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Can you tell me which? It's supposed to be complete, but it might not have been updated consistently enough.

I checked it out, but it only lists a few of the changes that need to be made, I’ve already encountered three or four unlisted ones.

The Statue of Zeus at Olympia is one of the seven wonders of the ancient world, and as such it would be nice to have a model in the game for a potential capture the wonder mod. I've found these CC0 models we could use: https://sketchfab.com/3d-models/george-washington-greenough-statue-1840-6f90971e3eb24c0b8091086242f2c3b3 https://sketchfab.com/3d-models/julius-casar-802edad501a94f9c99b84c4c33d376b7 Then put the head of Zeus on top of it, e.g. this one: https://sketchfab.com/3d-models/zeus-or-poseidon-from-the-artemision-d4876aa609304682945145debedfc77e Someone else has done something similar with George Washingtons statue already: https://sketchfab.com/3d-models/zeus-statue-216d3aff33b9439f87bd0e79c677f9eb We could use Nike from Athena Parthenos. I'm won't find the time to do it soon, so I'm giving it out for anyone interested. I'm willing to help if anyone is interested in doing a retopology. I can then take it from there and bake a material. It's quite beginner-friendly as it requires mostly basic navigation in blender, but quite time-consuming. I propose using a tool like retopoflow for it.

cool, glad to finally have the next version to play Alas there is already a problem to report, The Roman Fertility bonus is no longer functional, they still have to research fertility festival now to get civilians from houses. Is that due to the change in keywording or was the civ bonus just outright removed?

As hidden in the announcement, there's a mod porting guide on the Wiki (especially for the programming side of things):

cc @Itms

Hi there, I do not know if this is a bug report, but up until now, I am not able to seed at all as the trackers are all unreachable. For the `fe80:` I understand those are local, but for the rest I do not know. How to make this work better? is this a configuration issue? (I am on a dual stack lite with private ipv4). Thanks, Raffi

Oof, siege buildings are now purposeful. Congrats.

THANK YOU ALL DEVELOPERS !!!! You are doing a great job to satisfy the unfortunately small community, which makes your efforts even more exceptional. I love you keep up the good work!

The lobby isn't resource heavy and right now we should be able to handle a few thousand concurrent players. There is also work in progress to make it even more scalable (https://gitea.wildfiregames.com/0ad/0ad/pulls/8679). However, as @Stan` already mentioned, with a sudden significant increase of players we'd definitely get trouble moderating the lobby with the capabilities we have at hand for that right now.

So, for us modders, all that we'll need to update is the stuff that calls upon FemaleCitizens, replacing them with just Citizens? What else is needed to work on R28?

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so since probably feldmap has to be ported anyway, it would be possible to have a "mainland random-positions" in it? @Feldfeld

Thank you for the new thread! Alternative: Increase the resources trickle (see below). This would amortize the Glorious Exp. Tech. earlier.

Oh, thx! Needs to be added to the FAQ entry How can I ban observers in multiplayer mode?!

So, I feel like wonders are an almost useless building. They cost a lot, are usually too big to place anywhere, and provide little return on your investment , so to speak. I have come up with a few ways to make them more interesting outside of capture the wonder mode: #1: Merge the Glorious Expansion technology into the Wonder, to save the excessive resources spent on it. #2: Give Wonders an aura that improves movement speed, gather rate, and melee damage (either global or localized). #3: Make Wonders acts as more powerful civic centers that can’t train units or attack. #4: Increase the resource trickle amounts from the Wonder.

/kick /ban /kickspecs /banspecs /list /clear You can't force the player from the lobby back into the game, he has to join.

@leopard reintroduced random positions in his mod https://mod.io/g/0ad/m/mainland-twilight . It's basically feldmap scripts but with random position as variant, and other cool variants as well. The only reason we don't use this over feldmap in the online community is pure habits and because we are sheeps.

I miss random positions too (and I also miss allied view disabled btw...) I think lot of players would thanks this to come back. it would be great to add this and then the host could choose between Random or Fixed in Circle but also in Stronghold, River and Grouped Lines.

Dear fellow addicts, its probably too late for a28, but i just wanted to have some short discussion about bringing back the random teamgame player positions, especially on mainland maps. i remember it was really cool, players would spot early to see who was their border. now we have in almost all teamgames the same setup: strongest players pocket (with 220 pop civ), weaker players border. i understand that many not-so-pro players dont want to be pocket in fear of getting rushed badly. i remember during a27 there were maps with "fixed positions" suffix, so you had a choice for that too. Now you dont have a choice anymore. What do you think about bringing back random positions, in all maps or in mainland? Maybe its also possible to just make a map with non-fixed-positions, so like in a27 but other way round, with fixed being standard... HF, Meister

Thats a thing? Good to know... Edit: Honestly, I'd rather have the unpause feature for other players nonetheless, who knows some players might get bored of waiting and just decide to let the player afk in the middle of team games. Maybe have a feature to allow control their units for allies just like in Warcraft 3 if they want to afk without pause. Oh but when I think about it, is there even an unkick command? Atleast that solves my worries. Is there a list of command for host that I can read on? Thanks.

you can simply kick the pauser if you are host. the command is /kick [username]

There is a bit of a problem with pausing, I was observing a game of 3 player FFA. A player who lost his Civil Centre decided to pause the game. We've talked it out but after 5 minute of asking to unpause, the game ended by the host quitting because the player doesn't want to unpause. So following Dota's style, give the ability for players to unpause. Pausing/unpausing should have a cooldown of 3 minute(individual, starts upon unpause) to prevent abuse or a better solution is welcomed. Players who pause then unpause later are not effected. Player 1 pause for a reason but after awhile that it took longer then expected player 2 decides to unpause the game, the cooldown has started. Another case where player 1 decides to pause and then player 2 unpause it accidentally, cooldown starts. But player 2 can pause, then eventually when player 1 returns he unpause. Cooldown will not lower during pause.

We are going off topic but I think the best solution would be that if someone leaves the game without resigning, the opponent should still have the possibility to finish the match by eliminating the enemy and earn the points. This way, we don’t remove the possibility that if someone disconnects, the game can remain paused and be resumed once they reconnect.