Hi !

1°) This is planned to be done

2°) I don't think converting units is very important, game wise,especially if you can disband them and just... produce what you want

3°) You can do that, since the last update

4°) I think i know enough of how the map generation mechanics work to say this is undoable

Here is the thread for number one: Disbandment of Units

For number two, that's an interesting idea. @Opulon I think it would depend on how long it would take to convert a unit vs. creating an entirely new unit from scratch.

For three, what Op said

For four, I don't have Opulon's experience so I'm inclined to just take his word for it XD

To explain a little bit more, A map is a huge array of data, with lines and columns.

What i say comes from S1914, i don't think though CoN has a radically different technology.

Basically, you would have something like

Name / Owner / Production / Population / Location

Paris;France;Supplies;6;598:067;...

In supremacy, every province was a city, so maybe CoN has a column called "City" that is a boolean (True/False)

the location of a city is cartesian, in order to generate the pathes. The layout of the map is rigid and used in a blank white/black style.

Now, converting a province to a city means, beyond "changing terrain", "converting province shape" into some kind of an hexagon, to fit with what a city is in the game, as well as putting Gfx on it. This, i think, is hard coded and not doable.

And if you give up on the "hexagon" form of cities, to consider that "it's not important, just do it the whole province", then, it may be technically possible, but the, i would disagree for pure balancing purpoose.

1°) Cities are Mountains, speed wise. Players would use that to create artificial fortresses.
2°) Imagine what it will look like in the huge provinces of Eurasia.

Not desirable, in my opinion. However, i must admit that a part of myself would like this economical feature, but something like "to expand" the cities in the neighbouring provinces. Something like a suburbs, that would drastically improve money production

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"For number two, that's an interesting idea. @Opulon I think it would depend on how long it would take to convert a unit vs. creating an entirely new unit from scratch." ----> yeah, but do we want really to create this kind of paradigm ? I mean, if you can disband unit with a little cashback, then you metaphorically have a reduction over the next unit you produce, "converting" their raw value into another unit.Ultimately, a "convert" option somewhere would maybe make the UI more heavy, without being that much critical for the gameplay (in opposition to a disband feature, btw)

There will be no upgrading by dependancy - we actually had it and it did not work well. Why? Because players essentially only researched the basic units. Additionally, the base inf is unlocked at game start, serving as a logical prerequisite.

About building of cities: Besides the technical issues already mentioned by Opulon, there really is no place for it in the core loop of the game. We are no civ style game and don't want to be. This being said, we do understand the demand for more civil/economical decisionmaking, but simply merging in features of games with a totally different focus is not the answer. Instead we have some ideas on how to expand this type of gameplay, but they are not yet specced out enough to discuss them openly.

This can be exploited to create offensive names. A lot is prohibited to ensure a good playing experience for everyone.

Nuff' said. On supremacy a good part of reportings are nazi flags and people putting inappropriate names. I always thought to myself it would be a nice premium feature, because a paying customer is a bit less tempted to act like a 8 years old

Can we pls buff corvettes vs ground units since their major property is shore bombardment?
And counter this by nerfing other naval units damage toward ground units by like 40% or something

Actually this is an interesting idea. I never thought about it before. Maybe I'd add the feature that if you take advantage of it and obviously, intentionally, make something offensive, you can get SC membership revoked.

Yeah. But to be honest, nowadays, Cyclone26 had me thinking very much on how to make the Premium more incentive, so i see premium features everywhere lol

lol. I wonder how many times this has been brought up now. Has been mentioned in many threads.

Though I just thought of something that would make the game more interesting in addition to a disband button. If units wouldnt automatically become the next level when the research was completed. Like if you had 5 level 1 infantry and just finished researching L2. The L1 units would remain as such and you could either upgrade or disband them. Of course any new units you mobilized would be L2.

1) we have "Disband" on the agenda but just not high up on the list... Too many issues, summertime and and and... You get my drift.
2) Manual Upgrading currently isn't planned but who knows what we brew up next...

//G