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I find this autostart argument pretty sad, and I have heard it from several players. Are you really that hell-bent on making the fastest possible start just for such a small gain? I think players should accept that it is impossible to achieve the "perfect" start, and instead put in effort to learn a fast start that works for them. The point is not that autostart gets you such a massive gain, it doesn't, its that the principle behind it is depressing.

Oh, so that's how I could have added oars while keeping the sail & sail animation?

This is an assumption that one player makes about 7 others. And when they find out they lost because someone was cheating, the answer is "chill out its just a game". Awesome argument guys. Usually all 7 other players are unaware that this advantage exists, and even the minority of players who know that such mods exist do not grasp the magnitude of advantage that automation scripts provide. The discussion about the game being "non-competitive" is very convenient when cheaters use it to downplay the negative gameplay consequences that results from cheating. Funny enough the "competitive" nature of 0ad has been used to justify the same automation scripts by players who claim that their mouse can't click fast enough to compete with players who have "better" hardware. No player can click faster than even the cheapest mice allow, and some players even prefer not to have a mouse. Even more funny is that an auto-clicker which people have claimed to be in-use in 0ad would be considered an automation script and therefore cheating. The hypocrisy is mind boggling. I also totally reject the car analogy because in this case the automatic car is simply faster.

Obviously, this makes you a better player because it masks your flaws. Being better or worse than another player requires several evaluation points, and one of them is the ability to manage everything that happens on screen, especially in an RTS game. If you use a script that does these things for you, it's obviously an advantage and shouldn't even be discussed. Your analogy exemplifies exactly what I said. A manual car may not be faster than an automatic, but there's a chance of shifting into the wrong gear and breaking gears in a manual car, which isn't possible in an automatic. That's exactly what you do when you use scripts to mask your mistakes.

While working on a PR to incorporate hotkeys for building placement, building selection, and unit selection, I created this mod that—on top of building placement and selection—adds hotkeys to select several unit classes not covered by AutoCiv: all infantry, cavalry, champions, mercenaries, healers, heroes, and even dogs! It can be used alongside AutoCiv, although I haven’t tested it with its latest versions. There are still some features left to add, but I’d really appreciate help from anyone willing to test it and help catch any bugs I might have missed. I’d also love to publish it on mod.io, so any help with that would be greatly appreciated! To install it, just unzip BuildingHotkeys.zip and copypaste the BuildingHotkeys folder into your mod's folder Here's a demonstration video: BuildingsHotkeys mod.mp4

I like the car analogy. The first analogy I came up with was shoes; when you play soccer (or any other sport during which you run around a lot) with your friends, neighbours or acquaintances, there are no rules for which shoes you use. And the shoes are how you interact with the ball and the game, so they're like a GUI. If you want to, you can play in high heels and make it extra hard on yourself. Or you play normally, with general sports shoes. Or you are very competitive and you get yourself special soccer shoes. Only when you start playing your sport professionally, youll begin to encounter rules regarding your footwear. And autostart is like cheating in a race by starting 0.5s too early; in a professional setting, youll get punished for that, but when you're just running around with your friends nobody cares.

https://mod.io/g/0ad/m/select-all This was ported recently, if you want hotkeys, as an alternative to autociv (that is also available from mod downloader).

@Itms It might not be related to this specific RC3, but I just experienced a crash after a 30-minute game with this RC3. There were lots of serialization errors before the first window crash. I was able to click "Continue" and the game kept running. However, it crashed again when I tried to save and clicked the save button. Uploading here. I can report on gitea if neccesary Crash_rc3_250714.zip

For rigged meshes prop points should be added to the armature unlike normal meshes.

Replay2025-07-13_0001.zip

New Release Candidates are available for Patch A27.1 You will find them at https://releases.wildfiregames.com/rc/ with the -rc3- infix. Those are the same as RC2 except the SpiderMonkey DLL for Windows 7 is the good one

Thanks for testing! Can you send the replay? Petra was not touched for the patch release, so this would also be present in A27.

People have opinions—I still use ProGUI, though. But I use it mainly for the Quickstart version, which some might consider cheating. I haven't updated it yet, so I don't get any eco benefits. I don't think using ProGUI makes you a better player; it just helps you avoid forgetting the obvious actions. It's like driving an automatic transmission car—you won't make basic mistakes because the car handles the gear shifts for you. But I enjoy driving manual cars. And honestly, do you think an automatic car can win in a race? If it does, then the drivers of the manual cars probably aren't that skilled! Also, on a racetrack, everyone comes with different vehicles. There are certain standards, but everyone makes tweaks here and there—and the winners are still the best drivers! If you make compatibility checks mandatory, mods from people like me are mostly ignored. I believe that when it comes to competitions involving money or formal ranking, mods shouldn't be allowed. But what we're playing now are just friendly matches—some people really need to stop taking a loss so personally. reza always thinks that I am still the noob I am when I first started and stayed noob for a while, but I don't think progui did anything to improve my game. I learned from @Seleucids @Mentula guides + observing other players etc also people like @Player of 0AD @MarcusAureliu#s @vinme mentored me during the voice chats + in game chats also bullies helped me grow! their brutally @#$% opinions made me realize some dumb thinks I did during game. Always improving, but spontaneous improvisation is the key.

Compilation: 0 A.D.0.27.1-rc2, Debian 12.11 Bookworm (+rustup) To me, everything works as expected, only "Petra" informs: Regards

Woops. Found the issue. Thanks a lot for the report

@little Guest you beat me to it @Itms i observe the same behavior, namely RC2 throws the same error on Win7, but works when i replace the 2 files manually with the versions from the other post. I also notice the creation dates of the 2 files from the other post are more recent than those from the RC2.

@ItmsA27.1-rc2 doesn't work on my old win7 laptop. And it works if I replace the two files called "mozjs115-release.dll" and "mozjs115-release.pdb" with those files in the following post.

You mean, all military units, like in Starcraft 2? It doesn't exist because most military units in this game are also your economic units. You can assign a control group to your CS and use Shift+Alt while mousing over any new units to add them to that control group. Then, just use Call to Arms hotkey when needed to send them to attack move some area.

Hi @Bumek, one mod that aims to improve playthrough experience and does have the feature to select all units is ModernGUI. In this mod simply clicking on population counter select all units; and there are a lot of added clickable graphical elements that can make sens like this. As well you might to check Autociv that adds a lot of very useful hotkeys and options.

This is a common verbal attack motif of geriatrix. He does this so that he can have a martyr for his crusade against whatever player he is focused on. There need not be any actual reason for the player to have left or any causal connection between geriatrix, the “victim” or the person he is accusing. The main thing is to just not take a single thing he says seriously.

Feld is also a meme?

Hi, how to improve playthrough experience and why is there no option to select all units?

Memes never die, and neither do 0 A.D. players.

May be the Jack, but I laughed out loud for an unnatural amount of time. lol

When the support for up to 15-player team games is added