Another idea...

**Kjertesvein** · February 03, 2009, 04:54 PM

Hey people. I guess people know in and out of battles for each mod. Flank-charge-win. This is inevitable in Total War, but how this works can be frequently changed.
I just played a couple of battles with BB & Lusted, and I got to say: I think this is braking the boring-battle code.
A YES/NO option in the beginning, Orginal/Taiji. Not because the orginal is better nor worse, but because a change of choice in the Battle system is a explosive and refreshing system that can change the boring-battle code.

I also recognize the problem that there is alot of these (yes/no)requests. This can lead to illusion/ignoring of the importent choices because there is so many etc. A way to sort this could be to sort them out, graphically:

Divide them all in just 3 pop-ups in themes, with 2 questions for each pop-up).
Divide each theams in different colors:
- - - (AI garrison, AI Battle style)
    - (Mil/Gov.point system, AI Playstyle system)
    - (Seattlement cost, field cost)

Just had to write it down.

**Taiji** · February 03, 2009, 05:10 PM

The choice is really Taiji "the early days" or Taiji "in his prime" so I can't complain

But about the AI, I really don't favor either. I'm importing Lusted's work mainly as a fix for the reinforcement battle freezes not because I think it's better than DLV. I'd rather just fix DLV's but I wouldn't know where to start.

**musicdemon** · February 05, 2009, 08:40 AM

That's an interesting idea, blackleaf. To consolidate even further, there could be only one popup initially with checkboxes for the parts of the mod people want. If the user is new, there could be a button directing them to a popup describing each of the options. Would something like this be possible?

**Taiji** · February 05, 2009, 09:19 AM

I think it should be possible and I think it's a good idea.

The original DLV6 battle system is incredibly fast, it does not take as much thought to play but it does take big use of pause or good twitch skills+keyboard shortcuts.

My latest stuff is slower in general and requires much more thought.

I'm not completely happy with either system and both systems share the flaws of DLVs animations.

Still, it's a good idea to give the player this kind of choice, "fast and dirty" or "slow and measured". I think people will like the choice.

I stress again that the AI used is not part of this conversation at all. We need to fix DLV's AI, end of story.

**Kjertesvein** · February 05, 2009, 09:51 AM

Originally Posted by Taiji

I stress again that the AI used is not part of this conversation at all. We need to fix DLV's AI, end of story.

I just downloaded your latest Battle balance & Lusted AI. Vs. normal DLV AI. What are you talking about man?:hmmm:

Regular DLV "broke", and BB is some sort of fix..?

**Taiji** · February 05, 2009, 09:54 AM

No Blackleaf, if you read what I've written you'll see that DLV AI is broke and needs fixing.

This has absolutely NOTHING to do with BB.

BB has absolutely NOTHING to do with AI.

Is that clear?

**Kjertesvein** · February 05, 2009, 12:44 PM

If not then lusted is the "change" that I'm talking about. (although BB changes some stats). I to do not favor either one, but I think this can accelerate the interest for battles. Let the player choose the grass-root settings of the battle-system.