Diadochi - Total War: Future Development, Suggestions & Ideas

[RedFox]

The development of Diadochi - Total War has been on halt for nearly 2 years now. The recently released Patch v1.16 addresses some major issues in making the mod playable again, but some things still lack polish.

Can the few members of the ever decreasing community of DTW join up and provide their input on which features of Diadochi - TW should be improved for a v1.2 FINAL Release?

I am really looking forward to closing this chapter of modding history and finalize Diadochi - Total War into a polished mod. Obviously, this will NOT include any new features. Simply enhancing what already is in the mod.

Some obvious enhancements:

Diadochi - TW v1.2 Final To Do list:
- Diadochi - Total War WIKI (RedFox)
- Barbarian unit cards need to be remade (RedFox)
- Any missing unit cards should be fixed (RedFox)
- Some playtesting to identify persisting bugs/crashes (RedFox)

- Faction descriptions written ages ago (Spartan666)
- Change Drill Fields into garrisons; Drill Fields don't work anyways. (Spartan666)
- Rebalance Thrace in the WotD campaign (Spartan666)
- Make Sons of Mars campaign more interesting; add more settlements. (RedFox)
- Units need new sprites. (jakobh94)
- Seleucids only train Pezhetairoi and Argyraspidai even though having an amazing unit roster. (unDa)
- Carthage roster, Heavy Pikemen available earlier from Carthage. (rogergargantua)
- Choose settlement fate crash. (Spartan666)
- Sparta settlement plan bugs / issues. (Spartan666)
- Gallic swordsmen with no body. (Funkyrobbie)

- Check reform advice message.
- Campaign map improvements: enlarge impassable terrain around mountain ranges to avoid steep-slope battles

I'm willing to accept everyone's help on this matter.

[Spartan 666]

Ok, I think we should finally put into the mod those faction descriptions here we have never included.

And then, it would be fine to add a new building, we can borrow it from Extended Cultures with their permission. It's a law builidng giving law bonuses representing local garrison units, it would be very useful in some campaigns, like the Seleucid one, in which you have an enormous "distance from capital" penalty. The law bonus should be balanced by a taxable income penalty tough. It would be very easy to feature this, only some text editing and .tga files to add, and it would make a good addition to gameplay.

Then, in the WotD campaign Thrace always gets crushed by the combined action of Pergamum and Macedon, the latter expanding with no troubles up to the Danube.

[RedFox]

I added your input into the To-Do list in the first post.

I think we can safely replace the Drill Fields building with Garrisons, since they dont work anyways. There won't be any need for extra content then.

Got any other suggestions?

[rogergargantua]

Sounds good! You think there aren't more population control buildings needed besides just a garrison?

- Some playtesting to identify persisting bugs/crashes

Doing Carthage now on Alex.exe, if I find any, I will post in bugs thread.

[timpi]

I added your input into the To-Do list in the first post.

I think we can safely replace the Drill Fields building with Garrisons, since they dont work anyways. There won't be any need for extra content then.

Got any other suggestions?

WTF, have I been spending craploads of money to improve the morale of my armies for nothing?!?!?!?!?!?!

[jakobh94]

Sounds interesting, though I don't think I can help with anything ... Maybe sprites since they seem to be very off.

[RedFox]

rogergargantua: Your help is very much appreciated! Thanks for playi-*ah* bughunting

jakobh94: Since there won't be any new units, I think proper sprites are a great idea. Do you think you could manage that?

[unDa]

what about mass infantry of seleucids? this still not fixed
even having amazing uni roster seleucids use only pezhatairoi and argyraspidai...
ps: sry for my nad eng.

[RedFox]

unDa: I will add that into the to-do list Thanks for spotting that problem!

[Spartan 666]

Well seleucids spamming only heavy infantry and forgetting totally about light infantry and cavalry is an issue that, as far as I remember, has always plagued XGM and all the mods related to it, so DTW as well.

The only clue I have is to change those "balanced napoleon, fortified stalin, religious henry" stuff, but seleucids are already comfortable napoleon and:
Comfortable = Economic (internal revenue - savings generation)
Napoleon - biased towards a mix of light and heavy infantry, light cavalry

source: AI_personalities.txt

[jakobh94]

RedFox: Yes I can fix the sprites.

[Spartan 666]

I fixed some little errors in the repo's EDB, which prevented the population growth option to work properly during installation.

Then, I remembered of this: http://www.twcenter.net/forums/showt...18#post7820418 Can we consider it the typical "choose settlement fate" bug, or is it more related to that old Sparta settlement plan?

[jakobh94]

That can happen to all cities.

[Spartan 666]

Yes, but since there had been problems with Sparta's settlement plan a long time ago, I wondered if that crash might have been related to that.

[unDa]

independent greek cities generals have no info cards. just grey peasant...

[RedFox]

jakobh94: Great! When can you start working on them?

Spartan 666: It's probably the generic 'choose settlement fate' crash on BI. There was an article on how to fix this common bug, should check it out. I'll add re-checking Spartan and fixing the 'settlement fate' crash into the to-do list.

unDa: Yes, added the missing info cards into the to-do list.

[jakobh94]

jakobh94: Great! When can you start working on them.

Now, well I've actually already started but I guess you have some plan for how they should be made or something so I'll halt my progress a bit, but if you don't have any plan for how they should be made just say so and I'll continue right away.

[RedFox]

jakobh94: Since creating sprites itself is already a time-consuming job, I'll rather not make it more complex or time-consuming than it has to be. You can group the sprites (or not group) into folders depending on your own preferences. As long as they work in the end.

Spartan666: I noticed you're already nailing the most obvious of the bugs. Keep up the good work!

[gaunty14]

I suppose letting the inde greek build diplomats could be put on the to do list

as when I was playing as them I had to add one to the campaign and then bribe another diplomat so I never ran out. Not the most vital issue I admit ^-^

[Spartan 666]

Well that's odd because they should be able to train them as any other faction. Probably they don't have any region with hidden resource "capitol" at the start of the campaign.