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I bought a new AMD GPU and I try to play 0ad on it. However, I run into errors when using the Vulkan renderer: ~/b/A27-1 $ binaries/system/pyrogenesis  I TIMER| InitVfs: 192.018 us FILES| Main log written to '/home/rena/.config/0ad/logs/mainlog.html' FILES| Interesting log written to '/home/rena/.config/0ad/logs/interestinglog.html' TIMER| CONFIG_Init: 2.94495 ms Sound: AlcInit success, using OpenAL Soft WARNING: Failed to create a Vulkan window: Installed Vulkan doesn't implement the VK_KHR_surface extension ERROR: Unable to create device for Vulkan backend, switching to GL. I am of course using the A27.1 RC version which I built from source, on this environment. I suspect that I made a mistake while trying to install Vulkan on the system: trying to query vulkaninfo gave these: ~ $ vulkaninfo --summary  I ERROR: [Loader Message] Code 0 : vkCreateInstance: Found no drivers! Cannot create Vulkan instance. This problem is often caused by a faulty installation of the Vulkan driver or attempting to use a GPU that does not support Vulkan. ERROR at /usr/src/debug/vulkan-tools/Vulkan-Tools/vulkaninfo/./vulkaninfo.h:573:vkCreateInstance failed with ERROR_INCOMPATIBLE_DRIVER The basic GPU driver, vulkan-radeon and amdgpu are installed and activated. Radeontop does work correctly. Below are my grub kernel parameters in /etc/default/grub: loglevel=3 intel_iommu=on quiet radeon My question is: how can I set up vulkan driver for AMD GPUs on Arch so that I can run 0ad smoothly? What kernel parameters and config did the developers use? userreport_hwdetect.txt system_info.txt

It takes one infantry javelineer 2 throws (so 1.9s) to kill a women, while it takes one infantry javelineer 200s to take a house. He can kill 100 women in the time he takes 1 house.

Don't use it except if you have a plan or a good map for it.  Plus if your opponent is low no cata civ maybe you can do some.   About tower is nice in early but after it low efficiency and easy to capture , except if the tower are surround by building 

It takes 50 food and 8 seconds to train one woman, not counting batch training. It takes 150 wood and 50 seconds (25 with 2 builders) to make a new house (not counting the factions with small houses, that are also easier to capture). In the meantime, you are most likely housed and can't train anything until you build a house. You can spam women easily. Your women will be safe inside the CC most of the time, anyway. The topic is mostly geared towards walls as a means of solid defense that will take forever to breach (similar to AoE).

If your enemy spends their time capturing a house and deleting it instead of killing your women, thats much better for you. You can easily gather the wood for a new house in the time he takes to capture with the same amount of soldiers. (capture strength of infantry is 2.5 if im not mistaken, while gather rate for wood is 0.75; a house costs 150 wood and has 500 capture points. So it takes exactly equally long to gather the wood as it does to capture the house. Cav is even worse at capturing, also there is a base capture point regeneration that i havent taken into account. Also he has to walk across the map to get to you.) Now, you do lose time on construction because you have to rebuild the house, but thats nowhere near as bad as the time you would lose if he killed your women gatherers. And those walls give you the time to react, cause it takes much longer to capture them than to kill a women (or even a soldier).

It works in this game because of the CSs, but...  ...what if it's not? Sometimes you train a bit too many women, and you need some kind of protection. Building palisades is your best bet in the early game, but because trees don't have proper collision, enemy can just sneak in through the forest.  The solution is to surround open side of the forest with walls, which is more expensive. Walls don't build fast enough, so you need more builders to make it before the enemy rush. Making towers is a better option, but you need soldiers to man them or they're useless. Walling with houses will expose them to the enemy, who can just use capture->delete tactic to cost you both population and 150 wood per house. Both of them vital in the early game. BTW, why do houses need on average 40 seconds to be built? It's frustrating, especially considering there's batch training which makes you build houses almost continuously.