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  1. I think he could be a little more hunched, his knees a little more bent, looking a little more "ready" for action, if that's what you're trying to convey.
  2. Actually, @Alexandermb, I think Testudo animations would be good to work on too. They currently have none. And then some intrepid programmer can code formation bonuses. Right now, all formations can do is alter movement rates. Not sure why whoever it was stopped there.
  3. With increased training times you disincentivize the spam training method. Either increase the batch train bonus or add techs which improve it can incentivize batchtraining.
  4. Reduce food gathering rates and increase unit train time. Slow down the start of the match. For the barracks problem, if anything you want the batch training bonus to be high, so you don't need to build so many barracks to spam train. You can also make military buildings cost more for each one you build. I do this in DE with Cult Statues, tho I do it with auras, kinda hacky.
  5. About building over trees, this is viable if you take DE's route and have straggler trees and tree groves. Groves would not be buildable/destructible, while stragglers would be. This would make building walls easier for player and AI methinks. Groves also have the advantage of possibly doing cool ambush/garrisoning things, like allowing barbarian/guerilla civs the ability to garrison soldiers "inside" groves for ambuscade.
  6. Hmm, almost everything you've said I can agree with except this one. Forward-building is a viable real-world tactic. See how the Romans would invest a town: https://www.wikiwand.com/en/Investment_(military) I agree with these principle problems brought up in this thread: 1. Building masses of farms around the CC.A dumb AOE holdover. Farmlands, people. 2. Dozens of Barracks, etc. Just another dumb AOE holdover. 3. Dozens of corrals = lulz. Just tie their number to the number of Farmsteads. This essentially doubles their price and construction micro. And, IMHO corrals should work a lot differently than they do now. I've already talked about this. It's nearly useless trying to convince anybody of anything. 4. Using CCs as the primary dropsite. Move the starting resources away from the CC! We've been screaming this for months or years now. I'm not too jazzed about: 1. Resource storage. This was also in the game Command & Conquer and some of its sequels. It could be interesting or an unnecessary detail. Perhaps abstract it a bit to where you drop resources off at a storehouse and farmstead per usual, and then when it "fills up" to max amount you get the resources automatically dumped into the player's treasury. If the storehouse or farmstead gets destroyed by the enemy, they get whatever has been stored up in the dropsite as loot. I don't agree with: 1. Preventing players from constructing buildings just because there are enemy units within vision range. If "action range" was implemented, then I could mayyyyyybe using action range as the construction constriction. But vision range is way too much. The public mod has insanely large vision ranges and would be a frustration for players.
  7. Also set costs to zero. I forgot that part. In DE's case, the "cost" for the Empire Phase has already been paid by building an expensive Wonder.
  8. Yes, I do this in DE for the Empire Phase. It auto-researches when the player builds a Wonder. Just make that building be a requirement object for the tech. Then set the tech to auto-research. Lastly, set the research time and costs to zero. Here is my Empire Phase tech for an example: { "genericName": "Empire Phase", "specificName": { "athen": "Autokratoría" }, "description": "Moves your civilization from urbanism to imperialism, unlocking powerful technologies and abilities not available in earlier phases of expansion. This is the Athenian imperial phase, where metal gathering rates are boosted because of the Silver Owls bonus.", "cost": {"food": 0, "wood": 0, "stone": 0, "metal": 0}, "requirements": {"entity": {"class": "Wonder", "number": 1}}, "autoResearch": true, "requirementsTooltip": "Requires 1 Wonder to be built.", "supersedes": "phase_city_athen", "replaces": ["phase_imperial"], "icon": "phase_imperial.png", "researchTime": 0, "tooltip": "Advance to Empire Phase, which unlocks powerful technologies and abilities. Territory radius for Civic Centers and vision range for units increased by a final +25%. 'Silver Owls' bonus gives +10% metal gathering rates.", "modifications": [ {"value": "TerritoryInfluence/Radius", "multiply": 1.25, "affects": "CivCentre"}, {"value": "Vision/Range", "multiply": 1.25, "affects": "CivCentre"}, {"value": "Vision/Range", "multiply": 1.25, "affects": "Unit"}, {"value": "ResourceGatherer/Rates/metal.ore", "multiply": 1.1, "affects": "Gatherer"} ], "soundComplete": "interface/alarm/alarm_phase.xml" }
  9. For how small these are, you could literally make a Hare template and just use the rabbit actor for now until the hare model is done.
  10. Give those auras to the player.xml file for that civ. Auras need to be attached to an object in the game, so for team bonuses they are attached to the ephemeral player object.
  11. Surely that's your own territory you are spoiling since you can't build buildings in enemy territory.
  12. The mod needs to update the actors for the new carrying animations.
  13. lol yeah. The game looks goofy as Hell, but to their credit they pack a lot of historicity into it. They did a lot of research it seems. Though, the architecture is complete fantasy. I agree. The 2D art for that game is incredible.
  14. I've hated this "option" since it was put in. Interface stuff like this should be uniform for all players.
  15. Very High*: Low, which is close to what they used to look like for me: *I really think there should be an Ultra High setting for those with good cards, if only for cinematics and screenshots.
  16. Lighting makes or breaks 0 A.D. I think the lighting settings could use a lot of tweaking to get the full effect, and of course the new shadow map for the next alpha is a vast improvement and should make the game look a lot better. I just often wonder why the game looks ugly on some videos and good on others. I think it's the maps they choose to play. Some really make use of the game's assets and lighting in a good way and some don't. Just some random musings. This guy does a pretty good video discussing the game. There's even a poll.
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