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I wish they could work like Einherjars in Age of Mythology.

So, I guess the minus key on the keypad isn't adequate. lol The whole thing, again, smacks of pedantry and forcing people to conform to this pedantry. Can't just use "x", gotta use the correct Unicode symbol. lol

Wasn't it Nescio who introduced the em dash? I don't understand why the longer em dash is used for stats, where an en dash (minus symbol) should be used in stats (e.g negative twenty percent speed).

The mod is cool af, but I'm having trouble feeling out the "basic" gameplay. The underlying standard feel the civs should (imho) have. Regardless, it's still an incredible experiment in extreme differentiation.

I meant in the videos I had seen.

Okay?

Notice that the stats shown here are very few. Basically only the most pertinent information for quick combat spit balling.

I also don't agree with "normalizing" health/armor points in the proposed way.

The road boost/off road penalty needs to be substantial for the player to feel the need to micro this.

I have been advocating for a long time now to have a Vision Range and an Engagement Range. Vision Range is what there is now, but Engagement Range is something controlled by the unit's stance. Aggressive stance engages any enemy units within 90% of vision range, Defensive stance engages units within 50% of vision range, while Stand Ground engages enemy units only within 10% of vision range. I think this multiplier could be adjusted in the unit templates, so that ranged units' engagement range is a little longer than melee units'. But yeah. With @Freagarach's help, I was able to set this range to 80% by default in Delenda Est. It works nicely to give the player more control over their units (the units don't just blitz after anything within vision range).

The programmers are working at the behest and for the benefit of their employers (whether it's the academic or corporate world). Why would their employers fire them? lol

I think in the code we can stick to the levels. It's easy enough for modders to understand. Just in the tech tooltip I am with @maroder and something like "Soldiers +10% hack resistance" (I prefer "armor", but whatever!) or "Soldiers -10% damage from enemy hack attacks" is good. Once we agree that mentioning levels in the tooltip can be removed, it's then up to one of those two strings. Btw, I hate that the game tooltips use that darned long minus now (− as opposed to -), but Ima not fight on that.

You also then need some GUI code work, which shows levels. Just mentioning it, in case someone wants to make a patch.

Just to add additional opinion and muddy the water and assure inaction: I hate the term "resistance" altogether and much prefer the term "armor." But to answer the question as to why the armor, uh, resistance is calculated the way it is, is that each "level" of armor takes away exactly 10% less damage than the value before it. Look at it this way. If you keep adding 10% on top of 10% you're not reducing the incoming damage by an equal amount each time, you're reducing the incoming damage by a greater amount each time, actually. 10% armor against an incoming attack of 10 hack, gives a received damage of 9. A reduction of 1 from 10. Research a tech that adds another 10% armor on top. That gives you 20% armor now. 20% armor against an incoming attack of 10 hack, gives a received damage of 8. The incoming attack is reduced by another whole 1 point. But 1 point from 9 is not 10%, it's 11%. Each new 10% you add ontop of the armor exacerbates the issue. It's "easier to understand" for players, but negatively affects gameplay. "Levels" were introduced to fix this. Each additional level takes the above problem into account and cancels it out, so that each new level reduces received damage by exactly 10%. That's why Level 1 armor is 10%, but Level 2 armor is 19% (not 20%).

For Alpha 19 or?

Let's see if he shows up. I hope he doesn't mind if I use the word "Mythos."

Elon Musk is a parasite. That is all.

I was thinking further into the idea of an Age of Mythology mod for 0 A.D. Such a mod would entail quite a bit of work, obviously, in the form of Myth Unit models, animations, and scripting God Powers. "Favor" as a resource would be pretty simple to implement (nearly identical to Delenda Est's "Glory" resource), and many of the regular human and hero units can be reskins of units already in the game. Choosing "Minor Gods" already has a proof of concept in Delenda Est's "Hero Selection" feature. All of that is true. But I was thinking further into the mythological aspect after playing the latest Hyrule Conquest release and hit upon having two types of civs in such mod: Human and Magical. Human civs are obvious, but the Magical civs would 100% be mythologically based. Amazons Centaurs Draugar Djin Dryads at al. Just brainstorming here.

@vladislavbelov and @Freagarach might have information as well.

Have you tried Delenda Est? What do you think about the Slaves implementation? A tech which unlocks War Elephants for the Romans would be cool. Train them at the Fortress with a match limit. Maybe 5 or 10? The Romans indeed used War Elephants about a half-dozen times (a couple times against their own in civil wars).

This is actually super cool and would love to try a mod like this. The blocks could have flags (like the formation standards in A26), that also have the unit type on them like in R2TW. I grew up watching documentaries on PBS, History Channel, and BBC where they would often use blocks like this to detail battles. Many books do it too.