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Please don't. This kind of automation (autosnipe) doesn't belong in 0ad. Also what's the deal with Ptols being considered a cheat? I know I haven't played in a month but this wasn't the case then. Same with roman and macedonian spearcav rush. I know that ptols are OP in the base game and that the spearcav rush is strong in the comm mod, but no one considers these things cheating. To make a bulleted list with ptols and progui both included as "hotly debated" is misleading.

This is wonderful. I applaud Seleucids for coming clean. And I applaud NorseHarold for their implacable dedication to exposing the Yekaterinas in our midst. With this triumph, your years-long quest has been utterly vindicated, and a final solution to the crisis has been revealed. Now is a time for all of us, Yekas and non-Yekas alike to come together in solidarity and thanksgiving. For a lasting community reconciliation, I propose making a bot account whose function will be to periodically scan any ongoing conversation and proclaim who is a Yekaterina using our demonstrably infallible Yeka-detection algorithm. It's not fair or healthy for Norse to be solely responsible for providing this vital public service, plus Norse is only human and therefore must take periodic breaks from Yekaterina detecting duty in order to eat and sleep. A bot could provide for our Yekaterina seeking needs 24-7, thereby ensuring that no one is ever again left in the dark that they are talking to a Yekaterina. You could call it IAmYeka. Let's make this happen! /s?

Could the game have 2 modes? Mode A: "Bells and Whistles" All the gameplay and map features, such as: Farmsteads Mercenary Camps Trading Posts Pirate Docks Relics Shrines Cultural Artifacts Map Creeps (bandits, pirates, farmers, barbarians, etc.) Mode B: "Classic" Only basic standard gameplay, used mostly for Rated matches. None of the above features (like it is now in the current Random Maps).

I do not believe this was Norse' intention. Rather, I think he was just trying to be cautious because he can't really know whether you will start creating a lot of duplicate accounts again or not. If, as you stated, you do not intend to make any more accounts, Norse' post will be useless (as it is a "guide" to identify you), but also harmless. I think your hatred towards Norse is clouding your judgement. I don't feel incited to harass you by anything he said. Regarding the false accusations, can you say with certainty that one of the three points in Norse' first post is wrong? Which one? Norse wasnt even the one to bring up any youtube-video. You both know that you left off on a pretty bad note, making each others lifes worse. As I am too young a member of this community, I am not going to make any judgement about the things that happened in the past, as I just dont have the necessary information. But you should be able to understand that Norse will be very cautious if you "rejoin" the community, as you have undoubtedly created a lot of work for him in the past (whether it were exclusively justified actions or not). Lastly, keep in mind that Norse couldn't have known if you intended to "keep on going from where you left off" and make his life hard, or if you intended to leave the past behind and be involved in 0ad in a productive manner, before he started this thread. He most likely just wanted to inform players about a well known former member of the community that rejoined under a different name, which is not bad in and of itself.

Yes I plan to get active again once A27 releases.

Atrik's real thoughts: "...will I still be able to 30 women at raiders as human shields?..."

next one, a well known: Discobolus https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Discobolus https://open.smk.dk/en/artwork/image/KAS1074?q=*&filters=has_3d_file%3Atrue&page=7 Including modesty prop again. @wowgetoffyourcellphone ready for commit? You might want to tweak contrast, brightness, saturation etc. again Could also make a new spec from the diffuse if you want the cover to be shiny too. discobolus_cover.dae statue_discobolus.dae

@Seleucids have you seen https://gitea.wildfiregames.com/0ad/0ad/pulls/6960? Basically, it worked really nicely on windows vs windows, but when I tested with a player on a GCC build, it went OOS. If you can build both on windows and on linux then you can help me test and solve this. Other than this OOS, its pretty much ready to go.

I am having another new revelation. I was thinking about innovation and mechanics, one must always go back to basics, before AOE there was Civilization by Sid Meier. In that game Sid Meier has a group or entity called barbarians. "Barbarians come from outposts, which have a chance of appearing randomly on any land tile that doesn't have a revealed resource and is outside a unit's field of vision. This also includes Tundra and Snow terrain". I was thinking of a new kind of enclave. A kind of rural village. Similar to those in AoM.In appearance, I'm thinking of the mechanics from other games. Aesthetically it will be a barn, a house and maybe a field. It occurs to me that it will generate gaia units to defend itself. It will be on the maps and will generate a small amount of soldiers. Once captured it can be converted into a CC if it is assimilated. Or he could be subjugated, it won't have much loyalty.It will be easy to lose. What advantages will it have? It will have its unique technologies. All based on exploitation. You will have a resource that will be used to train slaves, that is, population. If the population is depleted, there will be no slaves to train. You can train farm animals or their equivalents. It can be used as a market, and trade can be carried out with this village. Additionally, it may generate recourses as a form of taxes. Basically it will generate metal, food, wood as tribute. That will go into the stockpile. It will be like any other trickle building. It will have that advantage, of giving you slaves and giving you resources in addition to serving as a trading post. It's like the village mechanics of Imperivm GBOR. https://www.imperivmworld.com/aprende-a-jugar/ Overall it has very good ideas for maps. Although this idea is taken from several games and adapted to our game. It will be a kind of weaker CC. + Market + and it will generate resources for you.

I think the strategies depend on the faction. You will exploit the other faction's weaknesses to your own advantage, using your strengths. Then come the classic war tactics like Rush which is very equivalent to a blitzkrieg. Then there is turtling which has been undermined in this game.In today's war, turtling is like attrition war. So we have the economic war or economic boom which would be the third strategy. https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Military_doctrine If we ever have a Grand Strategy style campaign, that campaign defines the mode of operation to win in a geopolitical operating scenario. For now our game is only limited to battles. https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Operational_level_of_war I'm going to take as a reference the criticism of RTS, the Wikipedia article. https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Real-time_strategy "A second criticism of the RTS genre is the importance of skill over strategy in real-time strategy games. The manual dexterity and ability to multitask and divide one's attention is often considered the most important aspect to succeeding at the RTS genre. According to Troy Dunniway, former Westwood developer who has also worked on Command and Conquer 3: Tiberium Wars: "A player controls hundreds of units, dozens of buildings and many different events that are all happening simultaneously. There is only one player, and he can only pay attention to one thing at a time. Expert players can quickly flip between many different tasks, while casual gamers have more problems with this." Real-time strategy games have been criticized for an overabundance of tactical considerations when compared to the amount of strategic gameplay found in such games. According to Chris Taylor, lead designer of Supreme Commander: "[My first attempt at visualizing RTSs in a fresh and interesting new way] was my realizing that although we call this genre 'Real-Time Strategy,' it should have been called 'Real-Time Tactics' with a dash of strategy thrown in."[54] (Taylor then posits his own game as having surpassed this mold by including additional elements of broader strategic scope.) In general terms, military strategy refers to the use of a broad arsenal of weapons including diplomatic, informational, military, and economic resources, whereas military tactics is more concerned with short-term goals such as winning an individual battle.[48] In the context of strategy video games, however, the difference is often reduced to the more limited criteria of either a presence or absence of base building and unit production." -------- I remember that Empire Earth II had these aspects more developed, as did Rise of Nations. He had more advanced diplomacy and management. ----- Again wikipedia says: This criticism has ushered into a couple of hybrid designs that try to resolve the issues. The games of the Total War series have a combination of a (turn-based) strategy map with a (real-time) battle map, allowing the player to concentrate on one or the other. The games of the Hegemony series also combine a strategy map and a battle map (in full real-time) and the player can at any point in time seamlessly zoom in and out in between both. Rushing vs. planning A third common criticism is that real-time gameplay often degenerates into "rushes" where the players try to gain the advantage and subsequently defeat the opponent as quickly in the game as possible, preferably before the opposition is capable of successfully reacting. --------- How could we differentiate our game without losing its essence?

The idea is to focus on relevant units more. In a even fight this helps to get the upper hand. I also just found that she had weird 9 unqued walk-custom commands in one turn. turn 5650 200 cmd 6 {"type":"gather","entities":[11751,11753,11754,11892],"target":5353,"queued":false,"pushFront":false,"formation":"special/formations/null"} cmd 6 {"type":"walk-custom","entities":[11751,11753,11754,11892],"targetPositions":[{"x":"137.03","y":"479.52"},{"x":"134.99","y":"470.80"},{"x":"131.97","y":"462.44"},{"x":"127.08","y":"454.95"}],"targetClasses":{"attack":["Unit","Structure"]},"queued":false,"pushFront":false,"formation":"special/formations/null"} cmd 6 {"type":"walk-custom","entities":[11751,11753,11754,11892],"targetPositions":[{"x":"134.75","y":"496.72"},{"x":"130.01","y":"494.75"},{"x":"126.08","y":"491.25"},{"x":"122.81","y":"487.11"}],"targetClasses":{"attack":["Unit","Structure"]},"queued":false,"pushFront":false,"formation":"special/formations/null"} cmd 6 {"type":"walk-custom","entities":[11751,11753,11754,11892],"targetPositions":[{"x":"121.53","y":"429.00"},{"x":"121.31","y":"435.84"},{"x":"121.38","y":"442.69"},{"x":"121.30","y":"449.51"}],"targetClasses":{"attack":["Unit","Structure"]},"queued":false,"pushFront":false,"formation":"special/formations/null"} cmd 6 {"type":"walk-custom","entities":[11751,11753,11754,11892],"targetPositions":[{"x":"138.40","y":"470.50"},{"x":"136.06","y":"466.12"},{"x":"133.44","y":"461.94"},{"x":"129.81","y":"458.56"}],"targetClasses":{"attack":["Unit","Structure"]},"queued":false,"pushFront":false,"formation":"special/formations/null"} cmd 6 {"type":"walk-custom","entities":[11751,11753,11754,11892],"targetPositions":[{"x":"132.99","y":"499.66"},{"x":"128.45","y":"497.32"},{"x":"127.20","y":"491.86"},{"x":"126.13","y":"486.36"}],"targetClasses":{"attack":["Unit","Structure"]},"queued":false,"pushFront":false,"formation":"special/formations/null"} cmd 6 {"type":"walk-custom","entities":[11751,11753,11754,11892],"targetPositions":[{"x":"124.29","y":"438.62"},{"x":"127.73","y":"441.27"},{"x":"130.62","y":"444.43"},{"x":"131.53","y":"448.70"}],"targetClasses":{"attack":["Unit","Structure"]},"queued":false,"pushFront":false,"formation":"special/formations/null"} cmd 6 {"type":"walk-custom","entities":[11751,11753,11754,11892],"targetPositions":[{"x":"122.05","y":"439.94"},{"x":"131.21","y":"448.17"},{"x":"139.77","y":"457.03"},{"x":"145.00","y":"468.02"}],"targetClasses":{"attack":["Unit","Structure"]},"queued":false,"pushFront":false,"formation":"special/formations/null"} cmd 6 {"type":"walk-custom","entities":[11751,11753,11754,11892],"targetPositions":[{"x":"139.26","y":"487.63"},{"x":"132.71","y":"488.36"},{"x":"129.84","y":"483.07"},{"x":"128.20","y":"476.48"}],"targetClasses":{"attack":["Unit","Structure"]},"queued":false,"pushFront":false,"formation":"special/formations/null"} cmd 6 {"type":"walk-custom","entities":[11751,11753,11754,11892],"targetPositions":[{"x":"129.22","y":"437.18"},{"x":"131.39","y":"439.95"},{"x":"132.08","y":"443.42"},{"x":"131.54","y":"446.96"}],"targetClasses":{"attack":["Unit","Structure"]},"queued":false,"pushFront":false,"formation":"special/formations/null"} cmd 8 {"type":"gather","entities":[10946,10966,10967,10971,10979,10986,11024,11056,11145,11252,11282,11283,11456,11457,11529,11547,11548,11549,11550,11551,11607,11615,11664,11732,11735,11742,11805,11810,11825,11826,11827,11828,11849,11921,11929,12011,12012,12013,12014,12145,12146,12147,12148,12149,12219,12220,12221,12222,12223,12250,12258,12269,12270,12275,12295,12348,12395,12417,12466],"target":698,"queued":false,"pushFront":false,"formation":"special/formations/null"} end I checked my complete data base and no one else had 3 or more walk-custom commands in one turn. Some have 2 like here .01. I don't see any benefit as it's the same units and only the last command should take effect. As I see it she just tested something weird and dropped it as it's only from 01.12.24 to 03.12.24. I don't care too much to look further. My main take away is just not to get upset when losing to her.

We need more Yekaterinas in 0ad. Come play with us noobs, not with obnoxious nasty so called pros

As I am the reference to consult in therm of cheating according to few loud people so, i can tell you this is absolutely cheat, any modified or enhancements of a feature should be banned and we should stay away of it for the sake of unplayability. This is the only way we can be sure the game doesn't get too fun or too easy to new players. Rewarding old players who learned the workarounds of playing without good features in the n°1 priority. Can you package this cheat @Seleucids for use as standalone mod? I'm sure some cheaters would be interested in cheating with such cheat.

Hold up, Since I have made no attempt to disguise my identity both in the lobby and the forum, why does this topic exist? Those of you who have played with Ricci-Curvature, you have seen me proudly announcing myself. I think this is universal to all players who have interacted with me in the lobby. I have even told Dunedan my list of accounts that I made in the past just so that he can guarantee that they are banned. Therefore this topic's very existence might be an attempt to smear me again, but also to instigate a sense of insecurity amongst the current players. The author of the topic is rarely active in the lobby (I don't recall seeing him active since I returned). But he is trying to create much fear and an imaginary enemy from nothing. Why?

If you simply execute a predefined plan, then there is little thinking involved, so I was simply agreeing with @Lion.Kanzen that executing a predefined sequence of action is tactics, not strategy. You absolutely can make strategies in this game, but it's not when you are executing a build order. In fact, you need to have good tactics and build order already to be able to make successful strategies.

This user, whom you refer to as "Geriatrix", is still behaving in similar ways under countless alt accounts. On average, he makes 1 smurf account every 5 days. Generally, a new alt account is born after he has an argument with somebody. I have an entire folder full of chatlogs and screenshots of his transgressions against the TOS and other players. He becomes hysterical at random times. However, clearly you cannot do anything about him, because: 1. He knows how to bypass mutes and bans. He has spam posted links to videos teaching ban bypass on multiple occasions, in the public lobby and hosted games. The 0ad moderation techniques are ineffective against him. 2. Moderators wants to silence any arguments and dissent instead of solving them, because that's less work and keeps the image of 0ad good. In the minds of moderators, he is only verbally toxic and posed no technical threat so he can be royally ignored. Fortunately, there are ways to deal with him: 1. It's very easy to identify his smurf accounts because he talks in a very particular way and plays certain cav strategies with Romans / Gauls. 2. Keep a blind eye to him, pretend you didn't know or care. He is calm 50%~80% of the time. 3. Always talk politely to him even if he insults you. If you can't deal with it anymore, ban.

looks better with more contrast on the uv map again. Is that the right position for the trident? I will see what I can do about the wrinkles statue_poseidon.dae

Furthmore, Norse Harold, you created this thread not for improving 0ad, but to target me personally. You have named AInur, so we can all look at that user's posts: it's mostly programming and technical discussion, with a few suggestions on changing gameplay. There is no sign of malice. You have a record of driving helpful users away: I still remember NitroVicky and Inzhu. No matter whether Vicky is actually me or not, they were helping 0ad with developing a superior AI. If you didn't ban her from the forum, all of the single-players could be enjoying a more advanced AI right now. Same for Inzhu. They claimed they can implement parallel processing to 0ad. If you had encouraged him on that instead of stalking him around in the lobby delisting games, we could have said farewell to CPU lag since long time. All 3 of the users are positively contributing to the 0ad community, and all you can do is ban them based on your subjective suspicions. Now I ask: How have you improved the AI? How far did you nudge the engine towards multiprocessing? How many bugs have you found workarounds for? who is the real threat to the community that's constantly pushing players and contributors away? You created this thread to drive me away once again and prevent me from contributing. For what? What are you trying to defend, and against what? You can survey the lobby userbase's opinion towards Ricci-Curvature and you will see. Meanwhile, Shyft has also returned. He is a reasonable person now and I could get along with him, despite the occasional inappropriate language from him. You have made no effort to hunt him down, you only target me. I do not oppose the other lobby users challenging me, nor am I manipulating anyone into anything. I just play a few TGs and test out the historical patch with Leif. Simple life. When you were moderator, you had the absolute power to delete people's posts so that nobody could speak against you. You blamed many things on me and I was denied the right to speech. Now you have lost that power and it's time for you to be held accountable for your transgressions. However, as I said, the past is past and I don't want more mess. Let's put the history aside and seek for coexistence in the community. That's my proposal. If you decide to still take on unreasonable measures such as harassing manhunts, IP monitors, enslaving restitution, unjustified sanctions and bye-laws, etc against me, then I will simply leave. P.S. your topic ruined my weekend, thanks for that.

That's right. When I attack, I always use ctrl + Q. This only attacks units and not buildings. To make it more efficient, I changed the attack classes to {"Ranged", "Cavalry", "Infantry"} This change prevents the attack move from attacking women or siege. However, it does not last long; as soon as the first targets die, the unit actions return to normal attack. It's does not make visible change in large scale battles on empty ground. Good question, I don't know neither. It's been too long. Evidently this is something carried forward from many years ago. As ffm correctly pointed out, I declared immediately who I am and stated my rating accurately. I made no attempt to hide. I even busted imposters who try to pretend to be me for whatever reason. Some of the accusations from Norse Harold are invalid and unbased; no evidence has ever been presented to anyone. He claims that he has sufficient proof but he fails to show anything against me. Not a single IP correlation. Not a single access log. Regarding the cheat video on YouTube, if I was the owner of that channel, why would I allow Getriatrix and other trolls to use it against me? I would have taken it down since a long time ago! Even Norse Harold threatened me to take them down. I deleted Helicity, I deleted Kate0AD, but the ownership of that 0ad expert is not in my hands! I cannot do anything!

I know Yeka purposefully caused harm and (attempts) to reputation damage to some, especially to Norse_Harold. But please consider not holding grudges as he's not a fundamentally bad person...