Feature Requests

[Ferrus]

Noooo dont fill his head with such ideas!!! =p

[DimeBagHo]

cherryfunk: When the pre-placed minor-settlements are added I will probably up the price of creating new ones, but until then I don't want to make it too expensive.

[Ephialtes The Dog]

Hello, I just want to say you have made an insanely awesome mod and I can't wait for the next ver.
I wondered if theres some way if you could make it that when the GCS take a enemy settlement you could have the option of instilling a spartan like government so that spartan phalangites could be trained in that settlement.

[Zarax]

That would make the game far too unbalancing and quite fantasy historically wise...
Spartans had a few colonies around but the result was always a different structure than Sparta itself outside the peloponnese...

[Ephialtes The Dog]

Ok how about splitting the gcs into 2 seperate factions sparta and athens. The different factions could act like the seperate roman family's, fighting together at first and after some time there could be a civil war to sieze power from the other one.

[Da Erobara]

Another faction would have to be scraped in order to achieve that. So I think it's a no-no

[Kara Kolyo]

Ephialtes - there are some mods like Rise of Persia, or the still awaited Hegemonia, that are focused on hoplite warfare and separate greek cities. By the XGM start date the main greek cities have been overshadowed by other hellenic factions, so one more greek faction would be superflous, i think.

[Zarax]

Unless somebody wants to make an alexandrian era XGM mod...

[Ephialtes The Dog]

Ok, I don't mean to sound ignorant I have actually spent a butload of time (butload = 26) researching ancient greece I was just curious if it would be possible to do the aforementioned things.

Thanks for you're speed at which you guys answered my questions.

[Cymera]

26 Hours? Minutes? Years?

[Ephialtes The Dog]

in this case hours

[Cymera]

There was a proposition to separate the two not into city states but into historically accurate leagues of which they were the leaders. I believe that this is implemented in XGM: Diadochi.

[DimeBagHo]

A Sparta/Athens split might make a pretty good civil war scenario. It's even somewhat historically plausible - if a coalition of the Greeks had ascended to power again then it probably would have split along those lines.

[brandbll]

That sopunds like a fairly good idea. It's not completely 100% realistic, but it would shake things up a bit. Not to mention it adds more to the Greek campaign which is nice since this is a Greek mod. I've always looked at Macedonia as the Greek rival, so i've never seen a need for the two seperations. But i do think it's a good idea. Might require some major changes though, yet they might be worth it.

[Zarax]

DBH, what about the seleucids getting hypaspists pre-marius?
Effective flanking infantry is kind of an hole in their roster and they historically used them...

[Balikedes]

The Sparta/Athens split could be very interesting given the starting political climate around there. It could also be a detriment to both polis, the Macs could absolutely crush them individually...and where would Pergamum end up?

[Ferrus]

Yea, in terms of ai, it would be a walkover for the Maks.

[brandbll]

Yeah, you'd have to take away a little bit of power from the Maks. However it could be a means to elimnate the Greek independents. So you'd transfer some of their power. Meh, it might be too much to even attempt to appraoch.

[snuggans]

any way to improve the hypaspist's MELEE weapons instead of the javelins? (talking about buildings such as foundry and/or temple of artemis)

also.. should spartan phalangites = argyraspid phalangites?
i believe spartans have 1 more defense point, but hmm..

[Clearchus of Sparta]

Havent downloaded this mod yet but thought I'd ask a question anyway. The zero recruitment time+AI innability to save funds for superior troops seems to be an issue that Im not aware of being resolved yet. Im not sure if this is possible as im not a modder but....... What if there was a building tree called "Garrison" (Level I, II, III etc) which adds troops of certain levels to a city under seige. Im assuming that there is trigger which could be utilised along with a script to add these troops. There is a similar effect in Slitherine's Spartan game.

Im hoping that the effect would be to make taking a town/city even more difficult to assault if you are the attacker. If you are the defender you have the option of keeping the remnants of the force (cost allowing) or disbanding if not required. it would also mean that there are no "undefended" towns with only one character unit residing in it. The cost of the garrison is minimal until it spawns units. Laying seige to the same city actually makes it harder to take (lets face it, if you kept attacking the same town, they might be more prepared each time). The AI would then have access to higher level troops based on need. This could give more random results as each sucessful defence of a town/city results in more units for the defender with which to retaliate.

What do you think?