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I was analyzing the commit from @Freagarach for regeneration to make some tooltips on it. Since there was an issue opened by @wowgetoffyourcellphone, and other modders might find it interesting, never know. @Emacz @Lopess It's possible now to give some arbitrary timer to resources for regeneration or decay, given certain states. For example, if you want dead animals to have some kind of decay you can do this: <ResourceSupply> [...] <Change> <Rotting> <!-- Add your new effect, name it however you want --> <Value>-1</Value> <Interval>2000</Interval> <State>dead</State> <!-- Add a state, "dead" or "alive" --> </Rotting> </Change> </ResourceSupply> The other interesting state supported is if the resource is currently being gathered or not (notGathered or gathered). <Spawn> <Value>1</Value> <Interval>2000</Interval> <State>notGathered</State> </Spawn> Above a current implementation in vanilla for Fishs. Below the results : Tooltips I added to ModernGUI for now.

These could be considered: -Artemisia I for Persians (or Carians, if part of the game at some point): naval commander. The one from the battles of Artemisium and Salamis. -Artemisia II for Persians (or Carians): naval strategist and medical researcher. Sister/wife of Mausolus, ordered the construction of his tomb: the Mausoleum at Halicarnassus. -Lǚ Mǔ for Han: rebel leader that played a role in the restoration of the Han dynasty. -Teuta for Illyrians: not a playable faction still (eventually?), but since Gaia's units being more challenging has been mentioned, they could even have Heroes, and Teuta would be compatible with Gaia's piracy units (although I'd name them differently than Gaia, and reserve that for basically abandoned things).

Oh boy I worked for so long on that feature.

That would be awesome! I've been and hope to be adding more wonders and a capture mode would make good use of them.

I do! If you want, I’ll throw together the wonder stuff and you can take a look at it.

I've started adding "Wonders of the World" discreetly to the game. There are several more in DE. I'd like to have a "Wonder of the World" game mode, similar to "Capture the Wonder" or "King of the Hill" in other games, where the script places a gaia-owned Wonder in the center of the map and the player or team who captures it either gains victory (after a designated time) or gains some kind of large benefit. We can retrofit the random map scripts to allow for the mode. In DE, I've kind of done it as a proof of concept on a couple skirmish maps, but I don't have the scripting knowledge to make it into a mode, let alone add it as an option for RMSs.

While developing stevenlauBot, I read a whole lot of 0AD source code. I got a closer look on the behaviour of attacks, which isn't available in user guides / manuals. Advanced players might find this useful. Dodge CC arrows with 5 cps Consider the simple case in which some enemy units are constantly running under a defensive building. The building is angry, and would shoot all arrows evenly in the first quarter of repeat time, i.e. 4s ÷ 4 = 1s for CC. During that 1s, the arrows are shot evenly in 5 batches. As a result, to dodge under CC, you do 5 clicks per second, then you have 3s of free time. For stone tower the repeat time is shorter, so you have to click a little bit faster. In addition, the arrows are shot to the same target until it dies, so you only need to dodge one unit, which is by default the closest one. Reference: https://gitea.wildfiregames.com/0ad/0ad/src/branch/main/binaries/data/mods/public/simulation/components/BuildingAI.js#L292 Snipe a formation by enclosing them When attacking an enemy formation, you can't choose to snipe an arbitrary formation member. The member closest to your unit will always be attacked. You could theoretically surround the enemy formation with snipers, so each sniper will see different "closest member", and achieve certain extent of sniping. To attack you just have to right-click the whole formation and the closest member will be chosen automatically. Reference: https://gitea.wildfiregames.com/0ad/0ad/src/branch/main/binaries/data/mods/public/simulation/components/UnitAI.js#L5407 Shoot farther on turret or mountain Suppose the maximum attack range of a unit (CC, archer, jav etc) is said to be 60m. The actual maximum distance is different when the unit is on mountain or turret. It is calculated using the formula: actual_max_distance = √(max_distance² + height × max_distance × 2) While this formula produces plausible numbers, I don't think it is physically realistic. It is parabolic but it doesn't represent an actual projectile curve. Anyway, what it means is, if you stand higher, you shoot farther (with larger spread though; and spread considers horizontal distance only). If you stand so low, like 30m below enemy, then you can't shoot them at all. The max height (30m) is half the max distance (60m), which is arbitrarily fixed by the 0AD team. All units and buildings are considered equally on ground level (0m) except that outpost is 8m, sentry tower 9m, stone tower 15m, and Han great tower 20m. So stone tower actually shoots as far as √(60² + 15 × 60 × 2) = 73.48m. An archer turreted on wall (roughly 10m tall, different with civs) will shoot at √(60² + 10 × 60 × 2) = 69.28m. What about fortress? Although we see fortress shoots arrows at a height, it is still considered to be on ground level (0m), so the max distance is still 60m. This might have to be fixed. Reference: https://gitea.wildfiregames.com/0ad/0ad/src/branch/main/source/simulation2/components/CCmpRangeManager.cpp#L1387

Honestly, I strongly believe the ModernGUI mod should have its compatibility check permanently enabled, with no option to disable it. This isn’t because of the GUI itself, but due to the autotrainer. There are multiple players exploiting this and receiving credits they haven’t legitimately earned. Same that Delenta Est, Aristeia, even Feldman I think must apply to this mod too. I am not interested in games with this setup. Gray letters to the ones that uses autotrainer pls! So others can make informed decisions.

https://gitea.wildfiregames.com/0ad/0ad/pulls/8422

Ok, I just installed this and have a few questions: -Regarding "new quotes and tips" in the game load screen, it goes away too fast for me, I can't read it. As suggested at some point, "press any key to continue" could be implemented. -I have no Scenarios under Campaigns anymore, like I had with R27. And as suggested at some point, I'd remove the redundant "Continue Campaign" option from the main menu and leave only the one under "Single-player". -I like that civilians are both men are women now, but has there been any discussion regarding gendered roles according to each civilisation? I'd like to see more female priestesses for the Greeks for example.

Thank you, this will be helpful!

It's hard to know what is possible. Gotta dig through components and JavaScript which is not always intuitive for laymen.

I was thinking about this wonder issue some weeks ago. I think all wonders should have different effects, to enhance how each faction plays differently, while keeping it historically accurate. I agree that the "wonder tech" should be merged with the wonder, if that's the only thing they'll do. Also, I don't think the 7 Wonders of the Ancient World have the prominent role they should have, considering the time span of the game: 3 were built before 500 BC, the other 4 being built before 280 BC. The Persians have the Hanging Gardens of Babylon, when they should build the Mausoleum at Halicarnassus. I think they should start with the Gardens, thus working as a civ. bonus that could be captured or destroyed. Worse is the case of the Ptolemies, they have the Pharos (I would add “of Alexandria”, for everyone to get it just in case), yet it’s not even their wonder, but the temple of Horus (a bigger version of the temple of Isis). I would make the Pharos of Alexandria the wonder, and put the Great Pyramid of Giza close to them for capture, kind of another civ. bonus for the player to decide if and when to get it. This would make the wonder play of these 2 civs quite particular (historical ideas first, balance later). Their mentioned civ. bonuses could be called Echoes of Babylon (a known phrase, used in a book title, and a shoot out to the Voices of Babylon AoE campaign) and Sands of Time (another known phrase, the Pyramid is by far the oldest of the 7, the only one remaining, and hints at the race against time for capturing it). The remaining 3 of the 7 Wonders (not belonging to any playable faction) could be included in different game modes: the Temple of Artemis at Ephesus to be “rebuilt” at a specific location to win, while the Statue of Zeus at Olympia, if the map is continental, or the Colossus of Rhodes, if it’s on an island, could be captured to win (the scenario could start with Gaia building the wonder, preferably finishing it before a reasonable time to capture it after it’s finished).

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merged

Thanks for all these resources!

https://docs.wildfiregames.com/entity-docs/r28/components/ @Vantha gave me this link a while ago, but no idea where I was supposed to find it.

I don't find it worths a hotkey place. I just click the call to arms icon at the bottom.

@Atrik I think my repeated second quote from the second paragraph may have caused some confusion, but if I understood correctly, their response was referring to my suggestion of using “order one unit” when building a house with civilians who are already farming. Yes, it doesn’t work when using Shift. It’s only meant to prioritize a single order. If you want to queue multiple houses for construction, the best approach is still the standard method using Shift. You are right. I was wrong about this

When you queue multiple houses using the traditional method (Shift + click), units won’t go and build any pending farm foundations until they finish their previously assigned tasks. Civilians don't actually farm on fields unless building the farm was part of their order queue so I don't know what this discussion is about. They might build the unfinished field, but they won't farm it. They will look for another thing to build OR go idle.

I have found that the "order in front" behaves weirdly. Iirc in conjunction with SHIFT queuing it makes workers ignore all queued task and go back to their current tasks. Very annoying to get housed and when going back to your base seeing that your Civilians are back to farming instead of building the other houses. But wouldn't that cause the workers to go to the old Field first before continuing with their queued tasks? It's referring to the suggestions that "storehouse and farmstead technologies apply only to civilians". That would make Civilians almost from the start of the game better gatherers than Citizen Soldiers, making training them pointless as they slow down your economy. That would lead to either a super defense play where you train only as few military units as you need to survive until you get close to max pop, or play super aggressive and go for an all-in.

I'm thinking a vertical "twirling" animation--which should be very simple--would really sell it.

https://gitea.wildfiregames.com/0ad/0ad/issues/8859

What do you mean? this new info is only for one player as everything would be too much. The old one is still there, you may need to check your settings again.

Thank you for figuring this out.

Instead of making the ships unrealistically smaller, why not make the bodies of water realistically bigger? And then one would zoom out a bit for a proper naval battle.

Thanks!

https://gitea.wildfiregames.com/0ad/0ad/wiki/Modding_Guide And also you have the full 0ad Wiki here: https://gitea.wildfiregames.com/0ad/0ad/wiki

Indeed, I always want to do the opposite, fill fields one by one. And if I send them to a filled farm, they already go to a nearby empty farm (not sure how far away the farms have to be for this to work). What!? How was I supposed to know this... there has to be some indicator for this kind of stuff (maybe there is?). I haven't played this game for too long. I agree that it would be nice for this kind of stuff to be added to the base game. I like this, although if the point filled first are the ones closer to the dropsite, not to add micro. They should. Actually, I'd like for unit abilities to be added, and them making a sound could have a temporal aura effect (maybe increased damage stats for now, but more realistically enemy morale decrease if this is added). I'd like to see day and night, seasons, weather, and other natural phenomena, eventually. In line with what was said before, I think they meant that they just become inefficient, since storehouse and farmstead techs would apply only to civilians. I think the idea is interesting (considering specialisation of trades), but faction considerations should be taken into account, since not everyone had the same dynamics between civilian and soldier. This could be solved by fine tuning which civilian, citizen-soldier and soldier units each faction has access to (and at which cost). For example, around the timespan of the game, Greeks and Romans would indeed mostly progress from civil militias to professional soldiers (that would find mercenary service more profitable than farming), but other factions like the early Germanics wouldn't make this shift in the same scale, and their armies (and male civilians) would mostly consist of farmer warriors even towards the end of the period (only later being more influenced by the Roman ways). All this would influence how the different factions should be played.

Perhaps in "Birdseye View", the structure portraits can show up like this for a true strategic overview. Almost as if the whole screen becomes a kind of huge minimap or strategic map. Portraits at 64x64 px and with a 2 px stroke around them of player color (on the left you see white for gaia player color) and a 1 px black stroke around that. I would also suggest the status bars show up by default too and that we put a button by the minimap (in addition to the hotkey) to toggle this. We could possibly go further by adding icons for other things, like berries and huntables, perhaps at a smaller size (48x48?). Huntables genericized to a meat icon instead of their individual icons (deer, etc.).

I think I may have found the issue, the new version of the game seems to have trouble running Vulkan rendering, I disabled it and enabled OpenGL, restarted the game a few times, enabled Delenda, no issues, disabled it, no issues. Will keep you guys informed, thank you guys. @Stan`@guerringuerrin@Deicide4u@Obelix

By the time you complete your wonder, wouldn't you have already researched almost all technologies?

That is a question about faction identity. Currently, Persians have 220 population and each unit has as much power the average population of any faction. So the solution would be simple: make Persian units to be in the end less valuable per unit than those of other factions. But honestly, I feel that feels off topic to me. I hope the community can support creative ideas to give each faction its own style and then fix balance afterwards.

I use it regularly. I've changed hotkeys so z is select idle, x is select wounded, c is call to arms, and v is capture building. All my favorite hotkeys there on the bottom left of the keyboard.

While reading this thread I remembered the article on Hotkeys in the Wildfire Games Gitea wiki. But I'm not sure it is up-to-date.