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Such a ridiculous outlier will have to be dealt with if it occurs. Design for what is likely.

I mean, this is the obvious solution, isn't it?

I agree this is pretty annoying. Perhaps something for A28 community mod.

I like this.

Just get rid of the Cretan Date Palm from the Saharan biome. It's not accurate anyway.

AOE3' GUI is hilariously intrusive.

Yes, those would commonly be called turrets or towers.

You mean the towers?

Ranged units are garrisoned on top of the wall and loose their own projectiles. The units on the wall receive a range and armor bonus.

Millet fields @AIEND

I have to admit, before I started modding the Syracusans, I was very ignorant of their exciting history. They're actually a very dynamic faction that easily rivals or surpasses Sparta, Athens, and Briton.

Admiral Lysander? A naval hero for Spartans.

Of course not. There are ways to add more culture to the game that don't prevent players from achieving military success. I don't understand your line of reasoning at all. Then let's drop the pretense of attempting to depict historical cultures.

I think the issue here lies in the pace of the game. A player rarely has time to set up a nice city and match it up against the enemy's city, before the action really makes that a moot strategy. The people don't use walls much also drives this home. It feels like you're just building a military base with the optimal layout to maximize military production. There's not a lot of cultural exploration there.

Because 1:1 an artillery ship > arrow ship in dps. Ranged units tend to just park and shoot, while melee units close the distance and deal high dps strikes.

The cool thing about a simple RPS system like this, with its small number of classes, is that we can do it fairly easily with no specific attack bonuses. Mechanics do most of the work. Melee ships (rammers and boarders) beat Artillery ships because they bridge the gap too quickly for the firing rate of the Artillery ship to compensate. The melee ships are soft countered by Arrow ships because the Arrow ships can fire more rapidly and more precisely than the Artillery ships. And then the Arrow ships are massacred by Artillery ships because of the way ranged combat works. Boarders throw a nice monkey into things to see if you can't capture some enemy ships. Rammers are the hard hitting, nearly suicidal, units (they survive due to some good micro). And even better, it's all pretty intuitive.

Sure, the BuildingAI arrows can be removed. Not wedded to that, only to say it would be nice for the melee ships to have some kind of ranged defense, even if minimal, but maybe that dilutes the concept a bit. Sure, initially we can use the existing parent templates, but I think eventually we'd make brand new ones. EDIT: But also if we just make brand new parent templates right off the bat they can exist parallel with the old ones and we don't have to worry about screwing up the existing paradigm (such as it is, lol) by editing the old parent templates to work with our experiments.

A free Scout Ship would be a really nice little feature. Every civ can get one, along with an Arrow Ship. Yeah, pretty much the same. I may suggest splitting the Dock into the Dock (economic) and Shipyard (naval), but that's a separate consideration. I'll see what I can do. Obviously there would need to be some modeling work, specifically to reduce the ship model sizes and make them less unwieldy.

With 100 soldiers you'd only need 5 ships.

Increasing melee attack damage also nerfs turtling. The counter to turtling should be rush or siege weapons, right, not archer range?