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I like Socrates as a hero because he actually fought in battles as a hoplite before becoming the famous philosopher. He even saved Alcibiades' life, I believe, when the Athenians were routed at the Battle of Delion, and was given a commendation for bravery. His execution was a reactionary blight on the Athenian government, similar in my mind to what they did to all of those poor generals and admirals after that naval battle they won (lol). You wouldn't disqualify Thucydides for having been banished, would you?

This couldn't, well, be less abstract?

Right. I was thinking his nearby presence could make a building work faster (productionqueue; training and research).

I propose this: Keep Hippocrates, but move him to the Greek shrines, that way you can capture a shrine and then train him (just once per player). He's not bound to any specific civ. For an Athenian non-combat hero, I suggest Socrates and we come up with some other kind of bonus for him besides healing. Perhaps the Athenian version of the Han Minister or (Maur) Chanakya.

Hmm. That's true. An actual command button should be there. An oversight for the feature, perhaps. Not an art problem though, per se. Someone needs to code the button.

Depends if it causes any lag or not, but I wouldn't mind if the sinking ship blocked movement for a couple seconds.

This is probably because tech requirement code in the templates has changed from A26 to A27.

Pull Request: https://gitea.wildfiregames.com/0ad/0ad/pulls/7604

Yep! Variants for all the biomes that use the newer (big, the 2 middle ones as shown in the video) models. The only one that doesn't is the Alpine-Arctic ore, because it requires a "snow cap" prop, and such a prop I think would be stifling for the small ore models and hurt recognition. Will just use aegean_small_01 for that one. I think these run enough shades and colors that they can apply to almost any appropriate biome (for instance, Badlands, Sahara, or Savanna could all be used for the "Persia" biome or a "Middle Eastern" map, depending on the color of mountains and cliff terrains you're using). You don't see the filename in-game, so that's irrelevant to the player. All that matters is that the metal ore templates used match the map's color scheme.

Persians, Ptolemies, Carthaginians, too. And possibly the nomad civs a couple releases from now: Scythians, Xiongnu.

I agree, some nice rendering enhancements would be very appreciated, to bring the game's aesthetics up to a 2025 level. I'll give the team some credit though and say we've done a lot with what we have and the game can actually look pretty good when we use it to its potential. But as you indicate, there are some things that could be enhanced to give the game that extra visual "je ne sais quoi." Ultra shadows would be a nice touch, as well as true bloom (the current bloom is rarely used because it's mostly a hack). I know @vladislavbelov has plans up his sleeve and personal desires on this front. There's also a lot the artists can do to help make things more efficient as well. Some textures could use culled as well as extra models and actors that we may not be using anymore. @wraitii has some planned updates to water, which are exciting.

Another little easter egg is the inclusion of a "Phocian Wall" on a portion of the map. It's of course famously a part of mainland Greece, not Ionia, but it was fun to include it. (Which also puts my mind to another possible scenario)

Right, I was thinking of making a multiplayer skirmish and a single-player scenario version. The main thing for the single-player version is to either make a custom AI for the 5th player and/or to script the triggers to make the 5th player act as it should.

This post is an initial gauge of interest. I've been working on this scenario/skirmish, called "Ionian Revolt," which is based on the Miletus Peninsula map, and what it does is that it greatly enlarges the map, mirrors Miletus Peninsula so that there are 2 peninsulas facing each other, allowing for 4 human players. The major difference though, is that off to the West is another land mass, occupied by a 5th player, which can be either a human player, a sort of "Dungeon Master", a custom AI, or unassigned for easiness (but uses triggers to enact certain policies). The main objective of the scenario being that the first player to capture the "Wonder of the World" from player 5 on this landmass becomes the winner. I call the 5th human player the "Dungeon Master" in reference to D&D, because this player's main focus is to just harass the other 4 players and build up their own island for the eventual assault, basically to keep the narrative going. This 5th player's whole purpose is to defend that Wonder and keep pressure on the other 4 players who are duking it out for supremacy on their respective peninsulas. 5th player gets 2 smaller islands on the other side of the map, too, from which to launch raids. My initial thought was that this player's gathering capabilities should be nerfed considerably, and then they receive a tribute of resources from Gaia every 10 minutes, with which to use to building ships and troops and go harass the other players. (Above: The Dungeon Master player can hire Pirate ships from these docks and harass the other 4 players. the other 4 players can turn the tables and capture these little islands for an advantage [they too can then hire pirate ships]) Side quests: It would be cool to include a couple side quests or easter eggs. For instance, travel up this mountain pass, kill these two Snake Cultists and you gain the allegiance of their captives, plus a benefit for either capturing or destroying their Snake Cult Statue. A rather big Easter egg on the map already is the recreation of the tourist destination of "Pirates Cove" (Navagio Beach) on the Greek island of Zakynthos. I AM ASKING FOR HELP. I am pants at making triggers, etc. and would like help making triggers and other scripted events occur to make this map something big and worthy of a saved game or two. And then, once it's at a good state with your help, make a Pull Request to include it into the base game for Release 28 as part of a batch of scenarios and skirmish maps that we hope creates a whole other style of single and multi-player. Narrative multiplayer. This post is an initial gauge of interest.

These are really good.

Hello. Does it look like this?

In my mod, it has "Cash Crops" fields that can be built in Empire phase. In Delenda Est, you get Coin from them (to train mercenaries, which are a big part of the mod), but in the base game (Empires Ascendant) it can just be abstracted to Metal.

Using a Chinese Erhu. Very nice!

The game has both, and it is up to you how you want to play it. Age of Empires games are well-known for both their multiplayer and single-player modes.

It's not a bug. The AI simply just doesn't have the logic to capture neutral objects. The AI needs extended to do so. I hope for R28.