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People need to clear up spaces that is correct. However, I am talking about slowly growing trees. If there is a building already, then trees can not grow there anymore. In addition, 10 minutes in game feel like a very long time. Even, three minutes feel long. Furthermore, trees should only appear if there are still trees or bushes around, not just randomly all over the map. I think the best way of doing this would be to remember where a tree stood in the first place and spawn a new small tree at the same place. Under the condition that there are trees still around. If you use 20 workers to cut a tree, they will cut all trees in a short amount of time. So, you would actually not have a benefit from regrowing trees. You only have a benefit if you use maybe 1-3 workers or so.

You're forgetting that this is primarily a SP-feature that doesn't necessarily need to be relevant to MP-games. I get the impression that a lot of competitive players don't realize that single players can spend many, many hours on a single map, just toying with the AI and building whatever town/city/empire we can dream of. Perhaps regenerating trees could be an option in game-setup. The trees can be set to grow back over a half hour period or so, making it less or almost not noticeable in short games. But at least the map in a late-game, 6 hour long SP fantasy wouldn't look like a desolate wasteland. The main issue I see is the art side (saplings + growing animations).

I split this topic as best as I could sorry if some posts are missing. To get on this topic. The inclusion of mod civilizations have been discussed over the years to some extent and ended up in heated discussions and sometimes bloodbaths as well as general incomprehension. To be truly honest I didn't think the Kushites would make it into the game. The discussion about it in the staff forums is kinda big considering the number of people actually in the team. Including a civ in a mod is easy. Just dump everything inside a git repository. Fix it along and voilà. Including it into the game is a bit trickier because we have to make sure everything is in order that the documentation is correct that there are no copyright violations and that the overall thing is playable, balanced, and does not throw weird errors. Including two or three civs at once would be a daunting task I do not wish to do right now. Could also include one civilization you might say. Fair enough, but what about the people that wanted the other one to be included. Thanks to our programmers combined efforts we have now a good mod support into the game. You want more civs ? Make mods universally recognized such as delenda Est milleniumad terra magna etc. Just want to improve the existing ones, join the modders team. Want your mod to rely on a another one with civs ? We've got the technology it's called mod dependency TLDR: The probability of new civs or the existing ones being included is very low because 1 it's a pain to get it right 2 it leads to endless discussions 3 we have mod support now and finally 4 Stan is lazy.

The Council is both happy and proud to announce a new release!!! What is it? Terra Magna is a total conversion mod for 0 A.D. focusing on Asian, American and African civilizations. This mod used to be called Rise of the East (RotE). The name of this release is simply Terra Magna in recognition of the recent change. It is based on Alpha 23 release so do not forget to install it first(https://play0ad.com/new-release-0-a-d-alpha-23-ken-wood/).;) What is new? Thanks to Alexandermb talented new modder that is responsible for a lot of the new models especially Xiongnu faction, Wackyserious our new texture artist, Stanislas69 our artist doing Han Chinese buildings and Zapotec units and templates Lion.Kanzen icon and texture artist doing new logos, localized words plus a lot of historical research, Niektb (icon, texture, building artist and mapmaker) responsible for maintaining work plus work on Zapotecs and Han Chinese and thanks to Lordgood 0 A.D.’s lead artist, who helped us immensely to introduce you to Zapotec civilization as a whole. This release we are happy to introduce you to two new civilizations Zapotecs and Xiongnu, Han Chinese faction are updated this release as well. Zapotecs The Zapotec civilization that flourished in the lands of America to the far West. This release Zapotecs are introduced and they have an almost full roster of amazing buildings such as new market, a variation of houses, corral, blacksmith, civic centre and special types of pyramids with red carvings or paint. Xiongnu The Xiongnu nomadic tribes have come and they have some new tricks to show you. This release we are happy to introduce you to first nomadic civilization that has some interesting playstyle. Han Chinese From Rise of the East we are reintroducing you to Han Chinese that this release got new wonder, blacksmith, animations, cavalry crossbowmen and textures. New skirmish map Tarim Basin created by wowgetoffyourcellphone. Many smaller changes were made in this release too, but it would be too elaborate to list them all. How to: Unzip the download but leave the inner archive intact. Place the unzipped folder into /binaries/data/mods. You'll see another folder there called 'public'. Launch the game and enable the mod in Options>Mod Selection. Press 'Start Mods'. Enjoy the mod! Download: https://0ad.mod.io/terra-magna ModIO installation: Main menu -> Configuration -> Mods -> Download -> double-click In the last few years, some members retired leaving us shorthanded. We are currently especially in the need of artists. So if you're a talented artist with a passion for history and you would like to help us out, please contact us using a PM or (preferably) in this thread: https://wildfiregames.com/forum/index.php?/forum/423-rise-of-the-east/ Thanks in advance! Our thanks go to everyone that helped us to achieve this mod through contributing, playtesting or in another way! If you have tips/suggestions, feel free to let us know. Also if you find bugs, let them know too. Support 0 A.D. if you like us: Play0ad.com The main menu background is made by Lordgood. You can find him here: https://www.deviantart.com/lordgood The soundtracks are created by Omri Lahav. You can find more of his work here: https://www.omrilahav.com/ and some in-game civilization soundtracks created by Lordgood and Niektb. You can find more of his work here: https://www.deviantart.com/lordgood Terra Magna 0.23 changelog.rtf

I spent last 2 of my evening on the implementing of the addition light system in the pyrogenesis to find implementing bottlenecks for new objects. And I found some places, but that's not the topic. How additional lighting system looks: Fully dynamic lighting. And all light sources can be attached as props (i.e. to bones): "May the Light be with you..." But what restrictions do we have? We have 2 main: The lights can't throw shadows, because performance (we can implement it, but only few powerful videocards can handle it). There can't be many light sources in one place (at least for low videocards and since we don't support deferred rendering). Because shaders have own restrictions, particularly uniform sizes. But probably it's not the real problem. So I have a question: do we need additional light sources in near releases? Would it be real useful? P.S. I found strange normal values for some model, it should be investigated (probably the shader problem).

I am playing 0 A.D. for quite a while now. I like the game a lot. One thing I do not like is, maps often times look pretty at the beginning, but over time the look and feel of maps decline because of massive deforestation. The maps start to look very empty. Furthermore, deforestation seems to have been an issue for the Roman empire: - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Deforestation_during_the_Roman_period#Consequences_of_deforestation - https://www.researchgate.net/publication/45407393_Ancient_Deforestation_Revisited There are games in which trees grow slowly over time and are therefore a renewable resource. One game which implements such a model is Stronghold Crusader. I would love to see small trees spawning and growing over time in 0 A. D. I think this would make long matches or scenarios in which one side does not have a lot resources more interesting. After all wood is a renewable resource.

Just a point about this. What could have been the interaction between Iron Age Britons and the Mauryan Empire? Or with the Koushites? Or between the Achaemenid dynasty and the Roman Republic? Or between the Iberians and a possible Chinese faction? Personally I am more about an accurate representation of each faction for a matter of respect for each culture and for the work of historians, but not about hardcore historical limitations. It is still a video game. Edit: my point is that talking about contact is not a good reason to exclude meso-american factions

Ah, no problem. Thought is was worth a try. Anyway, maybe you're interested in this topic: Most of the juicy academic stuff seems to be either in Bulgarian or Russian. @Genava55, I'd also direct you're researching prowess to that thread, as it's the main one on Thracians for now.

@Genava55, just to clarify my point a little: Han Chinese, as well as Kushites from Sudan, as well as Iron Age Britons made use of chariots for war. This is absolutely not a coincidence. No such thing ever existed in the Americas. War-Elephants were used in India, Britain and Sudan. Again, not a coincidence. Elephants are unknown to the Americas. Cavalry is used by literally every civ in-game. Horses didn't even exist in the Americas. Between c. 1000 BC and 400 BC, literally every civ in-game (or their predecessors) switched to iron/steel as a primary material for making weapons and tools. Iron doesn't seem to have been known in the Americas. Every single civ in-game is connected through military conflict with at least 2 other civs (some a lot more). No civilization in the Americas ever fought a war with any of the civs in-game. All the civs in-game were connected through a vast ancient network of trade-routes, and literary as well as archaeological evidence suggests that most of these civs were fully aware of the existence of most of the other civs, even if they never went to war with them. None of the civs in-game were even remotely aware that the Americas even existed. The main technical problem is that balancing strictly no-cav stone-age civilizations with the existing civs is impossible without throwing out any semblance of historical accuracy in game-play. To clarify further, I love New World civilizations and I hope every major civ of the Americas is developed for 0AD at some point. My concern is that including them in the main-game is simply not possible without messing everything up. Unless people aren't bothered with massively underpowered civs. I'm not saying they were technologically inferior or something. Simply the lack of horses, iron and advanced siege-engines or elephants (on top of mediocre "navies", if that) makes them unbalanceable by definition. The complete lack of interconnectedness is also something I just wouldn't be able to get past (in the main-game). Having New World civs as a standard "expansion" or a "built in mod", included but separate would be my preference. Not including the Chinese is a mistake, plain and simple. Of course adding the Scythians (and Greco-Bactrians) would do a lot to further increase interconnectedness, and of course I'm aware that this wouldn't be a small job, at all. I don't "expect" it to happen over the next alpha, although with a planned release date of 2022 for alpha 24, who knows what might happen.. @stanislas69 You're a hero, for so many reasons. You've done so much and we thank you! Nobody will demand anything from you. We're just a bunch of dreamers. These talks are all purely theoretical, and most of us know this. But if one day Wildfire Games is suddenly magically over-staffed, at least we'd already have a good idea of which direction we'd want future civ-development for the main-game to go.

Also a new tech might be in order Silvaculture or more popularly known as forestry Ie; replanting after cutting and do remember that trees typically take years to grow to harvest sizes so your current game would over before you can cut any of the new trees Enjoy the Choice

See the quote I made. If we include Han that's not fair for Native Americans, that's not fair for Slav Tribes. That's also not fair for any other country in South Africa, Australia. I get your point you want the Han dynasty to be added so that it can attract people from that area. And it's fine really. Putting the Kushites in was a 2 Month work. And I failed to make it perfect. Also there is a lot of open issues on the Terra Magna mod about historical accuracy and other matters.

@Rolf Dew I think you overestimate the impact of trees regrowing. If you decide to cut all the trees right away, trees will not grow anymore. Like I mentioned, one condition is that you do not cut all trees in a forest. Grown trees have to be still around to regrow trees. Second trees regrow slowly, meaning it will take 10+ minutes to have another fully grown tree. Furthermore, there would be no change with maps where you have a lack of wood (mostly deserts). The only change here would be do you want to wait 10+ minutes to have a new tree or do you cut all trees right away? In addition, it would make trees more valuable. Currently, if you want wood you go to a place you cut all the trees and bring your soldiers back to safety. With regrowing trees you might have an interest to protect trees or a forest. Regarding merchants, yes having merchants help a lot on maps where you have a lot of space, because the trade income depends on the travel distance of the merchants. On maps where you have neither water nor a lot of space, regrowing trees could be a game changer. For example, mountainous places tend to be exactly like that, you might just have two or three valleys. What do you do, cut would on a sustainable rate or do you cut them all at once? I think the choice should be up to the individual player.

sorry my English ... i don't finish my point... there many books about assumptions, historical assumptions. for example what happen if Rome never fall. I'm sure there are a novel about that. 0A.D is basically fiction wars and encounters between worlds and cultures.

yes, it is the same bug but not odd since during the development there were some movements in art repository in vanilla 0ad and in mods it was overlooked so it ended up in most of the mods maintained by Council of Modders.

But, atleast include Han, if Kushites can make then I think it will not be a problem for Han to be included. If, anyone think minutely, there isn't a single civ for Sino-Tibetan people. They have a rich culture and rich history (and it's also profusely mentioned in the mod---Rise of The East, and now in Terra Magna) but the authority haven't minded to include it in game. So, it's my earnest request to include Han in A24 if possible for the authority. Thanking you...

In my opinion, I think trees shouldn't regrow for a couple of reasons, it will impede building space later in the match. I think also that some maps with a lack of wood encourages aggressive expansion and intense fights in order to gain sparse resources and finally one can already use merchants for any resource that they need, also you can trade at the market.

Maybe or we just assume it is not possible. The rest of your post is exactly what I had in mind.

Yeah that would be nice but time of regeneration must be accurate then it would also make the player's never run out of wood which must be some hard In present game as in some games we just make our enemy never expand beyond certain territory which makes them wood less instead makes them build traders which need gold which also runs out quickly which forces them to surrender or to attack at full force which we get prepared to defend in ease.

In their FAQ (https://hacktoberfest.digitalocean.com/faq) it is stated: So no exception. What we could do is accept PRs on GitHub and repatriate them on Phabricator, but that is tedious. I am thinking that we should maybe have a bot on GitHub that automatically puts the contributions on Phabricator, to open the development to GitHub lovers, but that is work we are unlikely to complete before October 31st. To consider for the future I'd say.

A useful document for symbol faction and art (even if the author didn't take any precaution in distinguishing Scythian and Hunnic cultures): https://www.researchgate.net/publication/259717838_Hun_Xiongnu_Scythian_Art An Unesco's magazine special issue on the Scythians: http://unesdoc.unesco.org/images/0007/000748/074829eo.pdf Gold artistic goods in Tuva (Russia-Mongolian border) https://journals.openedition.org/archeosciences/pdf/2193 Nomadic Art from the Eastern Eurasian Steppes

At this little game we can argue there is Asian bronze items in North America through the Dorsets, Inuits and Chukchi trading. There are also numerous hints in plant and parasites paleoecology suggesting that the Americas wasn't that much closed. We have historically overlooked artistic goods to define contact zone and neglected the others things, which is biased in favor of Eurasian cultures. The problem with the rhetoric as used by Sundiata is its need to stretch the definitions and the boundaries of what is the limits of a culture, what is a contact between two cultures, confusing individuals interactions with societies interactions etc. The best examples are the use of La Tène Continental Celtic mercenaries to justify a possible interactions between British Iron Age populations and Eastern civilization, the use of the Parthian Empire to justify Achaemenid interactions with the Roman world, the use of Romanized Ethiopians in the Romanized territory of Britannia. It is like saying the Gauls could have interacted with the Huns because 5 centuries later, Attila raided the Gallo-Roman territory. At this little game, there is no boundaries and you can stretch anything very far (destroying the timeline of the game). It is like the debate to know who first discovered America. A lot of people argues with either strict evidences like viking settlement and Arctic cultures trading or with more fuzzy logical evidences like Chinese possible maritime exploration or lost Polynesian canoe. But there is only one true discovery: Columbus. Because it is the only one to have cultural consequences. To have changed the life of the individuals in both interacting societies. The rest is only anecdotal. The fact that tin from British population were bought by Egyptian populations is not an evidence of interaction between these two cultures because if another culture has bought or produced the tin instead of one or the other, it would have had the same effect. Edit: My conclusion is we have already broke the principle and it is not a problem.

New Civs really nice if could I like the Phoenicians

yeh all these and... counters must back.

0 A. D. is today in a better very good shape. I did not encounter any weird bugs while playing the main game. The addition Alpha is really more a joke at this point. I think after Y and Z, 0 A. D. should be named Beta 1 and after iterating through all letters from A - Z again we should continue with Gamma 1 etc. Basically using the Greek alphabet to indicate how often we counted from A - Z.

Hello, After playing as the Roman Republic and then the Greek cultures, the Successors, and Persians I felt there was a lack in troop variety for the Romans. To start I think the Roman Republic should have a slinger unit. Use of slings was fairly common across the Mediterranean including Italy. Right now I feel they are lacking a good longer ranged defensive missile unit and the Velite really doesn't cut it for me in static defensive situations. Javelin armed skirmishers are meant to be more aggressive and annoying to tempt enemies to break formation and pursue them to their peril. Also, I think it would be neat if the Roman Republic had an alae system. Perhaps this can be reflected with an alae barracks or camp that allows them to select one of an allies elite units to train at a greater cost. The ability to train these elite units should go away if the alliance is broken or gained when an alliance is made. Or maybe just expand the types of non-Roman Italic troops they can train. Maybe Lucanian hoplites, Campanian cavalry, Etruscan axe men to list a few. Anyways, I love the game so far and look forward to its continued growth. Silly Cat

Alpha 24: eternal alpha

To be fair, MEP's are totally inept... At everything... Even if the laws pass, they wouldn't have a clue on how to implement it. There are only a few agencies around the world that are somewhat able at monitoring most of the known internet. Nobody in Europe ever came close, so how they're going to enforce such draconian crap is beyond me. It's just the sheer nerve, ignorance and arrogance of these asshats that gets to me... Especially considering all the anti-Chinese propaganda that's out there, they're now going try and create the architecture to reach to same level of content surveillance. The only way to do it would be to refuse access to any website that isn't EU-approved, which would cause everyone to use VPN's... It's just stupid and flies in the face of everything Europe supposedly stands for.

Just a point about this. What could have been the interaction between Iron Age Britons and the Mauryan Empire? Or with the Koushites? Or between the Achaemenid dynasty and the Roman Republic? Or between the Iberians and a possible Chinese faction? Personally I am more about an accurate representation of each faction for a matter of respect for each culture and for the work of historians, but not about hardcore historical limitations. It is still a video game. I'd actually have to agree with Nescio on this one. I think the key-word in his statement is "network". Every single civ in the game right now is highly interconnected with at least a few other civs, and those other civs are in turn interconnected with the rest of the civs, so directly or indirectly, they are in fact all connected. Antiquity was built on trade-networks that spanned Europe, Asia and Africa. The Americas were not a part of this network, which also means they developed along totally different lines: No iron age and a very limited use of metals outside of art No cavalry whatsoever Quinqueremes vs war-canoes... Romans did use war-elephants in Britain, and elephants aren't exactly native to the islands... Might have been North-African elephants. Might have been Indian elephants. Might have been a mix of both (not entirely clear). About Kushites in Britain. Well, Roman legions were multi-ethnic, and in Imperial times blacks were present in the Roman armies in small numbers. I'm confident most of those blacks were Kushites. Because of the peaceful relations between Kushites and Romans after their war, and Kushites apparently even aiding the Romans militarily during the Jewish revolt, as well as a large resident population of Kushites in Egypt as far north as Alexandria (location of 2 legions). Speculation, perhaps, but then there's this: The Life of Septimius Severus (yes, that "African" Roman Emperor), from the Historia Augusta: Of course, much of the Historia Augusta today is considered fictitious, but it's still a Roman source placing an "Ethiopian" (read Kushite) soldier in Britain. Galatian mercenaries (Celts, perhaps not from Britain, but close enough) also served in the armies of the Ptolemies and would have been part of the Nubian campaigns. People of Kushite decent and Galatians served as mercenaries in the same Ptolemaic armies. Romans might not have fought the Achaemenids, but they did fight Parthians who were also Persian, and it would take little imagination on the players part to "pretend". The Chinese would be interconnected once we get the Scythians in game. And the Greco-Bactrian Kingdom, Strabo writing that "they extended their empire even as far as the Seres (Chinese) and the Phryni (Tarim Basin)" (and Greek artifacts from the period are actually found in Xinjang, Western China!). In fact, The inclusion of the Xiongnu, Han Chinese, Scythians, Parthians and Greco-Bactrians, would be totally amazing, further increase the interconnectedness of existing civs like the Maurya, Seleucids and Achaemenids, and create a very comprehensive and convincing Eastern roster.

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For this the ram should be slower. But yeah, the capture can be a compromise solution.

yes i scout him on facebook too wut is turtling?

Well I got all of Ordona Province's buildings done

Well the next cinematic is almost done, should be up within the next week. I figure people here are more interested in gameplay though, so here's a sneak peek at the next Civ that's being added into Hyrule Conquest:

FYI, Translation of Persian language completed ! (review / translation)... Farsi voice already shared , up to you if you want to use them or not. if you decided to use them, then after you provided a version that has (Persian translation / voice) then i can help to review them on real game environment (in action) If there is any question or if you need a native Persian person to help for Persian translation / voice .. or any question regarding Persian history , dont hesitate to contact me Wish you best of luck! Your work is inspirational ...

it is not Old Persian, this language is dead (long before Arab invasion), Arab invasion influenced Middle Persian. it is current Persian but i used some words which are related to Old Persian for example: for Hello , i used "Salam" and "Dorood" / "Farmanbordaram"... first one is so common now with Arabic background and Second/third one are pure Old Persian not common BUT people know it and understand it Or i used "Farman" --> command / order , this one is also very old but still use in current Persian ... Ideally we need Old Persian , but this language is dead and even if we can find a person who can speak this language no one can understand it ... so available alternative and close to old Persian is current Persian + some ancient words that still exist ...

Thanks. I will post photos of the home once the closing is complete and I am given the keys. It has been a long time coming. My 2 kids will finally have their own rooms. Yard for a dog. Hardwood floors. Very nice.

A man is very busy buying a house and working 50 hour weeks.

I believe that is because https://www.moddb.com/mods/0-ad-delenda-est was still not updated.

Jebel Barkal - Illustrated Walkthrough Jebel Barkal is the holy hill at the Kushite city Napata at the Nile river, see release announcement. The procedurally generated Napata city spawns attackers reoccuringly. This article presents some common strategies and tactics to become successful. Introduction 9 weeks of development, including 6 weeks of playtesting went into both this map. The guide is the result of the experience made while playteting and most of the screenshots come from these matches. Time to thank @Skhorn for the creation of the mountain template, @Sundiata for the consultation on the history and geography, and the playtesters: nani, Hannibal Barca, smiley, bb, temple, fpre, Dizaka, faction02, ValihrAnt,Uran238cz, s0loooy0, FeldFeld, causative, servo, borg-, mapkoc, CAGD_lulofun, ITRELLES1, gaius22, Dunedan, Imarok, santa, tgodtaylor, AlexanderKirck, s0600204, Emperior, d_stan, mord, Vladislav, Cesar, Vick, Retardado, Medrannozz, TYLER1, Angen. "Jebel Barkal" random map Procedural Cityscape Generation (The following screenshots were taken at the lowest quality, because my graphics card is cheap.) Attacker Waves The city starts attacks on players about all 5-7 minutes. Each of the buildings of the city spawns a different set of attackers. For instance the temples spawn only champions and the elephant stables only elephants. Players can chose a difficulty level at the gamestart. It will influence the total attackercount and city fortifications proportionally. However, since the city is randomized each matchstart, the resulting difficulty level can vary tremendously (most importantly the number of elephant stables on a normal map can be between 0 and 9). In Nomad mode, the first attack is delayed. Docks and Naval Warfare The nile river makes up less than 10% of the map area, yet it is vital to survive and thrive. Some players (most famously nani) start building docks in the first two minutes already. The dock gives you faster food income than fields. Additionally it continues to generate food income while your units on land are either fighting or garrisoned. The dock also adds as a dropsite that is far away from gaia as possible. So women have a good chance to gather there without being killed off. Even outside of the territory. Notice that players sometimes can only win by having some ships around while all enemies wiped out on land. So the river is important from the first to the last minute! Players compete for the final stand on the sea When gaia was too strong for all players, the winner is decided on the sea. So always keep an eye on your enemies ship activities. Don't keep the backside of your city unattended. Once the sea is indisputed, the shoreline can be wiped without great losses. Hunting Elephants, rhinos and boars are valuable huntable animals, because once attacked, they follow you back to your base where you can easily kill and hunt them. Use this trick to boost your economy in the first 5 minutes while already getting some units to defend. If you start out as Mauryans, use your Worker elephant and immediately start hunting in the desert. Wood The players that start in the desert start with much less wood than the players that start in the fertile banks of the nile river. To compensate, these players start with treasure that give them an huge boost. Deserted players can and should build a dock much sooner. The roads leading from and to Napata provide some desperately needed trees for deserted players. Metal/Stone In the fertile banks of the river, there are very few mines. Players have to get out into the desert. Since it can be more sustainable than fighting for mines in the desert, it is recommended to start trade near the nile soon (which incidentally is historically accurate too :-)). Few trees but abundance of mines north of the river. Treasures/Hill There are few treasures at the pyramids and many treasures on the hilltop. They are guarded by Kushite defenders however. Experienced players will find the best opportunity to hunt the treasure at the pyramids. After taking out the Kushite units on the hilltop, players have a chance to build a civic center on the hilltop which can be very easy to defend and provide a perfect place to remain the Last Man Standing. The city contains treasures too, but these are hard to reach due to the Walls and City Patrols. Not a cakewalk. The hill is easy to defend once conquered. A long wonder victory duration ensures that players - or gaia for that matter have chance to break fortifications. Surviving the first wave Gaia attacks all 5-7 minutes and leaves a bit more time between waves in later stages of the game. Make sure to have at least 30 ranged units to defend your base then. Place your fields in the back of your base. Until the first wave started, keep your units in the back of the base. This way the gaia attackers might be deflected by your enemies encountered on the way. Don't expose your units to enemy fire unless it is really important, as here In Nomad mode, players end up with one piece of the fertile land each Walling After the first wave, quickly build a palisade, so that gaia units have no chance to reach your units. Pay special attention to elephants. Rebuild destroyed palisades as quickly as possible. Remember at which places gaia units managed to walk past your walls and fix all holes. The irrigation canals act as a natural barrier, so you only need to wall a small area. Multiple layers of walls provide additional security and obstacles. Do team walls. Mauryans benefit from their stone walls that only cost wood and Carthaginians have walls that are three times as strong. Irrigation canals provide a natural shield Cheap but effective - wooden walls Quickwalling - Fixing walls even during an attack The first line of defense fell Irrigation Canals can only be crossed at one point each Close the gate quickly! double palisade walls to defend an elephant rush A successful team wall Attacking The Opponent Unless you are playing with custom rules, remember that the goal is to defeat your enemy. So in general it is recommended to not invest resources on destroying Napata, but focus your attacks on the enemy players. If you wait for a Napata wave to end, you can be sure to have enough units remaining for an attack and your city is not left empty when an attack starts. Focus on the player opponents first Only invade the city when overwhelmingly outnumbering the enemies. This fortress was too close - an easy target for Elephants.

Thebans and Epirotes from DE have the benefit of mostly being complete (though I am sure they can be greatly improved by new assets that aren't so heavily borrowed from the Macedonians, Athenians, et al). Thracians and Scythians and Greco-Bactrians sounds like great choices. Greco-Bactrians can use the Seleucid buildings for placeholders. Parthians would make another great choice. Perhaps round out with the Pre-Classical Mayans? Terra Magna can add these cool civs and use standard Empires Ascendent gameplay for maximum compatibility with the core civs, and Delenda Est can use them to experiment and push the boundaries.

I'm surprised that the Greco-Bactrian Kingdom isn't suggested more often. Their contact with the Maurya Empire and the Seleucids go without saying, but there's also interplay with the Scythians, wars with the Yuezhi and most exciting of all, they bordered the Chinese (on the doorstep of the Xiongnu), possibly even fighting them in Xinjiang in 220BC. Unlike the mythical Roman-Chinese contact, the Greek-Chinese contact was totally real! They're probably also the least "Greek" of the Hellenistic civilizations, partly converting to Buddhism, as well as having resident Hindu and Zoroastrian populations. [updated] Sorry @stanislas69, I did it again, didn't I? If there's interest I might start a separate topic for them...

Zapotecs were enemies of the Aztecs. The proto-Nahuan language, Nahuatl being the language of the Aztecs, seems to have appeared in Mexica around 500 AD, more than a millennium after the establishment of the Zapotec culture. There is little consensus on the Huns descending from the Xiongnu (there's even some controversy). It's one of the proposed theories, but Mongolic and Turkic are also often cited as descendants, even the Uyghurs claim descent. As for the origin of the Xiongnu (language), Iranian/Scythian and Yeniseian (Siberian) are mentioned. Nice work on the release though! Can't wait to play it !

Just a nit pick wrong species of camel should be Bractian (two hump) not dromedary. Enjoy the Choice

Absolute "best" imho would be to assign rain to cloud actors/entities that can travel across the map. But, hell, beggars can't be choosers. "Whole map" or placeable objects or whatever you can make happen I'd be happy with. Whole map "rain shower" and "thunderstorm" options would be acceptable too. Almost anything is better than the rain we have now.

Currently I'm trying to add features that popular in modern engines and liked by players to find different implementation bottlenecks in our code. Yes, I mentioned, that it doesn't support many lights per model. Usually video card can support from 8 to 128 lights per model. It uses simple uniform structs (even not UBO). // 8 floats per struct. struct PointLight { vec3 position; float radius; // vec2 - compressed 4 components, instead of unsupported "half". vec2 color; vec2 coef; // Cubic curve coef. }; So we can calculate how many lights we can use from GL_MAX_FRAGMENT_UNIFORM_COMPONENTS. There're 2 import notes: 1) we can use forward and deferred rendering simultaneously (i.e. for different distance), 2) as you noticed we don't have a lot of semitransparent objects; trees, bushes have transparent only for soft edges, so on enough distances we can render them without alpha blending and they're not transparent objects anymore (we don't need to be honest for rendering always; if it looks the same/very similar but cheaper, then we'd can use the cheaper one). If we assume that we don't have a sun at rain, then we'd easily add shadows to the lightnings Nope (at least not yet). It'd be confirmed when it'll be in the our main repository It uses 2D rain texture (drawn by me in Ps for 5 mins ) on many long crosses with double side rendering (because many particles would be slow). They're not moving when the camera is moving. So it seems a correct rain. Current implementation doesn't use shaders yet, but with shaders it can be a little bit nicer.

Same question here, how is the rain implemented? (As the camera isn't moving it could also be a single 2D texture cheat) The rain we currently have is extremely low performant and rotates with the camera tilt which is incorrect as mentioned by wow.

Weather confirmed?

Also it's worth noting that Pyrogenesis should be a standalone engine. Just because 0 A.D. cannot handle it doesn't mean the engine shouldn't support it. IMHO the engine split would be great for that.

Wow... This is insane! And somebody actually built Stonehenge on top of Jebel Barkal! Loooool! 0AD is gold!