ALEXANDER EB

[Maksimus]

Thanks Maksimus, I wasn't aware the new thread existed.
I like the way LGK et al are thinking.

In my opinion there is no problem with the way the game goes for a Human Player, but the AI really needs a major revamp to prevent insane expansion. Historically Alexander the Great/the Romans were highly unusual in the speed they expanded at, generally it was not unusual for two cities to fight each other for hundreds of years with no concrete outcome (refer Greek Cities in particular).

The EBBS alteration's might not be the best and only solution for this - one solution (that will be used) is to add ''hidden_resource'' to region's for ''barracks'' level's - so, that way, we dont break the EB share system, instead we 'limit' Aegypt or AS vice versa use of elites and retraining capability of elites (note: in most of the cases in Aegypt or AS expansinon's, the problem is in autocalculation's that CPU uses when fighting against CPU), In that case - the army with most of the elites win's So by making Royal/Army/City barrack's available in 50-40% of all reigon's instead of 100% -
we make better balance and more historic game

I would also like to reiterate the idea of rebel city based generals being immortal, or replaced upon death. Otherwise the stack ups and wanders on death of said family member leaving the city open to easy conquest. This is particularly a problem in the east with the Indian cities being easy picking for AS or Baktria at that time.

That is going to be IN Alex-EB mod.. still, I support Konny's idea that 'some' region's that 'should' be taken by smaller faction's 'should-not' have immortal or spawned Fmember's

And personally - I am really for More Spawn's in India and China province.. also, as I have researched - all of those 4 province's (3 in India and one in China) were very powerfull and BIG - in scales of city and army.. In EB they are made as strong as.. Thermon for example, but that was not so - Indian province's should be absolute and hardest to take! As much as one China province there...

I am also no great fan of having all factions being able to recruit all troops everywhere with time. Hats off to the EB team for doing a great and realistic job on where troop types are located in the world. Main problems imho, in no particular order:

That wont happend I am sure - the EB ''unit resource's'' are very well balanced - they are made for the perspective of next 1000 year's. Still, there is one big question of :

::WHY can't Getai use Makedonian factional Army barrack's in Pella right after conquest even if they can only recruit Thracian and Dacian Cavalry that can be considered to be drawn from the population that comes in Pella AFTER it is in Dacian hand's, also, Thracian cavalry that Macedon's are using can be considered to be more Dacian then Macedonian anyways ::

1/Shoddy AI that backstabs Allies with no provocation or reason (coded to attack human players whenever possible or if said player has not been at war for a certain amount of time). I realise modders have little ability to control it however we can only dream :wall

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We CAN control that in ALex engine. There is ''ai_do_not_attack_faction'' in ''descr_strat'', which prohibits the AI to attack certain factions, except when they're at war!

2/ AI ability to recruit Elite troops instantly upon conquest of new territories i.e. Ptoly/Selucia in particular, leading to unstoppable superpowers.

That will be solved either by changing the whole EB share system or adding ''hidden-resource'' for Royal-Army barrack's to just some region's in AS - Aegypt reach - that way, even if the Aegypt takes Antioh or AS takes Alexandreia - those town's will be one of the only that would even be able to train elites

3/ Crashes. I seem to get more crashes under Alex than RTW or BI, generally after a heroic battle. Needless to say that is frustrating after a 2 hour fight.

I know what you mean - still, there us NO WAY you get more CTD's on ALX.exe. Belive me, I two play generally heroic battle for 2 hour's and I got the CTD's on RTW.exe like 80% of the time - on ALX.exe just 20%

Hey! If you have a heroic screen - post it here !!https://forums.totalwar.org/vb/showthread.php?t=94993

Those are the glaring weaknesses that I can see immediately, compared with the vanilla game shows just what a brilliant job the whole EB team have done. They certainly can be proud of this game

Please don't see any of this as being criticism.. if I didn't like the ideas or this game I wouldn't take the effort to post (I am at best a lazy git)

We would like to hear more from you and other gamer's + screen-shot's of AI expansion on Alex.exe with vanilla EB *txt is needed very much (so we can see what to alter )