terrains, etc.) or any combination of the above. I've already resized your textures to 512x512.

Considering the whole conceit of "phasing up" revolves around the advancement of a settlement to a city, removing building requirements kind of ruins the concept. What we could do though is genericize the requirement to X number of any kind of building (except Farms and walls). You could say someone could spam 30 houses and upgrade to final phase! They could, but then they haven't built anything else either, so are vulnerable af in many ways. Could open it up to some create and/or wild build orders and strategies. Possibly worth considering for A28's comm mod.

Have them promote to Centurions.

That's really cool. Thanks! I'll make a PR soon.

What do you mean here? A simple mass replace command can't do the trick? Shouldn't be that hard to make changes to the skirmish map XML files too. I'm going to make a patch renaming all references of "civil_centre" to "civic_center." Can you imagine the headache on that one? lmao

This makes a lot of sense, but I'm not sure you need to add any cost. I'd like to see Wonders built as a matter of course or at least in 50% or so matches.

eh hem... this has been the case in DE for ages.

Well, I did start DE in part to test new ideas.

I honestly would like to implement DE's Carthaginian embassy system, whereby building these Embassies (which have special techs in each) you unlock training of their ethnic units at the Barracks/Range/Stable respectively. Something to consider.

In cases such as this, let's just outright remove the worst versions and consolidate them into the "Hyrcanian Shores" map with custom biomes. So, choosing Kerala uses the India biome assets, while choosing Phoenician Levant uses the Aegean-Anatolian biome assets. There are probably a lot of other examples of "lakes" style maps or "a river runs through it", where multiple maps can be consolidated into one and you can get variety with custom biomes.

The current build distance for defense towers was to prevent spam back when towers were OP. So, a minimum distance was implemented, but since then the relative strength of towers has decrease making the minimum distance a little suspect. @real_tabasco_sauce I think this should be looked into.

I want this, honestly. Call it the "Academy" class building. It trains Champions, while Fortresses train heroes (and a new Spy unit).

In Delenda Est, all civilians are 1 pop, infantry 2 pop, and cavalry 3 pop, etc.

Yeah, it looks very nice. We should make our own version, of course, with 0 A.D. aesthetics.

okay.... we should just steal the AOM:R stats screen

May I suggest we find that one thread where someone made a cool chart ranking all the maps on various criteria. Then perhaps agree on a "top 20" list of maps we will definitely keep and improve, then the next 20, and maybe have a max of 50 total we will bother putting effort into improving. The rest can be moved to an official maps mod.

This is a very low priority feature, but it would be neat to have a few music player Ui buttons where you can play, pause, or skip to next music track. With a json, we could curate an "Atlas-only" music playlist just for this. We'd choose the quieter, more calming tracks.

That looks really nice. thanks for the reference.

I think generically "shade" works better here, for authentic flavor. Perhaps we could look up what each culture called the "soul", but to my English speaking ears, "soul" sounds Christianized, while "shade" sounds more pagan and more authentic to the period of the game. Now, for Gothic and Late Roman civs, "soul" (to my ears) would sound perfectly fine. YMMV.

This is very important. Thank you for mentioning this. It's very important to emphasize how different the Ptolemaic age was from earlier Egyptian epochs. This was a time of rapid change for sure and it's good to emphasize this fact. Also perhaps mention though that this syncretism was probably largely focused on urban and cult centers, while rural areas were probably largely still practicing the old ways for decades, even centuries after the conquests of Alexander and Caesar. This dichotomy is seen throughout the world, actually. An example of this is the very long and winding adoption of Christianity throughout Europe, where various forms of paganism were still practiced in the countryside for over a thousand years after Europe had "officially" Christianized. Back to Ptolemies, the Serapis cult can be emphasized for its importance to the political and social order, but I think a strong mention of the Isis cult is warranted. You see Isis worship throughout the Mediterranean, while notsomuch for Serapis. Cleaopatra herself worshipped Isis and styled herself as Isis incarnate (at least it was written about her; possibly to "Orientalize" her to Roman citizens, but perhaps has a strong kernel of truth). A cursory mention of the rest of the Egyptian pantheon can help add flavor. Everyone loves flavor.