Phase II requirements

[FeXoR]

I think the phases are too short. You don't need to play long to advance to the next phase. I suggest from phases 1 - 2 you need a certain pop also. Then an increased pop for phases 2 - 3 and a certain amount of techs researched

The phases will have longer duration when starting resources are lowered. ATM you have enough resources for 10 female citizens (500 food), 5 citizen infantry soldiers (250 food and wood) and the 5 needed buildings (~750 wood). If you start with 250 of each resource only you just have enough for 5 citizen soldiers or 5 female citizens and about 2 buildings. That will slow things down. The final costs of the phases can be balanced if more ingame experience is there IMO.

Edited May 13, 2012 by FeXoR

[hhyloc]

IMHO adding techs to the phase requirement could be interesting, to simulate the advancements needed to expand a settlement, although these techs themselves shouldn't be too hard to get (perhaps the basic ones only)

[JuliusColtranePille]

i liked the change of the buildings concerning the optic very much!

will all or most of the buildings change their appearance when progressing through settlement-phases?

[hhyloc]

Not likely I think, it would require much work. That time can be used to improve many things.

[Mythos_Ruler]

Buildings changing between phases will not happen. Except maybe the Civ Centre, as a visual indicator. Some UI things might change between phases though, like Maybe a I, II, and III symbol indicating your phase and then some kind of audio/visual cue when the phase research is complete (I like Rise&Fall Civs at War for this).

I'd rather my art guys spend time improving the current buildings and...

Modeling new buildings for the brand new Mauryan India faction we want to create!

We'd also like to remake all of the unit body meshes for Blender compatibility.

[hhyloc]

Modeling new buildings for the brand new Mauryan India faction we want to create!

We'd also like to remake all of the unit body meshes for Blender compatibility.

Sounds like a huge workload.

[Potter]

@mythos

WOW! Will the mauryan empire be included in part one itself?

[Veridagorin]

will you there be an option for random map and death match games to start out in a certain phase with all of the previous phases techs except for the ones that cancel out a different one.