Thorfinn the Shallow Minded Mod

[maroder]

15 minutes ago, Yekaterina said:

What do you think about this icon for marathon tech?

first one looks to simple and the second one will not look good on a small scale.

I would use theses as placeholder:

https://github.com/0ad/0ad/blob/master/binaries/data/mods/public/art/textures/ui/session/portraits/technologies/accuracy_bolt.png

https://github.com/0ad/0ad/blob/master/binaries/data/mods/public/art/textures/ui/session/portraits/technologies/walk.png

Edited May 20, 2021 by maroder

[soloooy0]

33 minutes ago, Yekaterina said:

 

¿Y este icono de soliferreum?

I like the soliferrum one a lot, even though the icons and details, as they said, I don't know how it goes.

and for marathon you can use the original design used in the olympics ?

 

 

Edited May 20, 2021 by soloooy0

[Yekaterina]

Updated icon here. Also Macedonian barter nerf requested by weirdJokes

https://github.com/Yekaterina999/Thorfinn-balancing-mod-new

[soloooy0]

after doing some testing, macedonia is somewhat op and with economic help in phase 2 it may be unwinnable 
the mounted champions can liquidate any commercial line fast and the siege towers are fast, to the Macedonian towers I would put the option of garrison siege in exchange for being the slowest of the game by far and somewhat more fragile ....

then i would put brisaidas to do the slingers to sparta since he has no bonus or anything. 

 

[StarAtt]

lots of error

2021-05-23_0007.tar.gz

[LetswaveaBook]

I played in the game mention by StarAtt and I did get errors too. As macedonians, I was unable to create siege.

 

There is a more generic issue with the mod. Even though you can train some champions in p2, I am not entirely convinced you would actually want to do so. Also there seems to be an unlock champion cavalry upgrade for macedonians in p3, even though you do not need the upgrade.

2021-05-23_0002.zip

[StarAtt]

Problems and recommendations from Structure Tree (as new stuff isn't working now):

 

Athenians:

- Champion Skirmisher needs red skin. It looks like a mercenary.

- Marathon's effect doesn't meet its description.

- Mercenary Archer may be placed in Barracks.

 

Carthaginians:

- Hamilcar Barca can train two kinds of sword infantry mercenaries (it's fine but may be altered a bit).

I personally don't like training units from heroes though. Spawning from nowhere seems weird to me (also for pers' Cyrus).

 

Iberians:

- Somehow Champion Infantry Javelineer has Crush and Hack.

 

Macedonians:

- Unlock Champion Cavalry still in p3.

 

Romans:

- Auxiliary camp's description doesn't end with period.

- Swap new Slinger's wood and stone cost.

- New small Siege Catapult should cost more stone (like 150). Loot value hasn't changed. It doesn't have movement speed.

- Put camp's siege in regular order.

 

Spartans:

- 40/40 Skirmisher is too cheap. At least 45/45.

Also Agis may have 1500 health as he's totally sueless now.

[LetswaveaBook]

3 hours ago, StarAtt said:

- Unlock Champion Cavalry still in p3.

Champion Cavalry can be trained in p2. The upgrade is in p3, but the upgrade is no requirement for training the units.

[Lion.Kanzen]

archers are still very OP. kushites are kind OP.

[Thorfinn the Shallow Minded]

On 23/5/2021 at 9:11 AM, StarAtt said:

Also Agis may have 1500 health as he's totally sueless now.

Agis has always been that way.  I have several times argued against his inclusion in favour of other more notable Spartan kings.

On 23/5/2021 at 9:11 AM, StarAtt said:

40/40 Skirmisher is too cheap. At least 45/45

That also is reasonable.  Also, since the slinger is a helot unit, it should probably cost 45/45 as well.

9 hours ago, Lion.Kanzen said:

archers are still very OP. kushites are kind OP.

Actually I'm sure that the Spiffing Brit would argue quite compellingly that in fact 0 AD is perfectly balanced...

[Player of 0AD]

In A23, Agis had twice as much health as other infantry heroes, that was his bonus. The dev team made the blunder to eliminate this on accident, so now there is no real reason to train Agis ever instead of Leonidas, because Leonidas is like an Agis with an extra Aura

[Stan`]

Refs https://code.wildfiregames.com/D3250#change-AihuwZYwJCEm

[PyrrhicVictoryGuy]

i've downloaded it tried to put in the data/ mods folder but it ain't showing up.

[Lion.Kanzen]

48 minutes ago, PyrrhicVictoryGuy said:

i've downloaded it tried to put in the data/ mods folder but it ain't showing up.

I had that problem a few days ago, I updated yesterday and changed a parameter in data.js (I think that is what the main file of the mod is called)

[Lion.Kanzen]

3 hours ago, Thorfinn the Shallow Minded said:

Actually I'm sure that the Spiffing Brit would argue quite compellingly that in fact 0 AD is perfectly balanced...

I'm going to try again maybe I was very negligent, attacking.

[Thorfinn the Shallow Minded]

A couple things came to mind after looking at the Romans.  First of all, having the Triarius be trained at veteran rank again would be good; this could come with a +25-50% training time to make them harder to mass.  Also, since there is a building in this mod for training Socii, the Extraordinarius should be available there, not at the regular barracks, since it is a socii unit.

[Yekaterina]

1 hour ago, Thorfinn the Shallow Minded said:

A couple things came to mind after looking at the Romans.  First of all, having the Triarius be trained at veteran rank again would be good; this could come with a +25-50% training time to make them harder to mass.  Also, since there is a building in this mod for training Socii, the Extraordinarius should be available there, not at the regular barracks, since it is a socii unit.

I have made the change to the barracks spearman. Should make entrenched camps train elite rank spears as well, or should it stay the same? In which case I would recommend having two different names / unit templates to avoid confusion. 

We can call the regular spearman 'Discens Hastatorum'