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Well, that short of a distance to build a building is a bit too close. There are maps with locations where the iron and gold are far away. Rise of Nations has a feature, though, to prevent buildings being built in enemy territory by showing how much territory you have at the time, and where you could build based on your own territory. Maybe a building in KaM could influence your territory and where you can build except also to share your alliance territory, too. With this kind of feature implemented, pt could also influence where your troops are limited to go on the map.

Well, that short of a distance to build a building is a bit too close. There are maps with locations where the iron and gold are far away. Rise of Nations has a feature, though, to prevent buildings being built in enemy territory by showing how much territory you have at the time, and where you could build based on your own territory. Maybe a building in KaM could influence your territory and where you can build except also to share your alliance territory, too. With this kind of feature implemented, pt could also influence where your troops are limited to go on the map.

Like I said, like in settlers.
But it's not a good idea, doesn't fit in Kam.

i've got another suggestion. after playing a couple of multiplayer games, i think it would be great to have a scout/explorer type unit to do some.. exploring
it's pretty hard sometimes to plan your base/town when you don't know exactly where the resources are. if you have a explorer unit from the start (or if you can train one from the school), you can explore some more of the area and it would be easier to make an effective town. especially for new players (like myself) and players that are not so skilled. because there's so many maps and each has 4-8 different locations, it would be much easier to plan your town according to locations of resources. ofcourse, the unit would not be militairy, so it would have very low hitpoints (like bowman) and no attack. perhaps, give it a high need of food (like it needs to eat twice as quick as other units) so it cannot walk to the end of the map.

That's a problem because people will scout the enemy villages and by the end of peacetime you will have explored every inch of the map, so the "fog of war" is effectively removed from the game. I think maps should have a large enough area explored so you can see where each resource is (only part of the hill needs to be visible). Also we'd like to change peacetime to divide the map into "territories" for each player based on how close it is to your storehouse. In that case we could make peacetime still allow you to move soldiers within your territory.
You can open up the map in the map editor to see where things are. In the next release it's possible to run the game more than once, but only one copy can be in multiplayer mode (to prevent cheating by looking at where your enemies are in the save file)

also, i would like to bring my previous suggestion back to your attention because no one has responded to it yet.
please let me know what you think of it. thanks.

Selecting multiple saves to be deleted is probably a good idea but means we have to implement that into our list control.
Aggressive/defensive stances might not be necessary because we have other plans to make it easier for knights to chase down archers (if you tell them to attack the archers they should continue pursuing them instead of stopping after killing 1-2). Still it could be an interesting game mechanic.
I've added both to our proposals list.

Well, that short of a distance to build a building is a bit too close. There are maps with locations where the iron and gold are far away. Rise of Nations has a feature, though, to prevent buildings being built in enemy territory by showing how much territory you have at the time, and where you could build based on your own territory. Maybe a building in KaM could influence your territory and where you can build except also to share your alliance territory, too. With this kind of feature implemented, pt could also influence where your troops are limited to go on the map.

Like I said, like in settlers.
But it's not a good idea, doesn't fit in Kam.

yeah, i don't think the settlers watch tower idea is a good idea. what about something like they used in the original command and conquers? you can only build buildings x tiles away from your existing buildings. for example, when you want to build a building 30 tiles away from your closest other building, it is not possible because the maximum is (for example) 20-25. so as you expand your town, you will also expand your territory/range of influence (wich makes sense). this way you can also prefend enemies from building into your range of influence. perhaps this number 'x' can be custom set for different maps where resources are far away from the starting location, make it 30 for these maps.

That's exactly what I said, I posted 2 ideas.

Which messages would you like to be able to delete specifically?

Maybe we can make an option to hide house notification messages? After all it's not critical if some mines are exhausted and some houses have no owners. What about hiding army notifications? You could loose a squad if you forget to feed them.

How about removing notification messages and replace them with information beacons above houses? If there's a beacon - that house needs your attention for some reason, maybe it has no owner? Not sure if that will fit KaM though - map view is very realistic and adding artificial symbols to it will break the style.

Maybe we can make an option to hide house notification messages? After all it's not critical if some mines are exhausted and some houses have no owners. What about hiding army notifications? You could loose a squad if you forget to feed them.