"Rider" unit

[Carl the Great]

..\MegaGlest\docs\glest_factions\rider.html

I was looking at the docs files and found this unusual unit from the Tech faction called "Rider", was there a model of a Rider somewhere? I couldn't find them, it is probably a unit from a previous Glest release.

The attack type was "Sword", not "Slashing", take note.

[titi]

I have no clue and it must be a VERY long time ago. I bet it was simply the horsemen which was named "rider" in the past and no one removed this file.
Maybe I should remove this entire tech tree  description from MG as its quite outdated anyway.

A more up to date tech tree can be found online here:  https://megaglest.org/techtree/index.html

[titi_son]

See this post

It seems like the horseman was called rider in glest 2.0 https://forum.megaglest.org/index.php?topic=1181
But if i download the data from http://sourceforge.net/projects/glest/files/glest%20data/ (the 2.0 one of course) the unit is called horseman already. I downloaded 1.2rc4 as well but still called horseman there.

[Carl the Great]

I downloaded the old Glest version, and the model is the same with the Horseman. The attack type was "Sword", I repeat, and the same Rider from the docs file is still the same as today. Why "sword"? It attacks with its spear.

[titi_son]

I found the rider now:
http://sourceforge.net/projects/glest/files/glest%20data/2.0-rc5/
it was included in the glest 2.0 rc5.
It has sword as attack type because there were only 3 attack types in glest 2.0 rc5:
arrow,sword and magic
EDIT: look in the magitech.xml
The attack type is not only some sort of random string. it does change how much damage a unit deals to certain armor. look in the wiki for more info.

[Carl the Great]

I see now; the Rider unit is the actual Horseman unit, just with the name changed.

I recommend to remove the ..\MegaGlest\docs\glest_factions folder at the next MegaGlest release, just to remind you. Outdated files.

Edit: The glest_factions folder has not been deleted since 3.11.1 release.