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I don't understand why you guys think adding water units would be hard.The impression I got from when Silnarm first got them working, was that it was one of the harder things he'd done for the engine. I think he had to basically overhaul the "fields" system.
By all means continue. That's what open source is all about.I'm working on the Megapack and this is a killer...I have been working on a higher poly tech faction mod. (not to replace the current version but just for players who are interested in trying out higher quality graphics). I was also planing on moving onto creating a higher poly magic afterwards. If you would like me to stop me creating these mods respond and I will begin work on an entirely new faction. A preview of my first model can be seen at http://megaglest.pzt.me/9t2s
I generally like this idea, but keep in mind that adding (AI) is easily faked (unless parantheses are forbidden in player names including by editing glestuser.ini).It could be in a different color or size.
A Problem we already have in general with the whole armor/attacktype thing is the UI.I actually kinda like that it is not immediately apparent what kind of attacks should go against what kind of armor. The player can easily see what kinds of attacks their units have, and what kinds of armor, and it's up to them to figure out what tactics work best. A lot of it comes from common sense (don't shoot arrows at a stone building, duh) and some of it comes from trial-and-error (would impact break right through a wooden wall, or bounce off?). Rather than having a huge info-dump right up front that explains everything, the player can just dive right in. This makes the game easy to pick up. However, they have room to learn which attacks are useful in what situation, so that gives some room for practice and mastery.
Its not intuitivly visible for a human player which enemies will be good target for a choosen weapon. Maybe someone has an idea how to Display this?
Maybe some kind of target highlighting after choosing the weapon which shows how much a unit will be affected and all this not in an graphically overloaded way!
I can make changes to what is displayed if people have a preference they want more than the above noted displayed text.With tool tips, they can display whatever they want, so I wouldn't worry about packing on more details.
But still very doable as you know. You did the Spanish Magitech translation, after all.Indeed, and all my text for Solunar is bilingual as well, so it's very doable. I'm just not sure how willing translators would be to do their current work and pile on a bunch of tech trees as well. I'm not so concerned about Magitech/Megapack as I am about all of the user-made content. Google Translate might be "good enough" for most purposes, though, at least until/unless a real translator comes along and likes the mod enough. I still think tool tips are a great solution, but they are not without their own considerations.
AD also utilized translations to display tooltips on commands, something that MegaGlest could later expand to, and the translations would aid in such a feature.I think GAE-style tool tips would mitigate this issue tremendously. With them, you could keep the unit name in a common language for reference, then explain what it is in the tool tip. For example, if playing in Spanish, you could have a unit called a Knight with a tip that reads "un caballero noble con armadura pesada", which would make it clear that the unit is a noble horseman with heavy armor. Of course, this requires a lot more translation.
Then again, you're using a somewhat old version and I'm building from the git repo, so maybe it was already fixed a while ago.
Bah. Capturable units is being a pain. Apparently the way that Glest stores faction ids is really dumb. I may end up having to have the unit die if captured and then recreate a new unit in its place with a new faction id.You'd have to be careful that the "dead" unit's status transfers over to the new one, i.e. HP, EP, kill count if applicable, rotation. Also worth considering is how the capture counts as far as kills goes. Should it count as a kill for the capturing side and the capturing unit? Should it count as a death for the side that lost it? I think that certainly seems reasonable for it to, but it's something to consider.
Regardless of how you do it, I'm glad to see some new life being breathed into the engine.
