I told you so.. and assorted queries thereon

[khelvan]

Can we expect any previews of building changes in the mod?, I believe there are going to be new buildings which means they will have to be represented on the city battlemap, but are there going to be more general cultural and aesthetic changes to the architecture in the game?

I am of course mainly thinking of Egypt , the unit changes there have been very promising, so I am now more curious about the buildings.

Battlemap building changes are low priority, as the three people we recruited to work on them all disappeared. Until we have new people, or our units are near completion, we won't have many new 3d buildings at all. The changes will be relegated to the campaign map.

[Es Arkajae]

Khelvan so does that mean that any new buildings created won't be represented on the battlemap? (I don't mean wonders and such), I'm more reffering to if there are going to be new structures IN the actual city.

That could present a problem making it impossible to destroy such buildings in sieges, perhaps just a standard building model could be used to stand in for the new building in the meantime and a person could see which specialist building it was by hovering the mouse pointer over the building?

An imperfect solution but at least a way to have new buildings in the city map and capable of being destroyed.

Oh and a while back I asked about mountable walls for barbarian factions, that is walls with parapets on which one could place troops, I recieved a cautiously optimistic response. Does those three people going MIA change that?

[khelvan]

I'm unaware of what we'll be doing for battlemap models. I imagine that there will be placeholders for some, but there will be no perfect solution for the open beta. On the walls, we won't see anything for the open beta. All battlemap work is more long term than short term. We need more help in this area.