Last night I played almost till the morning.
That was surprising. I did not realize anybody is able to have created a MOD, which is THUS life-like.
It surpass the basic commercial version of the Civ3 to such an extent that it seems be two different games. Yoda Power and the Team - you are superb!!!
However, there are some things I would disagree...
- first of all, the elephant units simply can not have such a low defence and ineffective attack. Yes those animals are vulnerable indeed to human solders with long spears, but still - they are of 4,5 tons weight and extreme power! second - it is not life-like that all civs can build elephants - historically it was only the peoples from the Indian subcontinent, the SE Asia peoples and the Carthage that used war elephants more or less widely. Others simply exterminated those strong and intelligent animals and that was over - the Chinese in all their forms and dynasties, the Japanese (yes, there were elephants in Japan, long-long ago) and all those tribes and groups from the Western India to Central Asia to the Mediterranean sea and so forth. Iran if I my memory does not fail me, simply imported trained elephants from the Hindus because their own populations of the Asian elephant had long been killed-off in Persia and its vicinity. So , for the purpose of even further realism I would think that only the nations of the SEA and SA should have elephant units in this MOD.
The same goes with the Ninja unit. How can it be possible that ALL the civs have it?! It is uniquely Japanese, why should other cultures have such an advance in game? The same goes with the Wu-Shu warrior - it is historically unique Chinese and, with some alterations - also Vietnamese. Why did you let ALL the civs in the MOD have it, even the Central Asian ones, when historically they never had any idea of the East-Asian Martial Arts and respectively they were devoid of such Buddhist-Daoist monk-warriors! Besides, why there are no such unique Japanese units as the samurais and mounted samurais - they again belong to all civs. Why?
I'll certainly re-do this MOD in those aspects for my personal use, but it simply surprising to see such strange way to treat unique units of true Asian Cultures...
p.s. Today I have retouched the Resources.pcx file for the East Asia MOD. Thank to great many graphic designers here, it is now possible to select from a huge variety of resources.
There are also some animals, like the Asian elephant, Asian water buffalo and the Wild Yak, and some fish - they were done by me on photorealistic basis and had not been published here as yet.
If somebody interested I can place it here for public to use, but I do not understand how to do it in this forum.
That was surprising. I did not realize anybody is able to have created a MOD, which is THUS life-like.
It surpass the basic commercial version of the Civ3 to such an extent that it seems be two different games. Yoda Power and the Team - you are superb!!!
However, there are some things I would disagree...
- first of all, the elephant units simply can not have such a low defence and ineffective attack. Yes those animals are vulnerable indeed to human solders with long spears, but still - they are of 4,5 tons weight and extreme power! second - it is not life-like that all civs can build elephants - historically it was only the peoples from the Indian subcontinent, the SE Asia peoples and the Carthage that used war elephants more or less widely. Others simply exterminated those strong and intelligent animals and that was over - the Chinese in all their forms and dynasties, the Japanese (yes, there were elephants in Japan, long-long ago) and all those tribes and groups from the Western India to Central Asia to the Mediterranean sea and so forth. Iran if I my memory does not fail me, simply imported trained elephants from the Hindus because their own populations of the Asian elephant had long been killed-off in Persia and its vicinity. So , for the purpose of even further realism I would think that only the nations of the SEA and SA should have elephant units in this MOD.
The same goes with the Ninja unit. How can it be possible that ALL the civs have it?! It is uniquely Japanese, why should other cultures have such an advance in game? The same goes with the Wu-Shu warrior - it is historically unique Chinese and, with some alterations - also Vietnamese. Why did you let ALL the civs in the MOD have it, even the Central Asian ones, when historically they never had any idea of the East-Asian Martial Arts and respectively they were devoid of such Buddhist-Daoist monk-warriors! Besides, why there are no such unique Japanese units as the samurais and mounted samurais - they again belong to all civs. Why?
I'll certainly re-do this MOD in those aspects for my personal use, but it simply surprising to see such strange way to treat unique units of true Asian Cultures...
p.s. Today I have retouched the Resources.pcx file for the East Asia MOD. Thank to great many graphic designers here, it is now possible to select from a huge variety of resources.
There are also some animals, like the Asian elephant, Asian water buffalo and the Wild Yak, and some fish - they were done by me on photorealistic basis and had not been published here as yet.
If somebody interested I can place it here for public to use, but I do not understand how to do it in this forum.
Really like the religion ideas, though Shamanism seems a little weak.
