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That was quick, what changes do we have for the next alpha?

Champions have been dominant units in past alphas, however these units are no longer seen in the game, neither in 1v1 or TG. For me it's a big waste of material, so I'm willing to put together a patch to make them viable again and I count on everyone's opinion/suggestion to be able to put together a patch as suitable as possible. My three primary suggestions are: 1- Reduce costs; 2- Give champion units special abilities, like fire cav / immortals. That way you will have a bigger and more specific proposal to train these units. 3- Both. So what do you think?

I can play this time if it's still available.

It seems to me that the choice of the name retold instead of definitive edition is intentional. They must not recognize "tale of the dragon" part of the new project. I believe we will only have the 3 original civilizations. It seems to me more than a remastered edition, I believe we will have totally new campaigns in addition to significant changes in each civilization.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=U6tRpIseYCA GODS WILL RETURN!!! My favorite RTS game is back. What is your opinion for not using the traditional "DEFINITIVE EDITION (DE)" version? Detail that appears only 3 civilizations in the trailer, Greeks, Nordics and Egyptians, Will Atlantis be kept out at launch? We don't have much information yet, just that it has beautiful graphics and updated gameplay.

I will see what I can do.

I wouldn't mind anyway, a reset would be nice. I think there could be a reset with every new alpha, like a new season.

Guerrila: The preponderance of throwing spears, and the near total absence of body armour, indicate that the style of warfare was highly mobile and loosely formed, based around raiding and short. Javelins +10% movement speed. New healer aura: Deas Celtica: Soldiers +10% attack damage. Javelin infantry moved to village phase. Increases the number of units available to early rush, also historical accuracy of the predominance of javelins. Fortress can be built in neutral territory. There were small villages with centralized fortresses. With the root territory of the fortress, it is possible to build small bases, great for small attacks with chariots and other units. Some new technology Sevili Dusios / bodypainting tech.

Again we are spinning in infinite circles. Why can't we find a way to balance phase 1 swords instead of making everything the same again? What I mean is that we must also keep the focus on diversification, if not, it will always be an alpha for changes and another for reversing the changes.

Well, I haven't played because no good opponent, just feld and vali, and I hardly see them online. I can have fun against 1800-1900 but they are also rare.

At the moment I don't have time to continue the patch. If anyone is available to take care of the patch, I'd appreciate it.

It's not me. If I can I will make some games.

Yes it is a good idea as long as its cost is lower.

Women need a smaller range of vision to provide harassment by the cavalry, especially in the first minutes of the game, increasing their range of vision would be tragic in the current scenario. Currently it is very easy to open the map, in a few seconds you discover all the features of the map and also how the enemy is behaving just using cavalry on enemy borders. Making a general reduction of the range of vision, the player will have to scan the map for new resources, mainly hunting in the first few minutes, watchtower becomes much more important, new CC builds are encouraged, technologies and vision auras like "sibylline books" would again have a good importance, etc.. I'm guessing a number here, but I think something like 40 range would be pretty good to start with.

For me 3 horizontal lines, one for each phase would be the best way (Phase > Function). In any case, muscle memory should be able to accept any other chosen pattern.

In 1v1 games you dont need to build a new cc to get some extra resource, this hardly happens in team games too. The border in phase 3 is enough to reach all resources 95% of the time. We should give more value to buildings and units, not just build/train as fast as possible without a purpose in mind. The game works now only in the first few minutes, after that is spam maximum units, move to p2, build market/temple/blacksmith, move p3, research blacksmith techs, train hero and fight a final fight, whoever wins this fight, win the game.

I'm not particularly a fan of the fast style, I think in general, not just units, they must be harder to get. Basically everything is now easy to get, you hardly need a new cc to expand for example. Some small changes might be interesting, like initial gold and stone mines smaller (800 - 1000), cc border should be considerably smaller, gather rate longer, remove the ability to recruit soldiers in cc, etc..

https://code.wildfiregames.com/D4736

adds a minimum of 10 games until the rating count starts, that way some will be "lazy" to start new accounts

a borg soldier pls

A bonus against champion units and less xp to level up would be interesting in my opinion.

Maybe offtopic, but crossbows were much easier to learn than bows and arrows, so it wouldn't be interesting to make a little differentiation in citizen crossbows like requires -50% xp to promotion ?

It's an idea that was raised a while ago, but we don't have all the models available, for example, rome cavalry champion swordman doesn't have its citizen model. I also don't know how correct that would be in the historical sense, although it sounds like a fun idea. Could be added after elite level.

A25 >>>>> A23