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phoenixffyrnig wrote: ↑Sun May 03, 2020 11:28 am Sorry for posting up en masse, Endru, but all these are small issues barely worthy of separate posts, and won't take as much of your time all rolled into one

Possible balancing issues...
1) Ornithopters only take 1 damage from axe throwers and cannon ships. Is this deliberately like that to require archery units to counter? Just seems odd that a couple of stones can bring them down, but a hefty axe or a cannonball doesn't even scare them.
2) Rams only deal base damage to watchtowers (I guess because they are classed as structures, not buildings). Deliberately so? If yes, I can understand why.
3) Chariots - you can't see into an enemy chariot to see what (or even, if anything) is being carried. Personally I feel even stealth units should be visible in a chariot...it is an open vehicle and there is nowhere to hide
Also, unlike a ram or wagon with an individual unit inside, if a chariot dies, so does the unit it is carrying. (If this is to simulate the wreckage of a fast moving vehicle, then fair enough - but I just wanted to flag it up).

Couple of little problems to tweak...
4) A high castles trebuchet attack can target an invisible enemy stealth unit.
5) I seem to have this weird glitch where if I drag a square to select multiple units, I can no longer access my castles menus until I leave game and relaunch.
6) Had a strange experience the other day where a well placed wolf hole killed my wagon with a ram and lancer inside. The ram teleported back to where the wagon started from and survived...surely I should have lost everything inside the wagon in this instance?
7) New upgrade changes that apply extra speed (ballista & ram) or extra actions don't apply in the turn the research is complete, but the turn after (or possibly at the end of the players turn, which amounts to the same thing).
8) (Happened a long time ago, may have been adressed since) one fight involved my workers desperately trying to repair a castle that was being hurt badly until I could counter. Down to about 200 / 1000, I completed Masonry. This ADDED 500hp straight on to my battered castle (700 / 1500) - maybe saving my castle. Should the extra third of max HP instead be scaled onto current hp instead, giving 300 / 1500... seems fairer to me than an immediate "gift" of 500.

And one suggestion...
9) Can we have a "disable production" button for factories and TCs? It would make population control when at the limit a whole lot easier?

I know these are all quite small issues, but I also know how serious you guys are about constantly improving the game. Thanks for all your hard work

makazuwr32 wrote: ↑Sun May 03, 2020 7:43 pm 3. This if problematic of the engine: we can't physically make this or otherwise if we will make this to work as bridge (carried unit is shown) than you won't be able to select chariot itself until carried unit leaves chariot. This question must be asked for stratego.

makazuwr32 wrote: ↑Mon May 04, 2020 5:14 am That is not possible as well i believe by default.
It also will require stratego.

godOfKings wrote: ↑Sun May 03, 2020 9:45 pm There is a game engine situation that all Flying units get only 1 Dmg from normal attack but full dmg from pierce attack in order to make flying immune to melee atk since melee atk is usually normal atk

AgentA wrote: ↑Mon May 04, 2020 1:20 am
We can make it work like how we use Spy beside the Wagons and Rams to see what's inside. The carried unit doesn't need to be visually visible in map. Just make the enemy Chariot able to be double clicked to see the unit carried inside.

makazuwr32 wrote: ↑Mon May 04, 2020 2:26 pm I am pretty sure that this is not possible without extra things (i mean exactly ability to view insides of the chariot without extra things like spy/assasin).

How assasins enable view of insides of enemy tcs and such is different, made via this SpecUnitAction:
SpecUnitAction:

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CAN_SPY_ENEMY_CARRIER, //can see the internals of enemy carriers

For now it is not possible to enable view of unowned unit's insides by itself and thus either requires some additional unit adjacent to chariot (owned by opponent) with specUnitAction that allows to look inside or Stratego to make such SpecUnitAction specifically for chariots.

makazuwr32 wrote: ↑Mon May 04, 2020 8:09 pm

It would be much more strange if cannon ball will deal piercing damage (similar to arrow).

makazuwr32 wrote: ↑Mon May 04, 2020 2:26 pm I am pretty sure that this is not possible without extra things (i mean exactly ability to view insides of the chariot without extra things like spy/assasin).

How assasins enable view of insides of enemy tcs and such is different, made via SpecUnitAction:

Code: Select all

CAN_SPY_ENEMY_CARRIER, //can see the internals of enemy carriers

For now it is not possible to enable view of unowned unit's insides by itself and thus either requires some additional unit adjacent to chariot (owned by opponent) with specUnitAction that allows to look inside or Stratego to make such SpecUnitAction specifically for chariots.

phoenixffyrnig wrote: ↑Tue May 05, 2020 5:27 pm Sorry Dev, I wasn't making my meaning clear. What I meant is that you should be able to see into enemy chariots without spies, because they are open vehicles with nowhere to hide
ie click on any chariot within your LoS and it will show you the unit inside.

Regarding axes and cannonballs doing only 1 dam to ornis, is it possible to work around the pierce attack/normal attack issue by giving those units a high bonus Vs ornithopters?

Presumably points 4 and 10 of my post are a simple fix? And 6 did seem pretty wrong to me even though it worked in my favour.