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Hello everyone, I am not here to contest a moderation decision nor to deny the legitimacy of a sanction when behavior crosses the line. Moderation exists and their work is sacred. What I want to share, however, is a reflection on what we sometimes lose when a player leaves (or is removed) durably from 0 A.D. JC is not an angel, he has had words too much, moments of anger, perhaps even statements that none of us would want to see reappear in the chat or on the forum. That deserves warning and sanction. On the other hand I am convinced that exclusion, even temporary, is not justified. If the moderators judge it useful, they can mute him permanently from the lobby. Then the players must protect themselves from him: There is autociv to mute a player or simply avoid him like a nuisance in the games. He did not seek to harm in a dangerous way against the project. Like DDoS or that kind of thing. Every player also represents something else: hundreds of hours spent playing, testing, reporting sometimes very technical bugs memorable games (good or catastrophic) that made dozens of people laugh, rant, progress a sincere love for this free project, born more than twenty years ago from passion accumulated knowledge on mechanics, civilizations, strategies, which he shared (even if sometimes with a bit too much salt) 0 A.D. is not a commercial game with a moderation budget. It is a project carried by volunteers, passionate people, and a relatively small but faithful community. Every regular player who leaves is a real loss for this ecosystem. We can afford to have a different functioning. We can claim to have a game above the others. A dogma to protect and leave in free access. Sanction firmly, yes. But applying a ban, is sometimes punishing the community as much as the individual. Many of us have already been young, impulsive, under caffeine at 2am after a raging defeat, or simply clumsy with our words. Some of us were lucky: a warning, a temporary mute, a private discussion with a more patient moderator… and we are still here today. I am not asking for general amnesty nor for the immediate return of JC. I am simply asking that we ask ourselves the question: Can we dehumanize him and consider him only as a lambda player who must have access to the game. Like a basic right. I am not even talking about second or tenth chance, he will do it again for sure. It is not by laxism that I propose to unban him. I consider that what happens in the games is private therefore not moderatable. If he wants to be the biggest villain on earth, he can, it is up to the player to avoid him. Thank you for reading until here. Whatever happens, I will continue to love this game and the people (even the ranters) who make it live. Kindly,

0 AD is not a state and 0 A.D is not vital for a basic, happy life ( yes its hard to believe). 0 AD is a private initiative that serves leisure time, we cant judge 0 AD in a similiar way. We have no statistics on how many players left because they encountered toxic behaviour by people like jc. I have seen players motivation to play drop a lot after some of his rants. We have been patient with DoctorOrgans for years. Noone can say we acted quick or rash here imho

That's not necessarily true. It's definitely a discussion we can have. Your other points are 100% fair. My main reasons for starting DE. Collaboration, especially online collaboration, can be very frustrating at times. But what you can do (which you've already done and which I've done) is use your mod for experimentation, etc., then parse out bits and pieces you think would serve well the base game and make PRs.

Or.... add Blocking & Muting to the base game's code. Alone, they would be a worthwhile basic features.

He already is adding things to the base game. All one has to do is make Pull Requests. Other people criticize the code to improve it, or a design discussion occurs so that the design is honed and refined and meets the criteria of the game.

This could be a neat way to replace the less intuitive diminishing returns feature. As long as the spots get filled by proximity to the storehouses, and the farmers choose the move to the closer spots if they are vacant. Lots of stuff to implement for this tho.

Well, the issue with that method is that right now it's very hard to see how many Farmers work on which Field. Maybe this could made more clear by adding 5 gather points on a Field where each Farmer has to do. Like . . . . . . . . X . . . X . . . . . . . . . . . X . . . . . . . . . . . X . . . X . . . . . . . . Basically there are 5 invisible "trees" placed at those "X", and each "tree" has a maximum of one Farmer.

Glad you ask! I'll try to make a short answer even if I could talk so much about this point. ModernGUI is almost a mod that allow you to build the GUI. You have the basic UI reworked, that looks like that : The panels are reworked nicely with generally slightly bigger buttons, and importantly, access to cool stats and data is easy and tones more of them are accessible in stylized tooltips. You can then open the "GUI builder" using the gear icon near the minimap, and start customizing the UI, including adding the top panel for stats. Screencast from 2026-03-10 20-45-05.webm The "advantage mechanics" are disable by default, and can be enabled in the "EcoPanel" menu of this GUI builder. So if you don't want them, you just don't enable anything in there. There are a couple of features like the ability the use "order one" hotkey for certain actions where it isn't implemented in vanilla, as well as the farm buttons discussed above that don't have an option yet, but I doubt you were thinking about that. As a side note, autociv mod also has a panel to display allied stats although it is not very visually appealing.

I am not convinced by the idea that players must protect themselves by downloading and activating third-party tools such as the AutoCiv Mod. I am in favour of clear and strict moderation. Maybe sometimes ... in most cases, a community suffers punishment because bullies are not banned.

thank you very much, so, its a expected , normal fact. not a bug. thank you very much, for help.

You can use the README.md file on your repository to do all this kind of stuff

3 years since the last release (0.26.0) New things for Release 28 Galatians A mix between Britons, Gauls, and Germans. The only Celtic civ with Resource Wagons. Cimbri Similar to the base game's version of the civ, but with standard DE features. Heroes Several more heroes of various civs rounded out and given their features (auras, etc.). This is an ongoing process, which is mostly complete, but there is still work to do. Hope to complete for r29. Hero Scout feature Your starting Scout is slightly stronger than subsequently trained scouts and receives a medallion for ease of selection at the start of the match. Visual: New and Updated technology, unit, and structure portraits. This is an ongoing process, incomplete for r28, but quite far along. The mod uses AI to create new images, utilizing in-game screenshots as base reference for most portraits, with historical research and references to round out the process. This disclaimer is for full transparency. Sample of Unit portraits: Sample of Technology portraits: Sample Structure portraits: The mod includes 8 new main menu backgrounds as well. Sample: This is all in addition to the other DE civs, like Syracusans, Scythians, Xiongnu, Yamatai (Yayoi), Epirotes, Imperial Romans, Zapotecs, and Suebians. Over 2 years of tweaks, changes, and improvements to every aspect of the mod. Sample in-game Screenshots (with some great model work by @nifa): Here's the Github page link for the preview release: https://github.com/JustusAvramenko/delenda_est/releases/tag/Release-0.28.0 DIRECT DOWNLOAD FOR THE LATEST .PYROMOD FILE https://github.com/JustusAvramenko/delenda_est/releases/download/Release-0.28.0/0ad_Delenda_Est_r28.pyromod

Tiny precision, I wasn't trying to blame the process I saw how it works well to generate hardened quality code, the time reviewer spend to read your (sometimes sh!ty) code is never to be taken granted --thanks by the way @Vantha, @phosit, @Stan` for the reviews on my PRs --. But simply the additional time to be spent on trying to get any feature into the game (again the 1-2 order of magnitude larger of work isn't a exaggeration, add to this waiting time) create a very real limit to what you can get done, even over a large time frame. Your suggestions to try to organize the collaboration although nice, can hardly solve this dilemma.

I have a sanction idea that satisfies both sides of the argument but it is a bit difficult to implement technically: Every time JC says a racist comment, his units increase in cost by 20%. When he insults another player, his units loose 20% of attack damage. When he trolls, his units loose 10% max HP. The penalty changes depending on the severity of the offence.

It's a bit more complicated then that however. It's not just about good will. There are things that I can do in a mod that won't be accepted in vanilla, like dropping support for minuscule screens. The time spent on developing anything for vanilla is of a large order of magnitude (often even two) longer then for a mod, due to requirements, process, need of communications.. Reviewer availability is scarce and mismatch with your own motivation and availability creates a even bigger gap between making something in a mod and for vanilla. Some ideas are very often initiated in the mod as a totally buggy POC, and refined over time since you can immediately play test it (or dropped). Which is something you cannot really do with vanilla.

Not precisely related to what I was discussing, but i think that would conflict with HP bars.

Yes, the vanilla training system has many limitations that, in my opinion, are a form of malfunction. I think that frustration can lead users to look for alternatives. In fact, I’ve been working on a mod that always prioritizes empty barracks, and my goal is to have it implemented in the next release (PR #8483). While respecting the “no automation principle”, I believe removing unnecessary limitations is something positive.

But I will say I enjoy the GUI customization screen. Hadn't seen that before. I wish you would focus on adding things like that to the base game. You are indeed talented at this.

Fact check: JC is absent because he is busy with his biological life, not because of a ban.

Point 1: you can visually check that there is a gap. If you want the units to pass through smoothly, your gap should be large enough to be visually obvious Point 2: moderngui is the way to go right now Point 3: every time you mark someone as buddy, their name is written to a list in user.cfg locally. Nobody else knows who you mark as buddy as this is a purely local action and not synced. If you log in on a different computer, you will loose all of your friends. You can implement an enemy list in a similar way but I recommend you to get along with other players instead

Since I don't do I MP consider myself impartial. I'm not aware of the incidents leading up to this apparent ban. I just want to say that a ban sometimes is necessary, and I want to pick up a point which I think is fundamentally wrong: I disagree. WFG is providing access to its platforms for the public, that includes the games. I think there would be no discussion about banning a player who frequently produces racial slurs in games; I consider it a duty of those acting on WFG's behalf to look into complaints about in-game behavior.

Isn't that directly contradicting the message you quoted?

Thats expectable. You are keep capturing the building with 3 strong units. So every point they decay you are recapturing. Your friend could have do the same. In fact, he did with some but I they were common pikemen, so not enough to keep control up. So it’s not a bug or an exploit. He would have kept the buildings if he had used champions. EDIT: @dinuruian i updated the video, it was bad cropped 20260310-1207-35.7648851.mp4

here we go. commands.txt metadata.json

plz tell me how, im using imageapp on manjaro. i will right now.

ok, sure. i captured buildings, outside my teritory root, the buildings did not decayed, i was able to use them, outside my teritory root, ungarrisoned. i checked several times, the buildings didnt started to loose ownership - the things did not decayed. my gamebud recaptured, and, shazamshazam, abracadabra, hocus pocus, under his ownership, buildings started to decay.

It didn't seem right to me for the Kushites in 0 A.D. to lack a chariot unit (other than the Amanirenas hero unit), considering that they're the closest thing to non-Hellenized Egyptians in the game and chariot archers are so iconic for the Nile Valley civilizations. Ergo, I created a "Noble Chariot Archer" unit that the Kushites can train from the Stable after researching Champion Chariots. I'm posting it here on request from someone on Reddit. kushite_chariots.zip

For better or worse, capture mechanic is here to stay. You can capture buildings that are not in your territory, but they will decay to Gaia over time. Unless you leave enough units inside when you capture it.

Why though? It would be 2 developers working against each other. First develops a game mechanic where each farmer has x0.9 of the efficiency of the former. Second just optimize the effect automatically to a minimum making it meaningless for the player. If you like to plan less for your setup, why don't you just suggest to remove the feature that's also not full documented with the numbers? I'd just keep it as it is, but it should be documented with the numbers clearer.

They represent more or less basic units for each civilization. There is also a balance consideration of which units are available.

Agreed How it should be: Units with swords, axes, or other edged weapons (arrow edges don’t count) deal Hack damage. Units with spears, arrows, pikes, and other tipped weapons (maybe some swords can count, but probably not given no thrusting animations) deal Pierce damage. Units with maces, staffs, or blunt weapons of any type deal Crush damage. Resistance balance should be redesigned, with Pierce and Crush resistance being about equal, while Hack remains slightly lower than them.

@andy5995https://gitea.wildfiregames.com/0ad/0ad/wiki/Release28 might also be of interest to you.

https://gitea.wildfiregames.com/0ad/0ad/wiki/PortA27ToR28

https://gitea.wildfiregames.com/0ad/0ad/pulls/8792 =D

Agreed, I personally couldn't adapt, as sound feedbacks are so important. Knowing if something spawning, dying, or sometimes added to selection etc can be crucial. Here is a small mod to make all civilians have the sounds of the previously females citizens. CiviliansFemaleVoices.zip If you would also prefer with the actors changed to all females (for consistency for example) here is one that does that. CiviliansFemaleVoicesAndActor.zip

@trompetin17 how about, so no more changes needed <param name="pattern">([a-z]+)-(bold-|italic-)?(stroke-)?[0-9]{1,3}</param>

Above: Xanthippus of Sparta -- Mercenary general

Ara Pacis or Altar of Peace The Ara Pacis Augustae (Altar of Augustan Peace) is a renowned monument in Rome, commissioned by the Senate in 13 BC and dedicated in 9 BC to honor Emperor Augustus’s return from Spain and Gaul. Located in the Campus Martius, it represents the "Pax Romana" through marble reliefs featuring imperial processions, mythological figures, and fertility scenes, symbolizing peace and prosperity.

while playing 1v1, i captured building, while not being - the building - in my territory root, neither extended by the captured building specificaly, baracks and a siege worshop, playing as athens. plz remove those repugnant , unfair, offending unrealised "advantages", of sustainable ownership without teritory root. thank you.