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I created a new map, this map is focused on the successor kingdoms of Asia, as I have already created on Europe is a mini-campaign. If you want you can download it from here. Asian Campaign.xml Asian Campaign.pmp

So, I'm thinking of making Horses and Camels into capturable animals in Delenda Est, instead of (lol) sources for hunting. Sure, horse meat and camel meat was and is eaten, but more likely these beasts of burden were captured for the service they can provide (as war horses, farm animals, ships of the desert, etc.). I can remove their food resource and make them capturable objects on the map that you can bring back to your base, complete with aura benefits like relics. This can be done easily. One thing I wish the game could do is swap a player color collar onto the animal when it is captured by a player. The sheep kind of do this, but it's just a player color stripe in their texture which is nicely hidden when Gaia by the fact that their wool is white. But despite this, I think I will do this. Anyone have any thoughts? Oh, here's some new portraits for these animals @Stan`. I hope some time in the future we can get Bactrian camels as well.

Hello everyone, Today I gave a presentation in Rennes for the GrafikLabor, you can find the presentation slides in the third post below. The presentation was recorded, so you will probably be available soonish, and you'll be able to see my face We also had a LAN party with 8 people here is the replay: 2019-03-22_0001.zip

They're related phenomena, along with mirages, where layers of different temperature air refract light to give neat trippy visual effects. Work on my Palmyra map continues. Can anyone tell that I like the desert art set? Anyway, the map has a trade route down the middle of it with 6 capturable desert trading posts along it. The map also has a number of fruiting Date Palm groves ripe for the picking, along with some open sandy areas and craggy cliffs. This is one of two small oases on the map, long with this guy previously posted... Each player will have 2 nearby stone quarries, like this one, right outside their starting territories: Anyone want to model the Palmyran Temple of Bel for me? lol

To recover a bit the practice of buildings:

Guys, version 1.0.4 of the mod is already available, with several cool new things.

updating map: -Gibraltar now is navigable - Iberians disempowerment - Revision of Carthaginians Iberia Europe V.pmp Europe V.xml

That's pretty darn cool... Are you sure it's best to just spawn resources like that on arrival? Wouldn't it be better for the resource trickle to go directly to the player that controls the trade post. If nobody controls the trade post the camel just passes? Anyway, really cool job! I'm sure @wowgetoffyourcellphone might be interested in implementing something like that on some of his new maps...

Some playing with wood textures and nuba camp roof:

It would certainly be a great civ for Terra Magna.

Thanks again! Interestingly, the eight tiles are together 116 MB in size, merging them creates a file of 933 MB. True, but it can also be used for smaller areas, of course, e.g. Sicily [12 40 16 36]: Or the Strait of Messina [15.4 38.4 15.8 38.0]:

But you understood that I don't mean that players should count tiles, but take a look at the number of 16*16 groups of tiles that are highlighted differently? So you can see area one has 5 groups of 16*16 tiles, the other area has about 4 groups. That's how you can get a more precise estimate than mere eyeballing at the same pace, without having to place fields, or playing.

Yeah, m8!

have raiders? bandits..etc?

which? (the most importants to you)

I'm sorry to tell you, it *is* the class "domestic". For a temporary solution, you could try to move // Always slaughter domestic animals instead of using a normal attack if (isTargetClass("Domestic") && this.template.Slaughter) return "Slaughter"; to after // check if the target is capturable let captureIndex = types.indexOf("Capture"); if (captureIndex != -1) { ... } in the Attack.js. Which should enable you to capture an unowned animal, but slaughter it when it is yours. If this is not what you want or if it doesn't work, let me know and I'll dig further. I think that if this works it should be the default.

Jomon Reconstructed Jomon village. https://www.vikipandit.com/the-ruins-of-sannai-maruyama/

were related to Ainu.

@Lion.Kanzen I incorporated your work here: And here are some more portraits for main game @Stan` I used this for foraging objects like berry bushes and fruiting date palms.

Perhaps as a miniciv, mercenaries, or capturable fishing villages?

Hello, perhaps the problem could be that currently only 1-vs.-1 matches can affect the rating. However, the rating doesn't get adjusted if the game isn't marked as a rated one by the host before the start, or if any of the players leaves before the other player wins or resigns (that includes closing the host). You can tell that the rating got adjusted when you can see a rating adjustment message in the main game lobby after the end. It has been observed that many lower-level players quit the game instead of resigning, which can make your victories ignored, while your defeats can get counted. That makes your score lower than it should be. My advice is not to worry about it that much. If you get underrated and later win against a player with better rating, you'll get more points for that victory. If you actually improve at the game significantly, the score should calibrate itself quite fast. Of course, quitting a rated game still is against the rules. Justice is enforced in this regard by the mods if you can provide replays of such games. We are still only talking about 1-vs.-1 matches that aren't set to unrated in the beginning.

How rating system works? I have tried to study how to play better, and I think I'm getting much better, but my rating just drop and drop. I get asskicked from lower level player, but in some other hand overpower better ranked players. I know I am terrible loser, but are medium players vanished from server? Or should I change my thinking about multiplayer gaming?

Sorry to be a snitch/not sorry, but there is a limit to things. I ignore this type of unprovoked bigotry and racism in the vast majority of cases. But it's a bit different if it's deemed acceptable for a regular visitor of the Multiplayer Lobby to use the crowded lobby to espouse overt religious extremism, spamming out any normal discussion people might be having, and then out of the blue turns it into a heavy racial rant as well. Read pesem's messages. There's a limit... I want to clarify very clearly that this is only a small part of a much larger rant that went on for a while. It wasn't provoked either. He just joined the lobby and started ranting about how only Jesus can save us. I guess he saw me online, and decided to go all anti-African... What kind of Christianity is that? I had one previous encounter with him, the time before last, when he was ranting even longer about Jesus, and that women in tight dresses were the devil trying to tempt us and blablabla... I asked him if he always does that in the lobby and the ranting became even worse. @Hannibal_Barca eventually muted him this time because he launched personal attacks. But here's my second problem. I originally asked if there were moderators online and @user1 responded. I asked him to ban the account based on the considerable rant he could read for himself, but he just ignored me and left again. The racist ranting continued unabated, and I notified user1 again, and told him that kids play this game. His astonishing answer was that you needed to be at least 13 years old to play, and promptly left again, further ignoring me. The racist ranting continued. So what is he saying? 13 year olds aren't kids? Hardcore racism is perfectly fine in the lobby? I should stop bothering him? How long has this nonsense been going on? Kids play this game... Africans play this game... Other non-supremacists play this game... I don't know if Pesem is a schizophrenic mad man or if he's just a super troll. I honestly don't care. This behaviour should never be tolerated, and I feel embarrassed to have to make a post about this. I'm disappointed that such behaviour is deemed acceptable, and expect this to end. Religious extremism, racism and sexism have no place in a multiplayer lobby where people get banned/muted for way less. I have to deal with Christian extremist neighbours in real life, and faced more racism (actual violence) than anyone should have to in their life. I'm going to throw one hell of a tantrum if I have to tolerate it in the lobby as well. I go there to relax. Not to find out that in fact, I'm a soulless monkey created by satan.

Hi people. I'm developing a new map in Atlas, and it is a full of irregular terrain. I've tried to leave two flat areas for the two players, but I'm trying to make them balanced, more or less the same size. Do you guys have any tricks that you use to estimate if the areas are more or less equal? My method, placing (and counting) fields lol:

If it has anime it have to be real, i have no doubts

I will try to fix and translate the description into English Thx for the information

Here are the video and replay. have fun. 2019-05-12_0008.zip

@coworotel Ok, If you can also the European Map.

Changelog on first post.

Is it happening only with the horses? Because I can't reproduce the bug with deer. I only noticed that while moving they keep throwing their heads down to graze.

See the first post.

Some features that are planned or implemented in 0 A.D. were planned but removed from Age of Empires II:

Also, the Aegean Sea random map doesn't look like the Aegean at all:

"Misc Hacks" menu item

That's true. I guess it's up to @coworotel to decide which method is easier for me. Like I said, personally I just eyeball it. I don't feel the need to have each player have the exact same number of tiles in their home area. An approximation is good enough for me.

I honestly just kinda eyeball it. I like your method though, lol. You could use foundations to do that now since there are a lot more of them and their sizes are standardized to in-game terrain grid meters.

I will try it this afternoon. I don't know why, but I sense problems with that approach. It is quite easy to modify though. But you do need to go in the UnitAI.js, at the order commands there are some if's. If you remove the if's which have this.IsAnimal() && !this.IsDomestic() it should be fine. If you don't feel comfortable I could state every line which needs to be changed and into what it needs to be changed, but I can do that only in the afternoon.

It would be interesting to, in addition to representing Japan proper, to also include some of the cultures from Hokkaido like the Emishi, as Geneva mentioned.

Hello you have two options: 1. In the game options, in the lobby tab disable TLS 2. Download, install and use the fixed bundle from here http://www.mediafire.com/file/00lxxtdmsu64nrs/0ad-0.0.23b-alpha-osx64.dmg/file

EXPANSION PACKS CONFIRMED

RE: @user1, @Hannibal_Barca here is the commands.txt. of this event yesterday...sorry for delay. Just read the "HowTo" above this morning. Thanks Stan commands.txt

Yes, he have to committ the files, since the blackout in my country i coulnd't commit and have always Http 408 request timeout To clarify how the horse textures are now: Horses were used to have different texture per rank, now the actor just change the rider and other visual assets (blankets or armors) don't see any reason why a horse change skins like a snake each time he promotes. I wish it could be a way to make horse keep the initial or basic version texture through rank in case in the future we find a way to make horses remain and infantry dismount. That way Horse is just a "Mount" in game therms instead of a full unit version.

@Lion.Kanzen I made a rudimentary map of Africa, roughly from the 3rd century BC to 1st century BC-ish. It's a bit rough on the edges, forgive me but it will give you a better understanding than those random general maps that just omit everything. The spaces in between are probably occupied by low density hunter gatherers and even "troglodytes" (cave dwellers). There are probably other cultures that deserve mention on this map as well, but I'm not familiar enough with them.

How about a random map like this? In DE I call it "Nubian Frontier".

Tomb architecture Tomb of the General, presumed to be the tomb of a great Goguryeo king or military official. Located in Ji'an, China. Three Kingdoms Period mortuary architecture was monumental in scale. For example, in Goguryeo two different types of mortuary architecture evolved during this period: one type of burial is a stepped pyramid made of stone, while another is a large earth mound form. The Cheonmachong mounded burial is an example of the monumental style of mortuary architecture in the ancient Silla capital at Gyeongju. Murals in tombs dating from Goguryeo also reveal a great deal about the architecture of that period as many of them depict buildings which have pillars with entasis. Many have capitals on top of them. The murals reveal that the wooden bracket structures and coloring on the timbers, all characteristic of later Korean structures, were already in use at that time.

Temples. The construction of Buddhist temples was enthusiastically undertaken after Buddhism was introduced in 372 by way of northern China. A series of excavations in 1936-1938 unearthed the sites of several major temples near Pyongyang, including those in Cheongam-ri, Wono-ri and Sango-ri. The excavations disclosed that the temples were built in a Goguryeo style known as "three Halls-one Pagoda," with each hall in the east, west and north, and an entrance gate in the south. In most cases, the central pagodas had an octagonal plan. Palace buildings appear to have been arranged in this way as well. Baekje was founded in 18 BC and its territory included the west coast of the Korean peninsula. After the fall of Nangnang County under the Han dynasty in China, Baekje established friendships with China and Japan. Great temples were built during this time. The earliest stone pagoda of the Mireuksa Temple in Iksan county is of particular interest because it shows the transitional features from a wooden pagoda to a stone one. Baekje assimilated diverse influences and expressed its derivation from Chinese models. Later, important elements of the architectural style of Baekje were adopted by Japan. Baekje was heavily influenced by Goguryeo because the first King Onjo of Baekje was a son of the Goguryeo's first king Go Ju-mong as well as by southern China. As it expanded southward, moving its capital to Ungjin (current Gongju) in 475 and to Sabi (current Buyeo) in 538, its arts became richer and more refined than that of Goguryeo. Also characteristic of Baekje architecture is its use of curvilinear designs. Though no Baekje buildings are extant - in fact, no wooden structure of any of the Three Kingdoms now remains - it is possible to deduce from Horyuji temple in Japan, which Baekje architects and technicians helped to build, that Baekje's architecture came into full bloom after the introduction of Buddhism in 384. What remains in the building sites, patterned tiles and other relics, as well as the stone pagodas that have survived the ravages of time, testifies to the highly developed culture of Baekje.

Isn't finished yet.

Seems like we got ourselves a winner! I figured I could go ahead as well and draw a concept. So here is a quickly drawn and ugly concept version of the map. I thought about the following biome distribution: the river delta and the coast line mediterranean, the center of the map and the mountains tropic / savannah a-like and the area where the players start desert.