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Guys............................................... Han Rice Paddies are 60 wood and 30 build time. Reassess.

I am starting to do this. I have also noticed some newer players such as LarsVanDijk, mebewell and sneakEP hosting games which allow both noobs and OPs. It's only been a few weeks and I saw a dozen of cosmic players rising to 1300-1400 level extremely quickly (even if their number can't catch up with their skills). Also it's not impossible to balance 1100 players if they are willing to learn. ALL OF YOU STARTED FROM 0, DON'T FORGET THE TIME WHEN YOU WERE SMASHED BY VERY EASY AI! It's often the case TG hosts swap out 'unknown players' for 'known players' who joins late, which shrinks the community smaller and smaller. Even old players coming back are discarded as 'unknowns' just because many TG hosts joined late A23 or A24. If Christmas, Rollo, Arkhipov, nagasushi etc come back, they will either get kicked or accused of being a smurf... sad Funniest thing ever, Boudica (one of the smurf persecutors), accused nagasushi of being a smurf xD...

@Dakara I am talking about a serious problem and you tell me to stop whining?! This is not about myself anymore, too many other people i e. New players are getting harassed, and I think that is an unhealthy climate in the lobby which used to be a friendly place in A23. You might want to know there is a Zakara impostering you although we all know who he is. We have confirmed that he is a smurf because he admitted it and told us all of his previous accounts. Most people claimed that Zakara is your smurf and even wanted to report you to user1. If that did happen then you would have been banned without knowing why. So dakara you were lucky. I politely asked him for his true rating after 2 imba TGs, and he gave up his other accounts because he never had a rating. So in future TGs we consider him to be 1500 instead of 1700. That's the way to approach suspected smurfs, not straight up harassing then non-stop. If the crowd did go with their instinct, I don't know what would have happened to you.

Part of the issue with archers is that they have a lot of micro potential, so their strength might feel different depending on how they are used. With Maurya or Kush, a few players are trying to mix in their army cavalry (jav or sword), they select the archers to manually target javeliners one by one while the cavalry should try to flank the enemy ranged units, therefore, in both cases, avoiding the melee units protecting them. Some also tries to spread archers over a long line to take advantage of the better range of archers, minimize overkills and do hit-and-run attacks. Using map obstacles (buildings water, mountains...) can also be useful. Balancing archers with javeliners will always be an unpleasant question. If you try to balance them assuming no micro, then a player with good micro will give the impression that archers are op, if you try to balance them assuming that both players have advanced micro skills, the archers will feel very unpleasant to any player who don't want to use too much micro. Expecting them to be well balanced from everyone perspective might be unrealistic. Having said that, I would agree that archers are struggling a bit too much currently, especially with pikemen. In any case, archers/javeliners balance should definitively be checked with the impact that the introduction of unit acceleration might have on the game.

Can be called "战车（Zhanche）".

Guys, there are several things that people are "used to" that are changed every alpha. Also, should we not improve or fix things just because people are used to them being broken or poor? I think in this case, the major issue is actually that the portraits are simply switched, rather than completely changed. Simply switching them as I did does indeed cause unnecessary confusion.

Yeah, it's pretty weird that some people are super vigilant about smurfs. They should give it a rest. The fact that some people are very upset about smurfs is probably a big motivation for the few smurfs who cause problems.

@EmaczYou should really attach the crashlog.txt and crashlog.dmp files. (Wild guess: you're on a Windows laptop and some automated update changed your settings to the wrong GPU.)

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LOL They copied that too. First I saw (a LONG time ago) spamming champs was boudica's old account. Merov, alekusu and others did the slinger spam. Borg did skiri squads in formation and fanatics too. Vercin's old account did mass archer cav, then liberty too. Mass camels were featured here by xfs and nigel used them a lot. Luzbel had some op combos: skirm cav+spear shield or slingers+blackcloaks. And many strategies they brought from other games and many get reinvented all the time.

Common structure of a military camp during the imperial period: Valli is a different term for pila muralia

I haven’t played them. But I’m sure by the time I do they’ll be the same as every other civ. Perfect (lazy) balance

The argument for spear and bows to be available in earlier phases is the lower tech requirement for a civ to produce those weapons. I'd equate p1 to stone age, p2 to copper age and p3 to bronze age roughly. The high number of warhorses in p1 of a typical 0ad army is quite off

lorenz, i didn't recieve any request to register on the tournament, you sure you sended it?

For the smaller farms and higher cost, we also need to consider the full cost per farming lady. We need 50 food for the woman, 20 wood for 1/5th of a farm and 15 wood 1/5th of a small house and there is thus 16 seconds build time. All of that adds to a cost of 50 food, 35 wood and 16 seconds of build time. For Han the cost are 50 food, 48.33 wood and 22.66 build time. Not only the wood cost, but also the build time each worker needs to do is increased. I don't think it gives a comfortable early economy. When other factions place 3 farms for 300 wood and 150 seconds build time and research the farming tech, the Han need to place 5 rice paddies for 500 wood and 250 seconds build time and thus lack the wood for the farming tech early on. If we ignore the ministers, this faction has similarities with Persians. Persians also get the 10% more pop and the Persian palace also gives resource tickle worth 3 population. Persians have a very strong lategame, but they start with archers/crossbows. Persians are not a good 1v1 and are below average. Ptolemies and Iberians are way better than the average faction. I don't expect Han in 1v1s to be more potent than Ptolemies or Iberians, unless these factions receive major nerfs.

There are some players who are very arrogant and make people don't want to play 0AD, we should let new player in high level games also so that they can experience the real deal, there are a lot of player who let new player play and are ok to sacrifice balance in the process also. we need new players in 0AD so its advisable if old players let at least one or two new players in TGs with good players.

This is probably true. It still doesn't make sense to me why people try to manipulate their rating in this way. The higher their rating goes, the more they're going to get upset about losing when a better player comes along.

Open the interestinglog.html file inside your appdata folder. See https://trac.wildfiregames.com/wiki/GameDataPaths

use command for mute and stop whine

Some people just can't lose and they rely on knowing the dude behind the keyboard to predict their strategy and give themselves an advantage in balancing. If I just tell you I am a 1700 player, you have no idea how I will play, whether I will rush or boom or do some weird strategy. But if I tell you I am Reza, you know for 90% chance you will be rushed, or if I tell you I am metafondations then you know 95% chance you will be left alone to boom but be destroyed by a P3 push. Anonymity means you have to do scouting and more uncertainty, and some players don't like that. Furthermore, some people can't stand other players improving faster than them. So they come up with smurf accusations

In addition, it is recommended to put the sword and shield hands of the Han army in the first stage instead of the second, like the Romans, because swordsmen are almost everywhere in Han society, and the army can easily recruit swordsmen, but using 戟(JI ) soldiers with weapons of equal length require special training. For the same reason crossbowmen should also be placed in the first stage, just like javelinmen and slingers of other factions. Archers and 戟手（Jishou） can be placed in the second stage, in our opinion, training these types of soldiers is more laborious.

We can consider giving rice fields to the Mauryas after a little more research perhaps next alpha. Millet does look different from wheat. Will have to investigate how to make a Millet Field look nice in the game. I don't think it was trying to play up a stereotype, but instead attempting to make something unique.

Feel free to work on a patch. ;P

Hi @gameboy, have you deleted your old savegames? (If not, please do so.)

@Stan` I think @BreakfastBurrito_007 is referring to banning from the host of a TG lobby, not the actual game lobby.

The watchtowers in the Han Dynasty were not independent defensive buildings, but constituted a line and net-like warning and warning system, so there was one a few miles apart. This watchtower was solid, so there were no stairs, but rope ladders were used to go up and down. The watchtower is in a yard, protected by a wall, and there are several houses. Once the enemy is found, the soldiers will light the wolf smoke on the stone platform outside the yard. This early warning system continued until the Ming Dynasty.

In fact, the rice fields should be handed over to the Indians, who more widely depend on rice as their staple food. If you wish to give China a unique crop, we would prefer millet (粟Su), which was the staple food in China until the Tang Dynasty. We don't want other countries' understanding of our staple food to stay on the stereotype of modern times, after all, this is the Han Dynasty and not the 19th century.

Try searching "cow hide cc0" and see what pops up.

Having very detailed textures for with garments extending beyond the upper thighs is really complicated and we may really need a newer mesh for it (which is another problem for us, I think because we are again shorthanded on people with excellent skills in mesh creation.

the feeling of crossbow are good now.

This is a flapjack??? Americans call this a flapjack:

@wowgetoffyourcellphone @wackyserious actors could be found here https://trac.wildfiregames.com/browser#ps/trunk/binaries/data/mods/public/art/actors/geology

Oh, sweet innocence! Let's just say you'd need to host such a server in a very, very unregulated part of the world.

What are blackjack and hookers? If you can show me instructions then I will make another lobby. I just don't know how to do it on windows

(setup your own lobby server. with blackjack and hookers)

Yeah, I can only agree. Pretty new to the game, some days ago mr.michael (or a similar nick) accused me of being a smurf in the lobby of a TG. After that, he accused me of being a noob and said that was not going to play with me. I felt like Schrodinger's cat: a smurf and a noob at the same time. Some people are completely out of their mind, and for a new player this is not a friendly environment where to learn to play and have fun. Unfortunately a real-time moderation of the lobbies seems to be necessary.

That will be OP! No sneaky ram can escape your sight!

Can we create a sub forum for implemented and planned features in a sub forum under gameplay discussion? To better consolidate and organize discussions and feature adjustments Example: Sub forum: Implemented feature ===[ IMPLEMENTED ]=== Barracks Garrisoning Experience Trickle Sub forum: Planned feature ===[ PLANNED ]=== (Name of planned feature) Sub forum: Suggested feature ===[ SUGGESTED ]=== (Name of planned feature) Then move around topics which are adapted to be planned from suggested then with planned moving to implemented as features get commited.

At this point it is necessary.

DE features nudity IIRC. Originally Mauryas' maiden were topless. When it comes to mods it's the responsibility of the authors to decide their audience. I would go for a safe approach though, with straps of some kind.

@Stockfish I applaud the effort, it's definitely interesting. I'd have to ask, though - how did you end up with a channel with 7000+ subscribers on the back of having no content?

true but there's balance breaking changes that need svn to be tested, like acceleration. that's the point of my proposal.

I don't know. In Alpha 24 archers made the same amount of damage but they have been the OP ranged unit. So if we buff them again they might be suddenly OP again. And cavalry archers are not useless. I've already seen successful rushes with elephant archers. When they reach rank 3 they are very tanky. Maurya has a special upgrade which makes sword units stronger. So you can try to counter javelineers with sword cavalry, and you can use sword infantry against spearmen.