Indonesian Elephant Shipment Bug

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  • **GAME BUILD v1.00.15.59076.0 P1
  • GAME PLATFORM: Steam
  • OPERATING SYSTEM: Windows 11

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The Indonesian Revolution’s “Sumatran Elephants” Card appears to increase the population requirements of each elephant by 1, rather than the elephants requiring one population point entirely. I.E. if you send 6 of these cards, each elephant will require 6 population space.

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  • 100% of the time / matches I play (ALWAYS)

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Here’s the steps to reproduce the issue:

  1. Play Portuguese or Dutch
  2. Select Indonesian Revolution
  3. Deploy multiplicity of Sumatran Elephants card.

:arrow_forward: EXPECTED RESULT

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Elephant units should take up 1 population space apiece (recommend 2/apiece in line with standard cavalry).

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Single Elephant with NO other population requiring units after 4 shipments.

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I though it was intended at first to put the scaling potential of this card to the ground, but you are right about the point about the patch note description that was :
Sumatran Elephants (infinite): Also adds 1 population space cost to War Elephants.

And here indeed each card send increase the population space by one, so if you send the card 10 times it will cost 10 pop spaces, which is…doubious and sounds like a bug more than an intended nerf to make those natives costing pop spaces like a lot of cards.

Question to devs : make Elephant costing more and more pop spaces with the infinite card was the intented mechanics for real ?

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I can agree that this bug happens. Just discovered it myself.

I would suggest the following change if you want something more complex than the 2 pop:

Instead of add 1 to pop.
set to :3 Pop

Add 1 base damage (2 to siege) to attacks
Add 10 hitpoints to base HP

Add 5 to build limit.

This way you can get more, more powerful, war elephants with time. They will still be behind mahout lancers, cuirassiers, and hussars in generic 1 on 1 strength for several shipments; but will also make up for not having exalted natives.

Maybe cap the delivered number at 10.