CherryMod Thread
Hello! I'm going to make a mod for Dominions 2, doing some things like rebalancing light/heavy infantry as I see fit=) But, the details won't be announced until I see the contents of patch 1, as there might be some official changes.
However, I WILL say what would be useful to me as a modder, that I don't think are currently possible:
1) Visible fields in armor that allow it to affect attack, precision, and gold cost (currently, the only fields are resources, protection, defense, and encumbrance, AFAIK).
2) New unit ability, "Upkeep", set as a percentage. Most units would stay at default of 1/15 cost, but you could give a unit the "Upkeep" ability to set it at 130% of normal or 40% of normal or whatever. Alternately, this could be a floating-point unit stat, that you could see by right-clicking on the unit's name or something. Upkeep should always be visible on the unit screen, anyway, so you don't get confused about the costs of keeping Black Hawks or whatever...
3) New unit ability, "Forager". This would also be a percentage, allowing you to give some units the ability to consume 70% of the normal supply, or whatever... even better, supply usage would be a great unit stat.
4) If this cannot be accomplished with a mod already, the ability to rescale supply levels, so that units eat 10X as much, castles hold 10X as much, items generate 10X as much, pillaging generates 10X as much, and provinces yield 10X as much. Alternately, processing supply as a float instead of an int would accomplish the same thing=)
If the engine and modding tools support these things, I'll make good use of them=) If not... well, some of them can be gotten around, it would just be a lot easier to set an attack reduction for an armor type than for every unit using that armor type.
If you have any suggestions as to what you'd like to see in a mod (that can realistically be accomplished), feel free to post them here! Just don't assume I'll include them gratuitously=)
-Cherry
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