Topic: Egyptians Tribe

Here it goes Egyptians List

Looking good, a few questions:

• Just one trainingsite?

• Where is the military equipment smithed?

• Which tools do the workers need?

• What tool does the farmer get? Surely you need different kinds of farmers for wheat and reeds. Camel farm shouldn´t be run by a farmer, or does the worker there need to plant something?

• Are there enhancements? Do workers level up?

WorldSavior wrote:

TheHunter wrote:

Reeds should be planted on water only because they grow around water.

Really on water or just on the coast?

I assume water means coast here, else the worker would be unable to get there

@Hunter what's the point of this pastebin? Wouldn't it be better to post the list just in the forum?

I agree

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reeds only growing on coast is a nice concept. it makes egyptians dependent on water, but so are atlanteans, so not a problem here.

I don't see a problem with a tribe being somewhat similar to another. after all, all tribes are somewhat similar to each other if you see the basics (farms + meat/fish (at least one can be replenished) = processed food, which is used in mines to get ores to make weapons and train the soldiers).

And if you complicate stuff too much to make the tribe stand out, you have huge balance problems. like frisians.

hey, little stupid idea: egyptians buried important people in pyramids because they thought it would give them eternal life, right? so we can make the building "pyramids" and the ware "dead hero". when a soldier with at least 4 promotion dies, it leaves behind the body. you make a road to the body and the workers will take the body and bring it to a pyramid. a little time later, the soldier emerges back, with less promotions.

if we don't want to make them supernatural (though atlantean and frisian campaigns already abund with supernatural elements) we could call them hospitals, dead soldiers become wounded soldiers. egyptians were quite skilled at medicine for their time.

Please, shoot down this idea. I couldn't resist making it, but I keep finding it stupid

Nordfriese wrote:

Copper is one of the few metals that can occur in nature in a directly usable metallic form (native metals). This led to very early human use in several regions, from c. 8000 BC. Thousands of years later, it was the first metal to be smelted from sulfide ores, c. 5000 BC, the first metal to be cast into a shape in a mold, c. 4000 BC and the first metal to be purposefully alloyed with another metal, tin, to create bronze, c. 3500 BC.[4]

(wikipedia)

How about saying that the resource deposits in Widelands happen to contain both gold and copper? This suggestion won´t win me the Geologist Of The Year award, but is it totally unrealistic?

actually, not completely unlikely. it's just that native copper is rare and native gold is rare and the likelyhoood of both being in the same place is just rare squared.

Making a kind of pseudo-bronze from copper and iron also doesn´t sound that unrealizable to me.

copper doesn't mix well with iron. like water and oil, they do not dissolve each other, except in very small quantities.

EDIT: actually, even if they do not dissolve in significant amounts, they form alloyes where on a microscopic scale there are iron-rich layers and copper-rich layers. I see that there is the option of ordering one such alloy from steel manufactories, but i could not find any use for it

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And if you complicate stuff too much to make the tribe stand out, you have huge balance problems. like frisians.

hey, little stupid idea: egyptians buried important people in pyramids because they thought it would give them eternal life, right? so we can make the building "pyramids" and the ware "dead hero". when a soldier with at least 4 promotion dies, it leaves behind the body. you make a road to the body and the workers will take the body and bring it to a pyramid. a little time later, the soldier emerges back, with less promotions.

if we don't want to make them supernatural (though atlantean and frisian campaigns already abund with supernatural elements) we could call them hospitals, dead soldiers become wounded soldiers. egyptians were quite skilled at medicine for their time.

Please, shoot down this idea. I couldn't resist making it, but I keep finding it stupid

Not stupid – the only trouble I can see here are balancing problems. But if we can find some cost distribution to compensate this advantage, why not? How long should the body remain lying around if you can´t have it transported away soon?

i'm considering ways to give them personality. i don't like the gamekeeper hut. the egyptians weren't renowned hunters. they had animal husbandry, though. so if we're looking for a source of replenishable meat, we could have animal farms that produce meat like farms produce wheat. i'd prefer to give them fish farms, since they are tied to water.

How about both – expensive meat farms (like emp piggery) plus cheaper fish farms (like atl fishkeeper but requires wares)?

and just for that water link, maybe they could have a farm that only plant crops near water, but is more efficient than normal farms. not too much more efficient, we don't want them to be broken when near water. 5 to 10 seconds less than normal to make wheat would be ideal

+1. But then it cannot be wheat but has to be a unique ware, else bar&emp would also get this advantage.

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Is it possible to make weak soldiers, but enemy switching sides if a) they lose, b) under 20% health, c) 5% chance per hit ?

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I t would be cool to make them stand out,but code depends on Coders,not on us.We can propose features but there is no guarantee that they will make it into game.

Slowly im making progress on creating my visual plan for ALL BUILDINGS so im close to having all "Blueprints".All thats left after that is modeling.

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