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  1. real_tabasco_sauce
    Yes it did. Of course, the main objective with early raids is to find easy kills, so this is relatively unaffected. However, they are now more easily stopped with melee units. In addition, sword and spear cavalry will now be more viable units for raiding, whereas currently a spearcav takes a long time to kill even 1 woman.
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    Is my advice not relevant? no, it definitely is. This is how I tested the melee rebalancing mod. I wonder if they thought your comment was a joke because "change perspective" sounds like imagining you are the enemy.
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    yeah it makes no sense to me to distinguish the height of the window as part of the "elevation" bonus. It is more of an inherent property of the tower, and any "elevation" bonus should be actually due to elevation. Coincidentally, I just had players asking me if the tower range is accurate.
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    I don't think it's a bug. For 1, I am using macOS, so I doubt its that . A game FPS of 8 seems to agree with the %CPU usage. Hopefully this will be a little better in a27.
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    yes, it makes playing quite a struggle.
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    well if it should stay the same, at least the range overlays should be accurate to 73 meters and not 60 meters.
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    Yeah, it seems like it would be more simple to include the 13m as part of the towers 60m range, then any additional range is actually due to elevation.
  9. real_tabasco_sauce
    I guess I didn't realize every tower is +13 by default. I guess the issue then is that the range overlay doesn't take this additional range into account.
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    ^accurate depiction of my laptop giving up after micro-ing a 30 minute battle (no units have died yet).
  11. real_tabasco_sauce
    Well whats weird is that this is on mainland, which is mostly flat. These towers are placed next to ccs and forts which receive no terrain range bonus. Not really a catastrophic bug, but something to get to the bottom of.
  12. real_tabasco_sauce
    has anyone noticed weird inconsistencies with bonus range on buildings? It seems towers, ccs and other buildings with arrows frequently get 13 bonus range even though they are not on a hill.
  13. real_tabasco_sauce
    a26 or svn? I tested a singleplayer stress test and we also did a multiplayer test with quite minor improvements. 10% the current ttk would be disastrous for gameplay. In any case, we are on kind of a tangent, and I think there are other discussions for performance related concerns.
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    I can. (a26, intel mac) 0 master volume makes everything very quiet but not silent. The tooltip confirms that the volume is 0.00 Also, closing the game and reopening then seems to restore a louder sound overall despite the master volume bar still being set to 0. (at this point, slowly sliding the master volume back up makes the game very quiet again and then progressively louder.) I tried then setting the value to 0.01, which also produced a very quiet sound as expected. Restarting the game faithfully maintained the sound level (compared to 0.00).
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    I have something made that ticks these boxes: https://gitlab.com/real_tabasco_sauce/0-a-d-community-mod-unit-specific-upgrades/-/compare/main...unit_upgrades?from_project_id=36954588&straight=false I hope people will be more open minded going forward (especially so for the community mod), I have massively simplified these techs.
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    By the way, I did a mod a while ago (50% slower fire rate, iirc) to test that and I really didn't see an improvement.
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    I forgot to change ele archers I'll need to change that, probably just for the community mod. No sense to confuse anyone with a quick v3.
  18. real_tabasco_sauce
    sorry. Time to kill. So not as fast as in melee mod v1.
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    "melee" mod v2: 25% less damage for all units champ spearcav -1 hack armor CS swordcav -0.5 pierce armor melee infantry + 0.5 m/s walkspeed VERSION 2 **************** melee.zip ** **************** I quickly tested and the overall ttk is actually similar to a26 vanilla.
  20. real_tabasco_sauce
    right, so archers deal 2 pierce damage, and take 13 hits to kill 1 25hp woman. Nice idea. I would think the ensuing 8 minute long battles would be more taxing because barracks can retrain faster than units die. If fighting is what makes the game the most laggy, then 300 units fighting a 1v1 for 8 minutes would be pretty bad. I think I will stick to the plan I wrote above.
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    edit: U NEED VERSION 1 to watch these replays. Here is version 1:melee.zip melee_mod_replays.zip for @chrstgtr and @real_tabasco_sauce unit testing, we also did one in a26 vanilla for comparison: chrst_sauce_test_vanilla.zip
  22. real_tabasco_sauce
    The problem is that melee units are highly armored and do little damage, this results in a lot of different gameplay issues as I previously mentioned. Just reducing ranged damage would help, but it would mean that fights would take forever, especially if melee armor is unchanged. From gameplay and testing the melee mod, its pretty clear to me that the ratio of effectiveness between melee units and ranged units is pretty good. An example result is that there are now cases where sniping enemy ranged units is less effective than the default behavior, which is a good variable. @borg-, reducing all unit damage by 25% should produce a "middle ground" of sorts, so this will be interesting to test.
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    So you would say its fine that melee units are mainly valued for armor and not for damage? Side note, do ppl want me to post some replays from unit testing and playtesting?
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    all units, so ranged as well.
  25. real_tabasco_sauce
    I would like to do that, but I think it would take a long time, with more debates along the way. The approach here is to make a big change (which appears to have been partially successful) and then make smaller adjustments to find an ideal balance. Hopefully we can get a good enough set of changes that it can be playtested in community mod for a27.
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