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Can be applied to a lot of things, like lacking catapults, or champion spears for dealing with champion cavalry, or x with insert appropriate missing unit that any one civ lacks. I do not think your siege tower idea is that strong because siege towers function like regular towers in terms of shooting, and I can simply swarm them with any combination of X melee troops and knock them out with cold steel, aside from the obvious usage of catapults and rams. Every civ gets rams and the majority have catapults. Oh and elephants if available, even champion cavalry if one is wealthy. Ultimately every civ has a counter to this in some shape or form

so basically there's less unit pushing when they are technically in a formation, so they spend less time bumping into each other when gathering.

It's a bit more APM overall, you have to make sure formation is toggled only when desired. Which is what I don't really like, you want to get the efficiency gain from it, but you also have to go with the frustrations of having units in formations at random times .

I just recently discovered that option too. It's probably the easiest of the strong tricks to use. Maybe the option should only be available through a separate mod that people will install if they prefer a less APM-intensive gameplay.

Hey @Perzival12 The game automatically detects the skeleton of a DAE, using the files in art/skeleton. If there isn't any matching the structure from your new mesh, it will fail. I have a python script to generate the skeleton from a given DAE file. https://github.com/StanleySweet/0AD-Skeleton-Generator

Possibly a flooded meadow

Play macedonians (bonus training cost), do 4 siege tower, somes men inside (10 by tower, more for ungarnison garnison spam), you win the battle if enemy plays not the counter army have you thought of a way to counter this siege trick? civilians who don't have catapults?

Case 400.000.000 Bro quits without resign, name of the player "zapatista" @user1 metadata.jsoncommands.txt

I don't think you just have to edit the xml files. You must define the behavior and other dynamics. There is a ticket made by @bb_ which talks about adding a second attack.

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It occurs to me to combine a farm with a corral, instead of harvesting, you extract milk from the animals and they eat grass. The harvesting mechanics are similar to those of a farm. But you can bring goats inside to generate food. You'd need workers like a farm. The 0AD ones could be bigger, it could be used to give bonuses to the horses (cavalry).Extra population capacity much more than a house if you house horses.

The reason Petra doesn't use them is that it consider they have 0 attack therefore it's at the very end of it's priorities. So it would stay true even if you buffed them 100x as long as you don't add default attack.

Not really. They are cool and all, but way underused because they're too expensive. Also, Petra doesn't use them at all.

Why not? there is adequate historical precedent to shove a bolter on a siege tower, it would be epic and maybe encourage their use a little more

(Insert Pepperidge Farm meme) I was already here to remember a different version of the tracks that were later remastered. And then when some of the now "old" songs were brand new. It's hard to believe there are this many of them. And I wonder how many times I might have listened to all of them. I remember playing them outside of the game too, but I was already doing so like 15 years ago. At this point I got quite desensitized to them and it's harder to focus on the music (which makes them even greater background music). Btw, @OmriLahav was here recently, so I guess he'll like to hear our appreciation here too. He really gave the game a major part of its soul. All seriousness aside, imagine if The Player Of Many Names downloads the songs and after a while he'll be like "Oh wow, that's a nice beat, is that something new?". And then he'll check the song name and it says "You_are_Victorious!.ogg".

Thanks for your help. I've included the error message I was getting below for completeness, but I realise what I had done wrong. The template I used as the base was from the current live repo, which has edits that aren't in version 0.27.1 ("health_females_01" being renamed to "health_civilians_01"). <!DOCTYPE html> <meta charset="utf-8"> <title>Pyrogenesis Log</title> <style>body { background: #eee; color: black; font-family: sans-serif; } p { background: white; margin: 3px 0 3px 0; } .error { color: red; } .warning { color: blue; }</style> <h2>0 A.D. (0.27.1) Main log (warnings and errors only)</h2> <p class="error">ERROR: File 'simulation/data/technologies/health_civilians_01.json' does not exist</p> <p class="error">ERROR: JavaScript error: gui/reference/common/TemplateLoader.js line 114 data is undefined loadTechnologyTemplate@gui/reference/common/TemplateLoader.js:114:8 isPairTech@gui/reference/common/TemplateLoader.js:310:17 deriveProduction@gui/reference/common/TemplateLoader.js:173:14 deriveTemplateListsFromTemplate@gui/reference/common/TemplateLister.js:126:45 compileTemplateLists@gui/reference/common/TemplateLister.js:40:21 setActiveCiv@gui/reference/common/ReferencePage.js:26:51 selectTemplate@gui/reference/viewer/ViewerPage.js:38:9 init@gui/reference/viewer/viewer.js:18:9 showTemplateDetails@gui/session/selection_panels.js:1272:15 showTemplateFunc@gui/session/selection_panels.js:194:53</p> <p class="error">ERROR: GUI page 'page_viewer.xml': Failed to call init() function</p> Regarding the zip file, you're correct that the zip extract created an additional folder layer. But my point its that's the way most zip applications work, so the user workflow fails by default. As the mod.io zip files contain an mod.json plus a zip file, and then the zip file contains the same mod.json, I just think it's a bit confusing for someone first dipping their toes into modding.

Yeah, I think so, it’s been some time since I last played A23, and I always played with bit Millenium and Terra Magna on.

Hey so for my Hyrule Conquest: Revival mod, I contacted TUN and he sent me his original 3d models. I was hoping to be able to make some variants, as the Deku Kingdom is kind of repetitive, but when I tried to add a model to the game, I got this error: "ERROR: art/meshes/units/deku/deku_baba_spike.dae: assertion not satisfied (line 394): failed requirement 'recognised skeleton structure'". I followed all of the instructions, unwrapping the mesh, selecting the mesh, then the armature, and exporting as a .dae file. Is it because it is not a cached.pmd, or is it some other problem?

Why? tower siege are already good and tricky no?

It is possible, you just have to different listings, like this: <Attack> <Ranged> <Weapon1> <Bla Bla Bla/> </Weapon1> <Weapon2> <Bla Bla Bla/> </Weapon2> </Ranged> </Attack> I've done it before, on accident.

./config/0ad/logs Or gather the errors from terminal if you open 0ad from there. I don't see any reasons why editing the population bonus of structures in template would break anything so probably you are right to try to look into how you packaged your mod. A random guess would be that you extracted the mod you're playing with creating a extra folder like 0ad/mods/yourmod/yourmod/simulation/templates/..., and should be 0ad/mods/yourmod/simulation/templates/.... Besides this, mods downloaded from the downloader should create the correct folder structure.

I've been enjoying playing 0AD recently, so I thought I'd try my hand at modding. I thought I'd start simple, and because I always find that I've not built enough houses, I thought I'd tweak the population bonus of the civic centre template. I've created a mod with the required mod.json and ./simulation/templates/template_structure_civic_civil_centre.xml. It works, in the sense that the population bonus is higher when I run the game with the mod. But it seems to break all the unit/structure right click info windows. Loads of error messages pop up in the game console when I right click on a unit icon in a build menu. I've seen some mention in the modding guide of having to save/reload, but that wasn't 100% clear. In any case I've opened/closed 0AD several times. Game version is 0.27.1, running on Linux Mint. How do I get the error messages outside of 0AD? I hoped there'd be some logs in ./local/share/0ad, but can't see anything in there. Grateful for any help. Also, on newbies starting modding, the user experience / guidance could probably do with some tweaking. My route into modding was to use the in-game mod.io downloader. I then tested the mod to see if it was working in the game. Then went into ./local/share/0ad/mods to edit it. I extracted the zip file and started playing around. No effect. I figured the game engine reads from the zip rather than folders by default, so I deleted the zip. And then the mod doesn't do anything any more. I finally realised that extracting the zip downloaded via mod.io doesn't generate the right folder structure. I think the below line from the tutorial is trying to get at this point, but it's not the clearest, particularly given the common definition of zip bomb: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Zip_bomb. If you extract the mod so you can further work on it beware a properly packaged mod is a zip-bomb.

I like the textures and design of this building

Despite the danger of revealing my preferred civilizations, my favorite tracks: Eastern Dreams: all time favorite, even my wife plays it in the car Sands of Time: so fun to listen to Forging a City State: i just want to grab a hammer and build something... The Road Ahead: same as above, the start of a magnificent city Harvest Festival: such a happy feeling In the Shadow of Olympus: takes me on an Aegean island The Hellespont: same as above Water's Edge: just the calm feeling of being near water From the new ones: Bandit Country: unleash the power of Africa!

Those are looking really good, @lukamas! I especially liked this one, the head looks very realistic: Do you have any updates on when the hyenas will be added to Atlas? I'd love to see them in the game, their presence would really enhance the biodiversity and add a nice touch of realism.