[Rome Total War II New DLC pack - Empire divided]

 

[Rome Total War II New DLC pack - Empire divided]

31 minutes ago, Lion.Kanzen said:

And there is again the power of choosing screen

Hmm, should have been Principate or Dominate for this time period.

[delenda_est warning ！]

4 minutes ago, Lion.Kanzen said:

Oh thanks God...

So I can still made my own slaves and mercenaries?

Yeah, I recently implemented the slave economy to all civs. There are Male Citizens and Female Citizens, who build economic and civic buildings, and who have a Slave Ownership aura which boosts: Male and Female Slaves, who are available to train after building a Market.

 

So...

Male Citizen - Trained at the Civic Center, builds economic and civic buildings, mediocre at gathering resources. Has Slave Ownership aura.

Female Citizen - Trained at Houses after building 5/10 houses, builds economic and civic buildings, mediocre at gathering resources. Has Slave Ownership and Inspiration auras.

 

Male Slave - Trained at the Storehouse after building a Market. Cannot build, but gathers resources very well, especially when within the Slave Ownership aura.

Female Slave - Trained at the Farmstead after building a Market. Cannot build, but gathers resources very well, especially when within the Slave Ownership aura.

 

I would like to combine the male and female variations into one unit each, Citizen and Slave, to make things simpler. This is basically the same functionality that Age of Kings had back in 1999 with its male and female villagers. I can do this visually with actor variations, but their selection sounds, specifically their voices will not be correct. I asked some WFG developers about allowing entities to have more than 1 gender and I was advised to submit a patch. lol, I guess it'll never happen then!

[delenda_est warning ！]

33 minutes ago, tuk0z said:

Is it still possible to give your work a try, maybe from your Git repo?

Yeah, the Git repo should work with the current SVN/dev version of 0 A.D.

[Rome Total War II New DLC pack - Empire divided]

1 hour ago, Palaiogos said:

I wonder if they'll make unit cards in that art style for regular Total War: Rome II.

It looks like they updated the card styles. I appreciated and understood what they were trying to do with the "Red Fired Amphorae" style for the unit cards, but I still recognized they were horrible from a gameplay perspective.

[Age of Empires definitive edition [remaster]]

45 minutes ago, av93 said:

What you would do for the gameplay, having in mind that it's a remake?

Delenda Est, but with ages instead of phases.  Add battalions for soldiers. Add AOE3/AOEO home cities. Add age-up choices ala AOM. Have "god powers" but slightly more mundane, call them "Commandments" or something, just boosts or policies that affect gameplay. Have an incredibly well-written and historical campaign for "Europe", "Africa", and "The East."

 

Basically, harness the entire "Age" canon, and then include some extra innovations.

[Age of Empires definitive edition [remaster]]

1 minute ago, av93 said:

Having tides in ponds are something curious. I will post it on the official forums

Make sure they keep the same monotonous and boring gameplay!  My god, can villagers be any slower? No wonder I always played Deathmatch back in the 90s.

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7 hours ago, stanislas69 said:

I don't want to have huge commits that nobody understands and then having @elexis deal with it if I were to leave unexpectedly.

That poor guy, having to parse large art commits. 

[Age of Empires definitive edition [remaster]]

Seems odd to me that they would improve the graphics so much, but then not improve the super ugly fog of war.

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1 hour ago, wackyserious said:

Yeah, looking at the chart that you gathered in the reference thread.

I really like helmet 12

12 is the classic Corinthian helmet that we all know and love, 6th and 5th century. 16 is a more refined version for better hearing, which I really like, 5th and early 4th centuries. It's my favorite Corinthian variation. Notice how the face and cheek pieces of the helmet have a general taper down.

#20 is an excellent example of a Thracian-style helmet, used across the Hellenistic world in the 4th and 3rd centuries. Great for pikemen, mercenary hoplites, and maybe even elite archers.

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6 hours ago, stanislas69 said:

@LordGood @wowgetoffyourcellphone @wackyserious

Here are all the files, ready to use.
To see the new helmets in atlas go to actors (all) and type  helmets (Illyrian hasn't been remade yet)
All helmets are made to be on the head prop point, if you need to be able to put it on the helmet prop point, I can try, but I'm not sure how much I should tweak them.
If you feel like editing some textures, go ahead.

Notice the improved armor texture, I'll commit it sooner or later.

new_helmets.7z

The textures are much smoother and much improved. They look like nice smooth metal helmets now.

 

Critiques:

- Corinthian helmet cheek pieces look a little "broad" to me. I think the overall face of the helmet should taper more, and the eye holes should be smaller.

- The "Thracian Cap" helmets are confusing to me. They may or may not be accurate, I don't know. Maybe I just think they're ugly in general. lol

- Some of the helmets have cheek pieces that are modeled to be more like ear muffs.  Maybe revisit the geometry of those.

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22 minutes ago, wackyserious said:

By the way, @wowgetoffyourcellphone who made the Corinthian helmet in DE?

Which one? there are many.  But likely @Wijitmaker.

[===[COMMITTED]=== Siege Weapons Infantry Animations]

20 minutes ago, Alexandermb said:

Here's the file Roman_shoulders.7z

Yeah dude, those work great. Thanks!

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14 hours ago, Alexandermb said:

Very very nice. I'd like to include in DE if you're willing.

[Rome Total War II New DLC pack - Empire divided]

4 minutes ago, Lion.Kanzen said:

I want Palmyra in 0 A.D

Part 2, hitting cranial implant repositories Summer 2027.

[0 A.D. on YouTube]

On 11/5/2017 at 3:32 AM, wowgetoffyourcellphone said:

It's about time to fix the Lion attack sound, nay?

Timestamp: 9:15

 

 

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@Alexandermb: Do you think those skeletons conflict with the gastraphetes one?

[Game Setup Rooms aka games creation room UI "overhaul"]

20 hours ago, Sundiata said:

Yes! Perhaps civ's should be tied to the geographic regions where their capital region is located, so you'd have:

• Europa: Rome, Athens, Sparta, Macedon, Iberia, Gaul, Britannia  
• Asia Minor: Persia, Seleucid Empire
• Asia Mayor: Mauryan Empire, Han Chinese, Xiognu (wink, wink)
• Africa: Carthage, Ptolemaic Egypt, Kush (wink, wink)

Exactly, and you can be as granular as you want. You can have Europe as a region and then also Italy, Aegean, Mediterranean, Gallia, etc. as more regions. And any given civ can be in any number of regions, especially the big empires. It's all very possible and already in DE's civ.jsons in case @s0600204's patch is ever committed. 

[Formations need more love]

2 minutes ago, Lion.Kanzen said:

I prefer auto create battalion splits units to micro and things like that. BFME I don't like that game, but I love RTW1-2.

I'm not going to litigate this again. I'll just point to this: http://www.moddb.com/mods/0-ad-delenda-est/news/battalions-and-formations

 

[Rome Total War II New DLC pack - Empire divided]

I really like that they showcase Aurelian. In many ways, I view him as the last traditional Roman.

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7 hours ago, LordGood said:

I'll say a few of those helmets look a little too close-fitting, maybe those longer horsehair plumes should fall flat on the helmet. I also think the phyrgian beard should sweep out a bit

I agree, and some of the helms don't sit naturally on the heads. Some of the helms have odd geometry and the textures are strangely grainy.

[Formations need more love]

16 hours ago, Grugnas said:

( i talk from the player experience point of view)

You talk from your point of view, yeah. 

[Game Setup Rooms aka games creation room UI "overhaul"]

38 minutes ago, Sundiata said:

We really need this:

 

 

Your mockup has my mouth watering... Any chance you could make this a reality. It would really jazz up the civilization selection. Part of a larger interface update for the next release, it's necessary... 

While the mockup is sexier, the patch is actually more functional, what with the regions and cultures functionality. Would be nice to combine the look of the mockup with the functionality of the patch.

[Formations need more love]

26 minutes ago, Sundiata said:

I'm sorry, but I thought formations are broken? In my experience, putting units in formation right now is like sending lambs to the slaughter. The point of units moving at the speed of the slowest unit in a selection, is to make them less vulnerable, not more...

The key is to just implement the hard battalion system. Voila.

[Formations need more love]

25 minutes ago, Grugnas said:

Units move already at speed of the slowest unit within formation.

This is true. But folks must remember to manually put them into formation to make sure their army arrives together and semi- quasi- pseudo- organized.