Request : Half map option for treaty mode

Age of Empires III: DE III - Discussion
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Hey,

Long time Age player…

It is a bit frustrating that treaty build is limited by town center placement.

Can we have specific maps, or even have players somehow select maps to have a line placed down the middle of where people can build… (For instance ;
on
Orinoco
Andes - Upper - on the trade route,
Bohemia - On the water lines

This type of “rule” would apply to a niche category of players, while it would be utilized by others.

Thanks.

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Would your suggestion mean either team could get those middle trade routes? Or there be some for each? Or no one gets them?

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Honestly, new customization options for treaty mode seem very doable. It boils down to the radius of a safe zone emitting from a starting TC.

I’d love no drop-down many with few options:

  • 1.5x
  • 2.0x
  • 2.5x (greyed out unless big map mode is enabled I guess?)
  • 3.0x (as above)

Even 1.5x would enable taking control of some ‘sockets’ on a lot of maps. As for now, a relatively small percentage of RMs is constructed in a way that guarantees a spawn of trading route or native village close to player spawn point.

Good idea +11
Should take a lot of programming effort :slight_smile:

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Trade routes on what map? Andes?

I would say custom options to give more map control would be ideal, where like 40/40 but 20% of map in middle is unbuildable, etc

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I agree with this, take the current radius around town centers and multiply it would be doable, and not very coding intensive. Though I am mostly code illiterate.

But I think this is doable, to have the radius of the tc increased. I do not think it would take MUCH effort, and the community feedback to such a change would be imense.

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So far the radius is a fixed amount, and not changeable by any tech or command. It’s a different file, so devs would need to do alot of changes to the game code for that to be possible

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I would agree if they give more radius to build BUUUUT not more exclusive zone (enemy can build there) if HM is not a thing

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In all honesty, I had talks with them back when 3DE was released.
There were a few ideas how this could have worked out.
Like , having a simple invisible wall running through the map, sounds simple and easy…
BUT coding that in XS sounds absolutely horror and something that can easily bug out ^^

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But this has been a request for some time.

So, why not do it?..

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Like aaidy it will be horrible to code, take alot of time.
And we all know the famous sentence " Time = Money "
Not enough money = no one will do it.

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So you’re saying they’re all lazy?

Elaborate.

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I would never call them lazy, what they have done so far is amazing !

You wouldn’t do your job without getting paid right ? So no one else will

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