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I’ve been happily testing modernGUI for R28, and this feature in particular is for me a huge improvement to the gameplay. Previously (or currently in vanilla R28), units were re-sorted based on their production age. And as someone who likes to use freehand formations in combat, I’ve lost countless units when, while retreating into a freely drawn U-shape around the enemy's army, some units ran straight across enemy fire to the other side of the arc instead of taking the logically shortest route to the next position into the drawn formation. Plus, the movements look much more natural now. Great work. I'd love to see this on R29

Enhancement to freehand formations: units now actually order themselves by distance, and don't cross each other's paths. Nice when microing ranged cavs. Before : After : Committed for integration in R29 too, as part of https://gitea.wildfiregames.com/0ad/0ad/pulls/8525 (use common sorting functions).

I've seen several posts that suggest that the current Petra is too difficult, after my changes to its behaviour. My question is, should I make new PRs to nerf it Also what about creating more granular difficulty levels? For example we can lower the very easy to even lower and add some more extreme levels. Currently the only cheat of Petra is in terms of eco. We can give the extreme levels other cheats such as bonus to atk, unit hp, building hp, unit movement speed, training time discount, projectile accuracy, armour, price discount...

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Ah my bad It's an A27 mod signed for R28 --' Shouldn't do too much when I'm tired EDIT: Fixed.

OK I played 1v3 against very hard AI and it was easy for me. Case closed. metadata.jsoncommands.txt

I was wondering literally today why they overlap in the first place! this will be nice to have @Atrik I believe you used the wrong link for the pull request

asia.xmlasia.pmp This map has 1024x1024 size. The first step was to add rivers correctly without geo-reference. I used this guide: Rivers are intentionally not crossable to make the map strategically more captivating so there are some bridges that are strategically pivotal. For biome assignment I started from a coarse reference map: and then I refined it zone by zone with Koppen-Geiger classification: https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Koppen-Geiger_Map_v2_Asia_1991–2020.svg For fauna and flora, I used Claude AI as a lookup tool: I sent screenshots of the entities available in the game and asked it to match them to each biome and region. The results below reflect that process, with occasional liberties where the asset library has no close equivalent. For more infos: https://github.com/Baelish03/0ad-maps/blob/main/docs/Asia.md I attach .xml and .pmp files here and I will update mods on mod.io as soon as possible

Only 35 Issues themed AI open on Gitea: https://gitea.wildfiregames.com/0ad/0ad/issues?type=all&state=open&labels=20

Would be very nice to list all the things to improve so we can keep working on the AI. There are also some AI mods that seem to have good improvements.

Cause it doesn't change anything until it's live. if life gets in the way or it is never finished, then it's as good as not being done. Initial work on that started years ago...

@Perzival12 @Stan`, The packaging of this mod, currently available from R28 downloader has issues. First the mod.json still has a dependency to 0AD 0.27.0. "dependencies": ["0ad=0.27.0"] After changing that and reloading the game, the game just crash. Didn't investigate further, but it's important to note that this could be a problem for users that don't know how to disable mods outside of the mod setting menu, as they will feel the game is now rendered useless. They might even uninstall-reinstall, and I think in that case the mod folder persist, which would make them think the game itself is crashing.

1984 "big brother" was actually Petra all along

Even that one cheat is enough, when combined with all-seeing eye of the AI. We don't need more. I am actually fine with the difficulty of AI. Medium AI should play like a half-competent player, that's the point. It's just a fair challenge without any bonuses. People just got used to weak AI in the past releases, so they will have to adjust their strategy. Proper booming is now a hard requirement to beating the Medium AI, and players need to learn how to do that. It should be nearly impossible to beat the AI 1vs2, otherwise the AI is very weak. Honestly, it's boring to always curb-stomp the AI without a challenge. People need good introduction to the meta, and your changes to the AI achieve that well.

No, medium AI is fine. It's about the level a somewhat competent player can beat consistently after 1-3 tries. AI can be made easier by decreasing how many units they produce (e.g. Very Easy AI stops producing units when it hits 1/4 of max population), and only advancing to Town Phase / City Phase when the majority of human player clicked on the update. Giving units / buildings bonuses to their combat stats is a terrible idea. It makes it virtually impossible to learn the game. You cannot learn to gauge the strength of your opponent's army, and learn how strong different unit classes are if AI units "behave" differently. Discounts seem pointless when you already have an eco bonus. The only one that looks acceptable is training time discount.

To be honest before trying to make Civs unique the focus should be on making units more "unique". If an army of Spearmen, Archers and Cavalry Swordsmen, an army of Pikemen, Slingers and Cavalry Javeleers and an army of Swordsmen, Javeleers and Cavalry Archers would be gameplay-wise noticeable different from each other making Civs feel more unique would be a lot easier. Temple also needs a rework. Remove all techs aside from maybe Living Conditions, and create a bunch more interesting ones, like bigger healing radius for Temples, increased RoF around Temples, several techs giving giving Healers different kind of auras and so on. Then each Civ gets only a few of them. Healers themselves could also be made more unique. Like a Surgeons heals idle units / units in combat with 5 / 1 effectiveness, Doctors 4 / 2, Priests and Druids 3 / 3.

Updated Republican Romans hero roster^ New addition: Gracchi Brothers.

The phab diff says changes planned, so I assume nothing was fixed. If it's still an issue please create a ticket on gitea and feel free to assign me, so I can look into it once I have time.

Looks nice I could open it with blender 4.5 LTS and export the .dae. Tells me there might be data loss, but so far it worked fine. I put together the files for a mod and attached it. Can be found in the scenario editor -> actors -> olive_new. So far the 4 meshes are replications, but you can easily substitute them to test however you like. There is also a blank alpha decal_texture, in case you want to add a decal on the ground. The polycount might be a little high, since each of your branches has 12 tris. On the other hand, this reduces alpha texture display. It's best to compare it to the existing trees, their polycount can be seen in atlas. As long as it doesn't go much higher, it should be fine. If you want, you could gently bake ambient occlusion on the diffuse. For the bark the UV looks a little stretched. You can also use an existing image texture for it, as long as it is licence compatible (preferably CC0), something like this: https://download.blender.org/archive/textures/bark/ Have fun! olive_tree.zip

Hi, awesome work!! I love the foliage, it looks really nice :) I also like your workflow, offers more possibilities than handpainting like some of the old models. 0 A.D. uses .dae files, which is not supported by blender since version 5 anymore. I will figure it how to exports your models and make a mod for it, so we can see how it looks ingame. Until then, some things that came to my mind on a first glance: 1. Faces are shown in 0 A.D. only from one side. By activating backface culling or face orientation in the top right corner in the viewport you can see which face would be seen from each perspective. If you want to show faces from both side, you'd have to duplicate it, move it a little and flip the normal (Alt-N). 2. Everything should use just one texture. So ideally the tree trunk should be somewhere on the foliage texture too. 3. All meshes in 0 A.D. usually expand a little below ground for uneven terrain. I couldn't reproduce the problem with the normals, looks fine on my pc. For an olive orchard would be cool to display some black olives (the fruits) on it, so the player can harvest them similar to the berry bushes. But that's a gameplay decision I'll leave to someone else :D