There is a new baby bird in the nest! Congratulations!

I have a suggestion for the "lore" of the Binding tech for Kingdoms. Life spells seem to focus on changing the body (healing, growth, shrink) rather than the typical Holy stuff. So for the Binding ability, instead of the lore of corrupting elementals with Death, I think Kingdoms should enhance humans with the power of the elements, turning them into elementals. Then you could have humans with the elements chained to them.

Earth - Immoveable (Can't be knocked prone, strong defensive unit)

Air - Gale Enforcer (Big bonus to ranged dodge, can cast the spell that knocks units prone/back)

Fire - Magma Fist (Fire attack, can burn 3 units in a row)

Water - Frost Bringer (Low health unit that can sword dash, causing slow to those hit)

Life - Shaper (can cast growth or shrink on itself, still gets an attack)

If all of these used the base human model, with glowy auras added and a few special tweaks, perhaps that would save on making new unit models.

congratulations

Isn't your glass elemental simply an ice elemental? Last I checked, ice is solid water....so ice elemental could work for your water shard too...

The glass elemental and rock elemental both appear to be quite white on the picture. I know you're trying to make them look 'uncorrupted', but imo they should still have some color in them. A light blue for the glass elemental's secondary color maybe....and a light grey for the rock elemental....unless you want to call the rock elemental a sandstone elemental and go with a more 'deserty' color.

Overall though, looking good. Really looking forward to the inclusion of this mod in my games.

I always thought there would be 3 tiers of elemental. The base tier to which any mage can gain access to through the summoning ability tree being Fire, Air, Earth, and Water. The Corrupted tier to which the faction gains access to through Binding being Wraith, Crow, Grave, and Mirror. Then, with your mod, the Unconrrupted tier (Maybe could call it something different like Blessed Tier, or Planetouched, or something) being the new set of names with modified abilities: 

Fire Elemental ==> Ignus Elemental or Magma Elemental ==> (as there are already Ignus snakes, etc...would flow with the theme presented in the game). Maybe could have a ranged flame dart attack 1/5turns.

Air Elemental ==> Vapour Elemental or Mist Elemental ==>I'm a little curious as to why the Crow Demon has that lightning strike attack that allows him to teleport to anywhere on the map...yet the Air Elemental does not have said ability...never the less, if unique abilities for the uncorrupted varieties are being considered, perhaps a Lightning Bolt attack 1/5turns...the one that can reach 5 tiles.

Earth Elemental ==> Quartz Elemental or Andesite Elemental ==> Maybe give it an Earthquake ability instead of the Hurl Bolder....

Water Elemental ==> Still not sure what you have in mind for the Glass Elemental...I'd of sooner gone with Frost Elemental and if a change were to be made to the creatures abilities, to perhaps give a weaker attack, but the ability to cast slow 1/5turns or maybe cast Riptide 1/5 turns?

For Life Shards: Light Elemental? Prism Elemental? Essence of Life? Soulspark? Not sure about the name....would love if this creature had a heal...I think I posted an idea about this earlier in this thread...

Would be REALLY nice if the corrupted versions were modified a little in your mod as well.

The Mirror Elemental is just underwhelming at any given level. Is it possible to double the reflected damage? ie, for every point of damage it takes, it deals 2 back to the attacker? That would help make the unit....viable?

The Fiery Wraith has that mana ability to increase it's attack, but it's a complete waste. Not only do you lose your action when casting it in combat, but the stack isn't permanent past said combat and/or the mana cost is way too high.

The Crow Demon, Grave Elemental, and Cyrundum Demon all have their benefits and as you get the stronger versions of them they turn out to be quite decent when properly applied.

Hope this post helps you with your design.

Can't wait to see it in action!

I've added the Kingdom Binding Elementals. Basically I've redid the textures for the evil demons and added a new elemental following my elemental suits from FE(a.k.a. Lightbringer) I'm not one for major artwork, so I tried to keep it simple for myself.

No, it does take awhile. I made those with FE and it took me roughly 2 weeks. I might have saved time on things because I was just focused on making all the buildings into tents and had a good concept of what I wanted to create with the tiles. The more tedious part of the project is to do the code for each of the tents. When you have that many you tend to make mistakes when you write out that code.

Yes... and no...

You can set up the henchman class for everyone, but the problem lies with the fact the henchmen are using generic_other tag for their custom creation. This means that people like Gilden with the Golems would be unable to design either the henchmen (from scratch) or the Golems (from scratch). They would only be able to edit these henchmen instead.

I'm not sure about the motivation of giving henchmen to everyone, but that is the skinny. Similar to my henchman female mod, you could either design the female henchmen or the male henchmen from the make new selection, but not both at the same time. Unless, they add another generic_other button to use, this will always be the case.

Never played MoM so have no idea about the items and artifact making. But yes I could create something of a crafting system to the game, but it would be more effective in a scenario situation, since I wouldn't be able to get the AI to use it... ever.

Make spells up on the fly... well... I... um... No. It can be done in a haphazard way, but that would require a LOT of work... I suppose it can be done after further thought, but the AI would not be able to use it. It would have to be limited to a few custom spells like this that you can change from time to time... this project will be put to the back end of all me projects though. It would take some time to set up with the current system of the game.

yeah the questing system is rather powerful tool when it comes to creating these items. If you would like to take that on, you'd need to make a list of crafting materials and then create a series of workshop quests, where choice unlocks would occur with the items in your inventory. The result would be a finished product. It can be a perpetual quest and voila crafting system.

For the spells... well I'll see what I can whip up for people.

Didn't account for that... I suppose I'll have to contemplate a solution to this particular problem. Recommended not to rebuild the wonder base as it is not worth the effort twice

So, the only solution I can think of to solve this would make it so that the loss of the world wonder, would result in your faction never being able to build it again. Not sure if that would be better than the ability to build the world wonder and the base again.

I'm thinking that I'm going to leave it as is with the possibility of someone building essentially 2 of the same faction building. The bonuses are nice, but it would be for the player to decide if they are nice enough to build twice such a high cost.

Could someone post a picture of the tent mod in action?

This is a built out city with the tent mod. The big rock thing is the tower of dominion. What I've not converted to tents (yet) are the world wonders, and the final towers. But I think I may do similar rock formations as the tower of dominion in the background for those.

The bell tower is in the only tall structure (but you'd expect a bell tower to be tall.

The tent mod only changes the building style look of a faction. So, all the other factions should have normal buildings and you would have very distinct buildings of tents.