Hi Dale,

I guess you may want to work on Zuul's stuff at some point (according to AoD2 roadmap v1.10).

If there is something, I miss is the population requisitives for buildings.

Also fortress used to require 200 tools. Now it's only 100. :(

I attach the original colonization 1994 manual. Please check page 134/135.

Also I was checking units strengths, and no doubt why sweet balanced is lost in REF wars.

Veteran Soldier 3
Veteran Dragoon 4.5
Continental Regular 4
Continental Cavalry 5
Regular 5
Cavalry 6

Now everything is just too easy!

Hi Dale,

I guess you may want to work on Zuul's stuff at some point (according to AoD2 roadmap v1.10).

If there is something, I miss is the population requisitives for buildings.

Also fortress used to require 200 tools. Now it's only 100. :(

I attach the original colonization 1994 manual. Please check page 134/135.

Also I was checking units strengths, and no doubt why sweet balanced is lost in REF wars.

Veteran Soldier 3
Veteran Dragoon 4.5
Continental Regular 4
Continental Cavalry 5
Regular 5
Cavalry 6

Now everything is just too easy!

I'd go along with upping the tool requirement for a fortress if it was acutally worth building. Though I haven't tried it since I started playing AoD, in vanilla C4Col, the fortresses were WAY understrengthed in relation to the attackers - expecially the REF.

Mod with many and very interesting innovations. Food for thought. :)

One of them is the looter.

Check out the rest.

http://apolyton.net/forums/showthread.php?t=184594

The fort and fortress tool requirement was changed in 1.01f.

I agree with Aerion that they're now worth building. Before, it was a lot of tools for not much. Now with half the tools and the ability to cannon bomb ships they're worth it. :)

Can't do half strengths in Col2. Plus Col1 never had any bonuses, just raw strength.

Mod with many and very interesting innovations. Food for thought. :)

One of them is the looter.

Check out the rest.

http://apolyton.net/forums/showthread.php?t=184594

I don't agree with most of the changes, and a fair few are in patch 1.01f (ie: joining city after move).

As for Indian looter I'd rather all Indians have the ability to take you on without a DoW. Then they can flog your treasures and wagon trains. Every so often they'll attack you too with no reason.

I also like this native scout idea. Funny enough it already exists as a class. 2D model too. Gives a purpose for scouts too.

Looting seems though awfully underpowred.

Maybe give farms, lodges and mine +2 bonus, and make them more expensive?

Yes, DoW for indians is a bit silly.

Yup, in 1994 fortress bonus was 200%, but tools were 200.

REF used to get a 50% attack bonus, a +XYZ% for torry any sentiment and a +XYZ% if a man-o-war had tried coastal bombard in the same turn.

Now they have to oppose this huge +XYZ% for rebel sentiment, which gets as high as 50% and 100% for Simon.

In my games I've given them 50% city strength, and <iCombat>1<\iCombat>, but nerfed cannons a bit. Not sure for cannons. But, IMO higher difficulty levels should get a stronger REF. Killed 10 REF units for every one of mine is a bit overpowered.

I've made some changes to the REF, and I'm testing how they go. The two biggest changes:

1. REF unit's strength will scale with handicap now. ;)
2. Galleon no longer transport of choice for King, now the War Galleon is (unique King unit).

Cool! That's very exciting now. :)

How does it scale with handicap?

Bug - If you are in the city screen and click on a person to clear their speciality, i get a crash to desktop.

Negative. Works fine for me.

Please post a savegame to reproduce.

As for Indian looter I'd rather all Indians have the ability to take you on without a DoW. Then they can flog your treasures and wagon trains. Every so often they'll attack you too with no reason.

The Indians in Colonization I did that. I sort of miss that in this one although it was frustrating at times. But it should be something they only do if their relationship with you is below 50%. Perhaps even a FF that causes Indians to not raid anymore.

The Indians in Colonization I did that. I sort of miss that in this one although it was frustrating at times. But it should be something they only do if their relationship with you is below 50%. Perhaps even a FF that causes Indians to not raid anymore.

Yeah I'd definitely make it rare, not predictable like Col1 was either.

Yeah I'd definitely make it rare, not predictable like Col1 was either.

Yep. I agree.

nevermind, it's all below

A couple of my ideas for future development:

1. Ships ability to unload cargo directly onto land for a later pickup by wagon trains.

2. Wondering if addition of a new terrain plot would be possible. This new plot, let's call it savannah, would be pretty universal and give player 2/3* food, 1/2 cotton, 1/2 sugar 1/2 tobacco and would be restricted to light forest only.
(*forrested/deforrested)

3. Colonists dying instead of emmigrating when famine!

Other proposals: setting muskets' prices in area of 7-11 and slightly decreasing natives' price to around 15 would balance game better; scouts starting with free PROMOTION_EXPLORER1 would make them more desirable and veterans resources yielding abilitiy decreased by 1 (maybe except for bells) would be more true..