Hygro
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A project I'm sure many have thought of was something I began in August of 2003. Technically.
Maybe one or two people remember me refering briefly to a secret project. Well I've decided to break the secrecy because I wasn't getting very far!
THE CONCEPT
The idea behind the game started from the simple question: who would win, a knight or a samurai? Which evolved into: what army would win, a european army from its fuedal days or a Japanese one from its fuedal days?
THE GOAL
The point is to create a mod with a new tech tree starting, units, buildings, governments, etc, from pre middle ages, going into the early gunpowder days.
In this first version, it will be reminiscent of Warcraft 2, in which units and techs will be equivilents. When and if I make a version 2, I will change units and whatnot for greater historical accuracy.
Another thing that I intend to do is only use official content (nothing usermade) This is for a few reasons. One is that if I download one unit, I'll download a whole bunch and have a never-ending project. A second reason is that I want to keep things small, simple, and easy to deal with. A third reason is that a lot of the units aren't as professionally done, up to par, or even simply match designs with existing units.
The Problems (a lot of you will like the first one!)
I don't have enough ideas. I know a lot of you guys always have these great ideas but you don't do the work. Well oddly enough I'm willing to do much of the work, but I don't really know what to work on! I need people to help me decide where to put techs, what techs to put, how to incorporate various things, that sort of thing.
My second problem is that I don't have enough firaxis made units avaliable unless I choose not to use direct equivilents. Currently the Japanese do not have enough offensive foot soldiers. The Europeans lack cavalry (I'm considering considering the conquistador as a filler, which makes a pretty cool generic cavalry unit if it werent for the dog, or the way he holds his lance). Artillery isn't as big a problem but there's most definitely concern!
What say you all?
Maybe one or two people remember me refering briefly to a secret project. Well I've decided to break the secrecy because I wasn't getting very far!
THE CONCEPT
The idea behind the game started from the simple question: who would win, a knight or a samurai? Which evolved into: what army would win, a european army from its fuedal days or a Japanese one from its fuedal days?
THE GOAL
The point is to create a mod with a new tech tree starting, units, buildings, governments, etc, from pre middle ages, going into the early gunpowder days.
In this first version, it will be reminiscent of Warcraft 2, in which units and techs will be equivilents. When and if I make a version 2, I will change units and whatnot for greater historical accuracy.
Another thing that I intend to do is only use official content (nothing usermade) This is for a few reasons. One is that if I download one unit, I'll download a whole bunch and have a never-ending project. A second reason is that I want to keep things small, simple, and easy to deal with. A third reason is that a lot of the units aren't as professionally done, up to par, or even simply match designs with existing units.
The Problems (a lot of you will like the first one!)
I don't have enough ideas. I know a lot of you guys always have these great ideas but you don't do the work. Well oddly enough I'm willing to do much of the work, but I don't really know what to work on! I need people to help me decide where to put techs, what techs to put, how to incorporate various things, that sort of thing.
My second problem is that I don't have enough firaxis made units avaliable unless I choose not to use direct equivilents. Currently the Japanese do not have enough offensive foot soldiers. The Europeans lack cavalry (I'm considering considering the conquistador as a filler, which makes a pretty cool generic cavalry unit if it werent for the dog, or the way he holds his lance). Artillery isn't as big a problem but there's most definitely concern!
What say you all?