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Unfortunately, not all matches have been played this week. I find it unlikely the match between Dakara and Stockfish will be played even with a deadline extension. Since Dakara showed more activity on the forum and the lobby, I will give him the win by forfeit. Thus we can start the 2nd round (semifinals) this week! The deadline is at Sunday 23, 23:59 UTC. The matches are: ValihrAnt (2322) vs Dakara (1772) Feldfeld (2169) vs Edwarf (1861) @ValihrAnt@Dakara@Edwarf

ValihrAnt vs Dakara valihrant vs dakara.zip

Again we are spinning in infinite circles. Why can't we find a way to balance phase 1 swords instead of making everything the same again? What I mean is that we must also keep the focus on diversification, if not, it will always be an alpha for changes and another for reversing the changes.

SPI does work with a law firm but I don't know if they will help us in a timely fashion. (My experience has not been good in this respect.) I'm not sure I would handle this using legal means anyway. I would just write Steam and ask to take it down, and see what they say. I doubt that Valve would want to keep the game on their platform against the creators' wishes. That would be an unnecessary legal and PR risk on their side.

Spectators shouldn't be allowed in tournament matches, and I think they also shouldn't be allowed in rated 1v1s. At a minimum there is a big risk of "ghosting", ie. sharing information with a player that shouldn't be shared. At a maximum there is a risk of disruption of the game through network attack (DoS or DDoS) in order to benefit a certain player. Unlike with gladiator arenas of ancient Rome, you can be a spectator afterward by watching the replays.

Spear infantry are a poor counter to jav cav. Better to boost the spear cav in some way, a unit which is intended to counter jav cav.

0 A.D. Mainland Twilight New Features Mainland Twilight Map New Biomes: Dark Night Evening Notes Uses a clean-looking grass texture. Introduces nighttime gameplay in 0 A.D. Credits This mod is based on modifications to the Feldfeld Mod but has been stripped down into a lightweight version. It utilizes public mod library files instead of customized versions of Feldmap to ensure compatibility. Partial customization is implemented directly in the map generation script to prevent out-of-sync (OOS) errors. For more details, visit the original mod thread: Mainland Twilight Mod mainland-twilight.zip mainland-twilight.pyromod

You both have good points. For the DDOS situation, I don't want to elaborate too much to give any ideas but I don't think announcing the game beforehand would change much. For cheating by sharing information, this is of course something that should be taken seriously. Many of the benefits obtained through this kind of cheating could also be from another kind of cheating, that doesn't require a third party, but is difficult to perform. If we compare with big chess websites, games are public and nothing prevent a player to give advices to another I guess, also if not abused, and if done properly, cheating with engines is possible without being detected. Of course it's not exactly the same situation but the point being, if someone is motivated enough he will find a way I guess, so is it worth it to trade off the community benefits a live tournament game could bring for less convenience for the potential cheater? That's a good question and if players have concerns they can write in this thread or message me. Personally I would still prefer to go for live games. For comparison, AoE2 streams games with a delay, so pure live games is an impossibility, but the stakes are much larger there (and they have more programmatic capabilities, also being closed source is an advantage to this regard it looks like). If even one tournament game gets DDOSed, it will be detected and there will be a clear precedent. So measures could be taken at that moment. It is much easier to avoid DDOS from these 1v1s than from the regular TGs. We cannot say the same of cheating which could be very hard to detect. I will note again that the competitive aspect was not the first objective of this tournament, but well it's still a tournament. As things stand, I will give players freedom over if they want to announce it, personally I will ask my opponents if they want to. Matches that get played on-the-fly in lobby without getting scheduled of course can't be announced

Yesterday, user1 informed me that the leaked accounts are banned. I think that they have been banned for a while, but yesterday is when I was informed of it. As for why it took so long for the accounts to be banned, it was necessary to update the Terms of Use to forbid account sharing and disclosing passwords. Then it was necessary for the new ToU to take effect, which happened when alpha 26 was released. Clause 1b is the new clause that forbids account sharing and disclosing passwords.

I like the difference, I like sword phase 1

Spent the weekend playing the latest terramagna26, xiiiad, and millenium 0ad. Kudos to all involved for the gorgeous work! Since there was no vanilla civs in Mill0ad I had my work cut out playing byzantines with no heroes. It was a big plus having so many interesting mods ready to go with A26.

Isn't tied to democracy, the Romans had death penalty for defamation. I just want to make you aware what you are doing is far from harmless if there are mistakes.

Identity Markers in South-Western Fazzan Were the People of the Wadi Tanzzuft/Tadrart Akakus Region Garamantes? gatto2019.pdf

http://www.twcenter.net/forums/showthread.php?735996-The-Libyan-Kingdom-of-the-Garamantians

Can definitely use this for their civ specific minimap texture!

On another note, in my map Alpine Mountains (available in feldmap), in Winter biome, it alternates randomly between sunny, snowy and night environment

indeed feldmap and autociv are both on mod.io and everyone should get them personally i would like to see night time mainland

Indeed, environmental settings are underrated. For some random maps, randomizing these settings between a few presets could be cool.

If it is it's a terrible one. Imagine 1000 player coming here to complain about DDOS? That would crash the lobby server and maybe the forums, if we're not ready.

IIRC, 0 A.D cannot be legally released on steam as of now (Valve requires some copyright waivers that we cannot give due to the lack of a CLA). So they did do something wrong, and we should probably contact Valve as we have like 2 decades of contributors who have not agreed to said waivers.

PhiliptheSwaggerless vs Edwarf PhiliptheSwaggerless vs Edwarf.zip

Early B.C Suebians.

Just added Suebians and Epirotes to the Terra Magna repo!

I'm going to need time first to vectorize the symbol then to recreate( draw) from the reference.

Perfect! -My idea for the new lusitanian symbol would be; Treasure of "Chao de Lamas" (The dating coincides with the time of "Viriato"300B.C-101 B.C and the "Lusitanians Wars") (National Archaeological Museum, Spain) -My idea (orange and black, on the advice of @wowgetoffyourcellphone) (But a relief in silver, copper, bronze or tin would also be interesting too.) ¿What do you think @Genava55 , @Lion.Kanzen @Stan` @wowgetoffyourcellphone @Lopess? Sorry for the inconveniênces*

Can't use steam api because of game license. Can't change license for steam because too many developpers over the years and no license agreement

It's recent yes. cc @smiley, @maroder

we can play Team Games, I made very few changes like changing the grass texture and changed the sun color and elevation and rotation and nothing more, I think using feldmap we can play team games also it is only used for 1v1, because few people know how to install feldmap. I wanted to make the map more darker like in the evening but not sure others will be interested. this mod is part of my learning process, will try to include more changes if others suggest it.

Ey, could you list wich changes have u made? Is it a balanced map for team games, as the topic suggest? From my understanding, feldmap is only for 1v1 games

It does indeed. wtf. According to https://partner.steamgames.com/doc/sdk you have to use the SDK to upload the game, but https://partner.steamgames.com/doc/sdk/uploading/distributing_opensource says if you use GPL you can decide that that's not actually part of the software and therefore ok? But I think (hope) steam will not be ok with people releasing games that someone else develops.

no hurry wratii, there's time. these forum discussions are faster than testing.

@Genava55 more ideas by I don't want to open this post for a single symbol. any faction of the Iberian Peninsula is welcome.

Oh thanks! Such an amazing reward

Bardylis is not celtic. The Celtic influence in the Balkan was mostly on the east with the kingdom of Tylis and the Triballi and on the north with the Scordisci. The Dardanians were beaten but not that much Celticized, most of the Celticized Illyrians and Thracians joined the Scordisci and the Triballi. But it is true that it changed the warfare in the area for a long time, as seen by the Celtic - like weapons used by the Getae and Dacians.

I am adding archers at the moment.

Uses greek continental style.

illyrian-portraits.zip Here is the zip file containing the .png for each portrait, could you help me with them? Thanks!

This is quite detailed. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Illyrian_weaponry

These are mostly just placeholders. The Illyrian faction is using the Spartan structure set as a placeholder.

I think the best should be to create a common architecture for the Illyrians and the Thracians, mixing Greek and Iron Age traditions. I will see to do a summary of the Thracians for the vanilla as a proposal. @Lion.Kanzen Beware of something about the Illyrians, there are a lot of BS around this cultural group. This is because the Balkans are still very nationalists and the war between the Serbians and the Albanians is not that old. Typically this map is the kind of excessive extension commonly seen on the Illyrians. The Pannonians are not Illyrians, the Veneti neither. The Messapians connection is indeed real but it is probably old (end of the Bronze Age), it could justify some mercenaries and regional units however.

The Pirates faction, lol.

Could strong naval power be a civ trait? I am thinking of a civilization between the Athenians and the Gauls?

Ooooh...

Dalmatae (celtic influenced) https://steamcommunity.com/sharedfiles/filedetails/?id=810596157 Ideas for the Emblem.

Italic Illyrians. MESSAPIANS. this illustration can be some early, you noticed by their arcaic style. PICENTES ---Non Italic origin----- Our Timeframe Italy. Core of Illyrians (Delmetae, Daorsi, Ardiaei, Breuci) With the term Illyrians are defined all that tribes that share an authentic language and culture, coming from the East Hallstatt Cultural Facies and living in the area of modern ex-Yugoslavija and Albania. Even if the different Illyrian tribes were quite different one another, being somehow celticized in the north and hellenized in the south, Classical writers identified a common root for all of them, and common habits (for example, the use of tattoo). Illyrians were also famed pirates, and their ships, Lembos, Pristis and Libyrnis, were well known for being very fast and highly maneuverable, and were even copied by more civilized nations like Makedonia. Now I can see why they link with Piceans or Picenes... This are Illyrian houses?

@Genava55 Illyrians have some celtic features? http://ancient-battles.com/warriors/illyrian-warriors.php

The one with a type I shield below is wearing something with pteruges right? So I could use linothorax on them, I suppose.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Negau_helmet