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Artaxerxes Update-gathering ideas
Hi folks. I've started thinking about an update to "Artaxerxes, the fall of the Spartan hegemony".
My basic ideas are:
-Remove bugs
-Include new graphics
-Improve/Change events
-Improve some basic map stuff
In detail:
I will remove any bugs including graphical faults.
I will include a number of new graphics, including those that were used in "Darius", but also some other brand-new ones.
About the events:
I will erase some uneccesary and irelevant events such as the satrapal revolts, and instead will include the conditions of the royal peace of 386 BC.
Now the question is: Should I make two different events files for Persians and Greeks?
The Persian events will feature inner-Persian matters, perhaps the one or other Satrapal revolt and the essentials of Greece.
The Greek events will include some neat things that decrease the possibilities for the player in the frame of the royal peace, i.e. if Athens thinks about increasing their navy, they get busted by the Persians and so on. The Greek events file will also be playable for the Carthaginians.
Now, I will stick with the one-events file because I don't really want a re-modeling of the scenario (I think it is good enough). Things such as the camel herds, nomad camps and so on will of course stay. And in general, most of the nice other things will as well.
Now, do you think I should make the scenario start in 404 BC, the year in which Artaxerxes accessed the throne, in order to include the revolt of Cyrus the Younger? This might be more fun for the Persian player because, aside from Sardeis and Daskyleion he will most propably be able to "liberate" a lot more Barbarian cities from the revolting satraps.
I will also include an accessable tech tree for both Greek and Persian player as well as some new improvements and perhaps the one or other new WoW.
I will also change the map a little to make the country a little more unhospitable. There will also be some new things to recreate the actions of Artaxerxes: The national religion and so on... More scythians, lesser units, lesser money perhaps... impossibility to bribe Barbarian and Greek cities... More sounds too.
There will also be random quotations from Xenophon's "Anabasis", Plutarchus' "Vita Artaxerxes" and other Greek author's views on the Persia of Artaxerxes II.
If anyone here has some good new ideas, you are welcome to tell me. It would also be great if one or two people would volunteer for playtesting here.
My basic ideas are:
-Remove bugs
-Include new graphics
-Improve/Change events
-Improve some basic map stuff
In detail:
I will remove any bugs including graphical faults.
I will include a number of new graphics, including those that were used in "Darius", but also some other brand-new ones.
About the events:
I will erase some uneccesary and irelevant events such as the satrapal revolts, and instead will include the conditions of the royal peace of 386 BC.
Now the question is: Should I make two different events files for Persians and Greeks?
The Persian events will feature inner-Persian matters, perhaps the one or other Satrapal revolt and the essentials of Greece.
The Greek events will include some neat things that decrease the possibilities for the player in the frame of the royal peace, i.e. if Athens thinks about increasing their navy, they get busted by the Persians and so on. The Greek events file will also be playable for the Carthaginians.
Now, I will stick with the one-events file because I don't really want a re-modeling of the scenario (I think it is good enough). Things such as the camel herds, nomad camps and so on will of course stay. And in general, most of the nice other things will as well.
Now, do you think I should make the scenario start in 404 BC, the year in which Artaxerxes accessed the throne, in order to include the revolt of Cyrus the Younger? This might be more fun for the Persian player because, aside from Sardeis and Daskyleion he will most propably be able to "liberate" a lot more Barbarian cities from the revolting satraps.
I will also include an accessable tech tree for both Greek and Persian player as well as some new improvements and perhaps the one or other new WoW.
I will also change the map a little to make the country a little more unhospitable. There will also be some new things to recreate the actions of Artaxerxes: The national religion and so on... More scythians, lesser units, lesser money perhaps... impossibility to bribe Barbarian and Greek cities... More sounds too.
There will also be random quotations from Xenophon's "Anabasis", Plutarchus' "Vita Artaxerxes" and other Greek author's views on the Persia of Artaxerxes II.
If anyone here has some good new ideas, you are welcome to tell me. It would also be great if one or two people would volunteer for playtesting here.
!
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