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Sounds lovely!

Changed storehouse, since now i can add the dirt above the tiles: Color is just a matter of bake again so as long as the design is okay, i won't mind baking it again with another tone.

@Stan` i can't see properly the colours with this monitor, is this ok?

I suggested something like this a few months ago, where there is a resource storage cap (similar to pop cap), and the player needs to build more storage buildings and farmsteads in order to continue to store gathered resources, much like how you need to build more houses to train more units. ATM storehouses are kind of ignored in combat, which is actually very inaccurate to history (a very common tactic of raids was to burn storehouses and fields to cut off supplies to a settlement, both of which tend to be overlooked in 0ad.) While I think giving the attacker the amount of resources stored in the storehouse is maybe too much, giving them a quarter of the resources or figuring out some sort of looting mechanic to destroyed buildings might be useful.

Something that could fix the necessity of hunting down to the last worker would be to make it so that if a player (or ai) has less than 4 units or the like, they are automatically defeated, as long as they have no buildings (this might encourage early rushes and raids, which is why owning a civil center or other defensive or military building should nullify this).

I'll Bake them desaturated and darker versions soon, i was taking My monitor to warranty, gladly i had two.

Yeah, then I understood, just that you proposed something that happens in basically no RTS (if any?) so casually that I was confused. I'm always happy to propose and discuss changes to the base game, but this, honestly, is not going to make it. It's just too radical. You'll have to try it in some mod.

I like that... in some ways that is what "loot" is, but its standard. We have also changed the amount of loot a little. Farmsteads were I think 20 wood, same as storehouse. It was 20% of cost, or maybe 10%... anyway we for now are 75 food for farmstead, and 25metal, 25wood, 25stone for storehouse.

So what do you think about the idea that trader and trading ships would actually carry resources and could also be robbed?

I like this, its something we briefly discussed with Classical Warfare AEA, just not really sure how to implement something like that. You would hold it at your storehouse until its transferred somewhere else ie cc, forge.

The idea is to turn storage buildings into actual resource containers, so the economy becomes spatial, resources are stored locally, not globally. If you deposit 500 wood into a specific storage, that storage literally holds those 500 wood. If that storage is attacked, up to that exact amount can be looted.

fields can't not be built within 50m of CC in CWA if you want to see what its like

I think your advantage were forge upgrades. The AI did not get any of them until it was too late in Endgame. Nevertheless the german 2 slinger brigade trained from 2cc were two unbelievable lucky guys.

Regarding your first line, not allowing fields next to CCs was discussed not long ago, I don’t know what was the conclusion. I think it’ll be implemented at least in one mod for now. Regarding your second line... I'm confused about “storage actually contains resources”, RTS don’t tend to work like that… not that that’s an invalid mechanic, just that you are stating it like it’s the obvious default, if I even understand correctly what's going on.

I'd be happy to start working on a template and spin up a demo on my server.

Not that fast to get it from a video, but from its wiki: "As the player advances through the ages, and erects more structures within the city limits, the city will expand, increasing its defensive power, gather rate, and extending the national borders, as well as its own radius". Indeed I had forgotten, this is a really nice mechanic, I prefer it to going village->town->city for all CCs at the same time. What ruined RoN for me was the automatic transport ships after building a dock. I think I've read this being discussed, and indeed it would be worth having the option, no need to impose one or the other. I don't tend to agree with this, because there are many ways in which something can work, and no one resonable proposes "change this without any testing, because it works in my mental emulation".

In this game, you can always rebuild even if you’re down to a single unit. This happens quite often in team matches. A player might lose their entire base but still have a few units left; even without enough resources, allies can share the bare minimum needed to bring them back into the game. Instead of breaking something that already works, it might be worth considering adding an extra victory option, something like “last CC standing,” so no one gets frustrated (especially when playing against the AI) searching the entire map for that last unit. As for the other buildings, you just need to wait a few seconds for them to lose control.

Few players do it. I don't bother with anything more than a couple of fields and some towers. Maybe a Temple and a Fortress if it's a forward CC. You can remind yourself by watching a couple of Rise of Nations gameplay videos on Youtube.

Carthaginians bring wealth and prosperity to Kush. Played against a Hard Petra on Marmara map. Cart_VS_Kush_H.zip

Nice work @Alexandermb I believe that the earth is a bit too bright/saturated.

Can you remind me? This was over 20 years ago for me. I remember one would build cities, and things around them, but I don't remember why this was necessary, and not end like in 0 A.D., having almost everything you need around only one city. In any case, I wonder if something could be done to make it a bit more realistic and force expansion, for example, to have limits for each building type around each CC. Surely this was discussed at some point.

Should the construction of fields right next to the civic center be reconsidered? I know it's intended to utilize the civic center as storage, but it looks rather unsightly. Also, what if the storage actually contains resources - the amount workers collect and load into it—and it could be looted?

Actually, when resources were abundant, I built more than one "city," I don't know if anyone else did it besides me. Perhaps few players play like me, or maybe not at all. I had matches that lasted for hours, sometimes over 3 hours. I found that having many well-defended places like the first "city" also made the AI harder to defeat. Even if you didn't build houses there, at least you had barracks and stables, and they could train soldiers. Because many places only had a single civic center and a market, they were often easily captured quickly, and soldiers had to march a long distance to defend them. And sometimes the AI still wanted to train more soldiers but there was no space because the soldiers blocked all the exits from the buildings. That is, the potential for increasing army size was limited by the number of buildings. Of course, I want long battles, so I find it interesting, because an empire rising from destruction is spectacular to me, and they will have a chance to rise again if there are other "bases" or "cities" with potential. Currently, I have the feeling that the AI is building city-states; it's not large enough for empires yet, but maybe people will find it annoying.

The fact that when selecting only one player the game automatically declares victory seems almost a bug to me. In that situation, victory conditions implying having an enemy in the first place should not be taken into account.

At the edge of the road decals, could you test how it looks if it's carved out along the gaps instead of blended out?