Sorry for late reply. I've been really busy with work, family, and
other things.
Looks like I absorbed someone's empire. OHIO I'm guessing.
Yep, that's who it was. I emailed them asking if they wanted to be respawned, but no reply yet.
I was going to stop playing this because of the iron bottleneck, but after iron collection was put into the game, things seemed much more balanced.
Great!
-Slowness of catapults is too slow.
Other than their functionality, I haven't tested catapults that much. Do you think they should get the same movement amount as soldiers (5 tiles per turn)?
-Being able to use houses as weak walls. Even crops can slow an invasion down considerably. Doesn't make much sense.
Originally roads did this too. After seeing your little encounter with OHMSS, I'm thinking only military structures should cause you to attack and be blocked. Then I might just add a button to the UI so you can attack the structure on the unit's current tile.
-I didn't think of it when I started the game, but what if you just surrounded your capital with mountains on all sides... you would have a slow start, but could not actually lose.
Building mountains on all sides would slow down your starting build/economy since you have to connect resource structures to your capital via roads. A player could still just build a warehouse and use that from then on to get around this. Eventually, I want everything tied to the capital by roads. Even if that doesn't happen though, I have plans for things that can terraform already placed tiles. Like calling down a meteor to destroy mountains, or using manpower + gold to chop down forests for immediate wood resources but turning the forest tile into a grass tile. Then there is also the prospect of flying units that can go over mountains and walls.
-Not being able to move through your own units makes for annoyance and adds to the slowness of doing anything worthwhile with military.
-It's not really the slowness of the military stuff... It could probably actually be slower in order to match up with the speed it takes to build things... It's that you have to micromanage it all and do it every hour or so, otherwise the enemy can just destroy you while you aren't paying attention.
My original plan was to leave units separated to prevent making this giant steam rolling machine that could just wipe through everything, but I agree micromanaging all those individual units is not fun. So now I'm thinking maybe allowing combining units up to a certain amount. 5 or 10 maybe? It may not even be an issue once I get the more powerful units in game. At that point you would be spending more resources on a few powerful units instead of spending all your resources on a slew of lowly soldiers.
-Which I guess is what the game comes down to, whoever checks in with it the most will probably win.
I'm trying as hard as I can to keep it from being that way while still having an incentive to check in regularly. But ultimately with any game, I think the players that check in more often will always have an advantage.
-being able to delete/kill your own units would be good.
Suicide has been added to my list
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