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Well, not really. Depends on how precisely we would want to make it. If we use just the existing texture, it looks somehow like this, using only rome_struct.png: But then besides the inscription there is a relief on the front of the pronaos (maybe an eagle with a civic crown), which is missing. Also some of the references you posted have different textures for the walls on the different floors, which aren't existing in the roman texture. Rome_struct.png has only one wall brick texture. I think it would look nice to give each (especially the highest) floor its own texture. The other existing roman texture isn't more useful. How would we include the inscription when using the existing texture? Not at all? Or with a prop? I thought that's bad for performance as well? Anyway, I'm fine with both, just want to have it finished (and committed). Let's see what they say

I personally think pro players should behave better and set an example of good conduct. Arrogant pro players drive out people who just want to have fun with their attitude. I prefer mediocre players in a nice environment than playing with very good uneducated players. I think this is also seen in the rise of password games. A toxic pro of >1500 attracts toxic players and kicks normal players. It's not nice to play like that. Pro players should also feel a bit more responsible for the community and not just focus on playing with each other. Regarding mods, I think their contribution is contradictory. On the one hand, they enrich the game, but since they don't have a massive fan base, they also fragment it excessively. It's kind of annoying to be turning the community mod on and off to find a game. Lastly, being a player for more than 5 years, I think I miss seeing the game reach a more stable level of balance between factions and units. With each alpha it seems that you have to relearn how to play. Sorry for my bad English. I only speak Spanish and use an automatic translator. Greetings to all. See you in the game.

I am wondering how difficult it would be to give the AI some more character. The AI currently already has the ability to ask for help, ask for tribute, decides to tribute resources to you when you're low on resources, tells you when it's planning to attack the enemy, etc. Some things I think we could add: Personalities I think we could assign personalities to each of the AI names listed in the civ json files. So, we could make some of the names act defensively, some act aggressively, and others balanced. Perhaps we can weight each of these behaviors as well. "AINames": [ { "Name": "Cimon", "Behaviors": [ { "Aggressive", "Weight": 3 }, { "Defensive", "Weight": 1 }, { "Balanced", "Weight": 2 } ] }, "Aristides", "Xenophon", "Hippias", "Cleisthenes", "Thucydides", "Alcibiades", "Miltiades", "Cleon", "Cleophon", "Thrasybulus", "Demosthenes" ], Please forgive my syntax, I'm not a programmer, but I think the above is a decent illustration of what I mean. Weight, for lack of better term, would be the ratio of how likely that AIName will choose that behavior. If no behavior is chosen (as with the rest of the list here, I'm lazy), then the behaviors all default to 1. Then we can assign different taunts/chats for each behavior, so that by how they are talking to you, you can understand how they'll behave. Surrendering The AI should see that its cause is hopeless and surrenders. The criteria for this can be based on the behavior the AI has been given. We'd just have to choose and assign parameters for this to happen. The AI should have events that trigger chats which indicate it's about to surrender. It'll tribute resources to its allies, and perhaps the ratio of resources it tributes can be determined by its chosen Behavior as well (aggressive gives all resources to the strongest ally; defensive to the weakest ally; balanced an equal share to all allies). And then the AI surrenders. It shouldn't all happen at once. Perhaps 10 seconds between events/chats/tributes.

yes, i fresh installed a mod ... now seems fixed (UPDATE: sadly it was not). btw ==> thanks a lot again for this proGUI feature. here as special thanks for this:

While a TG rating might be good it helps zero with new accounts (noob or smurf).

One can also use the new flyer template I suppose. It even has a QR code! Could probably be translated to german if need be.

@camelator I'm sorry they kicked you out for balance. Many TG hosts will be more inclusive than this one. I think some players get far ahead of themselves trying to set up a 'pro' TG. If you are persistent and improve, you will find spots more regularly. And you will also find nicer hosts That is one downside to the community mod. Because the player base is split, it is harder for players to find games. My hope is that it can become a CTE instead of just a fixed and balanced version of the base game.

@seeh I don't have this bug, It's probably not related, can you double check?

I found the PDFs after 90 seconds of searching the art repo! lol The PDFs here are good for printing or you can muck with the other formats. https://trac.wildfiregames.com/browser/art_source/trunk/promotional %26 public relations/print EDIT: I thought @Pureon had left longer ago than 5 years. Time really messes with ya. My mom died 5 years ago and it simultaneously feels like 10 years ago and 1 year ago.

The best thing to do would be to use the existing Roman diffuse textures, honestly, rather than making an all-new texture for it, which would probably just reuse/mix n match elements from the existing textures anyway. I think from things @vladislavbelov has said, it would be better for graphics RAM to have a few more actors and models than to have yet another large texture (texture switching and loading taxing the graphics card heavily). I know @Stan` suggested one new texture, but let's see what Vlad says. The one new texture I think would be the inscription along the architrave: M. AGRIPPA. L. COS. TERTIVM. FECIT. It would have been gilded in bronze. If you look really closely, you can see a second, much longer, inscription below it, painted in red: Imperator Caesar Lucius Septimius Severus Pius Pertinax Augustus, Arabicus, Adiabenicus, Parthicus Maximus, Pontifex Maximus, with tribunician power for the 10th time, acclaimed Imperator 11 times, consul three times, Father of the Fatherland, proconsul, and Imperator Caesar Marcus Aurelius Antoninus Pius Felix Augustus [Caracalla], with tribunician power for the 5th time, consul, proconsul, restored with all its refinement the Pantheium, deteriorated by old age; 10 Dec. 201-9 Dec. 202 We're not gonna bother with that, lol, it being added much later.

I would like to make a claim of irregularities by player Piplox (BOO! <3) on our last (and only) game of A.S.Pruzzo vs Stars. I am not commenting the behaviour of the player in the game and lobby chat, for that I can see his same team choose it to change him with another player, but I am attaching here the replay, from which you can all see he was using ProGUI - or some other mod for automating training. He never used auto-queue and he kept training units in small batches from all his buildings. Oftentimes he created a new batch (usually of 1, but sometimes more), when the last batch was just about to complete training, as usual with ProGUI. Sometimes the training commands are so quick that you can't even see them when looking at the replay with "follow player" activated: the training building is never even shown as selected, at least not at normal speed. For a definitive proof, look no further than at minute 10:06, when Piplox is giving a command to some three units (2 spearmen and one archer). The commands given are: drop resources > create building > gather metal (with shift pressed). While he is giving these commands, the CC starts training a new horseman, this before the last command is given to the three units. A video of the replay at that moment is attached, follow player is activated for the video, and speed is 0.1x. It's impossible that Piplox manually gave the train command to the CC and then immediately reselected the same three units in the middle of all the other ones, to give them the new queued command. Those three units were not in a selection group: they are never given another command together in the rest of the game. commands.txtmetadata.json recording_cheat_480.mov

Pr #32: market, dock, and merchant ship of Athenians https://github.com/TheShadowOfHassen/0-ad-history-encyclopedia-mod/pull/32 I will write market, dock and merchant ship for Macedonians next.

From AOE3:

I am certainly one of the 10 oldest accounts in the lobby. When I first started playing, I only had 2 players to play, scythewirley and wesono, maybe on a good day, 5-6 players simultaneously in the lobby, with a lot of luck we managed to create a 2x2 game, and either way I still had fun. I saw all the good, average and bad players go through 0 a.d. I made many friends, really many hours of fun, in my case thousands. Most are gone, new ones have come, it's a cycle of life that also applies to our beloved game. As long as there are people as passionate about this game as I am, 0a.d will live on.

Two weeks ago I played a game as Reza's pocket. I played badly and we lost the side. He started attacking me and telling me not to play "Pro Games" if I didn't want to receive that kind of aggression. All the following matches he asked the host to get me out of the lobby or not put me on his team. If it were a super popular game, perhaps this would be one more anecdote. But with such a small community I would start by improving personal behavior towards other players. It's the least we can do.

yes i mean the community mod sperate players. new player dont know hot to get it easy. middle player toggle it all the time. maybe its possible to play without such a think . idk

One other concern which is hopefully not a problem in a27 is the community mod player base separation. The community mod fixes a lot of bugs and has significantly improved gameplay as well, it is considered to be the better version of the game to play. I think allowing the community mod to experiment with features and fulfill the role of playtesting would be nice, so that the players can always fall back on the base game if the features under testing are not successful.

Meh. I am not a fan of scripts that automate the game as it provides an unfair advantage. The advantage here is de minimis, but I just dislike the concept. There was a player a few alphas ago who had a script that did all eco for him (made women, built storehouses, houses, built farms, directed units to all res, barracks, etc.). So all he did was micro rushes against players that were trying to do eco and defend rush at the same time.

I don't understand if this is a joke from @alre or not. So Piplox is just ordering a group of 3 units, while it's CC queue units with progui's autoqueue? If he used the normal autoqueue, he would also have a chance for a new batch to start producing between two orders. He don't need control groups, or anything special to do order those units. If you want to prove a player is cheating and you looked out so closely just to find this, I guess he's probably not doing anything too weird lol

This is why new payers can't play