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The fences @wackyserious proposed using the same fence of the house (the fence is a separated mesh as prop) Variants

You may have heard that "The shift key" que increases the speed at which units train. You can use shift commands in 0 AD to accomplish anything; A combination of starcraft II and age of empires come together in a feature based way... Probably the unspoken of awesome part of the game. By holding down the shift button you may cue multiple way points, assign your gatherer to build, move forward when finished, or gather something else after. Constant production is important, but constantly having no idle villagers is key. For example with Britons you may utilize a dog to hunt units back towards a drop site, with Mauryans you can form a line of houses with your worker elephant building them... I highly recommend saving shift cues for builders to immediately move back to gathering once done building, and occasionally ordering those 24 units on near dead mines to move to the front lines. That will save you from checking your idle villagers once you are in combat, but try not to form multiple ques for all your units. Shift queing your scout can even get him out of tricky spots without any attention. --- You may have heard ctrl + 1 will hotkey your units. A very important note is that its extremely difficult to capture garrisoned buildings; You need a large force. Instead of capturing a base use "The ctrl key" to order your units to attack a building rather than trying to capture it. (archers and skirmishers deal 1 damage vs buildings, so use other units) --- Finally you must know that instead of forming a bunch of farms, corrals produce food much faster... If you can hot key a group of corrals and constantly produce sheep, goats, or pigs by tapping z, than you could use 20 cavalry and 1 female instead of 50 females; Providing a nice garrison for your main base keeping your population low and full or warriors. Use way points to direct all the animals right in fronts of a drop site and try to balance ~1+1/3 cavalry per corral. Than you can avoid purchasing farming upgrades and farm much faster with horses boosted by female villager aura keeping producing constant and not overflowing animals can be much faster than farming, but it poses certain risks at different points in the game; While trying to obtain a stable flow of cavalry corral, it may distract you much more than a scout. If you can sustain a large cavalry force for hunting than corralling may be a good follow up strategy... but not if you run out of food just after building 10 corrals and 10 cavalry. By constantly using waypoints you can hotkey multiple barracks or other buildings to constantly que buttons by pressing ctrl 0-9 and train units with the bottom letter of your keyboard (Z, X, C, V, ect); Allowing you to focus on your army while maintaining constant production pretty easily. --- Use the halt command to have your units engage any nearby enemy, use it often if builders, gathers or units had bad orders. Halt with make them automatically engage the closest threat; For elephant generals you may decide to shift kill multiple soldiers; Because if you halt an elephant it will go siege the nearest building. Utilizing shift, ctrl, and halt you can effectively control an army; And see what units work best. --- By hot-keying, way pointing, and issuing multiple orders you can multitask at a high enough level to produce quickly; Saving a lot of otherwise required effort to stay competitive. I just ask that you don't go too crazy with commands and stick to a few main hotkey groups and tasks. Than you can... Use a group of cavalry to kill all your opponents villagers a few minutes into the game; Harass them, rush them, or counter act these multitasking combos meant to hold one players economy down. You couldn't do that in the old age of empire games, and the bases suck in star craft; 0 AD is a visual masterpiece. Use Q/E to rotate the camera of buildings before you contruct them. A bonus feature; I think is just too cool... Probably in some other game before, but hey; It's awesome.

Hello @tantrus332 and welcome to the forums. Thanks for the feedback on textures and post processing filters. To answer your question in a simple way : Why is there no texture filtering and antialiasing ? Because nobody coded it in the 17 years this game have been in developpment. There has been attempts by external contributors such as @niektb and myself to do so, but we didn't end up with something usable so it was not included in the game. So if you want anti aliasing you can code it yourself or wait till someone finish https://trac.wildfiregames.com/ticket/3640 so it will be easier to do it. Keep in mind everything done here is on somebody's free time, and that we use a homemade graphical engine. About grass, the main concern is a performance issue, because in order to have such a result, mappers would have to add more than 10 000 new actors on maps, which would prevent most of our players to play with a good framerate. And this kind of entities can not be switched on or off. Unless someone codes an option to do so, which would affect gameplay. Hope I helped you understand why it's not done at the moment, and why we I can't give you a precise idea on when or whether it will be done.

I have recently enabled HSTS headers for wildfiregames.com, but I didn't realize that that also includes subdomains automatically. I'll look into it.

Opinions regarding iron lamellar plates for the Greek hoplites? The current texture for Iphicrates has, what I believe to be lamellar armor (which could be based on the armor worn by the Mars of Todi statue)

Any chances for new faces as well I've made some see my profile pic but I can't get them to look good while keeping it symmetrical. I have one okay face made with mine I'll attach it later.

I'll replace those, with the ones from the PSD files that I've found in the art source. I haven't tried to manually draw the leg armor yet.

@feneur

This is the inner side of the gate, if someone put this side outside when you order your units to leave the garrison, they are going to be rapped be the enemy.

I confirm this and think that almost everything written is correct, however it seems to me that you posted it in the wrong forum. EDIT : didn't see the "tutorials & guides" subforum, but still, it seems to be tutorials and guides to modify the game itself, not gameplay guides, which belong i think to "gameplay discussion" forum.

Finished the gate, only animations needs to be done (towers aren't part of the gate) (Size) Tower fixed]

Another dilema, one is accuracy the other is gameplay. The gate as the reference pictures of a norse fort, the building with roof should be a bit lower, and only infantry should be able to enter by the gate. because there can't be any reason to let bigger things to enter, like siege rams, that is a disadvantage for a fortification. So, the gate should keep the gameplay parameters or follow the history accuracy ?

Hotkey or toggle to select heavily wounded units from a group. Whether units having 75% HP and below or maybe 50%HP and below can be selected.

That some colorful colors Helmets are really standing out for some reason.

I bet there's many more who get it, but yeah it's going to play a part in this mod. It's one of the major changes I'm currently working on. I've decided for it, to further differentiate the mod from the core game. I completely agree it's a great feature, with many pros, but it also has it's cons. It's realism is debatable. I can see that many workers could double as levy troops, but in any state that would be only a portion of the population. Also, weapons appearing out of nowhere for a working woodcutter for example isn't realistic and moving to a structure to equip isn't implemented (nor desirable gameplay-wise imo). Females as the only workers is only a placeholder, I plan to have males as well. It also breaks the early game economic balance if I further differentiate early unit costs, power and train times between civs, which is in the to do list. It makes raiding far less viable since workers can fight back with an equal power to the raiders. I'm also considering to have 1 worker per farm. That would make raiding the farming economy more important since farms will have to be more and more spread out to provide the needed food, and raiding farms was an important asset of warfare. Males will be viable farmers as well, which is also realistic. In conclusion I can't say one choice is bad and the other is good, just a different gameplay approach, more realistic at some parts and less at other. Have an open mind till you see it's final form, then judge it:)