Acken
Deity
The main mod is not compatible with macs.
Acken's Minimalistic Balance for singleplayer (and AI improvements)
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The main mod is not compatible with macs.
Akbarthegreat
Angel of Junil
A few things:
- AI's neutral with me ask me to DoW my friends quite often.
- Regarding pantheons, like I said before, the +5 strength per city seems to be very high on the AI's list of priorities for some reason. Also the +1 science to cocoa seems underwhelming.
- Haven't really though much about this, but does it seem sensible to make piety/honour more attractive as openers? Although the AI does open with them very often, I personally choose tradition or liberty first even if I am going to take piety or honour later. These two trees are open from the start, which is why it would be nice to ocasionally be tempted to choose them first instead of the same old.
- Following from the previous point, how about making the Warrior Code a free meelee and ranged unit (not era dependant). Better when one picks honour a bit later.
- AI's neutral with me ask me to DoW my friends quite often.
- Regarding pantheons, like I said before, the +5 strength per city seems to be very high on the AI's list of priorities for some reason. Also the +1 science to cocoa seems underwhelming.
- Haven't really though much about this, but does it seem sensible to make piety/honour more attractive as openers? Although the AI does open with them very often, I personally choose tradition or liberty first even if I am going to take piety or honour later. These two trees are open from the start, which is why it would be nice to ocasionally be tempted to choose them first instead of the same old.
- Following from the previous point, how about making the Warrior Code a free meelee and ranged unit (not era dependant). Better when one picks honour a bit later.
yung.carl.jung
Hey Bird! I'm Morose & Lugubrious
Honor is a really, really strong tree and doesn't really need buffs. If anything it would be over the top if it gets buffed (mostly for the AI).
If you're dissatisfied with Honor as an opener you are not tributing City States enough. That's what Honor is for, getting a solid army in ~50 turns.
If you're dissatisfied with Honor as an opener you are not tributing City States enough. That's what Honor is for, getting a solid army in ~50 turns.
Acken
Deity
Yes it doesn't take that into account. I could put some checks in the code but I don't think it's a problem, just say no.
I know about the +5, it's a code error that is modified in the next version.-
I think honor is fine, especially with the buffed statue of zeus in the next version. Piety is meh as an opener but it is fantastic as a secondary tree so I'm not really interested to really modify it. I think it's good enough for the AI.
Akbarthegreat
Angel of Junil
Well fair enough. Guess I'm not that good at early warfare. Not sure if this is a known bug, but the walls from oligarchy do not appear in my cities (i.e aesthetically; it is visible in the city screen and has its usual effects) till I restart my game.
Acken
Deity
Yes it's a bug but out of my reach. They work though.
Piety is actually fine as an opener now. You get faith, you get culture, you get gold (well, after philosophy, but you're going there anyway) and all the benefits of a fast religion, which as everyone knows can be tailored to your needs.
It's also an amazing secondary tree, so yeah, I see no issues with that. And yes, Honor is stupid good now, there's no reason to touch either, imo.
It's also an amazing secondary tree, so yeah, I see no issues with that. And yes, Honor is stupid good now, there's no reason to touch either, imo.
I jumped the gun on this. It turns out I had Acken's Mod disabled when I was having trouble with the default Archipelago script. Do I have to delete files from my computer? I am not clear how to uninstall NQ Pangaea and Hell Blazers. Could those be interfering with the default Archipelago script?
Akbarthegreat
Angel of Junil
On lower difficulties (king/emperor) what are the advantages of taking honour straight instead of going liberty followed by honour (say I'm trying for domination)? Other than tributing CS, like yung.carl.jung said.
Blitzing a Capital on Emperor with honor, a quick military tech or UU, and a cash-bought unit or two can quickly win an ancient age war that you might even escalate from a worker or settler steal. Also it might let you super-blitz a CS right next to you that happened to get a natural wonder and be in a great position, which is rare but not impossible.
Acken
Deity
Unless you put the files directly into the map folder then no.
Hello,
Well i tried Unartificial intelligence mod and i really liked it but i have one major problem. Which is the game slows damn much especially in later turns, first i tolerated the issue but it's only getting worse. So the simple question is, does acken ai mod might have the same issue in game ?
Well i tried Unartificial intelligence mod and i really liked it but i have one major problem. Which is the game slows damn much especially in later turns, first i tolerated the issue but it's only getting worse. So the simple question is, does acken ai mod might have the same issue in game ?
Akbarthegreat
Angel of Junil
But how does that compare to the economic benefits liberty gives you early on? I for one don't steal workers (except if it is a proper war) so liberty helps that way.
Not really. To quote Acken,
Acken
Deity
It should be somewhere between the base game and Artificial Unintelligence in term of performances (having less routines than the full mod). Players on this thread don't seem to really have performance issues.
Putting the files directly into the map folder seems to be the only way to install them. Might be a Mac thing. I will try manually deleting them before the next time I want to play archipelago. Thanks for your help, especially since this seems OT.
Akbarthegreat
Angel of Junil
I kinda liked hidden artifacts being in exploration.. felt kinda right, better than Aesthetics. Why was it moved?
Freedom needs a bit of a boost; or Order needs to be toned down. In a lot of games order seems like a no-brainer, especially given that wide play is encouraged so much.
Do you have a list for planned changes in v5?
Freedom needs a bit of a boost; or Order needs to be toned down. In a lot of games order seems like a no-brainer, especially given that wide play is encouraged so much.
Do you have a list for planned changes in v5?
Acken
Deity
I have a list of current changes but I'm not really working on further change right now. It's short for now, will have to be patient before I really put work into it.
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meatpardle
Warlord
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I have, stopped me using the mod. I have a crummy laptop though.
I can't really speak for Acken, but I guess it was purely a balance decision: if you're going Aesthetics, you're going for a Cultural Win and the Hidden Artifacts will be useful to you. On the other hand, if you're going Exploration, you likely won't care too much about filling all of your museums, so that's less useful there. But the Louvre, which is great for a Culture win, is still at exploration, so yeah. >_>
