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Hi! I was feeling the same as you a year ago. I created a mod that allow building production queues to be easy to manage. ProGUI It does stretch a bit the idea as it implements new panel(s) to control the production. It also allow for queuing blacksmith techs and basic economic techs. You can get it here: https://gitlab.com/4trik/proGUI This mod is based on boonGUI on top of witch I built appreciable features for players. ResizeQueue If you want to keep the vanilla UI, I made another mod that solve the problem more simply: It changes the auto-queue to adapt to resources availability and restart the queue if ever it had to stop for a while. https://gitlab.com/4trik/resizequeue With this last mod please make sure to enter values in all settings as it doesn't have any default values (and won't work if you don't set them). If you ever runned proGUI, the settings are common and therefore proGUI will provide set for you some reasonable defaults settings that works as nice for ResizeQueue. It's much more fun to play without the annoyances, also, one may progress faster into the game then if his goal is to train himself to restart production every time the "Insufficient resources, de-activating auto-queue" message pops. New Variables However It also introduce a few new variables that you may wish to control. Example: You'll could want the production queue to never consume the last 100wood, because else you'll won't have enough wood to build an economic building, when you'll need to. So new concepts like "Reserves" are introduced in those mods. ProGUI has the advantage of allowing you to changes theses new variable on the dedicated panel. ResizeQueue (mod where the UI has no graphical components added) allow you to set these reserves in the settings. Controlling the production variables aren't mandatory for casual usage so If this is the usage you want to have, I'll recommend to set 'Wood Reserve' to 100 or 150, and enjoy.

I want to share with you my entusiasm for my new work. It will take very long time because it's a huge project and I'm at the beginning but I'm really happy and I hope that you will like it. It was very difficult to preserve proportion and I based the heighmap on sinusoidal projection. Sadly It's impossible to include Antartica, I think that It would be amazing to build a civic center there. In the end, I want to ask an aid to map artist to improve the final result, because I'm not so creative.

After the embassy was under new management two allied traders visited it; of course they were welcome, but ideally the AI could be taught not to choose routes through enemy territory? (Since it was the Harbor map there obviously was one safe route and one terrible direction.)

Flat Earth Society will love this map!

Currently templates are not reloaded until you restart the game. You can however use the modifiermanager component to add modifications at run time to specific units using JS. Kinda like fake techs. You can technically create new files using the engine, but the paths are restricted, so you might not be able to create the XML files. Another thing to have in mind is you cannot write in the public.zip mod so the files will probably end up in /Documents/My Games/0ad/mods/user or some analoguous path. Do note however that you will break the replay and make it unusable. There was also this by wraitii. https://mod.io/g/0ad/m/balance-test-mod https://github.com/wraitii/balance_test_mod

It is a bit stressful to play naval maps, I don't know how much the unit_ai will influence the behavior. The Rams and certain large units are what happened a while ago. This does not exist in my culture.

This is a change I've been meaning to request for some time. I thought about it several times and as far as I can tell, there's no reason why it couldn't be considered, nor any disadvantage to the method I'm proposing which should be a lot more pleasant to the player. At very least it could be offered as an option so players can configure it to their preference. Currently if you don't have enough resources to produce an unit, its button turns red and you can't schedule units or batches of that type till you do. This used to be less of a problem until auto-queue was implemented. Ever since you're put in the annoying situation where the production settings of a building are automatically cleared whenever you run out of resources to make units: Every time you have to wait until you have resources again, then go through the buttons and schedule unit batches on each building once more. My proposal: Don't deactivate a building's schedule and also allow the player to queue units when they don't have the resources for them. The building instead waits until you have enough resources, the last building that's been waiting will produce an unit of that type the moment resources become available. This exact behavior already exists when you're reached the population cap: Unit production doesn't deactivate but waits until you build more houses, you can also schedule as many units as you want till then as the button isn't disabled only production is paused... couldn't the exact same be done for lack of resources?

I've already thought of that, that's called advaced dioplomacy options which is a series of options like the ones seen in Empire Earth II. ""Advanced Diplomacy The diplomacy system in Empire Earth 2 is among the most innovative and sophisticated I’ve seen in RTS’s. Not only can you send and receive tributes from other civilizations in the game, you can also tribute not only resources but also units and territories! Relationships between civilizations aren’t simply friend or foe. You can be neutral, allied or enemies. Even as such these three stances are not as simplistic as RTS’s in the past. You can be allied but only share certain assets which you can customize quite precisely. For you can propose to another player to allow an alliance which only allows trade, and trade units to enter each other’s territory or trade relationship for a certain period of time. This type of precision also applies to other types of units and abilities, from economics to military, Line of Sight, border, build, and resource permissions. So you no longer have to give away the pin number to your bank account to your allies, but define very precisely what kind of relationship you want with each of your in-game opponents. This is sure to give in-game diplomacy a whole new dimension of machiavalian intrique!" I don't know if all these options can be included. https://ee.heavengames.com/ee2h/gameinfo/gamefaqs/

I don't really agree with the idea of designing a unit that "counters a certain unit." We should think more about allowing a certain type of unit to gain different advantages under different conditions. For example, a swordsman is an infantryman who has both a sword and a shield. On one hand I don't agree that swordsmen can defeat spearmen in a head-to-head duel. On the other hand, the swordsman should be a fast infantry that does not rely on the square formation, so that the swordsman can more quickly outflank the enemy spearmen array and gain an advantage. In order to prevent the array from being outflanked by the enemy swordsmen, the player You should deploy your own swordsmen or melee cavalry on both sides of the spearmen array. At the same time, swordsmen who can attack in a loose formation are also better suited to chasing away shooters.

Just to update you. It's still WIP, because I want to make texture more detailed and these colors are only a sketch. I accept all advises about colors and height changes, so I can change now before I add entities.

Yep!

Roman Lanciarii Triumvirate -> Principate @real_tabasco_sauce

Coming in Alpha 27: Marian Legions. I took some Principe chainmail textures and added cingula and a little extra mail on the shoulders. You'll notice some Ptolemaic and Seleucid-inspired helmets mixed in a little, too. This is to show perhaps some war booty collected from these foes and does show up in a few references.

That double-dealing sob Miltiades.

Context This is a fair ask. There are multiple benefits to it and a lots of players feel like this should be there. Recently i promoted coral only game play in tgs and most people are started to like it, although the one of issue with that is one mentioned above. The problem it will solve are follwoing. New players are not used to fast paced game play and they are slow in how to handle pop boom, it will help them imporve fast, hence user retention. This is an good to have feature. This will insure people will use this auto train feature more and more. It will promote coral usages It will impact user experience as whole. Like player are seeing that their batch in training progress. There are 2 solutions to above problem. First is mentioned by the @MirceaKitsune. I have some more inputs on top on how to pause the production Example Scenario: Auto queue for 5 women from civic center , currently only 150 food availble. 1. Simply don't start training the que untill you have the required resources. Here training of 5 will be 0% and wil progress only after 250 food is available. 2. or, Start the que prodution and halt at the percentage of the resource availale. Here training will be continune, as long as available resource > %training time completed * resource required. AOE like mechanism. second solution is: (Taking same example as earlier) Drop the que size to available resource. So, here the queue size will drop to 3 and that will continue, the least number it can drop to is 1. If resource available is not enough to train 1 unit then the queue will pause at 1. Why second? this is useful for continuous training of units given available resource. The player doesn't have to wait to reduce size or get resources to produce his next batch. My pick will be go for first. Extra suggestion: For new installation/new players, keep auto train by default.