Mod Better Independents v2.1 - Page 4

Zeldor · #31 July 21st, 2008, 07:26 AM

Fomoria still owns me every time I try to play with that mod in EA

Edi · #32 July 21st, 2008, 08:19 AM

Try playing against Hinnom...

Seriously, I ran into an AI Hinnom with mostly positive scales (including growth) and until I managed to crush his main armies, I was in serious trouble. The chariots were brutal. I was playing Abysia and it was the E9F6 Burning Ones and absolutely massive fireball spam that carried the day. If I'd had just one other nation attack me at the same time, I'd have been done for. And that was in an allied game.

Edratman · #33 July 21st, 2008, 01:58 PM

This is a great mod and I use it all the time.

I have found that the AI seems to perform best when I set both gold and resources to 200 or higher. (I have not done all the increments or combinations below 200.)

What settings do you think work best?

Also I have changed the mod a little by returning all commanders to normal gold/resource costs.

Edi · #34 July 21st, 2008, 03:14 PM

I'm planning on updating it so that normal commanders will be normal price, but Horse Tribe Chief and Barbarian Chief will stay unavailable like their units. That way you can always recruit a commander wherever you can recruit units.

llamabeast · #35 July 21st, 2008, 04:57 PM

Could you change the graphics of the affected units to point to an empty graphic, so that they are not even visible on the recruitment screen?

llamabeast · #36 July 21st, 2008, 04:57 PM

Sorry, that was an idle thought, not a request! Could be cool though.

Edi · #37 July 21st, 2008, 04:58 PM

I suppose I could. That's an easy thing to do. Good idea, llamabeast! Great idea, in fact!

Zeldor · #38 July 21st, 2008, 06:36 PM

Edi:

Nah, don't enable indy commanders. AI recruits more mages or stronger national commanders that way.

DakaSha · #39 July 21st, 2008, 09:29 PM

is there a way to turn off the militia event?

Edi · #40 July 22nd, 2008, 03:54 AM

No. I actually requested that a new militia unit be made for the generic militia event (which some nations get, some others have their own militia events that actually give useful units, like LA Abysia), but that did not happen. It was a fairly low probability feature request anyway, but it would have made it possible to completely eliminate recruitable militia from the game.