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Thoughts? @Thalatta @wowgetoffyourcellphone tropaion.zip

You can find the new version of my mod on mod.io: https://mod.io/g/0ad/m/earth-maps These are the files of this map. The file mordor.json goes in: ~/.local/share/0ad/mods/user/maps/random/rmbiome/mordor/ for linux. middle-earth.json middle-earth.js mordor.json

A proposed upgrade for Han houses: The Tower House +5 population bonus +5 vision range +1 projectile (short ranged attack added)

We understand that the developers are volunteers and that they don't owe the players anything, but you have to admit that currently game hosting isn't convenient for a variety of reasons (IPv4 CGNAT issues, P2P etc.) if anything players hacking their own solution by paying for their own servers to host the game should be at the very least tolerated. In my opinion the game develops very slowly (that's how open source community driven works) and human nature implies that if you people aren't given an option they'll come up with their own solutions and they can't be blamed for that. I don't see how a single player creating a single dedicated account to host games is any different than a player forgetting his credentials and creating another account to host games, especially considering that it was done with no malicious intent and with well thought safe guards (spam protection, moderator player system etc.) So far everyone who played on those hosted servers had a great experience and they're pushing back on your decision (and rightfully so) because they see how a very efficient and convenient way of playing the game is being taken away from them over technicalities. As for what should be done next I think uff (and other selected players) should be allowed to host a fixed number of server instances (at least 1, more if the mods allow it) since so far it's only been positive until a true functioning headless 0ad server is released.

Biomes This map reconstructs the geography of Middle-earth on a real heightmap, divided into twelve climate zones that follow Tolkien's continental layout from north to south and west to east: Forodwaith (arctic), Angmar and the transitional Shire–Lothlórien border (alpine), the Shire and Lothlórien proper (temperate), Rhûn and Rohan (steppe), Gondor (Aegean/Mediterranean), Mordor and East Mordor, and North Harad and Harad (savanna and desert) to the south. Each zone is painted with its own biome, giving the continent genuinely different terrain textures, vegetation, and wildlife rather than a single palette reused everywhere: pine-covered alpine slopes around Angmar, temperate forest and farmland in the Shire, open steppe grassland across Rohan and Rhûn, Mediterranean scrubland in Gondor, and a dedicated custom biome for Mordor itself, distinguishing it visually and ecologically from the surrounding desert and steppe zones. Player starting positions are placed avoiding deliberately Mordor, keeping it a hostile, resource-marginal region rather than a viable base location, in keeping with its role in the source material. Visually, the map uses a warm, slightly desaturated sun tone against cool blue-green water, cumulus skies, and a light HDR tonemap with reduced saturation and moderate bloom, aiming for a muted, epic tone rather than the high-saturation look of the default temperate presets. Source materials Thanks to u/enpremi for his heightmap: https://www.reddit.com/r/lotr/comments/1avfmuw/high_resolution_middleearth_heightmap_link_in/ and to u/William_MM for the climate division https://www.reddit.com/r/imaginarymaps/comments/c5mzt9/oc_climate_map_of_middleearth/ This is my rielaboration for 0 A.D. base-1000.svg It is a 1000×1000 Inkscape overlay traced on top of the source heightmap, with one labeled rectangle per region (Forodwaith, Angmar, Shire, Lorien, Rhûn, Rohan, Gondor, Mordor, East Mordor, North/South Harad). Pixel coordinates read off this overlay were converted to the fractional `Vector2D` bounds (`fractionToTiles(...)`) hardcoded in `middle-earth.js`. It has no in-game role. Labels in .svg and in the .js script are informal working notes (a few are Italian).

Hey everyone! I’m back with more news about my mod, World Rising! I’m currently working on implementing the Yayoi culture, and one of my main goals is to make players truly feel their civilization evolving gradually throughout the match. When you advance from the Jomon to the Yayoi, I currently plan to keep the buildings from the previous culture in your city. This way, progression won’t simply replace everything instantly. The old buildings will remain functional and will even be able to produce units from the previous culture. It will be entirely up to the player to decide when it’s time to destroy them, replace them with new Yayoi buildings, or even keep some of them. I want this transition to make each city tell its own story, mixing old and new elements as the civilization evolves. It’s completely up to the player to decide what to do with their city! The Yayoi buildings are still not all finished. Since this culture represents a more advanced period, I’m adding a lot more detail to the buildings, both in their architecture and in the smaller decorative elements. And personally, I think the results are looking incredible! =D There’s still a lot more to show, and I’ll be bringing you more development updates very soon. For now, enjoy these images! And please leave a comment! I’d really love to know what you think. Opinions, suggestions, criticism, and compliments are always welcome, as all of your feedback helps a lot with the development of World Rising. Thank you so much to everyone who has been following and supporting the project! More World Rising updates coming soon!

The concern about "protecting privacy and security" doesn't feel entirely convincing, given that the current hot-seat setup already leaves privacy and security largely in the hands of the players. For instance, anyone hosting a game can see connecting IP addresses and can already run the game on a modified host anyway. As for the second account, it didn't seem like uff was trying to hide anything, especially since the username was so similar to his main one. It looks like he only did it to work around current system limitations so he could actually host and play at the same time. I actually had similar ideas about setting up my own hosts, but I didn't want to pay for a GPU-enabled hosting service, and I haven't yet found the time to modify the engine. Specifically, it requires decoupling XMPP from the GUI in C++, exposing the Lobby API to headless mode, and writing an autostart JS script to manage the server without rendering. IMHO, volunteer-run hosts significantly improve matchmaking queue times, ultimately making the game much more accessible to everyone.

A stone theater was not built in either Sparta or Thebes until Hellenistic times. Prior to that, both cities had wooden theaters. The current stone theater/sanctuary model can be used as an Atlas object. For base game, half of the Spartan Theatron's cost could be in Wood. @Obskiuras, would you like to create a concept?

Hello, I am the one who had first ported over the standalone Zapotec mod for Empires Ascendant from 0.26 to 0.27. Recently, I had not only ported over to 0.28, but also finalized all the unfinished aspects, such as missing progression actor/templates for the mercs and the zapotec scout units. Yes, even the lack of cavalry is not an impediment anymore, though you'll have to try it yourself or have someone else try it against you to see what I mean . For those who wish to try it: https://github.com/Yet-Again-He/0ad_zapoteca_0.28 As fun as playing the mod has been, that is not the point of this post. In finishing the mod, I had also finished an ambitious goal for it, one still incomplete for even some of the base 0ad factions: I made a voice pack for it. It is a full voice pack made with real people for the basic commands as well as alternate phrases for some of them. As a result of this, two ideas have come into my head. 1.): I can submit the audio for the Delenda Est mod so that their Zapotec faction (the original foundation for the standalone) can have voices. 2.): As far as I am aware, the zapotec faction is complete and designed for full integration into standard gameplay, even down to having edited duplicates of various json files so that I am not making unnecessary original technologies/auras. This means that theoretically, the Zapotecs could be added with minimal fuss into Empires Ascendant. So I wish to ask. Who do I talk to about potentially adding the voice pack for Delenda Est, and who can I talk to about the possibility of Zapotecs for the base game?

I have made some changes for ideation - specifically: Eye of Horus icon button: This toggles a gameStatus panel on/off gameStatus Panel: Displays the time elapsed and ceasefire remaining (as the current dev overlay does) Displays any win conditions that may be enabled i.e. relics, wonders, last man standing, regicide Displays the coundown timers for wonder win and relic win Key combination Ctrl-Alt toggles the panel No icons to the left of each line as yet Also ignore my coloring of the other two icons as that is from another part of my mod that wouldn't apply to this.

I just thought of documenting all these stuff, I don't even have pictures (I'll add them later) 1. Trump Wall As athens you can get a nice research in the sanate that gives you the ability to place walls in neutral territory. this way you can basically partition the entire map in two piece. with Themoclydes or whatever that hero's name is,he gives half construction time and 30% less cost so it's even better. do note that this works very well against annoying cav mfs. also a point to note is to not start to build walls directly from neutral territory. start building them from your territory otherwise the walls you build will fall to gaia. this way you have a literal wall which can act as a root for making storehouses in random places,or making entire forts and stables and barracks and basically a new frkn base without a cc. do note that this costs a shitton of stone and a fair amount of manpower for both gathering and building. so in most cases it's best not to do this,but it's very fun 2. BAKE SOME CITY GUARDS ingredients: Athen civ, Barrack, Hoplite Tradition research, Athenian Hoplites process: P2 Hoplite tradition then bake your Hoplites in the oven (barracks) for about 3 minutes. and voila! you will have fresh champions for barely half the cost! and even before p3! ready to invade with the rest of your army!! it's actually a very strong strat so you can actually do this one quite a lot of times and situations 3. Hippo smash (by now you might have guessed what my fav civ is and who's really the biggest worshipper of Athena) in phase 2,you can invade with peltast mercs, Hippocrates,and a primary citizen spear army with Hoplite tradition. make sure to get the hoplite tradition, and in the forge get the pierce resistance as well as ranged attack damage buffs this strategy focus on constantly bombarding your enemy. the hippo is a very underrated hero,you can spam healers with that hero and your army can be nigh immortal,filled with rank 3 and city guards in little time if the enemy doesn't pay attention. works best against noobs who don't know how to counter. pictures and more troll strats coming soon!!

I've been working on a new feature to add to the game. The idea is to provide an easy way to preserve our hotkeys, create templates, and quickly switch between them. Potentially export presets into a plain text file. I currently have a basic implementation that covers the minimum functionality: duplicating and deleting hotkey presets, while always keeping a Default Preset as a baseline. The presets are stored in binaries\data\mods\public\moddata\hotkeypresets.json (in theory, this would be mods/user in a compiled redistributable version). Just like with user.cfg, this .json file only stores hotkeys that differ from the default hotkeys. Initially, I wanted to use an INI-style file structure, but I'm not sure if there is an equivalent function to WriteJSONFile for that. I chose this location because it is already included in the whitelist, so I can avoid making changes to the Engine. I also didn't want to use user.cfg and add dozens of extra lines to it. So basically, the code adds a .json file that stores, reads, and modifies hotkey presets, and then copies/applies the active hotkeys to user.cfg. As for mods that interact with hotkeys, the idea is to change the current workflow as little as possible. So if there are any details I should take into account from a modding perspective, please let me know. Do you think this functionality would be useful to have? And, especially for the devs, does this seem like an appropriate approach, or would you recommend a better alternative?

We need ideas for Han Xin and Wu Han. Global Aura, a Ranged Aura, a Special Technology, and an Upgrade (usually to a mount, but sometimes some other kind of upgrade, such as Empress Dowager for Empress Lu).

Yes, I also was thinking this, considering that the snowballing increase and formation depreciation are good arguments against the whole idea. Still, I'm somewhat in favour of it, more as to set in place the mechanism (for mods to tinker with), and because it's good that new players realise there are things going on besides what's obvious in most RTS. I was thinking then that: -All penalties should be minor, and apply only for very low HP (thus present gameplay is not that drastically changed). -Lowering attack speed (or/and damage) first, and later movement speed (something like at 30% and 15% of HP, or whatever makes sense). -That wouldn't "make hunting overly easy", but it has also been proposed to make animals faster (and weaker), which would work hand in hand. -It would indeed work hand in hand with my proposal of "use an area as target", which was intended to be applied also to many other things. -Would make healers more useful and retreats possible (except for those who are too wounded... understandably). -Penalised units should be sent to the back of formations, whose speed should not be affected by them (they should struggle to keep up instead). -In conclusion, things would mostly "behave as expected", except on extreme circumstances, which is useful for some variation in tactics. That issue has the worse consequence of making some things really funky, but I don't think penalising a bit very hurt units is such an over-realistic game-averse concept as many other concept would be.

We now try to release roughly at the same date each year. We don't wait till all issues with that milestone get implemented. We would push them back. Almost certainly there will be no new civ in the next release.

What do y'all think of adding Empress Lu Zhi for a hero? She was a very strong ruler, brutal even. And then, how she'd look in her Empress Dowager form:

Looks amazing! I can't wait to try it out lol. My only critique is that the hay roofs look a bit too shiny; from a distance (like in your last picture) they look more like metal than hay.

I've been working on a custom random map for 0 A.D. inspired by the continent of Tamriel. It uses a real heightmap to recreate the shape of the landmass, then splits it into distinct climate zones that roughly mirror the regions from the source material: from snowy tundra in the north, to alpine terrain, arid deserts, temperate woodlands, and tropical jungle in the south. The heightmap source is: https://www.nexusmods.com/skyrimspecialedition/mods/573 And I used a simplified version of this work for biomes: I want to thanks both the creators of these artworks. This is the result: And now the sources: tamriel.json tamriel.js You can find it on https://mod.io/g/0ad/m/earth-maps, version 0.28.4

I found a different reference for a stage, which I prefer. It has a stone building in it, but the whole structure still looks "rustic" enough I think. Still a wip, so UVs, props and all that small stuff are incomplete. If I'm on the wrong track it's good to know early though, so what do you think?

Ok, I checked on Google Earth for scenario 1 of the battle. It takes place between Point A (Cueva de la Pileta ) and Point B (Serranía de Ronda). The area looks a lot like a mix of Hindu Kush Skirmish and Zagros Mountains Skirmish. I'm attaching the photos.

It is not the original version but is based on the Hyrule Revival mod. The structures were created using the Atlas terrain tool.

Thanks! Glad you like it All done: All the shields, armor and helmets are defined in tropaion_post.xml (so it's basically a small tropaion). I've added all kind of spartan shields: We can easily add or cut out any asset to match historical accuracy tropaion_0.28.1.zip

Three versions ago? Maybe? Supposedly? It was communicated then. I never paid attention to it, but I believe @guerringuerrin.

@Thalatta The actor actually uses several variations, so that it can be all things at once.

What's funny is that I have to approve my own posts. lol

I think it is pretty nice! and you can presumably share custom hotkey setups as a .txt file. I think it is useful, and simple enough that it fits with the existing intrastructure.

Unfrotunately i cannot give two hearts

https://gitea.wildfiregames.com/0ad/0ad/issues/9142

I think surely all special techs and hero techs will be unique, while standard technologies will stay common. For instance, I just committed a big change to the Ministry with an all-new tech tree and all-new tech icons, while the common Forge tech icons remain the same as other civs. A nice improvement for techs and their icons would be to allow a _civ or {civ} element in the icon line of tech files: https://gitea.wildfiregames.com/0ad/0ad/issues/8734 This would allow for techs to look unique in the UI, but underneath still be common among civs.

Indeed this should not happen, but I also think siege towers should be used for what they were actually used. Then, some other things would need to be changed, like making siege towers extremely slow and expensive.

thanks guys! now its working, now i will look forward for contributions.

https://www.moddb.com/mods/maori-0-ad/downloads/maori-0-ad-v110 This is my first 0AD mod and was originally part of a uni project. It adds new techs, buildings, and units to the game like the Pa or Waka. I would be keen to do some future updates to it, so any feedback is definitely appreciated!

I think firstly that walls must be made more useful and less buggy before another countermeasure to them (new Siege Tower features) is implemented. Walls need: 1. Environmental Snapping, such as to (very important) cliffs and impassable water edges, and to objects such as stone mines. 2. A health/cost/buildtime rebalance once they become more ubiquitous in multiplayer. The balance here will be crucial. Perhaps they should be slightly OP in most situations so that countermeasures such as Siege Towers (and other things? Undermines?) are warranted in the first place. 3. (not crucial) I'd like to add Sally Ports, which are like narrow "gates" but only allow one unit through at a time. So, they allow your units through and are more defensible than gates, but are allowed much lower passable bandwidth (and only let soldiers through, not civilian units, elephants, or siege weapons). Battle for Middle Earth II had these and they were nice. 4. I think the way archers "unturret" off of the wall is goofy-looking. Furthermore, which side of the wall they ungarrison to is not immediately clear nor easily controlled (if currently even possible at all?). We should fix this somehow. Maybe we can animate units running laterally across the wall's parapet to the nearest wall tower and ungarrisoning from those.

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Sometimes a commander realizes that some equipment is just redundant and no longer needed. So it was a waste of money (iron and wood), and it would be better to return it. For example, on a map with a river or sea, ships might turn out to be useless — because everything happens on land, there's nothing to transport by water, and no one to fight. My idea: what if we could return every ship to the shipyard, garrison it there, and sell it, even for half price? The same for siege equipment. Why not ? This will provide some more possibility to get resources and change the strategy of future battles during the match. Your thoughts ? Good ideas ?

Fix 0AD Ban Tired of banned trolls constantly spamming your game log? Banned players might not be able to fully join your host, but they can still flood your screen and logs with relentless "Player is connecting" and "Player has left the game" notifications by repeatedly trying to join. This mod silences that behavior completely. Originally built to deal with persistent nuisances like ***, but now it works against any banned troll trying to clutter your UI with connection attempts. + Log & UI Cleanup: Suppresses connection and disconnection chat/log messages from banned players. + Server Stability: Blocks the notification spam without interfering with your standard ban list setup. + Universal Protection: Easy to customize or add new troll names/IDs to keep your screen clear. Installation & Usage + Drop the mod file into your game's mod directory. + Ensure your ban list is updated with the target player(s). Edit gui/fix0adban/banlist.txt + Host your game as usual—connection spam will now be filtered out automatically. Feedback and bug reports are welcome! Mod by Geriatrix. fix0adban.zip

Game of Thrones: War for Westeros

AFAIK that's how they behave in the wild. And I agree that foxes should not attack unprovoked.

Teleportation gathering!

Concept for a new Temple design? New Civic Center design?

Really cool work here

Tomyris Skilurus

I was asking myself, since Naked Fanas are naked would it be possible to make it so the armor upgrades dont affect them (if not already the case) so they would be very good early game but die like paper as the game progresses

Yes environnemental snapping is a must, we need to find a way to make sure the wall is impassable. Too many NOMAD games where we discover that there just a tiny little gap that allows all the enemy cav to come right through.

I think there is already a random map generator, it's the random maps category I think there is already a macedonian campaign someone made floating out there. I know @Vantha has been getting all the coding stuff in place for a new tutorial that would be exactly this except I think it'll have four scenarios. I think all the features you requested @lilypoppy are in the works, but if you wanted to get started on your own campaign it wouldn't be too difficult to start, write out your story, start making the maps. When the rest of the features get added there may be some light scripting to do but then it'll be ready!