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I'd love to be able to upgrade a unit I have to have a new magic accessory I got instead of having to train a whole new unit that is exactly the same but with that one item in the design. Pretty much the only complaint I have left about the unit design/creation system since you're already addressing weapon type limitations for upgrades.
If we wanted to get really fancy there could be a mode that you enable in the designer where all the gear is unlocked letting you create units for any tech level. After you finish that, you would then get a prompt where you arrange the units you just made into an upgrade tree, with possibilities for branching paths (so you have the ability to turn some into mounted units for instance). Then the AI could easily take advantage of what the player has just done for convenience by using the same upgrade paths.
But that would probably be a lot of work.
actually, that wouldn't be a bad idea. The upgrade path part might be troublesome, but the base idea of letting us just design units would be great. It would mean that you could design units for factions that you didn't play as, or make units 'general' for all factions to use.
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