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I was thinking of keeping up the food cost of citizen-soldier units, but reducing their wood/stone/metal costs by about 25%, yeah. Make them a bit trashier in basic stats, but also give the Rank Upgrade techs to more civs (see DE's Kushites for an example). War Elephants +5s train time, +1 pop. I might boost the elephant upgrade effects, but move them one phase later to keep the eles competitive in extreme late-game. Siege Weapons +1 pop. Bolt Shooters +7s train time, +20w cost. Stone Throwers +5s train time. Has anyone used the new "stationary" Catapults? All soldiers +2 crush armor. All melee units vision range matched to ranged units' vision range of the same classes. Maybe help eliminate the frustration felt by some folks. Vision ranges are still 40% less than vanilla. Why do I do this? It helps make the world feel "larger" and maps bigger. Scouting is more important. Also, it helps players keep control of their units. Increased the Phase 1 Scout Cav limit from 2 to 5 to help players hunt more and get to that 1000f threshold. -------------------------------- One thing players need to keep in mind is that you need to use more pop gathering food than you did before in vanilla. Also, placement of farms is very important. You can't just plop farms around your CC and call it a day. I wanted to make food the very important resource that it was in antiquity. Probably 75% of the population was involved in food production in ancient times and I wanted to bend the pop curve in the game back toward that most important resource. That's also why Phase 2 costs 1000f, to make the player set up a good food economy early. A wish list item I have would be to allow techs to increase training/building limits. Right now, Player.xml is not flexible in this regard, at least as far as I can tell. So, for instance, in Phase 1, you can train maybe 10 mercs per camp -> Phase 2, 20 mercs -> Phase 3, 30 mercs -> Phase 4, 40 mercs. No way to do this currently as far as I know.

I initially was trying to emulate AOK's siege warfare where a bunch of Siege Onagers could mow down enemy archers and skirmishers if they weren't careful. Difference is in AOK it's easy to mass cheap trash units, while in 0 A.D. it isn't. I might play with this more.

This was a relic from when I had male and female citizens and slaves, where female gatherers were boosted at food gathering. I'll fix.

Now we need the back. lol

Ima repackage the mod in a couple days. It has about 150 additions and changes, most of which no one will notice. But notably, mercenaries are a little more expensive, the actor errors are all fixed, missing textures are fixed, and some textures added. I might fix the Kiushite blacksmith techs and do a couple more other things before repackaging.

Hmm. Any number of mods could use it. I might just take visible garrisoning out if not.

There is a patch to make this not happen: VisibleGarrisonClasses. But I think it's currently deprecated. I hope it makes it into A24.

Some of these bugs and errors are problems with the core game that DE just happens to help bring to light, unintentionally. lol Most of them aren't though. Yeah, that's an easy one. I'll add that to the list. Farm on the farmlands. This is a 100% boost on this terrain! Would you suggest a bit of a nerf? Train time, cost, or any combo? I intend for mercs to be important, but not game-breaking important. One of the issues is, I would like the ability to mod the starting resources, where the player would likely start with something like 500F, 500W, 300S, 200M, 200G, instead of 500 everything (scale it up and down from there). I'm thinking of going the Age of Mythology route and giving every civ 4 free wooden towers at the start of the skirm match. Just an idea I'm toying with. This is kind of a problem with the core game, DE just magnifies it. I would really like a "Vision" range and an "Aggression" range tied to a (reduced number of) stances for units, so I can boost up vision range a bit without units berserking everywhere like in core game. Also, other games have smaller vision range than core game 0 A.D. and what you're talking about occurs. I just think you're used to core 0 A.D.'s massive vision ranges. Consequently, you're used to the units just attacking attacking attacking without much input. I dunno, it's a different style of play, not necessarily a bug. What do you think? Yeah, that's a consequence of me using the Footprint code to make that pretty aura texture show up. Ungarrison position is dictated by the size of the footprint, rather than the size of the obstruction. Unless (ideally) the aura visualization code is extended in core game, or ungarrisoning switched to obstruction instead of footprint, I might have to drop the pretty aura textures because of the issue you highlight there. Bug in core game you uncovered. I don't think this is a DE problem.

I am planning on making some fixes and re-releasing the mod for Alpha 23. It'll be version 0.0.23.1, and will fix some annoying bugs and errors everyone is experiencing.

What civs are you using when this happens?

In the meantime just hit Suppress, while I track down the offending texture.

Soon on mod.io.

The upload process very much pleads with the uploader to 'Go Live!' At best, it's just unintuitive, but that's not WFG's fault.

Debug View is good to run while compiling so that if there are any troubles with the archiving process they will show up there in Debug View. You can see pyrogenesis.exe show up in Windows Task Manager and it'll stay there as long as the archiver is working. When it disappears, you can be relatively sure the archiver has completed the job.

With battalions, one could "increase the pop cap" while actually reducing the number of controllable entities the player has to worry about. Let's say you can have up to 30 battalions under your command. Each with 20-30 soldiers in it would make 600-900 soldiers total, but you only have to worry about the disposition of the 30 entities, not 900. 100 units per battalion in 0 A.D. seems a bit much. I'm thinking more like 24-30 could be standard, but the code supporting much more for mods.

Individual soldiers have hitboxes in Total War games, and you can easily have battles with an army of 2500 vs. another army of 2500. I wonder what TW games do to make this workable. And it's not just because their battle maps have fewer obstacles than a 0 A.D. map. You could have a completely blank 0 A.D. map and it would go to lag Hell with 5000 units moving around. It might have something to do with their soldiers all belonging to battalions. Perhaps there's a cheap way to just path the whole battalion as one entity and then "cheat" with the soldiers inside the battalion. dunno.

At least with a hard counter system, every unit is good for something, if not fodder. But I think the topic is drifting.

Now, for something completely 180 from ancient history:

Honestly, look at the way DE does it.