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The Athenians Above: Miltiades the Younger (left), Themistocles of Athens (right) Above: Aristides the Just (left), Pericles of Athens (right) Above: General Iphicrates (left), Socrates (right) Above: Athenian Citizens (left), Greek Slaves (right) Above: Priests/Healer

The Kushites The Kingdom of Kush/The Kingdom of Meroe (Above left to right: Nastasen, Arakamani, Amanirenas, Amanitore) (Above left to right: Meroitic Citizens, Subject Peoples)

Snapping: Territory decay: Triremes: Roman army camp: Autoqueue: Carthage Sacred Band: Catapult: Embassies & Mercenary Camps Experience trickle: Fishing: Forge: Gathering: Kush Pyramids: Outposts: Palisades: Quinquereme: Resource counter: Map flare: war elephants whales Forge Formations Biomes Iberian Fireship Tresures Barracks Cavalry stables Elephant stable

The current loading screen tips are outdated, both the information, as well as with the visuals. This thread is to make new nice looking pictures and possibly also crowd check the descriptions themselves. Text: https://code.wildfiregames.com/D4107 Give your comment, give better pictures.

I went out again to the hot and arid lands of my country. I went to San Marcos in the department of Choluteca. Choluteca has a terrible temperature in summer. but San Marcos is a mountainous place, many meters above sea level. The weather was 30 ° - 32 ° and at night 16 ° <Reserved space>

The trees look really nice and might have realistic size but I had the same impression like Yekaterina about the size. I think it could cause some trouble because you really don't see whats going on under the canopy (Except changing camera angel, which I believe most players wont do.). Ever fought under a treetop like this? I have the feeling players won't like this trees. Is it intended that it can be the same? Would it make (more) sense to have at least 3 different buildings? I thought about the same. A real city needs a blacksmith, a temple and a marked! Not 3 of one type of this buildings and also not any mixture of 2 of one type plus one another. However, most of the Civs need stone for the temple and stone is what u already need to go to P3. So this change might have a stronger impact then assumed. So far as I know most players avoid building a temple and prefer building a second black smith to go from P2 to P3. People should think about this and test it. It should be a future change and not as a last minute change for a25.

Better take this one out, since it's already the name of a hero.

Seleucid AINames from current (s0600204) sele.json: "Seleucus I Nicator", "Antiochus I Soter", "Antiochus II Theos", "Seleucus II Callinicus", "Seleucus III Ceraunus", "Antiochus III Megas", "Seleucus IV Philopator", "Antiochus IV Epiphanes", "Antiochus V Eupator", "Demetrius I Soter", "Alexander I Balas", "Demetrius II Nicator", "Antiochus VI Dionysus", "Diodotus Tryphon", "Antiochus VII Sidetes", "Demetrius II Nicator", "Alexander II Zabinas", "Cleopatra Thea", "Seleucus V Philometor", "Antiochus VIII Grypus", "Antiochus IX Cyzicenus", "Seleucus VI Epiphanes", "Antiochus X Eusebes", "Demetrius III Eucaerus", "Antiochus XI Epiphanes", "Philip I Philadelphus", "Antiochus XII Dionysus", "Seleucus VII Kybiosaktes", "Antiochus XIII Asiaticus", "Philip II Philoromaeus" After going through various sources, I have only identified this one from the dynasty not yet included (if I am correct - please check): Achaeus the Elder Then there are the so-called frataraka, but I am not sure if they should be considered under the Seleucids or rather under the Persians (but the further names below are not included in pers.json). According to the information at Wikipedia, the frataraka were subject to the Seleucid Empire, so I would assume we might consider adding them to the Seleucid AINames. Baydad (also spelled Bagdates), was a dynast (frataraka) of Persis from 164 to 146 BC.[1][2] Background (also from Wikipedia): See more names under: Do you think it adequate to add (all of) them to the list of Seleucid AINames? I.e.: "Achaeus the Elder", "Ardakhshir I", "Wahbarz", "Wadfradad I", "Baydad", "Wadfradad II" Another thought: Would it be "nice" (and technically possible without too much effort) to show the AINames' faces from the respective coin (if the coin images are free to use) in-game where background info is shown? I mean, when the AI has chosen its leader, maybe the coin face could be shown (like an avatar ). If this is a silly idea, please just ignore it.

Good news still on this front: I've increased the flexibility of the system so you can play with 3 more settings, and fixed an issue so it's possible to have units push each other more, so things should death ball _less_. See https://code.wildfiregames.com/D4098 which I've merged. I'll still take player input during Feature Freeze, but I expect these new settings will be overall more satisfactory.

simulation/templates/template_unit_infantry.xml file has "structures/{civ}/elephant_stable" instead of "structures/{civ}/elephant_stables" in its build list. simulation/templates/units/ptol/camelry_scout.xml has an aura of "camel_stench" which should probably be "units/camel_stench".

I've been wanting to change it for a while. Along with the page's design adding the ability to scroll through tips + for sp to wait before starting the match. There is a thread about a redesign somewhere.

For the 50th consecutive Sunday (allowing for the one that was a few days late while I was moving house) - I have a Sunday replay for y'all! We're closing in on the first anniversary of 0AD Newbie Rush, 83 videos in total so far if you include midweek games, free 4 All's, tutorials and mod features It's been fun and plenty more to come.

That is actually a good idea man

The Spartans Above: King Leonidas and his "Battle Frenzy" upgrade Above: General Brasidas (left), Admiral Lysander (right) Above: Unused hero Agis III (left), Cleomenes III (right) Note: I might add Agesilaus as a 5th selectable hero and use the left-hand portrait Above: Queen Gorgo (left), Spartan Female Citizen (right) Above: Priest-Healer (left), Helots/Slaves (right)

As mentioned on #0ad-dev, Phacility (the organisation behind Phabricator) is winding down operations, and - as of June 1st - Phabricator is no longer being maintained. Announcement: https://admin.phacility.com/phame/post/view/11/phacility_is_winding_down_operations/ Upstream task: https://secure.phabricator.com/T13654 We're self-hosted, so the only impact on us is that existing bugs, security vulnerabilities, and so on may/will remain unpatched. (They claim to no be longer accepting bug reports, and have stated a plan to decommission "Discourse", the site they prefer people use to submit reports.) There does appear to be a group that are considering forking Phabricator and continue down their own path. Very little news (as of yet) about how the "big" users (e.g. Facebook, Wikimedia, Mozilla) will be handling this. IRC where people are discussing the fork: #phabricator on libera.chat Select excerpts from the above IRC: https://d.i10o.ca/tmp/phabricator-future/ Chat room for discussions: https://temp-community-phab.zulipchat.com Shared document where things for the fork are being documented: https://docs.google.com/document/d/1YxQ_JGdhWYPSdoaI_m1TLzwbGLZdtOD7ux2SVL263Ow

I think a great way to nerf siege towers would be to make their arrow output equal to a fully garrisoned tower. Unless I am forgetting, siege towers have 10 arrows when fully garrisoned. 6 arrows instead of 10 would be nice. Also, improved pathfinding may make it easier for melee units to properly damage the siege towers as they retreat, which, in a24 is usually when melee units get stuck around each other w/rotation.

No, only a few instances of Spartan women rising to the occasion to defend the homeland. For instance, after the Spartan army was defeated by Pyrrhus of Epirus, the defeated Spartan men rested that night while the Spartan women built a palisade around the city to fend off Pyrrhus' army the next day.

Just the eagle itself is not OP because it has almost no attack and can be shot down easily. A unit carrying it, however, means more protection and so it is OP.

I always thought that it was three different buildings lol. I may have assumed it was like some other game (AoM?), but it actually makes more sense to me. Anyway, maybe it should be made explicit.

Oh yes it is fine for A25 but I think A24 is missing it. Nevermind A24 will be outdated soon

I mean, it wouldn't be a huge deal to just remove 3 ai names per civ. They have plenty others.

They have a good mix of citizen soldiers and mercenaries, plus War Elephants. Kind of like a mix between Ptolemies and Macedonians. Republican Romans are based on the Punic Wars era (aka "Polybian era"), during the 3rd and 2nd century BC. The Imperial Romans are based on the high imperial era of the 1st and 2nd century AD.

That leads to a bigger question by and large since a number of heroes are represented in AI names already (See Persians). I personally don't have a problem with that.

@wraithii I appreciate your dedication, and based on their description the new parameters seem like great additions to the tool kit. I must tell you though that, in my testing, the new dials aren't producing much of a noticeable effect for me. I've even tired turning everything up to double digits, and while a few units on the edge of my groups have begun wandering around where otherwise they would remain stationary, as a group they are pretty much behaving just as before. The only parameter with a clear effect is Clearance. Forgive me for asking, but in your own testing are you sure the pushing feature is working as you intended? I think by far the most likely explanation for these discrepancies is that I managed to corrupt my test installation somehow; but there's an the off chance I might be helping you find a bug... So I thought I'd better speak up Edit: Actually looking at your screen shots on the diff, there is very clearly something not working right with my installation. I'm having teething problems with using SVN it seems. Pay me no mind.

Right, depicting all 3 structures. D3994 is already accepted should be in for A25. Yes, one generic tip for formations, biomes and heros instead of individual tips. The patch D1730 (4/Jan/19 - Scroll through loading screen tips) is old but still works.

Honestly, I still don't have an opinion, but I believe that the name in Zapoteco is more "cool" and unique.

I really like the idea, I believe they fit well as a Xiongnu unit, by the way there was already a debate about it. However I remember that there came the idea of putting a human unit using the bird, I believe this makes it a little more "realistic" instead of a super intelligent bird.

Why is this poor kid still on A23? We need to update the apt package manager; debian-based users would still be playing A23 when A25 is out

Yes that is exactly what I was thinking! I almost named the unit 'D'derridex' Romulans are my favourite civ

Thinking about either adding tips for all the biomes or removing the savanna one. Opinions?

I think we can implement these dudes into Empires Ascendant as well.

I suggested Yinyang because of the rebalance focus. Anyway the alpha names don't respect the old etymologies of the words (I pointed it out before, page 2). Furthermore, the whole idea of using letters like W, Y or Z is a problem in regard to ancient names and alphabetical order. At the end, instead of a cool idea it becomes pedantry.

Translation are pulled often to transifew however the strings it pulls and the translation it has are pulled about once a week into the game to limit noise.

https://code.wildfiregames.com/D4097

I have played them more than twice. I would suggest the following strategy for 1v1s. What seems to be a decent opening is to create 2-3 extra starting cavalry and run around the opposing territory to see what he is doing and get some kills and idle times. It is important to keep them alive. These cavalry are not very strong, as 6 skirmishers could beat 4 spear cav. You can use the intel to play more defensive than your opponent with some good tower placement. Playing defensive is a good advice since your opponent probably has a better boom, but if you manage the cavalry well, you know what is coming and can be prepared. In p3, I think you hardly need more than 1 siege tower. That siege tower fires only 10 arrows at most and hence you don´t need to garrison more than 10 men. The siege tower is mainly to get free damage on opposing ranged troops and force the opponent to react. What the real killer should be are bolt shooters. An army with a few deployed bolt shooters is a very dangerous army, especially with Demetrios. For pike/skirm ratio, I think 50/50 is the best ratio and that would be the ideal ratio in a model where one unit is a glass cannon and the other a target dummy. You need a reserve of some melee units other than pikes to defend against rams or use your own. I would say that crossbowmen and mercenary archers can be used, if you have surplus metal, but you should make only a few of them and keep them alive as good as possible.

Generally not bad, could be a bit more symmetrical i.e. the bottom left edge could be a bit less crinkled and rounded and your version looks very handpainted with the smooth color transitions, which is a design choice, but personally I would like a bit of a light paper texture on top.

From the title, I thought it would be this:

warbird.zip Here is the mod. Only Iber and Rome have access to it for now.

I think metal is generally a problem in a24, no?

I miss paired techs...

A version for a25 is now available for download on 0ad.mod.io (v0.0.25) Thanks for your work on that, @Jammyjamjamman!

Proposal - Zapotec rulers of the Preclassic Period, early classic. ( AI player names) The current names are PosClasico (1300-1520), In this proposal there are only attested names from preclassic to classic (200 BC - 550 AD) It's not perfect but it's much closer. - 200 B.C. (5 Alligator) /// Chantino ///Gaayu’ Chilla - 400 A.D.- 550 A.D. (8 earthquake)///Monte Albán ///Xhono Xoo (11 Rain)///Monte Albán ///Chii ne tobi Lape (4 Alligator )///Monte Albán ///Tapa Chilla (13 Soap plant )///Monte Albán ///Chii ne chonna Piya (5 jaguar)///Monte Albán ///Gaayu’ Beedxe (13 earthquake)///Monte Albán ///Chii ne chonna Guela Fonts: http://www.famsi.org/zapotecwriting/zapotec_figures.pdf *There are a few more names, I will consult my pdfs and leave this post. *The translations for Zapoteco are mine, from online content, I believe the numbers are very "up to date" if someone has more contact with the language even more with Proto-Zapoteco would be of great help.

@Ceres this patch: https://code.wildfiregames.com/D4075 @Stan` @maroder please approve!

We can leave it at the letter Y, because it is such a good source of memes an puns. Why? Y. (the sound of it) Other considerations: Y-axis (since there are so many mathematicians and scientists playing this game), Y-chromosomes etc decent names starting with Y: Yurya, Yelizaveta Or I wouldn't mind if you just use my name.

I prefer "Tessarakonteres" to be a special tech for Ptolemies (Heavy Warship +25% health, +2 projectiles; or something).

About the visibility problem: @Langbartcreated this mod:

This is a more accurate model of the Tessarakonteres: The current one we are using for it is actually the Leotophoros

Hero selection for Sparta. Need techs for Lysander and Cleomenes.