Hill bonus

[vanBladdeck]

I really like the hill bonus units get in aoe2 and was wondering how hard it would be to implement that into aoe3? Are there already mods featuring this mechanic? Sadly i couldnt find one

[JiMMy12013]

There is a way to set it up yourself, I’m trying to remember which file it is. I’ve looked into doing it and the process really isn’t mod-friendly. There are other posts about the elevation advantage and how the game’s design doesn’t quite work with it. I agree with you, I would have liked it to have been a thing within the game.

[JiMMy12013]

It's Over Anakin, i have the High Ground

there is code for high ground advantage already in the game, you can enable it yourself by modifying the text file game.cfg in the startup folder. look for a setting called BallisticHeightBonusPercent. here you can also modify other game settings such as market rates, certain particle and ui effects, default map, editor and zoom settings, and what appears to be an unlimited gold mine feature that greatly slowed mining speed after mining a certain amount. as for why it was disabled, you can rea…

[HoopThrower]

From what I remember, another quirk of it being a 3D engine is that it’s real hard to easily tell when there’s a height advantage as well.