Grautvornix

If I remember correctly it is 500 BC and 300 AD.

Too bad! Nice try...

One thought: what if you connect the two sentences like: "<hero's name> has fallen in battle and crossed River Styx to meet Hades" In this way we might be able to avoid the linguistic male/female "complexity"...

@Gurken Khanwell described! @bigsmit19I typically do similar things (fields surrounded by houses so that women gatheres can seek shelter quickly). Houses generally make a good barrier against attackers also next to the CC. Attackers would go at the houses first while the CC is firing arrows at them - buys you some time to train some new troops. If I build a tower, I fully staff it and then surround it completely by houses so that attacking enemies can be decimated by the tower while they make their go at the houses. In addition to that - if you focus more on building your economy and using many women with only a limited army - I would probably garrison all my soldiers in the CC when attacked. Particularly in the initial phases, it is almost not possible to conquer or destroy a garrisoned CC and your enemy would waste his forces. Bottom line: if you feel weak, don't attack and only fight back carefully from the relative safety of your CC. Unless you have significant forces, don't move next to your enemy's towers or CC as they would deal significant damage. If you take over a tower, man it immediately. It will provide nice backup for your operation and decimate the enemy even after you left their territory. Attack a CC only when you have large upgraded forces and siege units. Hope this helps a bit, and hope you continue to have fun with the game!

Hi everyone, I have (another) strange idea for discussion: Currently, there are three cases of trading: Manually at the market place with "the world". Automatically using traders or merchant ships with yourself. Automatically using traders or merchant ships with your allies. In any case, the goods you are "buying" have a price but these resources seem to be available in unlimited quantities. As an example, when I run out of metal and have no more mines, I barter for metal which seem available basically without limits (whatever the price) until the end of game. Rhetorical question: Where do these goods come from? Idea 1: What if I could trade with my ally only until my ally's stock runs out ? Idea 2: What if we introduced a "world resource cap" similar to the world population cap? (that can be configured) This would mean that at some point there is no more wood or no more metal on the map and the only renewable resource is food --> you can train more workers/women but possibly no more soldiers. In such case, it can be part of the strategy to plan your resources wisely before they run out deny resources to your enemies. Resources would be limited to what is available on the map plus possibly a bit more on top whatever the cap, i.e. if metal reserve is depleted that's it. In this case one needs to be inventive and do e.g. a women rush (like the famous chicken rush/sheep rush that was discussed previously, but more as a joke). I successfully did women rushes on rams already, so it is not totally out of this world Introducing constraints to the game can be quite fun sometimes - like currently in several maps that just don't provide a CC and the only way forward is building a harbour, collect stuff until there is enough stock to actually build a CC. So, I'd be interested to hear your opinions...

Indeed, of course you are right! Just trying to help collecting the ideas for this index. I do agree there is a need to improve on pathfinding.

There were at least two discussions: 1) This one in favour of sing the roads in maps as a feature - 2) and also this one regarding building actually roads (the roads discussion starts a bit down the contribution list with this post):

That's great news! Looking forward to it!

And another one:

OK here is one more:

@Lion.Kanzen Would it be useful and possible to create kind of an index or a table listing different ideas, pointing towards the respective thread where they were presented and discussed? Something like "Name of Proposal", "Short Description" , "Thread where it is discussed". This could probably be an introduction page to this thread that is regularly updated as new ideas come in.

Just saw an old ticket (#1437 Decide on land unit fishing, 12 years old, last comment 6 years ago). Was it ever decided not to implement? If so then we can close the ticket possibly. Else here could be another little idea from the past. This means any land unit (pedestrian gatherer) can go fishing at the coastline if there is fish in reach (depends on the map, some even had fish on land by mistake). This might require a new animation for the gatherer, hence it might be a lot of effort for a small benefit. Other than fishing boats, single persons probably cannot deplete fish completely as its regeneration rate might be high enough. Does anyone know? In sparse naval maps with very limited resources this could allow for a specific strategy using javelineers or archers to fish while establishing defense against incoming ships.

Indeed, sorry for bringing old ideas up again, did not know - but I believe they are still useful. This thread is intended to collect them so we create a reservoir of ideas(just in case someone is looking for new things to implement ).

Sorry this, is a better thread (instead of "==[Brainstorming]== for cheats units"): I just remembered Settlers V where there was the ability to put pit traps and booby traps (not very historical though), able to create limited damage (killing one enemy soldier). If I recollect some reports on the strategy used by Julius Caesar in his siege of Alesia, Romans were using traps as well to protect their backs from approaching enemies. We could thus place a line of limited defense like a "mine field". This would require a new game mechanism but might be a cool feature to add at a later stage. What do you think?

Right Probably the wrong threat (apologies!) but I just remembered Settlers V where there was the ability to put pit traps and booby traps (not very historical though), able to create limited damage (killing one enemy soldier). If I recollect some reports on the strategy used by Julius Caesar in his siege of Alesia, Romans were using traps as well to protect their backs from approaching enemies. This would require a new game mechanism but might be a cool feature to add at a later stage. What do you think?