June PUP- Lakota Rework

[OperaticShip743]

@FiveWind6951746

An additional mechanic to form alliances with Minor Civilizations has been implemented:

• Instead of manually placing a Trading Post it is now also possible to convert the settlement’s socket with any unit and slowly build the Trading Post automatically with a click of a button!
• To convert a socket you can to walk up to a neutral settlement with any unit. Upon conversion you will hear a capture sound and see a flag of your player color placed into the socket:
  • Beware! Moving near a neutral Settlement will change its color on the minimap, alerting a vigilant opponent to a potential raiding parties’ location, so be stealthy!
• To form an alliance with this minor civilization select the converted socket and click the new build button in the top left:
• Forming an alliance through this mechanic does not require a builder unit and costs 100 food and 100 wood. Upon clicking the button the Trading Post will be slowly built.
• It is still possible to manually place and build a Trading Posts for 200 wood in the same socket. The construction time will also be notably shorter this way!
• A neutral Settlement with a converted socket will now provide some Line of Sight of the surrounding area (a bit like the Stagecoach) as long as you are in control. Building a Trading Post improves this bonus further and grants a trickle of 0.35 XP per second, and access to additional units and technologies as usual.
• As long as the construction of a Trading Post has not been started, other players can still convert sockets back with any of their own units, or manually build Trading Posts in the socket.

Really? A dream come true.

I hope these are not the only changes they make. I liked the change from reverting the Navajo to a skirmish unit, but I’m thirsty for more: Catalog of proposals on minor factions/civilizations (AOE-3 BASIC + TWC + TAD)