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While not the size of a modern farm, even ancient farms were large, especially when compare to a house or even barrack. Some farms employ hundred of slaves.

See I think the farms are just fine. I like the terrain conform because not all farmland is flat (especially in Mediterranean!). Flattening the terrain beneath them makes like like any other building, when farms are not ebven a building. yes, the prop can be randomized more but that is simple actor changes and some new prop meshes and texture. \

What is your solution for farm?

Basically, can use gaia objects that give grain gather bonus aura to "enemies" who are, you guess it, all the players. This works as advertise, but is a hack and is not as good as the real proposal in ticket I linked because you have to add them into each map where you want the farmland, where if the real proposal is added all the designer need to do is paint the texture. <?xml version="1.0" encoding="utf-8"?><Entity> <Auras> <Farmland> <Type>range</Type> <Radius>60</Radius> <Affects>Gatherer</Affects> <AffectedPlayers>Enemy</AffectedPlayers> <Modifications> <ResourceGatherer.Rates.food..grain> <Multiply>1.25</Multiply> </ResourceGatherer.Rates.food..grain> </Modifications> <AuraName>"Farmland" Aura</AuraName> <AuraDescription>Gatherers +25% Food Gather Rate within 60 meters. This is a hack to create "Farmlands" in the game.</AuraDescription> </Farmland> </Auras> <Footprint> <Square width="60" depth="60"/> <Height>9.0</Height> </Footprint> <Ownership/> <Position> <Altitude>0</Altitude> <Anchor>upright</Anchor> <Floating>true</Floating> <TurnRate>6.0</TurnRate> </Position> <Selectable> <EditorOnly/> <Overlay> <AlwaysVisible/> <Texture> <MainTexture>auras/test/1024x1024_aura.png</MainTexture> <MainTextureMask>auras/test/1024x1024_aura_mask.png</MainTextureMask> </Texture> </Overlay> </Selectable> <VisualActor> <SilhouetteDisplay>false</SilhouetteDisplay> <SilhouetteOccluder>true</SilhouetteOccluder> <Actor>props/special/common/marker_object_char_a.xml</Actor> <VisibleInAtlasOnly>true</VisibleInAtlasOnly> </VisualActor></Entity>I do not like it as permanent solution, but it works very good for a hack and mod.

There should be "shuttle speed" that is same for all infantry as they carry resource back to drop base. Wheelbarrow can improve this speed.

Can be done with auras. It wouldn't be just like sim city, but a more city builder type of mod can be done easily*. *Lots and lots of 3D models and animations neeed though.

Farmland texture on terrain give bonus to farming. http://trac.wildfiregames.com/ticket/1318 http://trac.wildfiregames.com/attachment/ticket/1318/farmland.jpg

With hack I have implement farmlands. Before I reveal how, can anyone give idea of how it could have been done with current code and no extra programing?

Dust storms and clouds disappear and reappear when zoom out. I liked clouds in old alpha, it make the game world feel alive and give a nice visual mood, but is broke for 1 or 2 alphas.

Some people would want official patches. Not everyone is modder.

The community who has gotten 1000s of hours of entertainment from the franchise could pay the 20 dollar and stay unfragmented.

20 bucks is not a lot of money for an adult to pay to support the deveopment of a game that they have spent probably 1000s of hours playing. If you already have the game, then don't buy it. Some people didn;'t have the game, so they buy it.

Do you have legit copy or did you pirate AOE2? For most people aoe2 was unavailable with legal means. aoe2 hd brought aoe2 back to a new generation of player. Steam support was also nice addition. "fragmenting" an online "community" of software pirates is not within Valve's concern.

Who are you? lol. My point is, there are many conflicting opinion on this board (and a lot of suggestion are downright bad). Hopefully designer can parse and make a balanced game once all the features are done.

Not all celt wall were "sloped". ps: hellpo doctor

No, please no. Do not listen to this. The solution is to fix the movement behavior. Instead of endless fixing balance of an unfinished game the team should be fixing and tweak behavior like unit and group movement and adding all the promised missing feature. The instinct is to throw out the difficuult things, instead of making them great. This game have too much greatness in its potential for small vision.

wratti I try something like this with modding.

LOL Too many opinion.

Howe do you want the Chinese to play?

Graffic style like these would be great:

I think AOEO followed that "painterly" style, but the design work was too cartoony. I can see the AOEO engine being retrofit with the art styleof your link and would work well.

I am sorry Loki, but urban design upon grid pattern was pioneer by Greeks in Hellenistic time, then taken further by Romans as seen here: There are many examples. Even Piraeus in Athens of 5th and 4th century BC was laid in grid pattern. Miletus of Ionia is other example.

you do not know what you are talking about

Could do square citiies for Successors and Romans.

The civ info panels need much new designing anyway.