Ara team is looking for your feedback!

[Ara: History Untold]

Hello!

Thank you all so much for playing the game and sharing your thoughts, feedback, and bug reports with us here on the Steam forums.

If you have a few minutes to help us further, we have a survey we'd love for you to take which you can find here at the following link:
https://survey.alchemer.com/s3/8007180/5b9f6a207fec

The team uses this information alongside other data and communication to help determine where to focus effort for future hot fixes and patches, as well as new feature development as we continue to support the game.

If you have the time to complete this survey, it's super appreciated - but regardless, thank you for being a part of this community.

[Porcupine]

Should be able to disengage from a battle.
Should have a way to find a particular type of improvement (ie a foundry).
Should have a way to look at different parts of the world quickly, not scrolling, and the need to zoom in to scroll to some off screen area is weird.

[alexleshok]

1. Swap Musketeers and Samurai dudes combat strength - 28 with swords, 33 with guns (but requiring expensive gunpowder for build and for maintenance). It's easy - just swap XML values.
2. Move The Fusiliers to The Enlightenment and get a new Tercio anticav unit (strength around 28-33, does require gunpowder to build, but has gunpowder-free maintenance).
3. Move The Battleship into The Atomic Age from The Enlightenment. If unit upgrade is introduces - it's gonna be a weird Ironclad -> Battleship path. Let it be The Ironclad (The Enlightenment) -> The Dreadnought (The Industrial) -> The Battleship (The Atomic) -> The Guided Missile Cruiser (The Information).
4. There are 2 tiers of submarines, 3 tiers of capital ships and ONLY ONE Destroyer tier in the Atomic a.k.a. WW II - Vietnam age, Make a WW I Destroyer version please into The Industrial Age.
5. There is no advanced Stealth Jet Fighter (while there is an advanced B-2 Spirit Stealth Bomber).
6. There is no Trench WWI Bolt Action Rifle guys in The Industrial (a large gap between The Line Infantry - OK it will belong to The Enligthenment and The AR-15 Vietnam GI guys). And there is a Gatling gun in the Atomic Age. Make it into The Industrial Age and make a new MG-42/M2 HMG into The Atomic.
7. Napoleonic style mortars in The Industrial?

WE NEED A COMPLETE NEW SET OF UNITS EACH ERA TO AVOID HISTORICAL GAPS:

So my suggestion to unit sets:
LAND UNITS:
1. Renaissance. Musketeer (Strength 33), Samurai (Strength 28), Tercio - new anticav, Arquebusiers, Cannons.
2. Enlightenment. Line Infantry, Fusiliers, Dragoons, Mortars (from The Industrial Age).
3. Industrial. Trench Infantry (new, Garands or Lee Enfields), Flamethrowers, Gatlings (from The Atomic Age), Early Tanks, WW I Howitzers.
4. Atomic. Seems OK to me

NAVAL UNITS:
Make Ironclad + Ship of The Line (new) + Frigate (Enlightenment)
Make Dreadnought + WW I Destroyer (new) + Submarine (Industrial)
Make Battleship, Carrier, Nuclear Sub, Destroyer (Atomic)

AIR UNITS:
Seems fine to me. But an attack helicopter would be a nice Information era new unit, though different from UAV drones. And a Stealth Jet Fighter new Information Era would be a nice thing.

[AngeloDante]

Posted a few days ago on X: https://x.com/VAngelodante/status/1843675373697151354

[Pawn]

hoping in the future there will be true earth start locations map like done in the last civilization .

[Cincinnatus]

In multiplayer games, all AI is basically non-aggressive. (Emperor Difficulty)

[zazinc93]

Great survey, hopefully many others will take it instead of leaving comments here.

[CarperGaz]

Latest patch
In my current game 460 turns in -
Seems the Pub worked able to build per city
However Grocer not able to build one per city as per patch notes

[alexleshok]

Do Ara updates affect the current saves? Or do changes implement only upon starting a new game?

[CarperGaz]

A few suggestion
Currently on turn 480
When a new resource like "aluminium & Natural gas"
I'm getting it not sure where from - can I mine it or drill for it like oil?
Need some sort of highlight or on next turn goes to where it is, to help find it so you have the opposition to demolish what building is there to but the mine on it to improve production.
Or
A search option to find some thing on the map - which would take you to the places on the map - ideally your cities first, however if none in or near your cites, you might want to go to war for the resource

Industrial fishing
No option to upgrade - currently have to demolish and rebuild

Grain
Late game food is a struggle - so add the option to allow a food option like rice location have. have over 5k of grain, Need food more now

[Skatman]

1.04 - I can't seem to play the game without random texture squares flashing at me uncontrollably.

Furthermore - I can't report the bug without creating an Ara account. I don't want to create an Ara account. Please make the bug report feature not need a user account being tied to it.

[The Former]

Keep the Samurai and Musketeer strength where they are.

If you implement a speed scale, allow us to scale production and tech speed with separate sliders.

[alexleshok]

Originally posted by The Former:

Keep the Samurai and Musketeer strength where they are.

If you implement a speed scale, allow us to scale production and tech speed with separate sliders.

The gunpowder free dudes with swords are stronger than gunpowder requiring guys with pronounced firearms? It seems weird. Why bother with complex chemistry when you could just giveaway swords?

According to Civ IV Gunpowder tech quote: "Never bring a sword to the gunfight"

[alexleshok]

OR Make the Samurai a charge melee cavary then. I'll be fine with that. Better than Uhlans (but move the Uhlans into The High Medieval - kinda Turkic/Mongol/Mamluk heavy cavalry).

But leave the musketeer a top tier infantry - the kinetic energy and the stopping power of a lead slug excel any bastard sword or katana. A couched lance strike - well, that's the comparable thing.

[Porcupine]

A glitch: Game occasionally shuts itself off just after loading (when I hit 'continue' to begin). Windows 10.

[mr_root]

Done.