Gurken Khan

Like pretty much every decision you make? Doesn't really convince me that advanced towers are less a sign of progress than the other buildings in question. If it's the cheapest and quickest to just build several blacksmiths it feels like a forced 'choice', not really adding anything to the experience imho. If that's the ruling sentiment I guess I just gotta live with it. There was a discussion about making it clearer what buildings are required to advance, so maybe sth like 'except towers' could be added in the appropriate spot? I ordered my warship to shoot at the gate, and it shot at anything but the gate, while I clearly think that it should've been possible. (If you open the save you'll see several damaged wall segments and houses, while the gate is at 100% health.) It wasn't the only sign of disobedience to shoot what I ordered, maybe a way to improve that? savegame-5133.0adsave Speaking of ships, I question the 'i' part of the ai: As you can see on the minimap my ally isn't using its warships for anything, just amassing a dozen around the harbor. And finally, I still think it's grossly inadequate that the wonder by itself doesn't give the slightest pop cap bonus. (So I keep killing my women in end-game to make more champs.)

I just wanted to mention that I'm not happy with p2 towers not counting towards the phase-up prerequisites anymore. It's a considerable investment, especially since stone is back in the tech upgrades cost. Also they usually have more practical worth for me in p2 than the blacksmith (which I usually don't use until p3). #towerscount

@Stan` To elaborate a bit: the moment the save-dialog disappears (and the screen refreshes?), everything (the actors?) disappears. I don't know if it has anything to do with the line of sight of my buildings. The allied harbor and units on my territory (stealing my metal) have disappeared, as have the trees and buildings on the enemy's territory being in sight of my towers. My women building a CC outside of my territory have not. It's strange but not game-breaking. If I'm the only one experiencing this at least I can feel special.

@Julius_Cheesar You can already check out the release candidate for the new version: Depending on what testing shows, the official release could be in two weeks or so (I guess).

Do you mean the stuff disappearing from the map? Yeah, it's consistent. Steps: pause, save, void. logs1.zip logs3.zip Meanwhile: logs2.zip On the next try Wild Lake generated fine. On Wild Lake and Caledonian Meadows relics still spawn outside the map. savegame-5125.0adsave savegame-5126.0adsave The description of the Arsenal still has the false advertising of those champs even when you're not that civ. @Yekaterina

First impressions: - looks beautiful - is there even less wood on 'Phoenician Levant'? meeeh - I thought gatherers would stay counted; if you look at the replay you'll see my horse being on and off the count - when I pause and save everything disappears from the map??? (Reappears after un-pausing, still...) 2021-06-15_0002.zip

I believe the mod for the stats is called 'NROC'.

I agree, and I'm very much in favor of how it was in a23. "If I can't stop that specific unit from garrisoning I'm not stopping any other units either, instead I will stay back here and maybe shoot at a field or try to capture a house." §$%&! darned NO! Advance you stupid idiot!

@Thorfinn the Shallow Minded Or maybe a more general 'forced click on ground' mode; pretty often when I try to order units to go near/between buildings I find myself trying different zoom or angles so my cursor doesn't get caught by the structures.

Excuse me, but did you think as far as 'B'? Dunno, maybe we theoretically could continue with this scheme if we rely on languages without written vowels...

I've created a bat symbol!

I noticed several names are not properly displayed in the credits. Personally I wouldn't be able to make more of the Arabic/Persian/Chinese signs, but I think it would be nice for the people who contributed.

Maybe they just have another interpretation of 'support' than your cowardly approach? (Still on a24) Today I just ordered my whole army to capture a CC, and the healers were doing some stupid running around the building, lol. In general I think it's ok if they heal each other, but I'd wish they wouldn't run away while on aggressive stance and that they'd have some sense of priority when healing.

Undoubtedly. Maybe there's some around who could explain what the charm of paired techs is.

Ah, that kinda thing. And it would help the game how? I have the feeling it might be interesting if it was made well, but that it could also easily just turn into a useless annoyance for players, forcing artificial choices on them.

I think metal is generally a problem in a24, no?

What's that?

'Yakety Yak'

@YekaterinaI think MysticJim has more than one vid featuring you and your siege towers. If nobody else in this thread comes up with hero bonuses and they don't reject your proposal I guess it's fine; I currently don't have a better suggestion either.

Thanks for elaborating. Yeah, I probably wouldn't want my healers near anyway. I know a certain someone who likes to use siege towers; but she probably didn't just create this aura out of self-interest...

Should healers be killed that easily?

Yaunā sounds ok for me. I don't mind the sound of Yggdrasil, but it seems to me a bit a fantasy cliche. I'm waiting for the a25 RC to have a look at it; if it doesn't have connections to Norse mythology or Eastern civs I'm not in favor of names relating to those. And I'm not in favor of names relating to current religions like Yeshua or Y'Allah. But I also don't know if this is a democracy or what's the deal with the closed poll...

Yeah, I was too lazy to look up Celtic Names. But when we have persons like Boudica, Dubnovellaunus, Tincomarus, Cartimandua, Verica, Cassivellaunus... I think it's better to take those than some generic Bridget or Gwyneth (or were there historical influential people with those names?). Sounds like they had some important family members, so why not?

I think it would be nicer to have names with historic relevance; not a 'Peter Smith' or sth like that to lead the Britons.