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The core issue is that for the most part, team members are people working on features, because people that care about balancing & gameplay are players, and players like to play. And people just don't have the time to play and work on the game. Ergo the team are feature-builders, and there is real vision for gameplay. Add to that that amongst the team, we have severe disagreements on how the game should play. There is deadlock there to a large extent. Then nothing really changes. The problem with the 'incremental changes' approach that we tried to take is that everything can be scrutinised, and it kind of precludes changing the 'long-term vision'. I think it worked well to locally balance the gameplay, but it has lead to increased uniformity and has not really made the gameplay more interesting. Another way is the 'split & regroup' approach, that was tried with balancing mods or to an extent wow's Delenda Est. That has the benefit that it can leverage a benevolent dictator and realise a vision. If there are enough players / traction, it could be considered for merging back as the 'main' 0 A.D. mod. But it might need us to provide more support to help good mods gain traction, and it would probably benefit from a split between more 'engine' files and more '0ad-specific' stuff. --- Finally, 'balancing' is trivial. Just make all civilisations have identical gameplay. That's not particularly interesting, but it would work. The question is generally not how to 'balance' but what game to make.

The name and the description doesn't match which leads me to believe the original commit misunderstood what weeding was. Weeding doesn't mean growing weeds, it means removing weeds. Water Weeding -> Removing aquatic plants that pose a significant problem in paddies because If you s/growing/removing the description, it actually makes sense in all ways, scientifically, and linguistically.

Cursor is very radical ?

Use DE as the main game and I can assure you that people will yell. Just see what happened with a simple cursor, custom colors or player names for maps... etc There is no balancing manager really. I would be really happy to have a balancing team with a decision process but I'm not exactly sure how it can work when every single little change is argued until everyone gives up on the project, and when there is no right answer as to what the game should be. My only goal is to make the game fun to play and to keep the project alive.

I expect you to stop using the mouse entirely at some point.

It seems your setup doesn't support some framebuffer types. I'll try to make a patch. For now you could try to add `smoothlos == "false"` to your usef.cfg file.

More like a trillion games with machine learning, as @ChronA kind of points out.

I'm translating 0 A.D to Indonesian and I found this Water Weeding technology. The description is "Grow water weeds to to supply rice plants with (sic.) nutricients." Can I get a context on what species is this water weed? And if it is actually giving nutrients to rice plants? I'm Indonesian where rice is our staple food. As far as I know there is no weed that supply rice plants with nutrients (weeds are robbing rice's nutrients, if any). There are some that could be planted side by side with rice, but it's for land optimization, not to improve the rice's nutrients.

Fixed in https://trac.wildfiregames.com/changeset/26885.

-Los props tendrían los colores de facción , aunque eso ya se lo dejaré a @Lopess , tiene mucho ingenio y segurísimo que los pone muy bonitos y sabrá donde ubicarlos.

Deberían ir creando props se ven muy vacíos los edificios.

cómo se ven con el color de jugador?

AI vs AI testing is not very useful for RTS balancing purposes because it is very difficult to make an AI that plays optimally AND in a human like way. A huge part of the effectiveness of a unit is determined by 1. how it can be micromanaged to avoid threats, 2. how fast it can move between strategically important locations compared to opponent compositions, (i.e. if your force can threaten multiple locations at once, that is a force multiplier,) and 3. how effective it is across the totality of optimal compositions (i.e. a unit you don't usually need to replace when your opponent changes strategies is more valuable than one that frequently becomes obsolete). AI is good at testing precisely none of these factors.

We made them more historically accurate so I'm not removing them. It would make the buildings look much worse.

Otra muestra de que el desarrollo sigue activo; -Le pedí ayuda a @Lopess ; (Lo único que le faltaría , sería que el hombre tuviera la misma postura que el mercader maurya , ya que sus pies y los del toro se solaparían en la postura actual) Disculpen las molestias*

Buenos días o tardes; -Con la gran ayuda de @Lopess; Avances; (Matizo que , el compañero Lopess ha bajado el nivel de saturación de las texturas rojas , no se extrañen ahora cuando vayan a jugar la actualización) Disculpen las molestias*

Can someone send me the han texts with the correct fonts so I can replace the signs ? I find it funny that some people always want more buildings and some much less...

You need to use bb's patch for secondary attacks.

(FYI: https://trac.wildfiregames.com/ticket/6512.)

If that's the case it's not using the right one https://trac.wildfiregames.com/wiki/SwitchingToYourPCsDedicatedGPU

When I look up the HP Compaq 6000 Pro Microtower PC Product Specifications ( https://support.hp.com/us-en/document/c01865757 ) the graphics section shows: Are those exclusive options or could there be a dedicated GPU? @essa Could you please check your Windows Device Manager if it shows one or two GPUs? (https://www.lifewire.com/how-to-open-device-manager-2626075 ) For me it looks like this:

@user1 Instead of resigning, like gentlemen usually do, HOI leaved the match. commands.txt metadata.json

Average 0 A.D. player.

I have found the reason. #5179 - .DELETED folders are not taken into account when mods are packaged (23/May/18) @Stan` wrote #5179#comment:7 Could it be that you have unzipped the public.zip and boonGUI is still packaged ? Try to unzip boonGUI as well.

the problem was the distance between the balancing discussions and the game development. big changes are introduced to the game without previous notice, apparently being part of personal plans by each dev, not disclosed to the larger community. on the other hand, there is not enough effort on the balancing part for testing game changes, which in turn depends on technical difficulties, small user base, low engagement with the game development and its management. these are my two cents, from the perspective of a "balancing advisor".

Without moderation it won't work as a recent example showed because after all everything is about balancing, no need for any other forum. Looking at @Gurken Khan Honestly I don't mind a closed group as long as no one pretends it was discussed openly, either it's fully open or it's not. And yes, in the latter case I can't be bothered to participate. Balancing is also given far to much weight, broken packing of catas is far worse than the discussed balancing issues when it comes to retaining users. Any new user with a 4k screen will hardly stick around long enough to find the gui.scale property. The list of potential show stoppers is long. New features are a 100 times worse than fixing existing ones. About multiplayer, the lobby climate I consider most important and that seems to be a major issue currently. As for balancing, without proper statistics or at least some quality questionnaires, it's a headless chicken. Add to that that balancing, realism and game play may have contradictory goals and there is no clear statement / moderation line what has precedence. Also balance isn't any worse than other similar titles. We just have to accept that fixing only game breaking issues (for instance deathballs like roman scorpios in the past) is plenty good enough. Honestly, I'd just replace the whole balancing effort with a balancing tech, as balancing is an e-sport here, we need more than 1 vector so those folks don't have it to easy. Let's say one roughly corresponding to the 3 base strategies, boom, turtle, rush. If for example a civ has a to strong an eco, just reduce the eco factor and so forth. Then anything not about tweaking those 3 factors is by definition not balancing at all.

Hi, dropping something a BAR friend made for 0ad (Floris): Hope you like it :-)