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This is a question I asked myself years ago as well. What really helped me to think about different strategies was the following topic and the reply by @cl2488

From less to more radical: I've proposed for not all to have basically the same Storehouse techs (just the names are different, I think), this would give more variation on how each civ would obtain and trade resources. I haven't carefully checked the other economic techs among civs, but all that is an opportunity to add variation. The same regarding religion, that being something that should be quite different among civs, and luckily many current temple techs lack decent names and icons, giving ample space for change and (needed) improvement. I've mentioned that all civs could have their very different special units, like the Ministers are for the Han. Also, the naval system I proposed is actually not that radical (after boarding is implemented) and gives more opportunities for strengths and weaknesses, thus each civ would have a more characteristic, interesting and historically accurate way to do things at sea (which right now it's something quite avoided, when it could be fun, as it has been in some Total War games).

Maybe the wiki article JavaScript can serve as a first start?

I hope your problem is solved nowadays, but if not I really recommend you and everyone finding this topic in a research: Try using ethernet! (I know it's like IT Helpdesk telling you to restart your PC first but using WiFi for multiplayer matches via lobby is a very common root for problems.

I totally agree ! There aren't really any major gameplay differences between two civilizations, apart from slightly different units and a few bonuses... I'm currently working on a mod that will (I hope) almost completely overhaul the civilizations, including the addition of slaves. I hope to release the first civilizations before November 1st.

before overboarding soldiers from the assault tower onto my walls, I want to be able to dig ditches in front of them to protect them from battering ram! Really, i think that could be a fun idea, but the wall snatching need to be sorted first, as mentioned above

This is my biggest (and ngl, only) complaint with the game atm. While I personally think that things like building styles and combat styles should be more varied, different forms of slavery (or just different uses) would honestly be a good step. (An example of varied gameplay is the recent addition German storehouse wagons)

Icon styles in computing history went from simple to rich in gradients and effects (Windows XP and the like, "because we can") back to simple, but now with a lot of perception psychology knowledge put into them. Most 0 A.D. icons are very 1990s, even 1980s-ish.

Hello, yes we've all been there! For new players, this game inspires some casual ancient city building, but it's really about building out fast in the beginning. There is some discussion in this forum about how to make the game more accessible, it may be just about terminology (renaming the difficulty levels), though I guess modern gamers are also used to a rubberbanding AI that adapts to the player's gameplay, which is what bigger commercial games do. "No idling units! Place things well to keep distances short, running around is not productive! The first barracks need to be ready at minute 4! Your civ center and your barracks need to churn out non-stop! (Use auto-queue feature.) 100 pop (about 50 civilians, 50 citizen soldiers) at minute 10 or earlier! Then you'll have no problem with the AI opponent. (Phase 2 at around minute 8, second barracks and third barracks or stables before minute 10.)" This is the gist, in my opinion. Maybe info like this should be in the map selection screen. The tutorial, if paid attention to at all, also doesn't get that message across. It's not good "game design" if this info has to be researched on the web. So that means early game is balancing working food, wood, and building houses fast enough. When the auto-queue breaks or you have hit the housing limit you'll know there is room for optimization. There is an option to enable in-game time to be shown on the top right, this should be enabled by default in my opinion, because it is central to this game. You'll find each civ is a bit different, but not much. Romans however aren't exactly the easiest civ because they have swordsmen as the only melee unit in the beginning, and they need iron, so you need to manage that early. Usually (with other civs) you don't have to start mining stone and iron before minute 7. A few need early stone for the slingers though. (Also Romans lack proper ranged units).

That made me have a blast from the past: Yes, maybe some things could be made more distinctive, it would confuse me at the beginning, the problem is that one gets used to suboptimal stuff to the point of forgetting it (like ridiculously small font size).

Not necessarily, for example if you are "housed". Things like building a house or researching population bonus techs would kickstart many stuck production orders at the same time. You have to check if that could be the case, although I'm assuming probably not if it happened constantly.

When I started playing the game I also wondered about the food icon and that it might put off some people, so, as expected. Personally I'm not vegan, but I also think, for the standard game, a wheat icon would be more representative, because arguably, most food in most cases comes from working the fields. And it's pretty standard in other games too (Civ etc). Now, distinctive colorization was mentioned somewhere as an argument against the wheat symbol. Not so convincing to me because the wood's brown is quite in the middle between yellow and red in color space. Also there are a lot of similar problems in 0 A.D.'s iconography. Docks, Barracks, Storehouse icons are hard to distinguish, color-wise. I still need to read tooltip distinguishing FIeld from Farmstead etc

I had a staff lineup, but I need to develop the idea further. The staff needs to be upgradednor gain experience. Based on that personnel, the ship gains different stats.

I'd bet it's ModernGUI's smart training system, or some other variant.

gui/gamesetup/Pages/GameSetupPage/Panels/Buttons/BalanceTeamsButton.js gui/common/network~LocalRatings.js Here's and update with small bug fixes and readbility impovements to my mod of @ffm's mod. The general value of this mod is a quick, concise suggestion about whom to swap to improve the balance using the "/suggest" command. For example: CURRENT: 59%/41% Team 1 Stronger SUGGESTIONS aop <> rambo9: 50%/50% Even or Subzero57 <> Fuzzy_dcuk: 49%/51% Even Read more in my previous post in this thread. network~LocalRatings.js BalanceTeamsButton.js

I was thinking of just going with a generic captain that every civ has, maybe with different stats based on how good of a navy they have. Or, what were you thinking?

I just watched a replay of a game and noticed a strnge thing in the star player's barracks. They would all instantly produce units at the same time EXCEPT, they would be different units. You can see in the attached screenshot, some barracks would produce slingers, and other pike men. At other times, all the barracks would instantly produce units but in different quantities. Some 2, and some 1. To me, it seems like you need several clicks to make that happen, so the fact that they all started producing at the same time, but in different quantities or different units is a sure sign o fsome kind of auto queuing. Thoughts?

We must try to break the symmetry of the game. There are the non-imperial civilizations, those of a tribal style. Celts, Germans, Iberians... Then there are those whose destiny is to conquer nations and bring civilization to others. There are others that seek to be in the middle, like certain Greek cities. Honestly, the game should change its gameplay according to the culture. There are some who want to live in the land of their ancestors, the land of their gods, to be free, and others who will seek to enslave everyone and demonstrate that their tribe and nation was the one that would bring order to others.

The most beloved civilization.

There's a city builder mod somewhere on the forum or something.

@Asher I can download your mod, run some tests, and provide you with a report (it will take some time).

And what does it look like? I imagine a concept where the ships have a symbolic crew.

Did an update and added a ship captain, which someone suggested (I think @Nicolaus_von_Kues). I would like some help with this, so if anybody wants to, just say so

One thing I've found, I think Spartans are actually better than Romans. Maybe that is just with my strategy though

Ave! To get into the game, you could: slow down time lower the AI difficulty (via the cog when setting up a match) adjust the behavior of the AI, so you can get some folks working, build a few huts etc before the enemy annihilates you. Don't hesitate to ask questions, I'm sure you'll get helpful replies. glhf