Suggestions for v0.8

**Avicenna** · 05-07-2006, 13:46

You can use them to batter all gates in theory. In practice, however, if you try to batter gates of a stone wall or above, your elephant unit will get destroyed.

**mcsquared** · 05-07-2006, 21:04

I hope you will have Scorpions in v 8. I believe they were used a great deal by the Romans.

**orwell** · 05-08-2006, 00:05

Will cities reverting to bizarre factions, like Alexandria-eschate going to ptolemy be cleaned up?

**Teleklos Archelaou** · 05-08-2006, 00:09

Alexandria-Eschate never rebelled to Ptolemaioi. A diplomat might have bribed it away, but even that has been reduced so much that it rarely happens in weird places.

But yes, the number of places rebelling to even moderately weird factions will be greatly reduced.

**orwell** · 05-08-2006, 00:37

I guess it was bribed then, odd place for Ptolemaioi to be though.

More spam.

If a family member loves gladiator games, could he have a higher tolerance for how many cities he can exterminate? I recently did a bunch with one general and now he's not doing so well.

**edyzmedieval** · 05-08-2006, 10:37

Originally Posted by orwell

Will cities reverting to bizarre factions, like Alexandria-eschate going to ptolemy be cleaned up?

Oh my God....

Oh yeah. Parthian cities in Arabia also.

**Geoffrey S** · 05-08-2006, 12:13

A suggestion: location details in custom battle setups under the tooltips for the rebel faction. For instance, Arabian rebel units could have something like Location: Arabian peninsula or even a more specific name of the people or city they came from at the start of a description. That way, players can set up custom battles against the rebel faction representing a specific region not represented as a full faction such as Arabian people, Numidian people or Pergamon.

**Teleklos Archelaou** · 05-08-2006, 16:32

Originally Posted by edyzmedieval

Oh my God....

Oh yeah. Parthian cities in Arabia also.

As I said, these problems will not exist in the next build. It's already been solved in our current in house build. There's always a chance of a province going rebel to some faction that folks think is not logical, but with more flexible culture groupings and the addition of another faction, we shouldn't have problems with this anymore - excepting of course the issue of who does India rebel too, which is always going to be a bit thorny.

**Avicenna** · 05-08-2006, 17:10

The Eleutheroi?

By the way, with the Eleutheroi faction symbol.. are they going to be made into a proper playable faction in the next build?

**Teleklos Archelaou** · 05-08-2006, 17:27

"slave faction" settings as faction creator causes problems - namely that they have presets of a roman type for city icons on the strat map and they also get roman type armies when they rebel. It really is like a 'slave rebellion' takes place in those situation. Plus they still will often rebel to the faction culture in that situation - there's little way we know of of getting around these issues. I think we will have baktria as the faction india will rebel to, if it rebels to anyone at all. Not perfect, but the best of available options.

Eleutheroi aren't having any work that would make them any more a properly playable faction. We can test with them, but I don't think anyone in EB is interested in trying to make them playable more than that.