Recent content by Inverted

Theres an easy way to make tanks viable. Give a cavalry -> tank upgrade possibility. And I think artillery being overpowered is rather realistic. Just think of WWI. However it does comes maybe a bit too early. I dont see other siege units being overpowered, its just strange that catapult and...

edit: Never mind, I just got confused. :)

Ive been messing around with routes and noticed that unlike most things, they have no reference to their graphical representation in the XML (or anywhere I checked). If you add any route type it will use the basic road graphics. Is there any way to change that? Im specifically trying to...

Can the AI handle this? Since ranged combat is the default, doesnt that mean that the AI will never use those units in melee and hence become unable to capture cities?

Maybe the picture is there so you can simply fiddle around with color levels and instantly see how it would look? At least until - if ever - they release some info on how to decode it. Have you tried that? Like add a lot of red, save and check if the rivers are red in the game.

Ok, I might not be helping, but are you sure you are using the right coordinates for each function? The game uses both the grid and the hex position coordinates and Ive noticed that while most functions return the hex pos. you usually have to add the grid as input. I for one am always confused...

There is a <capture> I think tag for units that sets what unit type you get when capturing, but I dont think it works for combat units. And you cannot directly edit the actions that the various xml data are controlling, those are in the dll's (I think) which cannot be modified for the time...

Nice one. I think the civ they leave should get a temporary happiness bonus (few turns) not the receiving one, for two reasons: - in the game the absolute majority of unhappiness is caused by population number, so its logical that some people leaving makes the rest a bit less worried. If you...

But that also means you can forget diplomatic victory if no one will even vote on you if you have a chance to win with it. Then whats the function, you could just disable it. And Ive also noticed that if you are small and weak everyone all of sudden want to have pacts of cooperation and...

I think the main problem is not with the strong defense bonuses, as that is one of the rare things that AI actually realize in warfare. The main problem is that the AI is way too much obsessed with attacking. If you see an AI unit on hill+forest that you really dont want to attack, all you have...

You must be seriously addicted. :D

I would extend your question if you don't mind. Does ranged combat bonus (for archers and such) also work when they defend on such terrain? Im asking cause the description clearly says it adds a bonus to ranged combat, which their defense is not.

I understand and even support some of your ideas, mostly making firearm units actually ranged, but I must also agree with the people above that youre overdoing it a bit. I think you based your numbers only on realism but you completely forgot gameplay. 1 movement is bad, but you already realized...

What's even more silly is that if you upgrade a crossbowman to riflemen it keeps its ranged bonus promotions that obviously do nothing for a riflemen. It would be great if they could be converted to the melee equivalent.

I had a quick (literally) game with v7, Catherine (random), Quick game, Large map, Continents, Prince. Mostly hands-off. My plan was to play with only 3 cities on a large map and not with Gandhi (half unhappiness from pop) only defending myself when attacked to see how it works and what the AI...