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Originally Posted by Chuffy
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Originally Posted by Chuffy
Why don't you just put an entire landblock around the Sahara province? You don't need it, and it would help stop AI armies being stupid.
If there is a need for more provinces, just get rid of one of those over- powering and useless sea islands on the aegean which just pump even more trade cash into the treasury, but are not significant.
:sweatdrop: So, which solution did you use for disabling the desert wars?
Did you use the solution of the hill and LOS one?
Is it secret? :sweatdrop:
Not determined 100% just yet. Sorry. Our next internal release (this weekendish?) will have a new arrangement in that area for our beta testers to see how it does.
We had looked at something similar involving the Sahara, but EB is not trying to recreate history "as it happened". Just because there wasn't a war between Carthage and Egypt doesn't mean that it could never have occurred. In EB v.74 you get a war every game - that is unacceptable. Darth's province means there would never be a war, and that's just as bad. We are seeking to limit the chances of such a war occuring, and if it does, to at least ensure it would be fought in a historically accurate context - at sea and along the coast.Quote:
Originally Posted by k_raso
But this is not yet solved, and we'll have to see what the testing shows.
The simplest way to make the AI do that, would be using only coastal cities in that part of the world.
But it's probably not historically accurate though, giving that an average oasis was far more important in those day's than the average fishing village that had grown to a point where it's possible to consider it a proper town.
The thing is that that war was close to impossible with the means of that age. The logistic requiered to travel from Cyrene to Leptis Magna (Some 500 miles roughly) is inmense, and the means requiered to carry water, supplies, etc. through a barren wasteland would have rendered the cost prohibitive.Quote:
Originally Posted by Kull
Off course, there are examples of comparable feats, such as Alexander`s army travel through the Markan desert (but with the logistical support of the fleet). One should also not forget the results of that travel: the army was decimated.
This is not the crossing of the alps. These are 500 miles of a barren desert... and that only from Cyrene to Leptis Magna...
Dont forget Cambyses expeditions too...
Which ended up in a sand blizzard, just about one hill from their target... :grin:Quote:
Originally Posted by k_raso
Especially with the Sahara it wouldn't have been all that impossible. People at that time had a very good idea of how to cross it, simply because dozens of generations had done so before them. Trade routes through the desert, and such.
Believe it or not, but many a war has been fought over a stretch of desert...
The only thing about it that's so impossible is the way RTW AI tackle's fighting far away from your home territory: little stacks wandering in a vast area, with nowhere to go, seemingly unaware of the fact that had it been real, the insides of their skulls would have been rotten, by now, years ago. :wall:
That's, I'd say, one of the reasons why EB must try to lead them alongside the more easy going routes: that is, those pretty close to the cost and with an allied fleet nearby.