Gurken Khan

That sounds nice, but it should be visually clear that they're part of the barracks and not actually guys of yours.

I feel this is contradictory. If you have a button that searches and selects buildings for you then you don't have to do it manually; hence less actions for you. Apart from that I don't really have a strong opinion. Guess it could be considered quality of life and be fine with me. (I only do single player, so I don't have to be afraid something gives someone an advantage.)

I found this quite amusing...

We all "love" our nannybot... I guess it's in the other then. I've messed with two (on devs' ~orders), guess you'll grasp that concept fast & better than me.

Good for you! btw: when I suggested earlier to re-install the game I hadn't thought it through, as I believe your settings persist in the .cfg files which don't get deleted when you un-/re-install. In case you should again...

As it renders the map unplayable in that size I think the bug should have a higher priority.

You messed with the settings and then something else didn't work anymore: very definition of kaputtgespielt.

Dunno. Building a port on Elephantine works fine for me, every time. Maybe you have kaputt-gespielt your installation?

Dunno. Works fine for me, every time. I can train various sizes (per mouse wheel) of batches of various units. I shift-click and then the production queue appears. Maybe you have kaputt-gespielt your installation? Other than re-installing the game I wouldn't know what to try.

Maybe you inadvertently sold all your food. When bartering you select a resource to sell (top) and a resource to buy (bottom); since food is the first resource it is set by default to sell that. I suspect this is your main problem. Other than that, if you don't have a lot of hunt or berries build at least six fully worked fields in p1, in p2 at least ten. hth Edit: Oh, and research the gathering tecs.

Speaking of unique tecs: the kush Powerful Priesthood actually weakens their own heroes? (I never messed around with that.) It's nice that the classical Athenian rhetors are acknowledged. How about a decay tec: own buildings harder to convert, enemy buildings easier; don't know if the Athenians need that, but maybe another culturally strong civ. I was thinking if we could pick up that diadochi thing; dunno, maybe transfer up to 10 units/min to an ally? (If pop allows it?)

@chrstgtr I understand the community mod process, just wanted to say that I kinda like the p2 theater idea; don't know if it would be more expansive than a colony.

Would elongation of pikes be a good tech idea?

Yes. For example every civ profits from the Roman bonus but only ~1/3 from the kush.

Good to hear! Maybe I could frame it as a balance issue and so it would come to your consideration anyway, but I just wanted to use the opportunity to say again that I'm not happy with the civ bonuses that are sometimes utterly useless for allies; for example ele bonuses when you don't have an ele civ.

I hereby promise heartfelt friendly words for whoever makes repairing walls possible.

Don't think there's such a thing as a home point for workers. A while back I was also unhappy with troops wandering where I wouldn't want them, like defensive units way back. Since them I handle them differently, especially with the attack move; this actually does set a rally point for your troops, and if they can't see any enemy units they can attack they will go (back) to that point.

I don't think changing the stance as such is involved, and I believe aggressive units never go back. But defensive units will, kinda like the point of that stance.

Ofc I micro my workers. AFAIK the gathering far away only happens if they were gathering far away before; then they will cut the tree next to the one they were working on before... I've never seen a worker take off to distant goods after they built a storehouse.

They might not always make pauses between decisions, but they do have idle workers sometimes. Moreover they're pretty inefficient: sometimes they send workers across ~half the map for a new task; sometimes they gather res really far from a storehouse and they don't build new storehouses for example at woodlines. All those shuttling times really add up.

I personally mainly blame the meddling from the suits/publishers.

If you look right under the map preview on the right, there are three buttons: Map, Player, Game Type. (Compare @Grapjas arrows.)

No surprise that if you let an enemy go 50 minutes uninterrupted that it's a pain in the butt, lol.

Assuming default start res, when is "then"? (Ofc 30 spearmen have a different impact at min 10 than at min 50.)

Short for economy.