Writing a game.. your help appreciated :)

OK, they'll gain you more gold on any sold resource and especially linen, I had that in mind too. Also, cost and training time of merchants is decreased (so this increases capacity indirectly), and the population grows with 25% on first completing the development.

(if anyone has any other (half)ideas that might be cool, keep posting..)

They all share common faith - christian orthodox faith. Think you could put some extra skill in body-to-body combat. Like, you know, they're kind of courageous. Perhaps not.

Originally posted by Teup But I don't know of a historical basis to associate this with...

Me neither...

Thanks for your ideas Jagatai Khan. Because it's an MMORTS, fights can take place if the players are offline (sleeping maybe ), so the really detailed combat abilities I cannot add (combat is just settled instantly), but I'll do my best to convert it into something i can make

Sadly, I cannot separate them. See, I already have 8 civs, if I'd split them up I'd end up with more civs than age of empires and i'm making this game all by myself

Oh, I thought about Mathematics, making buildings stonger or built faster. I also thought about Jihad, but the game isn't much detailed on the military side (the civic side is alot more detailed) so I'm looking for other applications to it - just making them stronger wouldn't really add something new, you can already upgrade your weaponry for that. However the horses will be faster and cause more damage

thanks for your replies, keep going if you have something (especially slavic and arab) . Random facts on their society and lifestyle also help a great deal.

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What would you call them?

Don't be sad though, each main civ provides different tribe names, so saxons, teutons, bataves, etc. all go under germanic. Similarly, saracens and moors go under Arabs or Islamic. I could have Saracens, Moors, Turks, Arabs and Persians as suggested names for the player's tribe (so a player can still be the Turks). So they don't make a difference, but at least they're there the difference between the main civ groups isn't all that large anyway, the abilities also partly depend on the location a group settles in, as mentioned

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Or simply muslims, for it is the faith that binds them. I think you could put +2 in some kind of skill for science (maths, astronomy, etc) because science was flourishing in the Umayyads Empire and was something that all muslims dedicated to in the begining.

hehe

Ok, as I already have eastmen referring to tribes from asia, islamic or muslim will do.

Hmm I'd still really like to add the sidestep ability, that gives like a 50% chance for an outnumbered group to avoid a fight when charged... any civ or location i could associate this with, anyone? Can have something to do with agility, but also the ability to estimate the enemy tactics maybe..

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That's excellent, haven't got much on the spanish side of europe so I'll add it, thanks

military or fishing?

The game is doing very good, and I must say, I'm really addicted to it already, and I'm only playing it on my own with some roaming CPU groups.. imagine what it's like when multiple players join in

Hmm I can't afford being addicted to a game AND write it.. takes so much time . Here's a picture of the current situation, viewed from the CPU's perspective:

This 'world' has only been running for a week or so, after a month there should be many cities with large and expaning territories (the coloured circles around the cities). It uses some real city names based on a map it contains, the others are created from random particles.