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I'm curious as to why they are depicting the Roman army as the 4th century Dominate instead of the usual 1st-2nd century Principate.

There used to be a large and robust Deathmatch scene back in the MSN Gaming Zone days of AOE1 and AOE2. I myself ran an exclusively Deathmatch clan for these games for about 3 years.

Let's add it to the base game!

Yes, this should change IMHO and I think there would be broad support for changing it.

Found this on Facebook. Any info?

Roman-dominated Egypt? EA Part 2, potentially.

Yeah, the AI needs modded as well, but that's beyond my current skillset. I will say the current development version has the AI playing pretty well though, but still not as good as in vanilla. Do you play random maps or skirmish maps in DE? Random maps don't have all of the features.

Sounds like Capitalist ideology to me.

You're the only one bringing up ideology...

Or reduce hero vision range down to the range of regular units.

I like the customization aspect of the AOE3 card shipment system, but I like the EE system even better. Select some available bonuses and techs in a meta screen and then those selections affect the civ in-game. Less of the "5 cannons popping out of the town center" thing but still allows for customizing.

I think DE's Isthmus of Corinth skirmish map would make a good basis for a random map script.

The cards at least add a level of meta that is currently lacking in 0 a.d. I personally don't think one time use powers are gimmicky. How they are used and their timing can be very strategic, especially if they are limited. But I'd rather have something like what I call "Policies" that affect how units behave. So imagine once you train a hero, you get a number if buttons in the hero's UI that set Policies, such as Plunder, Massacre, etc. that dictate what your units do. So, plunder could make your units default to destroying buildings instead of capturing them. The opposite policy would default your units to capturing instead if destroying. Things like that. There could be a small set of standard policies for all civs and heroes, and then perhaps 1 custom policy per hero or civ.

Need more info. Any specific maps?

Musicians would be a great addition if the game had hard battalions. You could upgrade your battalions individually to have Musicians, Officers, etc., which give bonuses to that battalion. Else, without hard battalions, you could get rid of heroes as trainable units and divide their auras and bonuses amongst new Officer and Musician unit types.

@Stan` Should I fix this tonight or way until after after?

Yeah. The mod forum could use cleanup and restructuring

So you want the fields to only spawn one at a time? Does the field placement happen automatically or does it require player input?

Then I guess I don't know what you want. The effect remains the same.

It's all fine and good as a fun mod, but then are you playing a Roman-themed game anymore at that point?

I think non-animated cubes for everything wouid make a very big difference for performance.

No, the game is to cover classical antiquity. 800 AD is no way considered so.

The question supposes that there will be a 1.0 release of Empires Ascendant. Any new things after that would potentially included in a Part 2 or sequel. The plan was always to have a Part 1 and a Part 2. That's not to say I agree with the plan (frankly, I'd just expand Empires Ascendant to 500s AD and include all of antiquity in 1 game, then "Part 2" could be the next 500-1000 years). Just, if the plan is to be carried out, then would you want new features too or just new civs.