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You talk from your point of view, yeah.

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.

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

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.

How come this is such a bottleneck? Just curious... It's awkward, especially for first timers. It's one of those usability things that should have been implemented like 2 years ago.

I believe the problem was a deprecated file I had from ye olde visual arrows indicator patch. I have since deleted that file. While the interest is appreciated, I merely keep the mod up-to-date for my own amusement. There will be no A23 release of the mod.

The top one is a mockup. Bottom one is a long-deprecated patch that @s0600204 created 2 years ago now? It uses things like this in the civ.json files to allow factions to be sorted by various cultures/regions: "Name":"Egyptians (Ptolemies)", "Code":"ptol", "Culture":[ "egyptian", "successor" ], "Region":[ "mediterranean", "africa" ],

How does it look in-game?

I have these skeletons in DE. Could any of them interfere? BTW, @stanislas69: Why aren't your new bows in the core game yet? So much good stuff scattered on this forum. Such a waste. Your bows, the goat someone did, zebu, etc. Goat.xml weap_greek_bow.xml zebu.xml chin_blacksmith_wheel.xml Chin_Shoushe.xml

If like gates, they can have multi-obstruction. I do this with the Roman Triumphal Arch, which allows units to walk beneath it.

The best hack I can think of would be to use the wall code and upgrade code. Make a wallset where the aqueducts are the wall segments, and large generic plots are the "wall towers." Then those plots can use the upgrade feature to upgrade them to various buildings. They'd just all have to use the same obstruction size as the plots/wall towers. Nevermind, you're already trying to do that. lol

un_packed should be unpacked.

Hmm, I was under the mistaken impression that many of the files were compressed into smaller more efficient binary files or formats for the alpha releases. PNGs compressed to DDS. XML files to XMB?

If WFG had any sense they would take your comment seriously. It's a no brainer to add the Kushites, Han, and maybe Thracians if they start to look promising. WFG has 2 nearly complete factions right now they could include to make a nice addition to new alpha releases. The Xiongnu, Hell, with the progress on them being so good, there's no reason to not include them as a "true" faction. What's the diff between a "mini" faction and a full faction anyway? I think the Xiongnu surpassed what I would consider a mini-faction long ago. A mini-faction to me would be like 3 or 4 buildings and 5 total units and would basically be map creeps to annoy and harass the players. Could lock or unlock making them playable in match setup, locked as default. Alpha 23: Kushite Africans. "Surprise 0 A.D. fans! You thought we were done adding factions? teeheehee" Alpha 24: Han Chinese Alpha 25: Thracians Alpha 26: Two nomadic factions, with fully-realized nomadic features: Scythians and Xiongnu Beta 1: You get the Nabataeans as a special prize! NOW IS WHEN YOU BALANCE, BECAUSE IT'S THE BETA.

Some appreciate a modicum of interfacery. I'm not a command-line junky myself.

I have no idea what this warning means. It may be because soldiers in Delenda Est are not gatherers. I am guessing because of this line, but I'm probably wrong: base 0 >>> role worker subrole gatherer

No, it does not.

Mauryans used catapults too.

You could make the "wall tower" pools have an upgrade option for each build type. A good halfway measure?

Affected by normal and parallax maps? Probably yes. Sounds like a nice solution.

I imagine it's something like what the mods for Rome:Total War 1 did for that engine. Added a texture or material that could give a pseudo reflection to whatever surface you wished to apply it to. In our case, metallic surfaces. Maybe what @wraitii tried to do for undying's sci-fi IP way back when.

Was it a texture patch or graphics engine patch?

With git, Clone creates an SVN-like situation, where you can [svn]commit/update with the the Git sync command. I use Desktop Github which provides a very nice UI for the whole thing. Download is indeed just downloading a standalone zip file of the current iteration of the repository and creates no opportunity for syncing. I like Git better because of the nice desktop UI. Though there may be advantages to SVN that I'm not aware of.

Ineed. And I also like the baked in reflections of Enrique's example. You see the underside of the fake geometry has brownish reflection for the ground, while the upper part of the fake geometry has bluish reflection. Subtle realism is best realism.