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Add something like this to the unit template: <UnitAI> <DefaultStance>violent</DefaultStance> <RoamDistance>8.0</RoamDistance> <RoamTimeMin>2000</RoamTimeMin> <RoamTimeMax>8000</RoamTimeMax> <FeedTimeMin>15000</FeedTimeMin> <FeedTimeMax>60000</FeedTimeMax> <Formations disable=""/> </UnitAI>

Very awesome, successful games have these attributes. I don't oppose it at all.

Not quite the same thing. OP is asking about making Gaia units wander around like deer do. In Gallic Fields, a Gaia soldier is spawned and tasked to go to a certain point.

But it is, in my example. I'm not talking about combining existing techs into pairs.

Sure, but in my example you didn't have that choice at all before the 2nd tech was added. It's additive in this example.

Ironically enough, trenches/ditches were definitely used by the ancients in pitched battles and during sieges.

I think this is a bit myopic. If you have a tech. This tech has been in the game for several alphas now (as most eco techs have been). But in the next release this tech has another tech paired to it, what have you lost? Haven't you now gained an additional choice?

Like, I think a lot of people associate the bright red player color with Romans or Spartans, as 2 great examples. I associate the baby blue color with the Athenians. One of the Green colors with Gauls. Thinking magenta or maroon with Persians. DE / Vanilla

Why should the horseman be able to gather it? Send a ship in that case.

I don't think the rank actors were any less or more obvious than they are now.

I think it could be done in public mod assets rather than requiring touching the C++ code.

A more realistic Cleopatra

I'm still waiting on this movie.

Photopea has been the first "photoshop" app I've paid for in years. The developer is one guy, I think, and he actually added a feature based on my direct request (a checkbox to save transparency to alpha channel when exporting PNG; a huuuuuge help when creating textures for 0 a.d.). So yeah, he got my loyalty with that one. It has about 95% of the features as Adobe Photoshop at 10% of the price. And you can still use it for free without paying for it. Paying for it simply removes the side banner ads.

It should be difficult to capture, easy to destroy. It's counterintuitive on the realism scale, but in a gameplay world it makes most sense: the greater reward should be harder to attain.

May I suggest using Photopea? It has a Normal map generator out of the box. You can also easily alter the channels of the normal maps after they're made.

Are you using normal maps on your units? If so, you may need to invert your green channel.

If you are going to update the maps, then make sure to use the newest terrain biomes.