Topic: The sense of the Empire's outpost?
MarkMcWire
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2020-11-25, 17:20 UTC+1.0
What is the purpose of the outpost of the empire in terms of game design. The question comes to me because there is no equivalent for this building in the barbarian tribe. The barriers also exist for the Barbarians, just like the tower. Both buildings with a medium construction site. Does the outpost have any special meaning or quality?
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2020-11-25, 17:33 UTC+1.0
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MarkMcWire
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2020-11-25, 17:28 UTC+1.0
Comparison of the military buildings:
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2020-11-25, 17:32 UTC+1.0
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hessenfarmer
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2020-11-25, 17:36 UTC+1.0
The empire has upgradeable buildings that can be built directly as well the outpost is cheaper then a barrier but can be enhanced to it with more accomodation and i believe one step bigger radius. So for me this adds diversity and depth to strategies and I would vote to keep the buildings of the legacy tribes.
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Nordfriese
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2020-11-25, 17:39 UTC+1.0
We should definitely keep the classical tribes as they are. The empire's outpost is like a downgraded barrier at half the cost which makes it very useful e.g. in situations where wood is too precious. And the atlantean guardhall has the largest soldier capacity of all medium milsites so it can be considered sort of a medium-sized fortress already. There used to be some building called the Stronghold which was, if I remember correctly1, the barbarian equivalent of the empire Outpost. It was removed long ago.
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2020-11-25, 17:49 UTC+1.0
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WorldSavior
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2020-11-25, 18:28 UTC+1.0
+1
Yes, it is useful in situations where a building with conquer radius 7 fits perfectly. Furthermore you can enhance outposts before they get overwhelmed, so enhancing them to a barrier in a fight can be useful. Wanted to save the world, then I got widetracked
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kaputtnik
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2020-11-25, 20:07 UTC+1.0
The outpost cost one marble when building it and returns one marble when dismantling. For empire this is really important, because marble is one of the main resources of empire.
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MarkMcWire
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2020-11-30, 11:59 UTC+1.0
BTW: I have now also given my tribe a "barrier" to bring it in line with the others. My widelands addons: https://drive.google.com/file/d/1jopANlODo41T2reHJ0zaCOMYxq_rxXP-/view?usp=sharing
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