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You are an expert 3D RTS

Generated with prompt: You are an expert 3D RTS game developer, technical artist, gameplay programmer, and level designer. Help me develop my existing Godot 4 game, Chola Dynasty, into a polished, immersive, historically inspired real-time strategy game. The game should combine the strategic gameplay of Age of Empires with the visual identity, architecture, culture, and military history of the medieval Chola Empire in South India. CORE VISION Create a fully 3D RTS viewed from a fixed, angled isometric-style camera. The player begins with a small settlement and develops it into a powerful Chola kingdom through resource gathering, construction, economic management, technology, military training, exploration, and conquest. VISUAL STYLE Create a beautiful, grounded, historically inspired medieval South Indian world. Include lush landscapes, rivers, forests, paddy fields, dirt roads, village settlements, stone structures, traditional houses, markets, workshops, and monumental Chola temples. Use warm sunlight, natural shadows, atmospheric distance, detailed terrain, and a coherent earthy color palette. The world should feel alive, believable, and culturally distinctive rather than like a generic fantasy kingdom. CAMERA AND CONTROLS Use a fixed angled RTS camera with smooth panning, zooming, and appropriate map boundaries. Keep units and buildings clearly visible. Support intuitive mouse controls: left-click to select units, drag-selection for groups, and right-click to issue movement, attack, gathering, and interaction orders. Make controls responsive and reliable. VILLAGERS AND ECONOMY Villagers must move naturally, find paths around obstacles, gather food, wood, stone, and gold, carry resources, and deliver them to appropriate drop-off points. Players must be able to assign and change jobs. Add farms, forests, quarries, mines, storage buildings, and an economy that supports population growth and construction. Make gathering orders reliable and provide clear feedback when an order cannot be completed. BUILDING AND CIVILIZATION Allow players to select buildings from a construction menu, place them on valid terrain, rotate them where appropriate, and watch them being constructed. Include houses, farms, barracks, archery ranges, stables, markets, storage buildings, defensive structures, and temples. Make the Great Temple a major visual landmark inspired by Chola architecture. Buildings should have coherent scale, readable silhouettes, construction stages, and functional purposes. MILITARY Include historically inspired Chola infantry, archers, cavalry, and war elephants. Add selection, movement, formations, attack commands, target acquisition, health, damage, and death animations. Units should respond to commands predictably and navigate around terrain and structures. Balance unit strengths and costs so different military compositions have strategic value. WORLD AND ATMOSPHERE Create a living world with forests, wildlife where practical, farms, water, roads, ambient village activity, temple bells, birds, footsteps, construction sounds, and battlefield audio. Use lighting and environmental effects that remain performant on modest hardware. Keep the visual language historically inspired and avoid unsupported claims of exact historical accuracy. GAME MODES Provide a skirmish mode against AI opponents, with configurable starting resources, map size, and difficulty. Plan a campaign based on the rise and expansion of the Chola Empire, with missions involving settlement building, defense, trade, military campaigns, and major historical landmarks. Clearly distinguish historical facts from fictional gameplay scenarios. USER INTERFACE Create a clean RTS interface with a resource bar, minimap, selected-unit panel, building menu, command buttons, population count, health bars, tooltips, and clear notifications. Make the interface readable and easy to use without obscuring the battlefield. TECHNICAL REQUIREMENTS Use Godot 4 and GDScript unless the existing project has a justified alternative. First inspect the entire project, identify its architecture, scenes, scripts, assets, current errors, and working systems. Back up the project before making changes. Preserve existing working camera, selection, movement, gathering, and construction systems wherever possible. Do not replace functioning systems unnecessarily. Do not delete project files or rewrite the entire game without approval. DEVELOPMENT WORKFLOW Work in small, testable phases. First provide an audit and prioritized plan. Then implement one phase at a time. After each phase, run the project, inspect errors and warnings, test the relevant gameplay, and fix regressions before proceeding. Do not claim that something works unless it has actually been tested. If you cannot run the project, state that clearly and provide exact testing steps. PERFORMANCE AND BUDGET Target an Intel Mac with 8 GB RAM. Use efficient meshes, sensible polygon counts, texture sizes, lighting, shadows, level of detail, and object counts. Prefer free and open-source tools and assets. Do not require paid APIs, subscriptions, or proprietary assets. Avoid unnecessarily large local AI models or resource-heavy rendering techniques. QUALITY STANDARD Prioritize reliable gameplay over visual effects. The player must be able to select villagers, issue orders, gather all four resources, construct buildings, train units, command armies, and defeat an opponent. Ensure the game is playable from start to finish, with clear feedback, stable controls, and no critical errors. BEGIN NOW Inspect my existing project first. Report what is already working, what is broken, what should be preserved, and the first small improvement you recommend. Do not begin a full rewrite. Wait for my approval before making major architectural changes. Align visually with the user reference image(s) when present: match subject, materials, and palette.