ZeZar Posted October 4, 2003 Share Posted October 4, 2003 Will there be a couple Uniqe (i dunno how to spell that one, (like in RoN)) or will all civs have different units, like in Empires: DotMW!?Or maybe all units are the same!? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Wijitmaker Posted October 4, 2003 Share Posted October 4, 2003 Unique units? All the units for all the civs will be unique. Not like AoK with their Japanese knights that look like they just walked out of a castle in France Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Black Op Posted October 5, 2003 Share Posted October 5, 2003 I think he means a unique unit type, like an Aztec Eagle Warrior or an Persian War Elephant. Then again, I'm only familiar with the AOE series. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
The_Avenger Posted October 5, 2003 Share Posted October 5, 2003 Well, for 0AD, think of Starcraft. Or even AOM. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Wijitmaker Posted October 5, 2003 Share Posted October 5, 2003 Yeah there are what you would call unique units. I think we are actually calling them 'super' units. But they will have unique traits that are only availible to those type of units.For example... the Persians have:Immortal - which is a good lightly armored unit with strong attackIndian War Elephant - Slow moving unit with lots of hitpoints... little skimmishers on the back throwing spears.Each civ will have 2-3 super units. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ZeZar Posted October 5, 2003 Author Share Posted October 5, 2003 Unique units? All the units for all the civs will be unique. Not like AoK with their Japanese knights that look like they just walked out of a castle in France So civs will have units the other civs dont have?? Thats what i ment!? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Marcus Petrius Posted October 5, 2003 Share Posted October 5, 2003 I think it's a good thing you're moving towards the 'every unit should be unique' idea. And that might also take away the need to use colours on the uniforms of the units (well, you might add colours to the shields), which I think isn't really nice to see for some colour values. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ZeZar Posted October 5, 2003 Author Share Posted October 5, 2003 YES! No colors, just uniforms, couldnt have the same civ tho, but anyway! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Marcus Petrius Posted October 5, 2003 Share Posted October 5, 2003 You could actually, it would just be hard to see which units are yours. (excluding the possibility of a standard bearer, because that really does nothing when your units are all engaged in 1-on-1 combat) Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Ulysses S Griffin Posted October 6, 2003 Share Posted October 6, 2003 colours are still needed imo, they just have to be shown in the right way, like instead of having obvious colour bands on the buildings you could have flags on the buildings with the colour on them, or have less obvious coloured things, like a painted cart or pottery next to the buildingbut i dont think "no colour" would work well with units, you just have to put the colour in the appropriate places. AoK and AoM are perfect examples of this. the colours were all put in the right places which made them easily recognisable, and didnt spoil the art of the units with too much blue for example. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Marcus Petrius Posted October 6, 2003 Share Posted October 6, 2003 Isn't the healthbar normally green yellow or red to indicate the health level? I think colouring it in a different colour would make the selection of healthy units less intuitive. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Ulysses S Griffin Posted October 6, 2003 Share Posted October 6, 2003 man you replied fast (i edited my post a little, changed my mind)theres only one game that ive seen the health bar change colour when they get hurt, thaat game was RoNi prefer it like AoK where the green bar just gets replaced with red when units get hurt Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Marcus Petrius Posted October 6, 2003 Share Posted October 6, 2003 You're right, if the colours are right it can be done, but I don't want to see Greek soldier wearing bright pink tunics. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Mythos_Ruler Posted October 6, 2003 Share Posted October 6, 2003 I love the Persian "immortals" unit. My Greeks hacked those "immortals" to pieces in every land battle of the Persian Wars. Muahahaaha. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Ornlu Posted October 6, 2003 Share Posted October 6, 2003 Actually, "immortals" was a corrupt version of "companions".In Persian: Amrtaka = Immortal, Amrtakga = companionGreeks corrupted it so it got "immortal" instead . Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Marcus Petrius Posted October 6, 2003 Share Posted October 6, 2003 I was under the impression that they were named immortals because the units were never empty. As soon as they died there would be new soldier waiting to replace them. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Ornlu Posted October 6, 2003 Share Posted October 6, 2003 That's a recently proved false theory. "Immortals" is simply a greek corrupt version . Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Wijitmaker Posted October 6, 2003 Share Posted October 6, 2003 Nice fact Sanjab Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Mythos_Ruler Posted October 6, 2003 Share Posted October 6, 2003 So, are we sticking to the popular misconception, or the more historically accurate name for the "immortal" unique unit? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Artaxerxes Posted October 7, 2003 Share Posted October 7, 2003 I'm glad to see that the Immortals will be featured in an RTS game. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
The_Avenger Posted October 7, 2003 Share Posted October 7, 2003 Civilisation has Immortals. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Marcus Petrius Posted October 7, 2003 Share Posted October 7, 2003 But that's not an RTS. Not real time that is. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Ornlu Posted October 7, 2003 Share Posted October 7, 2003 Mythos_Ruler, I think you should stick with "immortals", because that's how they are known nowadays. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Acumen Posted October 7, 2003 Share Posted October 7, 2003 Mythos_Ruler, if you mean "Amrtaka", currently that's mentioned as part of their rollover text/history, but the unit is currently listed as Immortal because as pointed out it's easier for the layman to remember. Of course, anything could change at implementation depending on feedback. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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