Oh Heaven, I wanted to ask you something. I was looking at this code:

<ProductionRequirement InternalName="_ISGolemRace">
      <Type>Resource</Type>
      <Attribute>Population</Attribute>
      <Value>1</Value>
    </ProductionRequirement>

Where is "_ISGolemRace" defined exactly and how would I use this code for the other races?

Would it look something like this:

<ProductionRequirement InternalName="Race_Type_Altarians">
      <Type>Resource</Type>
      <Attribute>Population</Attribute>
      <Value>1</Value>
    </ProductionRequirement>

This would then need to be put into each unit of the Altarians in the XML?

Also, I was thinking something last night. This code won't work for newly designed units most likely right? But, what if someone takes an existing unit, like a scout, and then edits it and makes a new unit. Will the code work?

Use

<ProductionRequirement>
      <Type>Resource</Type>
      <Attribute>Population</Attribute>
      <Value>1</Value>
    </ProductionRequirement>

the internalname was just because I copied it from Stormworld and didn't bother removing it because it had no impact.

If you add the XML above to all unittypes for a faction, including generic (used for new unit designs) and all unit designs, then every trained unit will use it.

Excellent. That is what I was hoping. Thanks.

Weapons are now done, moving on to armor.

Armor is now finished.

What is left to have a playable mod:

Spells (May or may not require major changes. Variant of Sean's Affliction mod)

Abilities (May or may not require major changes. Variant of Sean's Affliction mod)

Heroes (minor changes. Variant of Sean's Affliction mod)

Monsters (probably not going to do anything with them as of yet)

Buildings (minor changes I think. This will be a mix of vanilla and Sean's Affliction mod with some changes of my own)

When I say Variant, I mean that I check both Vanilla and the Affliction mod and will make changes (or not) as I see fit to work with the mod. Also, I may offer two versions, one with more Vanilla influence and one with more Affliction influence. This may make it possible to use Stormworld with the more vanilla one (maybe) I will think on it if I have time.

Spells are done now.

 Abilities are also done.

Everything that is being changed will have to be tested. There is no guarantee it will work as it is supposed to but hopefully it will work well and there wont be much needed to be changed.

I am just about done with the first version of this mod.

I am not going to touch monsters in this first version as it is a very time consuming thing. I will be taking a look at it for the next version though (barring any minor changes or improvements that need to be made)

I only have to do buildings, which wont take too long, and units. Units may take a little but I will finish soon.

Heroes are done, Buildings are also done.

I have to add one piece of code to all units, which is going to be time consuming. I decided just to go with Seans units file because there thousands of lines of code and I do not feel like going through it all and since I am using his abilities and such, I will just go with the units as well. I did make changes though. I also am using his improvements file (buildings) but with quite a bit of changes to food production and growth and some other changes.

Though I am using a good amount of Sean's stuff (affliction mod) it is going to play differently because of the changes I have made. There will also be many more changes in the future if I have the time, the first version will be to test a lot of the changes I made to attack and defense, heroes, growth and population, etc.

If everything goes well I should be done with it tomorrow. I will need to do some testing to make sure some things are working okay but it will be very difficult for me to test everything myself because there is just so many things that need to be seen in game to see if it is working well. Balance will be something that needs a big look at. I will probably put it up for download either Thursday or Friday. Not sure what to do with monsters yet. Will have to think on it.

I am pretty much done. I just found some mistakes I made in Coreweapons so I need to spend some time going through that, but once that is done then it will be ready for the first version. Maybe have it up tomorrow night.

Nice work man, keep up the good work.

Now this is just the initial release and many things may change heh. I am going to work on it now and should be done soon.

Okay, it is done, I think. I will test it a bit first.

Well, I was testing some stuff out and it isn't ready yet. It is very difficult to balance out the larger group sizes. They are still doing way too much damage and there are some other issues. It is very time consuming to change all that stuff, sigh heh. It may be too difficult to do things this way. I will try out some more things and see if this is really possible to do. Just to explain how difficult it really is, all armor and weapons need to be altered. Weapon damage needs to be greatly lowered, but this affects heroes and armor. Armor then needs to be greatly lowered, but the game doesn't handle numbers below 1 well. Heroes need to be considered as well because they wont do enough damage without finding creative ways to handle it. I have thought of a few ways but something keeps coming up which doesn't work the way i hoped it would and makes me have to adjust more and balance more. Sigh, frustrating.

That was a frustrated post hah. Let me explain better what I am saying.

I have groups of 5,20,100,300. Those are very different sizes and I really need to take into consideration dmg. Even with a simple weapon that does 5 dmg I have to take into consideration the dmg these units will do:

5 will do a max of 25

20 will do a max of 100

100 will do a max of 500

300 will do a max of 1500

These are huge differences. One group of 300 men will obliterate a hero, even with awesome armor. So these numbers need to come down. Let us say I put in .5 now .5 will become 1 according to the game but let us say it was .5

5 will do 2.5

20 will do 10

100 will do 50

300 will do 150

Now these numbers look better but this is still like the weakest weapon, other weapons are going to do a lot more dmg. Also, there is a big difference on the low end of units. 5 men will basically do no dmg.

With this considered, armor needs to be changes so an armor that is 2 for example needs to become .2, again the game doesn't read these well but will add up armor so lets say the armor adds up to 1.2, this will become 2. 1.2 and 2 is a huge difference, that is the difference between 12 and 20.

So then, I have to consider heroes and monsters, how do I make them work with this system. Oh and also overpower needs to be added to every weapon so that 5 men still matter somewhat against 20 or 100 (even though not much). Heroes have to have overpower too but if their weapons do too much dmg the overpower will be overkill on large groups (100 and 300).

Monsters need to be considered too, they won't do enough dmg unless they have overpower. 

There is more but I am too tired to explain. I have some more ideas but it is just so time consuming to do it all and I am out of energy.

Okay, I am trying a different approach. I will test now and if it is good, I will upload it.

Something new I was thinking about. I am not sure what kind of impact my changes will have on the AI. I know already that it messes up the upgrade system, meaning if you choose the auto upgrade weapon and armor buttons when designing units, it won't pick the latest weapon and armor because of the changes made. I am curious if this will also affect the types of units the AI builds. 

Trying out different approaches and will do some research when have time.

I actually finally found out an easy way to get this to work. I won't have to do all the work I was doing before but it will take some time to implement. I may finally have a working mod within a day or two.

Just about done with the first version. I will try to upload it soon. First version will require testing though. 

Things to look for: Training times. Training times will be very low right now. I have to play with the numbers until I am satisfied. I want training times to be short. In my opinion it should only take 1 week to train 5 men, 2 weeks to train 20, 3 weeks to train 100 and 4 weeks to train 300 (this will vary depending on weapon perhaps). Obviously it will be difficult to get exactly this because it depends on so many variables but if I can get something close to this then I will be satisfied.

Damage is another thing to look for to make sure damage being done is a good amount whether against armies, monsters or heroes. Both spell damage and weapon damage.

Population is another thing to look for. Lots of changes to pop. Units trained now require population so if you build a 300 man group, it will cost you 300 people. With the new changes to population I want this to work well and be a serious choice that needs to be made. Growth will be slow because now cities can grow to be in the tens of thousands by late game. By late game though I want to see lots of armies of 300 men. Early to mid game population will really matter.

Now all Town types can build walls, I never liked that it was limited to only fortresses so each town will get the same benefits from increased units and such, however, only fortress get the bonuses from buildings that give added attack and defense, etc. Taking a city will be a very difficult endeavor, as it should be.

Also other changes to towns, now only a "city type town" meaning not a conclave or fortress can build food buildings. These food buildings will affect food in your entire empire though. These towns also get the most growth while fortresses and conclaves will be very limited in growth options but there are some options. Every town type can build an inn for example.

Changes to monsters: I am using Seans Affliction mod changes to monsters, but I am not using his changes to coregoodiehuts until he makes an easier version of it. I do not like the excessive build up of monsters but do want them to be more of a challenge. However, monsters are mostly going to be more of a challenge in the early to mid game. Late game when you have big armies they are not going to be a big challenge except for large monsters like dragons and such. So heroes will be important as monster killers and such in the early game, backed up by small units. Later on, monsters will be more of a non issue (except for powerful ones) but factions should be much more of a challenge.

Other changes under the hood I can't remember heh.

Any other ideas on how to make the game more immersive is also important. 

Hope to see this mod soon.

About Damage and big armies.I have a suggestion. Currently, as more people, more damage. That is the logic now in the game: all troops in a unit get an attack. But in a real battle (I suppose) many people did not have the chance to hit, or should have to wait untill the front lines were broken. So the idea of a big army is to have more HP, but the damage maybe shoud not be increased in the same scale. I mean, 300 men with a 5 attack would not deal up to 1500 damage...How to deal with this? Well, instead of a plain 50% reduction, I would apply an arbitrary acumulative reduction, based on that more men mean more HP, but not more damage

For example:

5 will do 5       100% have an attack

 20 will do 10   Only 50% have an attack

 100 will do 30  Only 30% have an attack

 300 will do 60  Only 20% have an attack

About Monsters: to make them scale with the mid/late game, maybe they could form big groups too (50-200 per unit).

Well, I am not sure it is possible to do it the way you are talking, but consider this. Units do not do a set amount of damage. That isn't how it works. Each soldier basically rolls an attack and may do more or less damage so the total attack isn't going to be 5X5=25. The damage could be anywhere in a range of 0 to 25. So even by, say, reducing dmg down by 80 % the units will still have a certain range of dmg. Also armor will mitigate that.

The idea about monsters is that by the late game, monsters should be somewhat rare. The reason being that civilization has come back to the world and as more and more people live in the world and as the land becomes more civilized, monsters are going to become less powerful and less numerous to the point that only some very powerful monsters will still be around in small corners of the land. That is the idea anyway.

Also, I am just about finished with the first version.

I came into one problem which I need to figure out before I can release. I use overpower on all weapons so that heroes and smaller groups of units still have somewhat of a chance against large groups but the problem I am having is that because 100 or 300 men is so large the overpower ability allows smaller size groups to do way too much damage. Need to figure out how to limit this somehow. Perhaps only give heroes overpower ability but then small units of 5 or 20 men won't do much damage to 100 and 300 units. I want them to be able to do some damage because small elite units should still be good like 20 knights with awesome weapons and gear should be able to mess 100 guys up.

Will think on this tomorrow though. Its late now.

Okay, I figured out how to make this issue better. I will release the first version today but there is still work to do. Hopefully people will help me figure out what can be made better.

Okay. first version is done and up. 

Make sure to take notice of damage to make sure it is balanced (both spells and weapons)

Training times are just 1 right now for all units, this will change.

Make sure to take notice of population and growth to see if it is balanced well (remember it is intended for the cities to grow slowly)

Pioneers require 25 population so make note of that.