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Hey 0AD community ! The Robots Uprising Mod is in progress and still in development but we have some good news for you all ! Before releasing the project in June 2024, we wanted to show you the progress of our project with screenshots or by giving you some news (we are a small team so don't be mad at us if there's not so many news around here, we are doing our best !). We actually finished modelising and texturing our ground / levitating Robots ! Enjoy !

I am happy to present the start of a new single player campaign called "Carthage: New Beginnings". The campaign will cover Dido's departure from Tyre up to the founding of Carthage. This campaign will be fairly short, about 6 or so scenarios. They are mostly done and I will be porting each one to the current version of 0ad and provide an update every few days. Chapter 1: In the beginning You are Elissa -- the sister of the tyrant of Tyre, King Pumayyaton. All your life, you have dreamed of glory but lately, your brother has been increasingly pushing you out of power and out of influence. You sense that is the time to make a move. And what better way to show your abilities to the citizens of Tyre than to raid a band of Celts who have recently moved in and established a small fishing town on the mainland. But first, you must figure out how to get your elephants across the sea as to take down the settlement's fortifications. Your husband, Acerbas, the High Priest of Melqart, has an idea. A band of pirates holding out on an island to the north-west, has stolen an ancient relic. Should you be able to return it, he will secure enough money to purchase you a ship that will be able to carry the elephants across the water. But you must be careful - our current ships are weak and can only be used to ferry our soldiers but not for battle. AI Settings: Player 5 should be on Petra with a difficulty of your choice (the hardest for best experience). All others should be set to Sandbox. Note: you may need to know a tiny bit about the geography of Tyre to know which was is North Where to get the scenarios: https://github.com/SciGuy42/Carthage_BeginningsGloryAndDemise/archive/refs/heads/main.zip You should extract the files in your /mods/user/ folder. On Linux, that is typically located in /home/.local/share/0ad/mods/user/. Note that the repository contains additional scenarios but I haven't tested them yet and they most certainly need fixes and a play test. But coming soon! I play tested on the following build: Mar 22, 2022 (25860-release), which is the default version on Liniux when installing from the "universe". There are probably issues with newer versions if the javascript API is not backwards compatible or if template names changed. A few screen shots from the game play: Some questions for developers: 1. Can some point me to the function I need to call to display text in the same place where we see notifications, like when a players enters a new phase? Since the objectives change throughout the game based on events, I would like to periodically print the current objectives to remind the player. 2. Similarly, is there an example of a dialog box but no so much a dialogue with 2 options but just 1 option? I found the example with two buttons and am currently using that but I don't actually need two buttons and which button is pressed is irrelevant. Observed issues: 1. One of the docks that the AI build rotated the wrong way by 90 degrees, instead of the dock facing the sea, it was oriented parallel to the shore. 2. The first time I used catapults, I gave them the command to attack a fortress while the catapults were packed. The moved closer to the fortress, unpacked but were still outside of range. I had to pack them, move them closer, then unpack and then they worked fine. Want to help? While I am quite proud of my Tyre, it can use a round of, let's say, "beautification". If you like that sort of thing, let me know, I can give you permissions in the repository. The only constraint is that I'd rather not move the docks and also the passages to the harbors should probably not get smaller. Eventually I may need an "early" Carthage but probably not for the first few missions. If you want to help there, I am already thinking of one possible scenario that would take place in Carthage, let's say, 10-15 years after it was founded. I also need a mod file but I don't know how to do that. The other way to help, of course, is to play it and write back with how it went. Enjoy!

I think Pericles offers too little.

This would make it so much easier to build or adjust muscle memory for using hotkeys. If you forget the hotkey or simply forget to use it you'll see the little "h" on the icon and be reminded of it.

Glad I could help.

A small but helpfull improvement could be to display hotkeys in the building menues, like it is done in aoe 2 for example. I am aware that building placement hotkeys are currently done by a mod, autociv which hopefully can be integrated in the game, but this could already be implemented for unit production.

Thank you som much @Vantha! That solved it! (had some old savegames from 0.25 in my games folder... stupid me!)

Firstly (I think I've brought this up at some point in the past already): Scythian Archer: They are only referred to as "the Archers" or "the Scythians" (both labels for "barbarians"), and also - most characteristically - as the (S)peusinians (in Greek: "(S)peusinioi"). Therefore I suggest the following change: Toxótēs Skythikós (a word-by-word translation into Greek) --> Speusinios or Peusinios Sources:

Yes, we are currently working on a video trailer to promote the project everywhere. Unfortunately this trailer is not finished yet but we can show all the ground/ levitating units of Robot civilisation to the community ! Enjoy

Indeed!!!

Isn't it exciting to write an encyclopedia? Many people will learn about the ancient world and the universe of 0 A.D by reading these articles.

Ah I got you. We'll use your version I probably have been guilty of some more lame writing in the past. I'm planning on going through and editing some of the past articles while @Vantha finishes the new UI. I'll be sure to check for that.

Just code it so I can have non randos in the better mod.

Chapter 3: Blessings You have finally arrived in Kition, a Tyrian colony in Cyprus where your husband's brother is the head priest of Astarte. You grieve your husband's death together. But work is to be done. The priest is ready to provide Astarte's blessing for your journey but there is trouble that needs to be dealt with first. News of your assault on the Assyrian fortress has reached these lands and the general in the Assyrian colony to the West of us has vowed revenge. To the north east, a band of Greeks live in the hills and have decided that now is the time to plunder. You must help Kition defend itself. Defeat the Assyrians and the Greeks! Your scouts report that there are friendly traders in the area -- we should search by boat and within land. We do not have the resources to establish a settlement and will need to rely on trade to support our forces. Directly to the north, our scouts report the presence of barbarians -- they may have useful loot and perhaps even weapons that will be helpful to us. AI Settings: Greek Traders should be set to Sandbox. Everyone else, Petra with a difficulty of your choice. Note: any buildings you capture will not decay due to lack of culture influence.

Chapter 2: Revenge You have had to flee Tyre, along with your most loyal supporters and adventurers seeking glory in battle. Stricken by grief due to the murder of your husband, you decide to pay a visit to an Assyrian fort on the way to Cyprus - and not just any fort, one that currently hosts the general Abibaal as an ambassador, who is (secretly) your brother's lover. You will have your revenge! Your objectives are to establish a settlement and raise an army to kill or capture Abibaal. Abibaal is bound to be located in one of the civil centres in the Assyrian fortress. You must search for him and have your revenge! Screenshots from game play and a view of enemy fortress: There are multiple ways to win, some smarter than others

This map looks like really cool! If you'd like to be a contributor to my Carthage campaign, I could use a map like this. Let me know and I'll add you in the list of contributors after I make the scenario with it, I have a number of ideas just looking at it.