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Already done: I think I'll write all steps that I followed. Not now, it's almoast midnight. Anyway, on GIMP I used color curves. The standard curve is y = x, I used y = 32 * nroot(4, x / 32). So for high mountains, behavior is nearly asymptotic. You can see that Himalayan is nearly flat, like a mesa. But, this is not sufficient. In a 512x512 Himalaya is so near to the coast that I can't do a passage between India and South-East of Asia.

I'd try to reduce contrast on the heightmap and try again, to reduce a lot of the extreme height differences.

While experimenting with an Asia map, I decided to push the size up to 1024x1024 — and honestly, it's a game changer. At 512x512, a continent like Asia feels cramped and loses a lot of its geographic character; with 1024x1024 there's actual room to breathe, to place mountain ranges, small seas, like Black and Red ones, and biomes in a way that makes the map feel like a real place rather than a compressed approximation. A map of this scale could support larger teams, longer games, and genuinely epic campaigns across Central Asia, India, or the Silk Road. Would anyone be up for playing something this large? (I don't know how to create a poll, please can any admin do it or maybe answer in this thread)

De acuerdo, pero ¿qué está pasando? ¿Qué versión de 0ad? ¿Hay algún error?

Gracias por la info. Puse el mod pero... No me ejecuta, o eso creo

Battle management/micro isn't your enemy. Spamming meaningless clicks might be. I know a lot of players that love micro with freehand formation for example, which is a excellent feature. I'd love to have more features like this, I hope the selection box targeting will be in this category.

Couldn't units be balanced in a way where sniping is less important? Then you wouldn't have to really worry about any of this

That's an interesting analysis, it makes me think of priorities. That feature in the game is like having a high-end bike but only ever using one gear, while obsessing over automate a fan at higher revolutions to so it blows more air towards your face. Just saying.

Are you sure it's not only a gamer mouse with multi-click macro buttons? Do you have some code or proof about it?

Autosnipe existed but nobody uses it anymore and it probably doesn't work in R28 @ffm2 had some click counter script in python which you might be interested in

I think their size was modeled after AoE3 ships. I agree, they need to be smaller, but that will make them look unrealistic.

I hope the feature would make targeting accessible/interesting enough that it would be a desirable part of the gameplay. That's a bit unfair given the explanations and illustrations provided. --- I think you are imagining that there is a "auto-sniping" thing out there that sort out battles without any user input. Let's assume that it is the case. If a player that would use such "auto-sniping", some of the decisions and improvisations he would be normally be able to do would be removed. Likely resulting in fool-plays, or predictability that other users could take advantage of. On the other hand, trying to make available some features that efficiently translate user inputs into actions, that stay general enough not remove possible plays, would make them very competitive against it. The above isn't the goal of the PR, much more like a QOL feature, that would make micro in battle more interesting. Making targeted volleys of projectiles would be much more rewarding if you can define a area where they are thrown, then if you they just all go on the first closest enemy for example.

Yeah, might be too technic. Maybe this commentary in that PR describes better why I think could help on this: Oh I understand and I think you are right about "Attacking ranged units beyond melee and then running away when ur melee is all gone will remain." The way I see it, targeting ranged units to eliminate them first (given their higher damage) is somewhat part of combat micro skills, just like sniping a Hero, rams, or other high-value units. And this probably wouldn’t be as necessary with a different balance for combat units (e.g. melee units stronger against projectiles). That’s why, from my perspective, when we talk about the sniping problem in 0 A.D., we’re referring to the repetitive action of targeting units with a group or using Alt+click to pick them off first. Which creates that “whoever clicks more wins” dynamic. But I can be wrong.

Needing to add units to ships for firepower meant that investing in water would require many of your land soldiers. This means players would get flotillas full of soldiers and they would hardly ever return to fighting on land. Moving soldiers between ships and land to optimally fight on both land and water was unnecessary tedium, and usually players just didn't do this. Furthermore, with the guessing game about how many soldiers are in your ship versus the enemy ship, it was difficult to strategize (not to mention the random arrows). Lastly, requiring soldiers for ship effectiveness meant you always had to deal with the clumsiness of garrisoning different ships with the right amount of soldiers in order to fight.

That would not make the mechanic obsolete, it would just be an easier way to snipe. Attacking ranged units beyond melee and then running away when ur melee is all gone will remain. Significant balance changes would be needed to actually make it obsolete.

Thanks, @guerringuerrin I may be missing something, but the description there isn't very clear. It doesn't really say the over-all goal of the PR, so I'm a little disoriented. It also doesn't describe how targets are selected within the group. I think it would have to be an extremely clever system to completely eliminate the advantage of auto-sniping.

Unfortunate that adding (ranged) troops, such as archers, does not increase the firepower of ships. In "real" life, archers can easily fire from ships thereby adding firepower. I get a kick of of that. The ships, in a sense are too large for the game. I have ended up with the ships getting tangled up in a knot and have a difficult time untangling them. There have also been a few occurrences where the ships are so "long" that it is difficult to move troops (by ship) from one shore to the next when the shores are too close together.

Hey @RangerK!. You might be interested in taking a look at this PR. Basically, it would allow targeting groups of units using the selection box, which could make sniping as a gameplay mechanic obsolete.

The Attached Screen shot is analysis from a recent TG. You can see a HUGE disparity in the frequency and intensity of concentrated attack commands. This can be evidence of Sniping, as I see @SaidRdz do manually in many of his Youtube videos. Or it can evidence of using some game mod to automatically snipe for you. Tatyana17's 13 attack commands per second isn't necessarily evidence of cheating, as game seconds are longer than real seconds, also, maybe all the commands were given during a pause in the game, though I don't remember having one. Regardless, it's a little sus. Playing with even the possibility of cheaters is very demoralizing. I suggest TWO features: 1) Throttle the # of allowed attacks per second which the game will accept. Either 3 or 4 seems good. And if there are additional attack commands, they are either ignored or processed in the following second. 2) Show statistics exactly like those in the image as part of the post-game data.

Techs from Farmstead are also being researched. This includes all techs that affect resource gathering speed, with the exception of baskets.

In COH1 maybe because of my cpu/gpu being amd and not nvidia, all sfx for example explosion, gunshots would show a pink box outline that glitches, the young me at that time didn't mind lol since I've completed the game on my brother's PC. But a worse case is me trying to play an old game but its unplayable because all of its visual is black and it effects only amd users... I even tried playing my childhood game Empire Earth 3, its very buggy visually, crashes upon completing campaign and is laggy. I guess I could get a refurbished Thinkpad laptop since I heard its like brick that I can throw to someone just like Nokia and its cheap and reliable~

Probably to make you build more ships for naval battles.

Not sure about armour (arrows can be designed specifically to work against chainmail, but afaik not against plate) but shields are good against pierce - which is another way to make units differents.

Why has this been removed ?

I'm actually one of the first who understood what you're trying to introduce to the game. That's why I've reacted the way I did. I'm sure the developers understood, as well. Your incoherent, strawman analogies and personal insults have prolonged the discussion and pushed it on to a different path. It's good that you're acknowledging this. There's nothing more to add, honestly.