Hopes and dreams for fourth age

[LordHawkClaw]

Well i ing love this mod. since i got it i havntplayed normal rome or BI. and i think that this mod can only get better. these are probably some realy hoplesss dreams and stuff. but these are some things that would make me myself if i saw in the new ver

Minas Tirith
Like i kno making a 9 level city would be pretty much impossible to make and even if you did there would be MAJOR unfixable AI problems but what if you made just the lower level? and like designed a building that looked like the rest of the city? and make it just the first level that you actualy fight on? and we all know that after Ellesar became king the old Steel gates ( that were already ing SUPER beast) we removed and replaced by Mithril ones made by Gimli and his Kinsmen. would it be possible to make minas tiriths gate stronger than most? like instead of it having 100% health like gates do now, would it be possible to give it more? like 500% so when you hit it with ram it would have like 486% left ect

Osgiliath
Well im pretty sure there wwere some ruins in normal rome, but would it be possible to make it a "city" but make impossible to make walls or gain population? and have a bridge in the middle? so you guys could design "ruins" out of buildings and other stuff that would be in a city ect?

Moria
Well you guys are gonna make dwarves right? well in the fourth age the dwarves reclaimed Moria

(HoME XII, p. 278) there came a time when a king named Durin VII returned to Khazad-dum and its halls were filled with light and music and the sound of hammers once more and the realm endured until the world grew old and the days of Durin's race were over.

would yo be able to make the fight for the city a bridge battle? cuz the main defense of older moria was the bridge of Khazad Dum. where opposing armys would be forced to cross the bridge to enter the city. you guys could make a bridge battle just like normal, but maybe change lighting color and ground texture to make it seem like its "inside a Mine"

[Thangaror]

MT
Making but the first level for MT is perhaps doable, but I can tell you that this has a very low priority for the team.

Osgiliath
Not sure what you mean. Do you mean a city-like thing like a fort, so sth a faction could actually capture? Guess that's impossible. But Thor the Bassist once designed even accessible ruins and thus created an Osgiliath battlefield but that's already some time ago and I can't recall how good it actually worked. It was quite amazing work but I'm not sure if it can be implemented on the strat map. AFAIR it worked for Custom Battles only.

Moria
Oh, there will be a settlment named Khazad-dûm or Moria on the full map I assure you. Somewhere there's already a screen showing it. But it'll be an ordinary city, a real mine is impossible as is MT or Helm's Deep.

[athanaric]

Custom settlements on the battlemap are only really feasible within a custom designed engine - one that is designed for Middle-Earth content, that is. Which the TW engines aren't.

[Beorn]

RTW custom settlements are moddable. Look what Jarlaxe has done here and here

[Thangaror]

Oh, sure they are. To a certain degree.

But sth like Minas Tirith won't be possible. Simply due to the fact that it is way to huuuuuuuuuge.
Helm's Deep maybe, as I said Thor has already done an amazing job though it never became fully functionable. I'm not a modder, but I think a Helm's Deep with all those walls and gates and towers and stairs is more difficult for the AI to handle than Jarlaxe's polis.

Also this is a model of a custom city. Is it possible to make say seven unique cities?

[Bull3pr00f de Bodemloze]

LOTR TW made a unique Helmsdeep and Minas Tirith (with climeable levels!) but the textures aren't that sharp yet.