[PATCH] Smith aura for citizen soldier

[fatherbushido]

That was written in many places. Sometimes (often) players (new or old) asks if it works. I don't know if we should implement it. If so:

• should we use an aura
• or work directly in a component

The first solution works pretty well but I wonder if it's not too bad from the perfomance point of view.

[fatherbushido]

numbers can be obviously tweaked

[elexis]

Why would anyone not garrison a unit in blacksmiths if we add that bonus? The significant bonus should come with a significant disadvantage. For example garrisoning a hero would have an impact on the player and force him to chose between two valid options.

[fatherbushido]

(btw i used bad namming in the draft attached patch)

[Stan]

Aren't units resources ? So while your unit is garrisoned it's not working elsewhere. You could do that only to champions which have a higher cost though

[mimo]

I have mixed feelings about it. It looks to me quite alien to the game mecanism and i'm afraid it will generate useless micro (just before researching a tech, you"ll have to find a unit and garrison it, and then ungarrison it when finished) so that you'll end up with always keeping the unit garrisoned, and thus it will become more or less equivalent to have a new tech which decreases the tech time and which is more in the spirit of the rest of the game. In addition, why single out the blacksmith? and not also have such a thing for other structures which can research techs. So, if going in that direction, i would prefer:

• either something more connected to research and more generic: for exemple, if you garrison units in the library (and maybe in temples for those civs which don't have library), you decrease the research time of all techs. And 10% for a single unit looks too much for me, i would favor something like 2% per garrisoned unit (with maybe only 1% in temples) limited to 10%.
• or if we really want to single out blacksmith, link the time reduction to the number of blacksmiths rather than its garrisoned units: a second blacksmith would give a reduction of 10% of the blacksmith research time and a third one would give an additional 5% reduction. That may also become an incentive to capture blacksmiths.

[fatherbushido]

You confirm my first thoughts. Thanks for clarification! (and suggestions)

I will close the ticket.

[elexis]

Would add that there might be people on the forums who might give more reasoning than the trac people.