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The 6x6 foundation does not behave like other foundations when it transitions to scaffold variant. All the wood bits and stacks of stones and wheelbarrows disappear. I tried fixing it but it still won't work. I even used the 2x2 foundation actor as a guide, but it still wouldn't work. Bug in the mesh?

Yep, the tooltip error is gone now. Shouldn't be the problem, because the Principate Romans have autoResearch phase techs too. in fact, for all civs, the Empire Phase tech is auto-researched when building a Wonder.

Everything is 100% remodeled and reanimated, I'm sure of it. I doubt they even used any of the original assets for development, except as concepts. You can see the ambient occlusion baked into the sprites, etc. Looks super nice. If the "improved" gameplay gives us a better user interface, player interaction, and proper production queues then I'm sold.

Tried that. :/ Just now synced my latest files.

Also, a get this when I select the Chinese in structree. This one is puzzling me, because the Chinese civic center definitely has a Town Phase tech, you can even see it in the structree. WARNING: The "Town Phase" technology is not researchable in any structure buildable by the chin civilisation, but is required by something that this civ can research, train or build!

WARNING: JavaScript warning: gui/common/tooltips.js line 427 reference to undefined property template.resourceTrickle.rates[res] I get that when I select my first unit or building now, and when I first load structree.

btw -- if I make anything for DE that Terra Magna can use, feel free to grab the files. https://github.com/JustusAvramenko/delenda_est

Mechanically, that's kind of what happens, but each of those unit types have varying stats that also affect the balance, so this progression of countering may not be accurate or evenly distributed. Lots of things affect countering, resource cost, pop cost, and training time are considerations too.

Want me to whip up a design document from the Kushite thread, lightly populated so @Sundiata and @balduin can flesh it out? Same layout as: https://trac.wildfiregames.com/wiki/Civ%3A_Athenians

I know this is vague, but a general look to their buildings, in my imagination, would be a cross between Greeks and Iberians.

I honestly didn't dig that old design, but it's not my mod. lol

Not to push the mod too big, but if it progresses one civ at a time, it should be okay. May I suggest a nice list of 6 civs in the end: Han China Mostly done Zapotecs Mostly done Kushites Design stage Thracians A decent building texture already made, lots of unit textures and props already available Xiongnu Nomadic, gives the Han Chinese an archnemesis civ Scythians Nomadic like the Xiongnu, but helps bridge the East and West in Eurasia Maybe a lucky 7th civ? Arawak Gives a South American culture to the mod.

Right, just having 100 civ json files would be easy. The templates for each and every civ are what would kill it. And you'd need about 4 gigs for the textures alone. haha

I think the game can have as many faction as we want, technically. Like, 100+ factions maybe? I am not sure what that would do to memory requirements or javascript performance though.

These guy are hilarious. Warning for profanity. lol

Most commercial games are not built with modding in mind. They hard code a LOT of things for efficiency and wrap a lot into the game's EXE for performance. 0 a.d.'s structure is not built for performance, but rather for customizability. Both for ease of open source development and for modding potential. This is what I have gathered from poking around.

Specifically about the AI: Farmland/Farming: It does not know to use farmland to boost farming. You will find the AI still putting farm fields near the Civic Center, which has a farming penalty. Upgrading and Teching: Some civs have custom requirements for phasing up, for example the Principate Romans need to build a Temple of Vesta in order to achieve Town phase. Also, the AI does not know to use the upgrade function to boost Wooden Defense Towers to Stone Defense Towers, Barracks to Royal Barracks, Hypaspists to Argyraspides, Civic Center to Fortified Civic Center, etc. Lastly, the Blacksmith requires you choose either Metallurgy or Forging to unlock all the other blacksmith techs. AI doesn't know to do this. Principate Romans: Beside the phasing problem, it also doesn't know to train and use the Slaves. And yet, despite these limitations, @mimo's AI still can give you a challenge if you don't exploit too many glitches! I imagine if the AI knew how to use these features properly the AI would be nigh unstoppable at Hardest. The current AI knows to capture Merc Camps and does train mercenaries.

Play the Miletus Peninsula skirmish map. That and AI.

All skirmish maps have one. At least 2 actually

Capture a mercenary camp. Except for Romans, in reality catapults are built on-site. Romans had a siege train and even soldiers would carry individual parts for siegge wepons. That's why the Romans can pack their catapult while others cannot.

The Tarim Basin

Isn't already one with long sleeves?

Here are the tech icons for the 7 sets of administration techs in the Imperial Court. The 8th tech slot goes to the spying techs. And then for each "level" I'll have a little I, II, or III, like this: The Administration areas will be, these, unless you guys have better suggestions! Civil Service Focus: Technology cost and research time Civil Engineering Focus: Building health and build time Ceremonial Administration Focus: Temples and Healers Nationalized Industries Focus: Resource gathering, at the expense of Market research costs and bartering Southern Army Focus: Citizen-Soldiers Northern Army Focus: Champions and Siege Weapons Naval Administration Focus: Navy What do you guys think?

I'd check out the smoothing on the pilos helmet. The front seems to goof up the specular. I'm also not sure about what is a good animation speed for the bows. They don't seem to match up right.