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Ah, I should clarify more on the voicepack. It is all done in nahuatl, I completely avoided the original Zapotec language for several reasons. Actual hard data that was not guesswork was frankly lacking, and I only later found anything worthwhile after I decided to abandon my original approach. The modern derivates of the Zapotec language display heavy hispanification and are hydra-headed, and I am no Hercules. Part of my goal was to make a voicepack that could be potentially utilized by the Maya faction civilization too, and so the emphasis switched to a more universal tongue. The list of commands I had voiced should be right here in this link: https://trac.wildfiregames.com/wiki/Audio_Voice_List Also as I mentioned in the above post, I made alternatives for several of them, though...that was due to confusing my memory of the list with the commands I was studying within Empires Ascendant itself.

@wowgetoffyourcellphone

How did you deal with the problems of Proto-Zapotec tonal reconstruction? Which one have you followed? The list of commands and a reference to their reconstruction would be nice to see.

About point 16, i do agree we need to make use of the spying mechanics. Currently it is never used since not much players train merchants. I would suggest expanding the list of bribable units. I understand that its more logic to bribe a merchant than a soldier but we need, in my opinion, to find a way to make this work.

I mostly agree with you. The risk of making cavalry costs more is getting less early rushs while having no effect on calvalry spam in end game. Since one can use corrals and adding +25 food cost will not have a big enough impact on a fully developed economy.

Hello, I am the one who had first ported over the standalone Zapotec mod for Empires Ascendant from 0.26 to 0.27. Recently, I had not only ported over to 0.28, but also finalized all the unfinished aspects, such as missing progression actor/templates for the mercs and the zapotec scout units. Yes, even the lack of cavalry is not an impediment anymore, though you'll have to try it yourself or have someone else try it against you to see what I mean . For those who wish to try it: https://github.com/Yet-Again-He/0ad_zapoteca_0.28 As fun as playing the mod has been, that is not the point of this post. In finishing the mod, I had also finished an ambitious goal for it, one still incomplete for even some of the base 0ad factions: I made a voice pack for it. It is a full voice pack made with real people for the basic commands as well as alternate phrases for some of them. As a result of this, two ideas have come into my head. 1.): I can submit the audio for the Delenda Est mod so that their Zapotec faction (the original foundation for the standalone) can have voices. 2.): As far as I am aware, the zapotec faction is complete and designed for full integration into standard gameplay, even down to having edited duplicates of various json files so that I am not making unnecessary original technologies/auras. This means that theoretically, the Zapotecs could be added with minimal fuss into Empires Ascendant. So I wish to ask. Who do I talk to about potentially adding the voice pack for Delenda Est, and who can I talk to about the possibility of Zapotecs for the base game?

The units are already more expensive than their infantry counterparts, just much better. Both champion and CS cav take a while to mass up, but their pop efficiency is very strong. Making them cost more will just delay things somewhat. I would prefer to nerf the unit itself (i.e. speed).

already been done

Ahh, right. In the next release, thanks to PR #8447 adding camera configuration options, including the maximum zoom, combined with the current Bird’s Eye option, I think you’ll have that covered.

20. (very controversial hence I don't add it to the main list) increase cost of all cavalry by +25 food idea of pand what do y'all think?

19. Liu Bang, (first Emperor of Han China) radius of cavalry damage bonus increase to 60m

No, that's a vertical view, I mean a zoomed out view (without using the Developer Overlay, or having any unexpected issues). I think the reviewers called that a bird's eye view, when asking for zooming out to have a better view of everything.

Maybe, but who clicks on those links? Is it worthwhile as a spammer? (I know you are spamming 20 Million cases and if only 100 respond you've won).

Thanks - I know I can test it myself, but I was travelling without access to the game. Just tested it - you are certainly right. Question remains, why two different mechanisms for the same effect... (probably I should read the manual or the forum more carefully)

You mean like top-down/cenital view? There is a hotkey for that already. Called "Toggle Bird's Eye View". Shift+Tab by default

I think I got past that, but now I have problems with spidermonkey

Both reviewers of Game of Thrones: War for Westeros asked for the same thing: bird's eye view. Beyond All Reason provides exactly that. I think 0 A.D. should too, together with keeping sizes as realistic as possible (that is, do not shrink ships like AoE and others). All those things should work well hand in hand.

Do you have Beyond All Reason on your radar? Rookie numbers.

Well, I figure out a way around, I manually downloaded the files. But, now I am running into a openAL error make[2]: *** [CMakeFiles/OpenAL.dir/al/buffer.cpp.o] Error 1 make[1]: *** [CMakeFiles/OpenAL.dir/all] Error 2 make: *** [all] Error 2 ERROR: Failed to build OpenAL Soft

They are getting better at writing some BS.

Just retry, the server hosting the file might have been to busy.

@Atrik I believe this problem is worthy of a dedicated issue with the attention of people more experienced than me. Do you think we could get the current PR approved for the next release to allow us to play games without the problem ? At the moment I have it hard-coded to 200m but the distance could be configurable. Then when the larger issue is resolved we could remove that configuration option. Thoughts ?

What about showing the foundation only to the owner (and maybe allies)? It should be just a plan before anyone comes close to it. This would also avoid the annoying destruction of foundations, unless this is on purpose because of some gameplay consideration. I think my proposal results in a more fluid gameplay.

So, just was building the game, and got this: ERROR: Download of https://download.savannah.gnu.org/releases/freetype/freetype-2.13.3.tar.gz failed ERROR: Failed to build freetype I downloaded it from somewhere else, and I think it is past that now. Just was letting you guys know, for any other people

It's fixed for noobs. You can just hold H and then the cav just makes some jerking movements and stays. But don't tell anyone.