Hey ho ,
As far as i can see there are a lot of nice changes but also some changes that ruined the game for me and some other people .
I´ll start with the nice changes like the better working farms. It makes leatherstrategies much stronger because you save precious time by needing less farms to run the full production.
Also that Knights would continue chasing archers once they hit them is a really nice change , because like that you can focus on more important things on the battlefield than
clicking at the same group of archers all the time to make the Knight continuing to attack them .
The new regrouping of soldiers is a really nice change imo because like that you wont have these annoying problems with rangeunits messing up their formation because one of them died.
The new marketvalues are good because they fixed the big food for corn marketabuse , but still there are some big problems with the market which i will point out later.
Ofcourse the new possible gamemodes look really interesting and im sure they will bring much more variety into the game which is very good.
The possibility of changing the speed for both peacetime and after peacetime is a good tool to make the game faster and is for sure a good thing ,
but i really dont think that x3 speed is necessary because its just to fast to control anything properly . I would suggest a speedup between x1 and x2 by taking 0.2 steps.
Also i noticed that some computers cant handle the fast speed and cause lags.
Now something about the new possibility of taking out weapons from the barracks and block weapons in the barracks. Its a really good change but it brings some problems with the market with it.Now you can
trade axe for horse for example which can be in combination with rushstrats really imbalanced. Things like 40 knights after pt are kind of easy to make now and will make things like 3 people rushing one guy with 120 knights
really likely. So i think there really needs to be a rebalance with wooden weapons in the market because they are really easy to make and have a really good value.
About the thing with the reloading of archers there definetly needs to be a change because the way they need to reload before they can move again can be really devastating for archers.
I would propose something like a cooldown for archers to shoot again , so if you shoot with your rangeunit once you have to wait the reload time to be able to shoot again . So this cooldown time will run while they are standing
and reloading like normal or while they are moving and no visual reloading is visible. Like that you should be able to have full control of your rangeunits again because they dont have to end the reloadanimation but therefore have
the reloadtime in their mind and can just shoot again when this time is over and like that skipping the reloadtime causing them to shoot faster is not possible anymore.
And now what really should be changed back is the thing with the unlocking of quarrys and woodcutters after the school.
It really ruined one of the best maps in KaM - Golden Cliffs . This map is made for the normal order of school-inn-quarry-woodcutter-sawmill. So i think it should be the decision of the mapmaker which buildings should be unlocked
and which should be not. Im sure this change just had the aim to make the start faster and to generalize the start for all maps so people wont be confused about the different starts in different maps but i think this problems can be
solved different. The starting speed is now solved anyway by the possibility of speeding up the game itself and the different start-buildingorder can maybe be noted in the mapdescription, so people will know what awaits them.
All in all i can say that you guys really did a good job here and im looking forward to continue the testing of the new rc´s but i must say that the new possibility of marketabuse, the reloading of rangeunits and
the new buildorder at start kind of make me not want to play the rc any further because it is no fun for me anymore and im sure im not the only one with this oppinion because many people on teamspeak showed same oppinion about
the changes. But once again you guys really made also a lot of good changes in this rc which will make the game better in many ways , so only the few bad changes have to be fixed and the game will become even more epic
.