LocalRatings Team Balancer A mod that extends LocalRatings by Mentula with two new buttons on the game-setup screen. One balances teams automatically by rating, the other evaluates the current setup and adds two outcome-based rating systems, Glicko-2 and OpenSkill, alongside the original LocalRatings score. Why outcome-based ratings? The LocalRatings ranking list already shows the problem: even with plenty of replay data, some known-strong players end up rated poorly and some known-weak ones look stronger than they are. Raw in-game statistics don't track skill cleanly. In a 4v4, if three players focus-harass one strong opponent, that player's stats look weak, though they're being targeted because they're strong. A useful comparison: modern chess engines evaluate positions with neural networks far beyond human understanding, yet FIDE still uses Elo, chess.com uses Glicko-1, and lichess uses Glicko-2. Even with perfect game analysis available, the established outcome-based systems remain the standard for tracking player skill over time. Win/loss results across many games carry a signal that in-game metrics miss. 0 A.D. has no chess-engine equivalent, so the case for outcome-based rating is even stronger here. Rating systems Three systems are available, selectable in the LocalRatings settings: Local Ratings (original) - rates players by in-game statistics relative to others in the same match. Works for all game types but inherits the limitations above. Glicko-2 - tracks each player with a rating, a rating deviation (confidence), and a volatility. New players start at 1500 ± 350. The conservative rating used for balancing is rating − 2·deviation, so a fresh player is treated as significantly weaker than someone who has won even one game. OpenSkill - an open-source Bayesian system based on the Bradley-Terry full model. Each player has a mean skill mu and an uncertainty sigma. New players start at mu 1500, sigma 500. The conservative rating is mu - 3·sigma. Glicko-2 and OpenSkill only count locked-teams games with exactly two teams; free-for-all and unlocked-team games are excluded. All other LocalRatings filters (minimum duration, population cap, cheat games, etc.) still apply and can be configured in the LocalRatings settings. Win/loss counts are tracked separately and shown alongside ratings. Balance button When the host presses balance, the mod reads all currently assigned players, looks up their ratings, and finds the partition into two teams that minimizes the difference in conservative rating sums. It then reorders the player slots. The result is posted in chat with rating sums, the rating difference, and a predicted win probability. Note the win probability it calculated with the raw rating and the pairing done with the conservative rating. Non-host players with the mod see a suggest button instead. Pressing it posts the same proposal to chat without changing any settings, so the host can decide whether to apply it. Both buttons have spam protection: pressing them again with the same player constellation does nothing. Slot shuffles or team swaps don't count as a new constellation. Evaluate button Reports on the current team assignment without changing anything: rating sum and conservative sum per team, the rating difference, which team is stronger, predicted win probability, and a full player ranking by rating with win/loss counts. Observers in the lobby appear in the ranking as well. End-of-game rating updates When a game finishes, the rating database updates on every mod user's machine. To avoid multiple mod users posting the same numbers to chat, only one client announces the changes; the others update silently. There's a known chat-line spacing bug that pushes this announcement far below the regular chat area. It can be fixed with this patch  Including older replays The engine only exposes replays from the currently installed version, so by default ratings are built from 0.28.0 replays only. To include 0.27.1 replays, copy them into the 0.28.0 folder. They count toward all three rating systems. Linux: copy or move everything from ~/.local/share/0ad/replays/0.27.1/ into ~/.local/share/0ad/replays/0.28.0/ Windows: copy everything from %APPDATA%\0ad\replays\0.27.1\ into %APPDATA%\0ad\replays\0.28.0\ macOS: copy everything from ~/Library/Application Support/0ad/replays/0.27.1/ into ~/Library/Application Support/0ad/replays/0.28.0/ After copying, open the LocalRatings page and press Rebuild list to re-process all replays in date order. This step is needed even when rebuild isn't normally required, because the imported replays are older than your existing ones and the ratings have to be recalculated from the beginning. The imported replays won't be playable as visual replays in 0.28.0, but their metadata is read correctly for rating purposes. Limitations Team rating is inherently harder than 1v1. Individual contribution isn't fully separable from team performance, and the rating systems see each game as a single team win or loss. This is a fundamental constraint of every team rating system, not something specific to this mod. Cold-start: ratings come from the host's local replays only. Since the database is built from whatever the host has played or observed, players who appear in the lobby with no recorded games start unrated, and their conservative rating sits well below average until they accumulate results. A genuinely strong player with only a few recorded losses will likewise look weaker than they are. The automatic team pairing works as a correcting instance: A strong player with low rating will be paired with players with a high rating, resulting in a very strong team and a high likely win. This strong player will then accumulate wins. These unbalanced games might be frustrating. Three things you can do meanwhile: Accept the balance and play. The fastest fix is more games with the automatic pairing. Adjust manually. Use /rate username 1600 to set a player's rating before the match starts. Useful when a rating is obviously off. Seed the database. Download games with known outcomes from replay-pallas and drop them in your replays folder, then rebuild. Pick a balanced selection - similar wins and losses for each player - so you don't accidentally bias the rating in either direction. A player can help to fix their rating by uploading a few decisive games to replay-palas for the hosts to download. Non-decisive games. Most 0 A.D. team games don't end with the entire losing side eliminated, and Glicko-2 / OpenSkill can only update on games where a winner can be determined. The LocalRatings Team Balancer ships with an Auto-Classifier that infers a winner from in-game data (surviving populations, final scores and defeated-count difference) for games that ended without a clean engine verdict. The quality of your ratings therefore depends partly on how well the Auto-Classifier performs on your replay set. Per-game rating changes under your current settings are visible in the replay section. Locked teams. The most sensible option usually would be only evaluate games with locked teams. The problem is when one switches the map e.g. from mainland to balanced-mainland the settings defaults to unlocked teams. In most cases this is harmless as the players just don't change their diplomacy states. Therefore the option Rate unlocked-team games exists.   LocalRatings_Team_Balancer.zip

That’s something that needs to be added to the config file iirc, but they’ll only build them in City Phase. 

Hey Delenda Est team!  First of all, thank you so much for this incredible mod. The gameplay mechanics, the tech tree, and the depth you’ve added to 0 A.D. make it an absolute blast to play and tinker with. I wanted to share a fun creative project I’ve been messing around with locally. I noticed there isn't much representation for ancient Southeast Asian maritime empires in the community, so I’ve been trying to put together an Empire of Srivijaya identity using Delenda Est as my baseline framework. Since I don't have the 3D modeling skills to build an entire civilization from scratch, I’ve been kitbashing and re-skinning existing assets from your mod to make a "proxy" faction. I am using the Mauryas as the mechanical backbone because Srivijaya itself was heavily inspired by india and its units are pretty much close in terms of appearance to those of the Srivijayan/Malayan (such as the infantry and elephants!). To dress the soldiers, I've had to get pretty creative with the props. I actually found that a few of your specific Hellenic helmets look surprisingly similar to ancient Southeast Asian bronze and brass helmets! By pairing those with the Mauryan armors, I've managed to piece together a really cool, convincing visual style for the frontline troops. Furthermore, I found the Xiongnu shields perfect for the regular infantries! (my main goal of reskinning the units is to differentiate them from looking too indianized, and more southeast asian!) In matters of the buildings however, I still have no idea on how to model 3d buildings with Melayu architectures or to implement it in the files, but I wish to learn more. But I did manage to change its names to Old Malay (as well as the units too!). Just to be completely clear: This is strictly a 100% private hobby project for personal use and to play LAN games with a few friends. I have absolutely no plans to publish this publicly, upload it to mod.io, or distribute it online anywhere. I just wanted to drop a message to say thank you for creating such an awesome, flexible modding framework that allows a history nerd like me to play around and bring a personal favorite empire to life on my own computer. Keep up the amazing work! I'll just drop some screenshots of the Melayu Swordsmen and Spearmen (Sorry if its real bad!) Short information on the Empire of Srivijaya: Flourishing from the 7th to the 13th century, the Srivijaya Empire was a powerful, Sumatra-based maritime kingdom that dominated Southeast Asian trade by controlling vital waterways like the Strait of Malacca. Operating as a flexible network of local rulers loyal to a central maharaja, the empire built a thriving commercial economy trading spices, gold, and timber with global powers like China and India. Beyond its economic might, Srivijaya served as a major international hub for Mahayana Buddhism, fostering deep cultural and religious ties across the region, including connections to Java’s Sailendra dynasty. Following a devastating invasion by the southern Indian Chola dynasty in 1025, the empire's political and economic grip steadily weakened, leading to its eventual decline and replacement by the Javanese Majapahit Empire by the 14th century.

commands.txt @user1 My user: _FeRRaN_ User to report: viabadie2 viabadie2 quited without resigning when it was clear he was defeated (again)  

@user1 My user: _FeRRaN_ User to report: viabadie2 viabadie2 quited without resigning when it was clear he was defeated. commands.txt