Questions / Suggestions

I'm not opposed to it. Thoughts anyone else?

Sounds good to me. Also, how long has the Avian-Dwarf war been going on up to this point? I mean I know it says Day 6 but in Jaymes mod marks two months have passed..soo, how long roughly do you think?

I'm going to alter some of the ModMark days. 2 months would sound about right.

Putting multiple requirements on certain troop types is too much of a headache. Cavalry archers should require horses, same as other cavalry. I'm not sure there's as much justification for using cavalry archers and light cavalry as there is for using skirmishers and infantry though. Most historical light cavalry used bows of some type.

Equites (Roman Cavalry), Companion Cavalry (Macedonian Cavalry),Hippeis (Greek Cavalry) and Rashidun Cavalry (Arabian Cavalry of the Arab Empire) did not use bows.

However, that being said. Should I make a "Cavalry Archer" unit or what?

Point made, although I would point out that in the ancient time period the lack of saddles and stirrups meant there was very little distinction between light and heavy cavalry.

Still, cavalry archers would be quite fun. I'm already imagining mongol hordes running around the forum shooting people with impunity.

Theo if I spread Ezrian culture to that of the Elves will that make happiness in Shurmanda go up?

Yes. All Cultural Activities give immediate Happiness bonuses. So it's a way to counteract the unhappiness for now.

Building a major religious structure increases happiness in all cities right, not just where the structure is built?

So here is a question I just thought of while contemplating the resources. Do Iron, Mithril, and Horses [I think those are the only ones that have unit maxes] have a 10 unit per node or per week max?

Yes Ezria.

No Caexi, that's a general limit, not per week.

Gotcha...So another question since I was going over the resources since a friend of mine is making a kingdom.

Question 1:
Was looking at my updates and you have me down for 42/20 for the iron. I am assuming the 42 is the number of units I have using iron and the 20 being what?

Question 2:
Since a metal has a requirement on Swordsman, does that mean the node becomes useless if you have 10 Swordsmen companies or can you have 10 swordsmen companies with iron and purchase whatever with the other units using say iron as well?

Question 3:
Noticed that under the economics, you have gotten rid of what each resource produces in EP if being traded. Does this mean that the economic points remain the same whether being traded or not? Example: Stone Node produces +2 EP, Traded Stone Node produces +3 EP.

[quote="Caexi"]Gotcha...So another question since I was going over the resources since a friend of mine is making a kingdom.

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Question 1:
Was looking at my updates and you have me down for 42/20 for the iron. I am assuming the 42 is the number of units I have using iron and the 20 being what?

42/20 means this.

You have 42 units that require Iron. You can currently maintain 20 unit that's maintain Iron. That means you cannot purchase any Iron required units until you fall between your limit. Yours should actually be 10 though, not 20.

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Question 2:
Since a metal has a requirement on Swordsman, does that mean the node becomes useless if you have 10 Swordsmen companies or can you have 10 swordsmen companies with iron and purchase whatever with the other units using say iron as well?

No, that means current mining operations on the node can only support 10 units at a time. So, Caexi for example can support 10 Iron units. If I kill one of them, you drop to 9/10 and can build another back up to 10/10. The only exception to this, which I need to document is that Heavy Cavalry requires Horses (which it takes as an upkeep 1/20, 2/20) and access to Iron, but it doesn't require upkeep for Iron, just access to it.

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Question 3:
Noticed that under the economics, you have gotten rid of what each resource produces in EP if being traded. Does this mean that the economic points remain the same whether being traded or not? Example: Stone Node produces +2 EP, Traded Stone Node produces +3 EP.

All resource generated points are halved when traded.

If Furs make +4 cultural for Sessau, than if I trade them to Ezria they generate +2 to me and +2 to him. That's not withstanding how much he's paying for those furs.

The baseline is +1 and it never drops.

So if Caexi has Stone and it's generating +2 EP to you, and you trade it to Shidrus. It generates +1 EP for you, +1 EP for him, and he gets access to Stone.

For military resources, it halves the limits.

If Caexi has mithril and you trade it to Shidrus, you can now support 5 Mithril units and Shidrus can support 5 Mithril units, and you get whatever he is paying you with it, or whatever resource he's trading Mithril for you with.

Alright so having the iron or mithril sources then should be 'can support only 10 land base units' instead? Or at least that is what my understanding is from your explanation.

Yes. Caexi, you have Mithril.

You can only have ; at any ONE time. ten units that have mithril weapons.

That can be

5 Swordsman / 5 Heavy Cavalry.

2 Skirmishers / 3 Swordsman / 2 Light Cavalry / 3 Heavy Cavalry.

10 Heavy Cavalry. Blahblahblah.

Only ten at any one time. If I kill one of your mithril units, it drops to 9/10 and you can buy another Mithril unit.

Yes I know that. But for Iron and Mithril you have:

* For every ONE Iron [Mithril] Resource Node, you can support 10 Swordsman Companies unless being traded.

The swordsman comapnies needs to just changed to military or land based companies so its not confusing, unless you have already done that.

I changed it. Yes sir! ModMark Ezria's Set Piece and do a D2D so we can get out war and/or diplomacy going!

Can Trade Guild offices can be established in cities outside the country? Like if I wanted to set up guild offices in Mille Sessau, i could still collect the benefits from it, right?

Yes but Mille Sessau would have to allow it. You can't just start setting Trade Houses in other kingdoms without the kingdom allowing it.

Speaking of the Trade Guild feat, I was wondering: in the description it says that you start with one in your capital, and that every city gives an EP bonus. What I'm wondering is, do you start with trade guilds in all your initial cities, or do you have to put them there?

It would be kind of odd to have to expand in your own kingdom, especially in my case since the guilds are the government. Maybe you simply can't get an EP bonus for your own cities beyond the capital?

I'll brood on it.

Sal Mishlan is about to die.

What? He's like twenty feet from the ship and has guards with him. If the lizards tried anything the ship could rain arrows and siege weapons on them. How in hell does someone die in that circumstance?

Ionno if that was your first or second D2D. He's pretty much dead though.

Feh, I liked Sal Mishlan. He's my charismatic adventurer knockoff.

. . . although that does make his death at the hand of barbarian natives appropriate for the genre, and the profession.

Should've known you'd never let anything go along easily. You like tormenting people with those modmarks, don't you?

Don't think getting ANY of those resources in the archipelago will be even remotely easy.