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  • Topics

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    • Ultimate Aurelian
      Thoughts on the Athenians

      By Ultimate Aurelian · Posted

      This might be partially due to gameplay limitations, i'm not sure weapon switching was implemented yet.
    • Nicolaus_von_Kues
      Five errors, bugs, or just weird things

      By Nicolaus_von_Kues · Posted

      It's not about realism, it's about being convincing.   That the world you're playing with is convincing you.   That's why video games are derived from cinema film.  That's why I complain when I see how sometimes the gameplay of the game is about controlling hordes of Greek cavalry.     It's also worth mentioning that you don't risk sacrificing game performance for realism. That's why old games weren't realistic, and the other thing is fun; reality isn't fun.
    • marga_
      3D Modelers and Texture artists- Marga

      By marga_ · Posted

      of course before-after0001-0209.mp4
    • RangerK
      LocalRatings mod - evaluate players' skills based on previous games

      By RangerK · Posted

      Here's a small bug fix to my mod of @ffm's mod. The team #s were displayed incorrectly under some conditions. The general value of this mod is a quick, concise suggestion about whom to swap to improve the balance using the "/suggest" command.  For example:   CURRENT: 59%/41% Team 1 Stronger SUGGESTIONS aop <> rambo9: 50%/50% Even or Subzero57 <> Fuzzy_dcuk: 49%/51% Even Read more in my previous post in this thread. BalanceTeamsButton.js network~LocalRatings.js
    • scr0llbaer
      Five errors, bugs, or just weird things

      By scr0llbaer · Posted

      It's not about graphics, it's about game design. Most games like this cannot be abstract blobs people move around, so a theme is used ("ancient warfare"), and things and objects that people understand and are mentally accessible. And as such, the abstractions and analogies have to match well, otherwise people will just turn their heads and walk away ("what a crap!"), and also will never give feedback. Ideally, a game is easy to learn and hard to master. 0 A.D. famously struggles with the former.  As such, in this concrete example, piking through a wall indeed makes no sense. Can be a rule for any building. 2.5 D is fine, the actual model of the building doesn't have to be put into consideration, so I don't think it will be a hard fix, just some configuration thing. But there are a lot of similar issues which indeed would be harder, like archers and siege shooting through really high canyon walls. So in this case, height and angles would actually have to be considered to make things feel "realistic" enough. Then manning wall turrets will make sense. Right now there's no need to bother with that, archers and other ranged units can just shoot from behind the wall and it's even better because more likely out of range of enemy units. On the turrets they die rather quickly currently. So I think it's also not "simulated" yet they would be much harder to hit from the ground, the very point of crenellations.  
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