So this is something that has been bothering me since a28 was released.  What was the point of gendered civilians?   I like to think I'm about as PC/liberal as they come but I have several issues with them. First off historically most human societies were men driven, where women had little to no power or rights.  Aren't we trying to represent 500 BCE to 500 CE or there abouts? Secondly why would a civilian male who is wearing no armor be slower both in movement speed and in gathering resources?  In fact, even women might be able to gather as fast or at least have more carrying capacity since again in a lot of societies that was one of their prominent roles. So was the decision to just be PC? to somehow improve the game play? 

They won't be in the main game but they will be used in Delenda Est.

When you connect to the multiplayer lobby, 0ad uses a secure, TLS-encrypted connection by default. However, up to now we also offered the ability for players to disable that encryption. This won't be possible from some time tomorrow (2026-03-06) on anymore, as we want to improve the security and privacy of our players. For the past two weeks, every player who disabled TLS-encryption in the past, and therefore connected to the multiplayer lobby with an unencrypted connection, received a notification to change their configuration to enable it. If you haven't followed these instructions or just haven't connected to the multiplayer lobby since then, here is what you have to do to continue to be able to connect to the multiplayer lobby: From the main screen of the game, navigate to "Settings" → "Options" → "Networking / Lobby" and enable "TLS encryption" there. As an alternative you can also locate your 0ad configuration file and change lobby.tls = "false" to lobby.tls = "true" there.

@DesertRose You might find this interesting    

corrals needs food before generating any meaningful amount :/