Would you like developers to introduce a new character model for female pharaohs? (Cleopatra, Hatshepsut, Sobeknefru and Twosret from the old game)
Yes, can’t wait to see the queens kick ass!
No, let’s pretend they never existed…
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To clarify, I mean an aesthetic update: introducing a female pharaoh skin to correct the glitch of having a female name with a male character model. This minor change wouldn’t affect game mechanics. Based on the old name list, the chance of getting a female pharaoh is 5.63%.
Having both genders would be historically correct. So i voted yes. But i want to say that i only vote yes because it is historically correct, because such things kind of matter to me.
very cool idea! i definitely support that! love the idea of female berserks (especially since we don’t have shield maidens) and i like some diversity regarding other units beside villagers.
would be easy to do regarding the pharaoh (if not from the devs than from modders) i can imagine playing as “cleopatra” for isis. would be kinda cool ngl.
Every second poll is clearly bias on how they present option.
“Do you want auto queue”
Yes because I’m a noob
No because I know how to play the game
“Do you want auto queue”
Yes because I have better things to do then press buttons
No because my only joy in life is pressing buttons better then other people
Why can’t people make neutral polls. It’s ok to have an opinion but not make it part of your poll.
Reminds me of some “elections” that happened in Europe in the 1930s where the “Yes” option was 5 times as big as the “No” option with “Yes” being plastered a 100 times on the building the “election” was taking part in.
Before seeing this poll, I didn’t even know a Pharao could have a female name.
My stance on this is the same as for female gatherers and dwarves turning into Ulfsarks, which has been partially implemented in the beta. As far as I could tell so far, female gatherers turn into female Berserks (renamed Ulfsarks) male gatherers into male Berserks, and for Dwarves its random. (Since Dwarves can become Berserks/Ulfsarks too, I think there should be a dwarf version as well. But that’s another topic.)
So, either give the female Pharaos a female model, or delete the female names.
Nope. All voiceacting budget should go to new campaign, pantheons, minor gods or major gods.
Wasting time to add pointless features like these, that won’t be better than original, is never going to end. Next thing you will be asking for are breeding farms, female bearded huskarls and female minotaurs with udders. All you are doing is removing sound clarity from the game. Male pharaoh sounds amazing, and there is no reason to add chance of something that probably won’t sound as amazing.
For a game like this, adding a new model variant doesn’t take away from the ability to add major things. Most of the time, small projects like this get picked up by devs in their free time with minimal resources, if any, allocated specifically for it.
The other things you listed are quite a massive leap from “Female Pharaoh.” There’s already female names possible for the Pharoah, it would not be much effort. They could even just reuse Amanra’s voice lines for the unit, or modulate them a bit, and the model editing (if the game is anything like AoE3DE) would take an hour, tops, to accomplish for someone already experienced in the game.
female priests would be great too but more unlikely to be added. (still not a fan that priests are considered heroes, i always imagined them more to be scouts like orcales (which they basically are) and healers. i would personally much prefer some hero units or some really really strong male and female pharaoh.
but this is a totally minor thing and a mod can change that someday maybe.
but a female model for a female named pharaoh really is a great idea and is very possible and relative easy to do!
I hate this argument.
“Please don’t make X because Y is broken.”
Those are 2 completely unrelated issues. Voicing one unit in one language is nothing compared to rerecording the whole campaign in multiple languages.
Especially since there were a lot of popular female Pharaohs.
I have the opposite opinion.
I think religious units are the most fitting for fighting myth units. This also fits better into the balance of human units being cost efficient vs. Heroes.
It feels wrong seeing Heracles being countered by normal humans.
The Atlantean heroes are the worst. Basically just normal soldiers but stronger.
I realise just now the poll wording seems biased, but it wasn’t my original intention. It’s my first poll ever! Unfortunately I can’t modify it because there’s a limit of 180 minutes to do that and it’s expired.
I don’t want to shame or judge anybody whatever answer they pick.
Just vote “yes” if you’d like to keep the female names and introduce a matching character model and “no” of you’d rather they removed the names and only kept the current male model. They’re both equally valid options!
Just as long as I no longer get an ancient Egyptian dude named Cleopatra!
No worries man, first poll and all.
Good to see you though willing to learn, take pointers and listen. Rare these days on the internet. But also a reason why the AOM community is a great one. Healthy discussions and disagreements
Besides Hatshepsut and Twosret(maybe), who are these “lot of popular female Pharaohs”? Cleopatra was Greek so she isn’t included. Two notable names is not alot. Don’t make up stuff.
Yes, a handful of Pharaohs from a list of hundreds. Not worthy of creating a separate model for them in game. I fully support addition of Great Royal Wife (Queen) additions however for the editor for which we all want more content for campaigns etc.
@BaphometSLM - Most of the names listed in the lecture were wives of male Pharaohs, and most had almost nothing written about them.
Except there isn’t a hundred different names in the game, there is 68 currently.
Why create a unique model of the Great Royal Wife only for the editor and not add it to skirmish mode, especially since the vast majority is in favor of its addition?
Some of them are very ancient, therefore we lack information sometimes. Some of them are even almost “mythical” because of this. Isn’t that funny for a game about mythology? And again, I ask you the question: Are all the male pharaohs currently in the random name pool popular?