Possible update ideas

[Unspoken Knight]

I use your Retrofit mod as a base, with some game enhancements as i prefer to call them, like this for example. Blood, Broads, & Bastards! v4.0
My question is can we have a map version for Retrofit without the Americas?. The AI doesn't go there and quite frankly neither do i, perhaps you should focus more in Europe, Africa and the Middle East as that is what the Medieval period is all about to me, and not some half naked warriors throwing hornets nests around willy nilly. Well that's just my opinion of course i'm sure other members will be spilling their coffee in disbelief at such a sacrilegious statement.

I will add BBB to a list of compatble sub-mods, but I might need to look at a possible GUAM/BBB compatibility issue.

I don't think I will be updating the Retrofit Map. Retrofit was designed to be a very minimal mod to bring across some Kingdoms features and bug fixes. I usually don't visit the Americas regions either and it is easy enough to ignore.

This suggestion will be considered for a CCM update .

Thanks

[danny X]

I use your Retrofit mod as a base, with some game enhancements as i prefer to call them, like this for example. Blood, Broads, & Bastards! v4.0
My question is can we have a map version for Retrofit without the Americas?. The AI doesn't go there and quite frankly neither do i, perhaps you should focus more in Europe, Africa and the Middle East as that is what the Medieval period is all about to me, and not some half naked warriors throwing hornets nests around willy nilly. Well that's just my opinion of course i'm sure other members will be spilling their coffee in disbelief at such a sacrilegious statement.

When the map for ERM is finished, hopefully in 2-3 months time, i will be releasing a lite version. This will be basically the ERM map using vanilla coding. It is a huge map that loses the Americas and expands slightly east, slighlty beyond Baghdad.

[Unspoken Knight]

Thanks heaps for the input, this makes it so much easier to edit this area of the map!

Regarding adding new factions, for CCM I am not too concerned with historical accuracy and adding them more for a fun campaign. I don't think I will be editing unit names and descriptions much either, but will think about it.

Edit: Regarding maps and adding factions, I suppose I could have a few variants of the maps, some more historically accurate and some more balanced for hotseats.

[danny X]

Preview 2 is up: http://www.twcenter.net/forums/showthread.php?t=494603

[Unspoken Knight]

Sweet!

[Babri]

I would suggest slight tweaks for better balance.
- Increase most cavalry stamina to good stamina rating.
- Nerf Varganian guard a bit, they are really really strong. Maybe make them expensive instead as Byzantines get weak in late game.
- I would suggest if u incorporate mods for better diplomacy & battle AI (SS has a great AI & improved diplomacy).
- Rebalancing some guilds especially the weak ones like explorer's guild.
- Tweaking unit XP gain so that it is more dependant on killing enemies. Right now infantry gains XP much slower than cavalry because they are bad at chasing.

[Unspoken Knight]

Thanks Babri!

Some good ideas to contemplate!

[Babri]

Thanks Babri!

Some good ideas to contemplate!

Also buff Cataphracts (or whatever they are :p). Currently they are really expensive & come quite late, an increase in attack would do the right thing, heck even their cavalry archers have more melee stats than cataphracts despite being available from start of the game. BTW thanks for the excellent mod.

[Sursion]

Frankly, I think all I need is more regions and Retrofit/GUAM would be perfect. I'd suggest more factions (Ireland, Wales, Lithuania, etc.) but frankly, in every mod I see that does this, it always ends up screwing things up and causes bugs.

Stainless Steel is great and all, but I always end up coming back to Retrofit. It's the best.

[ftwco]

is this still being contimplated?