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Please can I remind the lobby players to stay calm and take a moment to reflect on the current environment. Recently, we have observed some severe instances of toxicity and personal attacks in the lobby, especially in high level games. This is destructive to everyone. Despite being absent from the game lobby, I was able to detect the spillover aftermath. It’s becoming pretty clear that the sexual insults, heavy swearing, and targeting is putting new players off. When that kind of stuff happens, it signals that we aren't a welcoming or safe space - the already small player base shrinks further. Plus, we’re seeing a lot of unfounded claims about DDOS, exploits and market manipulation. Throwing these accusations around without proof just result in more disputes instead of solving anything. A few months ago, I introduced two of my real life colleague-friends to the game. To begin with, they really enjoyed the economy building part and cooperative strategies. However, as they started participating in high level games, the experience took a bad turn. Both of them encountered unwelcoming players, excessive swearing and long waiting times. One of them even reported being banned from a TG just because the host wanted an easy win. The other complained to me about severe sexual harassment as a part of trash talking while playing. I have also encountered all of these situations myself; it is very discomforting and discouraging to see offensive comments and accusations being thrown around as casual exchanges. Such behaviour not only damaged the image of the 0AD community but also made the real life relationship awkward between us. Some recent arguments even leaked out of the 0AD domain into my personal discord server. Let’s ensure that our discussions are respectful and contained within the appropriate space, even when we disagree. I have not posted any specific evidence here, as the goal is not to target any individual offender but to ensure that on a global level, for both new and OP players, they are able to enjoy their time, not feeling excluded or targeted. A safe space is also where privacy is protected - recording people's voice without consent and asking for their exact home address or other personal information are not appropriate. This brings us to the mindset of some OP players. We understand the drive for winning and balance. However, prioritising exclusivity over respect creates a hostile feedback loop that only reduces the talent pool and weakens the community over time. High-ranking members should lead by example, not by fostering a culture where toxicity is the default. This behavior signals that the community is unwelcoming and unsustainable. We also need to stop allowing sexual insults to define the lobby, and letting the desire for victory override basic decency. Thank you to all of you who are holding the line on respect, because your good behaviour is exactly what keeps 0AD an enjoyable game.

This could have a late Screw Press tech if you want that to improve its efficiency: J.P. Oleson in The Oxford Handbook of Engineering and Technology in the Classical World states that “the lever and screw press was in many respects an improvement using the mechanical advantage of the screw to apply greater pressure. Pliny the Elder (HN 18.317), writing in the A.D. 70s, mentions this as a Greek invention of the last 100 years (i.e., late first century B.C.)”. Of course technically the animation would have to change, but I think presently techs don’t do this (maybe eventually?).

Suggestion: call the aura Romanitas

All right, enough is enough. After I had to remove a few responses, I'm locking this thread now.

https://gitea.wildfiregames.com/0ad/0ad/wiki/FAQ#what-shall-i-do-when-joining-multiplayer-matches-fails-with-an-error-message

Hi everyone, I'm having an issue with 0 A.D. Alpha 28 when hosting a private multiplayer game through the multiplayer lobby. I create a game in the multiplayer hall/lobby(online), my friends can see the game and attempt to join it, but after a while they always get a "Connection Timeout" error and cannot enter the match. Some additional details: Version: 0 A.D. Alpha 28 Hosting a private online game through the multiplayer lobby My friends can see the hosted game in the lobby The timeout occurs when they try to connect to the game We are all using the same game version and no incompatible mods Has anyone experienced this before? Could it be related to port forwarding, firewall settings, NAT, or something else? Any help or troubleshooting suggestions would be greatly appreciated. Thanks!

I would, if I knew anything about the GUI. You could always take a look at the OG Hyrule Conquest, they had something similar.

The map is low key terrible. lol I've often advocated for removing the terrible maps from the game entirely, but I've been frequently overruled on that.

@Dakara exactly!! there are days i played with bots when i started cuz i coulnt play in any of the games.

Just wondering if somebody would want to help me make this a reality.

The map has questionable "quirks", there's also "non-Terrain" more in the middle that one can usually not access and that hides even the silhouettes of units.

We played Ardennes Forest with grouped lines and 8 players. My CC got generated on a hill, unreachable from the downside. I could ungarrision downhill and rebuild. Was a fun challenge, check the replay, but it should be fixed. commands.txt

Be chill guys, there are no issue lol, you invent issue in your head lol there is a lot of host, pro or medium level.

Classical Warfare AEA is another option

Agree with manowar. But quitting the game is also a option. It's just a waste of time that can be spend else where when one is frustrated. Muting with autociv helps a bit. In lichess you can disable the chat completely and just get paired up in a game with some random persons. 0 a.d. is not so important.

@diagonalo I got sick of the behavior of people in the OP team games myself & much prefer playing with non-toxic people like Soylent, Sol, Loup. I would prefer if you kept playing 0ad & joined the team games that I & those I mentioned host.

This community is obsessed with OP TGs and I can't bear it anymore I give up. You are all just watching me getting bully. And the system is enabling the bully to do his work. Honestly I'm crying. How could you not read between the lines on how desperate I am. What's the point of living in a world where society allows bully like him to function and smile down on me like my father. I don't want to live like that being controlled. I'm going to kill myself.

What a troll XDDDDD

Ok, it has been changed

Thank you for the clarification @Dunedan . I have sent you a private message with explanation, context, screenshots and zip file with all ss from last 5 days. Text me if you need anything more. Have a good day!

The best way to report abusive behavior is to send a private message including screenshots and other details to one of the lobby moderators here in the forums. That's much more effective than pinging people or complaining in public posts. And if you ping moderators in the lobby please include what's the issue. You can't expect people to be looking at the lobby at that moment, neither can you you expect people know why you're pinging them when you just write their username.

I was not planning to post about this on forum, because its very dirty part of 0ad. But someone needs to do something about it. i been playing this game for 2 years now and i love it. These are all the dirty truth that should come out and aware the community. Instead of observing drama and laughing at it, players who enjoy this game, care about it, spending time on it should come forward, discuss, take steps to find solutions. AND IF I HAVE DONE ANYTHING WORNG towards diagonalo, or wronged anyone else in a way, they can come forward with proof, I will apologize publicly for my mistakes. @Chasca @MarcusAureliu#s @Dunedan

@Atrik i agree with you on most of the things, but on this policing thing i disagree because i have been getting harassed for 5 days now constantly. For using a in game setting "ban" to keep away harassment from the game i host. You been online, you have seen all the death threats, cursing about me and my my mod, all the disrespect and harassment even though i haven't said a single thing towards him accept to "Leave Me Alone". Not just you the whole lobby been seeing these for 5 days, but where are the in game moderators? I have been pinging @Dunedan all the time but he responded once only in game and just said follow the instructions if you want to report anything while there was bad game name on top of it, dia cursing my mom, for him to see and it stayed there for a long time. But nothing happened, no one watching anything in game and people getting away with harassing others. You know me, all other regular player knows me, Tell me what have i done to deserve this? How do i respond toward this? He did the same thing in 0ad enjoyers discord Infront of the discord moderator @TheCJ and got banned for it. Making nub remarks or debate over game on online games are common and normally people gets over it next day. But these are not okay, attaching some ss from last 5 days below. They are cropped because of upload max size, if anyone wants i have 76 ss zipped from last 5 days. I can show u where i haven't said a single bad thing towards him, only banned him from my hosted games to keep harassment away, and i got cursed at, disrespectful words towards my mom, multiple death threats and constant harassment from his alt accounts. I am getting exhausted of all this. And if anyone curious about why i banned him, here is the context how it started well explained,

Ah yes, it's the one below. Apparently you can only choose one of the two, and in the previous game I had chosen the one above.