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Some bonuses for Carthaginians?


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Carthaginians lack bonuses and they are quite a weak civ right now, compared to the others. They are too dependent on metal and mercenary. They are an archer civ but don't have the archer upgrades...

Some ideas:

  • At least give them the archer techs?
  • Numidian skirmisher cavalry run 10% faster than other civs, because they were known for speed and agility?
  • Metal mining bonus, because they are a merc civ?
  • Trading / barter / eco bonus, because they were the richest civilisation around the entire Mediterranean sea?
  • A tech which increases the speed of units but reduces armour or something - new hit and run strategy. 

 

 

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2 hours ago, Seleucids said:

Numidian skirmisher cavalry run 10% faster than other civs, because they were known for speed and agility?

I like this, with all the melee mercs and champs, the ranged cav gets very overlooked.

29 minutes ago, Player of 0AD said:

- allow Carthaginians to train Champions in stables again. What is a stable which can train only skirm cav?
- maybe allow them to train infantry Champs in barracks as well.

I set it up so they train from the temple for civ differentiation purposes. They were originally trained from the temple. While you can get them faster since temples may be built in p2, there doesn't seem to be much benefit at all to doing this.

Perhaps some way to make building temples less taxing economically would be good. I notice they take a very long time to build.

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11 minutes ago, real_tabasco_sauce said:

Perhaps some way to make building temples less taxing economically would be good. I notice they take a very long time to build.

I haven’t played carth in a bit. But didn’t we implement some tech that makes them cheaper and quicker to build? Maybe we revisit that if it isn’t working (not sure anyone has really tested it enough to see if a good build order is possible with it).

Couple ideas: Could also make temples build able in p1. Or give temples pop cap bonus like a23. Or make carth temples cheaper in res/build time  

 

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54 minutes ago, real_tabasco_sauce said:

They were originally trained from the temple.

I think we should follow weirdJokes' idea and move the champs to barracks and stables, because that is the standard of most A27 civs. Only training champs from temples nerfs the civ too much. 

The temples can be differentiated in other ways. For example, Carthaginian temples have faster healing rates or greater area of influence, for some rituals they practised. 

Carthage is already unique enough, no need for more weirdness. 

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25 minutes ago, Seleucids said:

I think we should follow weirdJokes' idea and move the champs to barracks and stables, because that is the standard of most A27 civs. Only training champs from temples nerfs the civ too much. 

The temples can be differentiated in other ways. For example, Carthaginian temples have faster healing rates or greater area of influence, for some rituals they practised. 

Carthage is already unique enough, no need for more weirdness. 

A commit before a27 made it so that champs trained from non-barracks buildings train 25% faster. I think it has helped justify making things like fanatics and spartiates, but not so much for carthage champs.

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I'm against moving champs back to barracks / stable. There can be so many ideas compared to just going back and uniformizing things. For example, decreasing the batch training time of champions (an underrated bonus by the way, large batches can train very quickly with such a reduction), having mines last longer (for example, getting 6K metal out of a 5K mine, however I was thinking of giving that bonus to Kushite Pyramid complementing the gather rate), better exchange rate on the market (but better handled than previously), cheaper market, making the unlock champion technology more expensive...

And remember at least one temple can be useful as healing so it is in a way better than other champion-training buildings. Healers can also be improved a bit, I have ideas for them.

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11 minutes ago, Feldfeld said:

I'm against moving champs back to barracks / stable. There can be so many ideas compared to just going back and uniformizing things. For example, decreasing the batch training time of champions (an underrated bonus by the way, large batches can train very quickly with such a reduction), having mines last longer (for example, getting 6K metal out of a 5K mine, however I was thinking of giving that bonus to Kushite Pyramid complementing the gather rate), better exchange rate on the market (but better handled than previously), cheaper market, making the unlock champion technology more expensive...

And remember at least one temple can be useful as healing so it is in a way better than other champion-training buildings. Healers can also be improved a bit, I have ideas for them.

already have 6k metal in hisotircal. Great minds think a like!

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13 minutes ago, Feldfeld said:

Do you have it as a civ-specific bonus? I probably didn't explain properly, I imagine it would take some code to implement.

No... all 5k mines now have 6k metal.

But sele has an option to switch to plundering temple (they were known for raiding/plundering their own temples) When temple is "plundering" it loses health, can not train an priest/research and priest techs but gains metal trickle.

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a better civ bonus for carth could be good. Maybe something stone-focused to help with the cost of apartments, temples, and the more expensive stone walls.

4 hours ago, chrstgtr said:

Also, the biggest problem with Carth’s bonuses is the lack of a real team bonus. If anyone has good ideas that would help 

mm I think the infantry merc train time is pretty substantial, but its true that it really only helps merc civs.

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