[This message has been edited by bcmax (edited 12-25-2006 @ 03:02 PM).]

So what are the factions going to be?

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I wonder how will you do such thing !

Anyway, get some screenshots for us... and a bit more specifi information would be good. I mean, about the Ages, Civilizations, Units, etc.

Besides that, I think Rams or maybe even some retextured Mantlets can appear in the game... being both the early-mid game siege units. It wouldn't be much historically inaccurate to have a basic artillery unit (such as an Heavy Cannon) on later ages though.

I'm more interested in how the navy system will work. I suppose you would have to use the current one though, due to the lack of options...

[This message has been edited by Just a player (edited 12-25-2006 @ 07:35 PM).]

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I guess it's possible, by mixing codes of mills and crates. The farm can be done by removing the "mill" from the "mill", so you get only the crops

Since it's not important to me, i never tested, but looks possible. There's a little problem, however. Just like medieval times, you'll need a HUGE territory, since farms are big

First of all, thanks for all the nice comments it really gives me a drive to continue. I'm not going to release too much information at once, because I need to keep your attention to last longer than two weeks. So about the factions I'm not going to tell you anything yet, they will come soon though (or atleast some of them).

AoK-style-farming
Just like in AoK you'll need to place every single farm. I made these farms by taking a very small object and adding the crops texture from the mill beneath it, looks pretty good if you ask me. I shrunk the size of course otherwise the farms would be huge. At first I also planned that you could only place farms near a mill, but I couldn't get it to work so now you can place them anywhere you want. With testing I found out that you'd get food quite easily so it needs further balancing tests. I could make the food gathered from a farm limited too, but at the moment they've unlimited food supply.

Siege Weapons
It's true that there are hardly any useful models for medieval sieges. In TWC there's a ram though I can use and probably the mantlet will be one aswell. But like Just a player said it'll mostly be specialized infantry that will knock down buildings. I was also think of using the petard from TWC but I haven't looked at that one yet. Cannons will be out of the questions, though.

Navy
The navy system will remain as it is, unless I find a way to remove the cannons I'm afraid you're just going to have to shoot with them. I'm looking into a few options to bring back a 'forgotten' type of ship.

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But to keep the Christmas spirit alive and because all of you have been so nice this year, I'll show you one screenshot:

Note that a few things have changed since I took this screen roughly two months ago. At the time the AI didn't even work at all. Also note the crappy graphics from my όber-Geforce 2!

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Yeah, I forgot mentioning Petards!

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So its more a AoM-style-farming then? Well, I've always found a bit lame having to come back and check my base every 5 secs because a farm expired. I'd rather have them as ulimited

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Demolition Ships?

Anyway... can you at least give us a Screenshot of the main menu? Or do you need a good GFX card for that too

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LOL

Navy is an interesting topic. I'd like to see how Fire Tiremes would be transcripted.

What about the Market? Will there be trading afloat and on the country?

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Make them limited like in AoK, cause this makes sense. I think it'd be just a nice feature to place the fields near the mill, but it would be kinda superflously. In AoK it has two reasons why this kind of building was useful. First was the short way to bring the food into the mill or TC. You don't have this feature in AoE3, so it's superflously to think about anyway. Second thing was -the decisively one - the protection from enemies. Thats in AoE3 even the case, so I think this feature isnt really necessary.

What about the trebuchet?

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Can you make it so you need to have built a Mill to be able to create farms? Or have you already done so? I think that is the way it worked in AoK. Another way to make them even more usefull is to add more techs, that might even boost other things besides farms.

One way or another, it seems you'd need just one Mill for every game... But can't you make each Mill allow you to build a limited number of farms? I mean, like 10/Mill. So if you have 1 Mill, you can build up to 10 farms anywhere. If you built a second, 20...

[This message has been edited by Just a player (edited 12-27-2006 @ 09:14 AM).]

@Just a player - I agree, thats how it should work if it's intended to make the mill more useful.

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What about the Market? Will there be trading afloat and/or on the country? Trading was very important during the Crusades.

The Fields look just like a grass filled square. =/

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They remember me AoE farms

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