Heya mate! I always play AoW3 with your mod; I absolutely love it. I'm currently working on an overhaul expanding building abilities to Engineers. How could I go about making it compatible with this mod?

Heya! i love your mod! Buuut...could it be that iam unable to build water fortresses now? the other day i wanted to protect my route through the river...aaand i realized i cannot build a water fortress p-p

@Ana: AI does not build any of these structures, same as the old fortresses.
@me: This mod is not compatible with Racial Watchtowers. Ancient watchtowers should have their vanilla model. There used to be a problem that it would show up as a halfling tower. I hope that problem is no longer there because I am not in a situation where I can easily fix things, anyway ... see below.
@Artemis: The mod ´broke´ after the latest patch (poseidon) that added marine structures. I made a new version called: Fortress Additions Addendum. You should subscribe to that one and unsubscribe from this one.
Cheers

I just got back to the game after a long hiatus only to find that this mod is suddenly not compatible with the vanilla version of the game (no DLCs)... What's up with that?

Hi leon, I wanna say I really love this mod and the flexibility it brings. I have just 2 questions.

Is it possible to integrate/make compatible this mod with the Racial Watchtowers mod?

And is there any way to change the original watchtowers (i.e. Ancient Watchtower) back to their vanilla model?

Thank you!

Does the AI use them?

Since it is very difficult for me to upload big mod files I will not be making any compatibility patches or other versions. If I can assist other modders in this regard I will be happy to help.

I have made an updated version of this mod and finally manged to upload it to my own account. I advise everyone to unsubscribe from this one and subscribe to the new version instead. In due time I will have this version removed in order to avoid confusion. Sorry for any inconvenience.

@Eredar
Agreed here, a compatibility patch would be awesome.

Any version of this great mod that doesn't need the dlc?

I am thinking of updating and fixing this mod. How can I help out the Extraordinary and Poseidon mods?

League of Extraordinary builders and Poseidon needs your hel to make a comatibility patch.
Your mod is one of the most immersive in terms of empire building features.

I really like the mod it adds various upgrades to the simple fortresses and makes watch towers worth defending. However with the new poseidon abilities added to base game this mod is somewhat obsolete due to the conflicts of poseidon fortress and the mods custom ones not able to be built in water. Would be nice if you picked it back up and added the changes from poseidon to this mod but no worries if you dont. was a great mod before poseidon came along.

I am currently not modding anymore, sorry. I might pick it up again in the future but can't be sure.

Are there any plans to make this compatable with the new 1.8 Poseidan patch? From what I can see, builders from this mode can't build forts on water.

Any way to replace the Ancient Watchtower's model with the old watchtower model?

Thank you btw, everything else works just as you intended and I love the additions. I just really miss the vanilla watchtower texture cuz I feel the new Ancient Watchtower doesn't really look ancient. If anything, it looks like a Hafling's 3-story home. Watchtowers reminiscent of AOW2's texture may be a good idea.

Thank you for the rpk's. Where are most of the mechanics occurring? I would like to have workers remove cityentities that have been razed. Can you think of how this might be accompilshed?

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Is there a chance for a patch with League of Extrodinary Builders mod?

No. There is a minimum distance between them. In fact, you can't build watchtowers right next to fortresses, either

Isn't this mod op because you can build endless towers etc. next to each other?

Hey, is this mod supposed to require dlc? Because I get a message about needing dlc2 and 3.

Hey, loving this mod! I did notice, though, that for humans (the race not the player) the upgrade from sentry camp to wooden fortress does not give domain radius like it should. Upgrading from wood to stone increases it to domain radius 3 as it should be. Just thought I'd say something.

Do human players really need more advantages?

Don't think the AI ever uses builders, anyway. This will only affect human players.

@slashimus: I have not been able to make the AI use the strategic building functions and am afraid there is just no coding support for it.
@christophe: In order to avoid conflict between mods I had to make this mod override Racial Watchtowers mod, because both mods change the racial builder units.

Hi great mod!
Is it compatible with racial watchtower by any chance ?
Keep up the good work!

Does the AI use this stuff? AFAIK the AI tends to completely ignore builder units and the like so I always restrict myself to never using them.

@ leon feargus: Well played. I'm an idiot :)

@leon feargus: thanks for your explanation. I have to look, if the domain supply feature from forage & attrition is active after the tower-upgrade. I judged only after the visuals/marker.

Oh, I just thought you were that one guy from that one place ...
- Thanks and have fun!

@ Eomolch: Thanks, man. I will try this again.
@ leon feargus: I'm not sure if we know each other...my best friend plays a TON of Total War games on here, maybe from that? Also I've been stalking the mod community for AOW3 for a long time, and commented a few times. Some great mods out there, and this might be among them. Great job!

When you upgrade a Lookout to a Watchtower the domain marker, for some reason, disappears. To prevent this from happening you can keep an army (a unit) on the structure when upgrading.
It is important to note that, even though the marker disappears, functionality remains the same, meaning you can still summon units there and raze it without an army.
The only mechanical effect difference is when the tower is located in a city's domain. In the former case the tower's domain will be absorbed by the city's. In the latter case it will remain a seperate little domain, which may be important in the fringe case that units summoned there will not have the benefits of a spell/structure of the city.
Hope this is clear enough.

Thanks alot Eomolch. I've just tested your mod and I love it. I use also Forage & Attrition and your new Buildings that add domain are a good way to make some kind of bridgehead when advancing with armies. But when I build a lookout I get 1 hex domain but lose it, when upgrading to a watchtower. Is this intended?

Hah. Newby modder makes dependency mistake. Thanks again, Eomolch.
@ thatoneguyfromthatoneplacestl: Don't I know you from somewhere? - As was disclaimed in the description I had upload troubles. One of the devs tried to help and uploaded the mod to figure out the problem, this is why it was up for a while.

For some reason the deluxe edition and preorder DLC (which I didn't even know was a thing) were in the dependency list. Udpated it, so that you should now all be able to use the mod.

I get a missing DLC0 error message when I try to start a new game that includes this mod. I have all three DLCs (deluxe edition, eternal lords, golden realms).

Looks good ! :)

Ok, so I loaded this mod by itself, and it's telling me I'm missing DLC 0 and DLC 1. I am modding Illiterate, so I don't really know what that means. I have all DLC except the Deluxe Edition. Does this mod require that?

Cool. I saw this a day or two ago, even toyed with it a little (conflicts with one of my mods so I was loading/unloading to try to figure out which one), and it up and disappeared. This mod looks awesome, I just have to figure out where the conflict is. Also, thanks to my favorite modder for helping this guy out.

Thank you very much, Eomolch, for uploading this for me!