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""A variant civilization is a type of civilization in Age of Empires IV introduced in The Sultans Ascend. Each variant civilization offers new unique ways to play one of the classic civilizations while still keeping with that civilization's overall themes and aesthetics. In most cases, a variant civilization uses their parent civilization's architecture, technologies, buildings (including landmarks), units, and audio-design, with a few exceptions where their unique concepts come into play."" https://ageofempires.fandom.com/wiki/Variant_civilization The only thing that can keep me coming back to this place is simply seeing how ideas blossom. Well all nonsense aside let's talk about "Not my new" idea because it's not new, I've come up with this about three or four times before. My inspiration was Rome total war 2 where you could select their factions to start the campaign mode obviously when I raised that my idea was very very green. What happens is that now one of our biggest competitors managed to implement it better than I could have expected. I was seeing that the new version of AoE IV has this idea well implemented. Basically it is a modification of the base civilization. Adapting it to a hero or a chronological stage, we could talk about dynasties. That, for example, with Republican Rome we could have: Julia Gens: Caesar + Augustus + Marius Cornelia Gens or Optimates: Pompey,Sulla...etc We could also have a pre-roman: Kingdome of Rome. With Macedonia we could have the Alexandrian Empire and then the Antigonid Kingdom. With Gauls, we could have several Gallic tribes and we could also include the Eastern Gauls. With the Iberians some things would be quite good for us because we could separate the Iberians into variants. I was telling Stanislao that I would like to include more Italian or Italianic factions, Samnites, Italiotes and some ancient version of Rome. With the sub-factions it won't be so difficult to put so many Greek factions in one package. It occurs to me or I imagine that the folder in the simulation area could be inside the faction folder plain and simple with the name variant. In the mods we would avoid silly debates about which part of the faction we should use as when we were discussing the Byzantine faction for example which period would be excellent to use. If you think about it, Carthage could have its army of mercenaries, a civilization in style like Hannibal Barca would have. And another based in Africa. and in sicily. The Persians could have several versions of the army they had with various types of units. Egypt could have Cleopatra's Romanized army.And the well-romanized armies of Cleopatra's ancestors. The Seleucids they would have would be several of their provinces that later separated, such as the Pontus , Greco Bactrian(?). China could have several armies that were composed of regions and factions. The combinations can be unlimited and this would also give us the advantage of giving bonus to a single faction just by choosing the variant. The variants would be versions of a faction. The base variant could be faction 1.0 then 1.2 then 1.3. The base would be the original one from Wildfiregames. So for example 1.2 would be the armies of the Gallic Wars.(Caesar or Caesarian Army). With Sparta we could already have a Macedonian phalanx version of the Spartan army. I already know that they are implementing reforms in the game. I'm going to put the video that inspired me, it's in Spanish.

The idea of Saturnalia falling on the 25th doesn't quite match with when Christmas was initially established. A better explanation comes from an estimate that Jesus died on the 25th of March. Since he was important, they assumed that he was conceived on that day, leading to his birth nine months later. Biblical Scholar Dan McClellan offers basically the same explanation if you want to hear it from a PhD.

It might be cool if rams gained speed with garrisoned units. The more people pushing the ram, the faster it should go right? I don't think any of the rams were motorized back then

Latest version of the game includes differentiation for cataphracts and chariots, but I agree it does not go far enough. We need trample component and secondary attacks.

I find 0ad's soundtracks fantastic too. It's very hard to choose favourites, but I'd put these as my top three: 3. Peaks of Atlas 2. Cisalpine Gaul 1. Honor Bound (the main theme)

Fair, yet I find the idea of him projecting trauma onto Spartans to be problematic. Don't get me wrong; the educational system was harsh and did cause suffering, but the extent to which this led to psychological trauma is uncertain, and much of his arguments for this hinge on extreme views of child mortality, participation within the crypteia (and killing a helot being a must to become a Spartan), and extensive practise of pederasty. That is a tricky question to really say, but I would argue that they were about at the same level of other servile classes like Athenian slaves. Certainly the fact that they could and did at times rise from that class is good, but the fact that they were systematically attacked shows other problems. The fact of the matter is that like other downtrodden social classes, their voices and presence were always in the background of history, and I am perfectly okay with at my level of knowledge having a fairly agnostic view on the level of suffering they did or did not enjoy. What irked me with the article however, was this idea that all boys had to kill helots as a sort of rite of passage into manhood. Hodkinson rightly notes that the skills of the crypteia would give would have little battlefield utility, and rather, it would seem to be a way of finding the best of what could make up the future Spartan leadership as they worked with minimal instruction, acting on their own initiative.

A little bit of that, what happens is that this will serve to have a much greater number of small variations of the same faction. We could have a Rome that has a civil war theme , like Sulla, Caesar and Marius, another that has a triumvirate Crssus, Pompey and Caesar, another that is the second triumvirate Lepidus, Anthony , Octavian, a Roma that is from the time of the Macedonic Wars, the Rome of the time of Spartacus, the Rome before the Punic War, the Rome before the Punic War(Roman Hoplites).

At least it's not pornographic. We lasted these women as best we could but we cannot pretend that antiquity had Judeo-Christian values from the Middle Ages or Islamic. It's actually good to see the comparison of how things changed. The game is build over realistic issues and the fact two the game is done for educational reasons. We are not trying to pervert anyone or be liberal with other people's clothing.

With Giving more pop cost it would not change anything before you reach pop max anyway,.. But later, this would prevent the spam of those at late game as they virtually cost far less than regular units since you don't lose/replace them (hit and run) . Cavalry should be meant to be used as some skirmisher forces that will operate beside , sneaky and mobile.. But now, it just operates as the main component of a stupid spam game. The cav champs are so good that they don't even bother to avoid spearmen Just like Rams ability to kill humans was removed for the sake of strategy , cavalry cannot be plain and simply just better than regular units

It's time to present a blender project I've been working on lately, which is a set of buildings that make up a roman castrum. Contubernium (Barracks) The contubernium consisted of 10 units of 8 soldiers and one centurio, I had to cut it down to 6 stalls, so that it wouldn't be way too long. Horreum (warehouse/storehouse) Horrea were special warehouse to hold mostly grain. The floor was elevated to keep it dry. The walls needed to be strong to withstand the pressure from the filling. Principia (Main Building) The Principia was the main building, were the administration was situated and the standards (Aedes) and valuables (Aerarium) were kept. The big basilica was used for gatherings of the troops. Gate (Porta) Walls (short with stairs, medium, long, curved) It's a work in progress, so still some things are missing, especially (normal, spec) texture improvements and more props. Climbing plants like ivy would look good on it. Some parts still look a bit empty, especially the roof parts. The Gate animation is still missing. Possible buildings to add could be: Praetorium Porta praetoria (Bigger and fancier gate) Wall towers Calvary barracks I'm gonna add references later. I know that for now there might not be much use for it, maybe for some mod or scenario. To make it constructable ingame a js wallplacer helper would be helpful. Anyway, it was fun and I learned some more blender and gimp stuff I guess. Let me know what you think:) castrum-0.27.0.zip

If someone want to help me, please reply in this chat: I want to share files here or on github, because I have problems with texture colors

Y'all act like this hasn't been solved in like 100 other games, the most applicable being AOE2, which has non-random fire and does not "break" the game.

We are a student team so we work in the same school . Yes we created a Discord server to talk about the project and sending stuff on it, it's more simple for us. We also created a Github to commit the changes dircetly to gain efficiency !

Interesting article about Age of Empire original technology, based on Assembly: https://www.pcgamer.com/age-of-empires-developer-confirms-the-game-is-mostly-written-in-low-level-assembly-code-because-we-could-scroll-the-screen-and-fill-it-with-sprites-as-fast-or-faster-than-competitors-like-starcraft-even-though-we-had-twice-as-many-pixels/ This isn't quite on those lines, but a redditor recently noted that Chris Sawyer wrote Rollercoaster Tycoon 1 and 2 in Assembly language, and apparently Age of Empires was the same: "AoE is written in Assembly: is this actually TRUE?!" It's important to note that this wasn't uncommon back in the day, though it would still be pretty remarkable if an entire game was hard-coded this way. Assembly language, to be as brief as possible, is any low-level coding language that communicates more directly with a computer's architecture than high-level languages like C++. The question about whether Age of Empires was coded in Assembly language hit gold in the replies thanks to Matt Pritchard, one of the founding members of Ensemble Studios, who was in charge of graphics and optimisation on the early games, and on the later HD / DE editions the coding lead. "I guess I can clarify this, since I wrote all the assembly code used in Age of Empires and Age of Kings, along with many other parts of those games," says Pritchard. "There were about ~13,000 lines of x86 32-bit assembly code written in total." [...] The Assembly code remained in use even by the time of Age of Kings: HD edition (a 32-bit game), but Pritchard "re-wrote the assembly functions into C++ for both Definitive Editions, as they are 64-bit programs and inline assembly was never supported by the 64-bit C++ compiler, and the vastly improved register sets and compiler optimizations made it unnecessary. Additionally, sprite drawing in the definitive editions is multi-threaded, and will use up to 4 cores for that task alone."

Interesting video about the current issues with Total War games and the players community reaction to it

0 A.D. is not the best name you can pick for a game, there is other similar games with easy searchable names like age of empires, age of mythology, Civilization VI and good for their seo, i think it's one of the reason why the game is not that popular is that it's name is not easy for new comers why 0 A.D. had to be with this name? this is disadvantageous for a game to names that short and meaningless, i didn't know that this is strategic game until i tried it

I would prefer the Tesseraconteres being a ship rather than a tech. But of course, there isn't even a unique 3d model for it. (A big new Tesseraconteres model, maybe as a catamaran, would be so cool, though)

Patch for Naval Overhaul https://code.wildfiregames.com/D5213 Patch requires the latest SVN development version of the game in order to test.

Nah, in fact, I'd add Agesilaus II and give him a cavalry bonus. As others have said, we could remove one or more of the standard Stable techs to effectively nerf the Spartan cavalry. The Market is an important structure besides trading. I'd just remove some Market techs and then give the current Macedonian storehouse bonus to Sparta instead (and make up something new for the Macks). As discussed, I'm no longer against this. Mehh, again, we can just make their Stone Defense Tower upgrade more expensive or something. The towers fill an important role in the overall meta. Yes. Yet, Helots were used many times in skirmishing roles. Yes. Except I'd maybe suggest they train from the Storehouse and Granary. Yes. Yes.

Thanks Stan, you're a life saver! It was the multiple materials problem. I removed all of them because I already have the png texture and now that error is gone. Thank you all for your help!

In another thread I produced evidence that Sparta has a wooden theater in Classical times. It would be interesting to still allow Sparta a Theater, but make it wooden, cost wood, and be weaker.

Giving shields to the Samurai cavalry is a bit ugly

Is our nannybot still on? Haven't seen it in action for a long time.

Hi, thanks wowgetoffyourcellphone. Sorry, I guess I was looking for some additional equipment that wackyserious created more recently, but I suspect they might not have found their way into the game. If you don't mind me asking, I'm not very familiar with how these units are put together: Are there xml files which detail which meshes need to be assembled to comprise each unit? Sorry to n00b it up, but thanks for your help.

My previous comment got lost somewhere... As for the topic, I still hope that the developers will update the music archive and add new soundtracks. And please add the album cover!!!

Maybe the food regeneration could buffed to be as fast as 1 fishing boat gathering speed, but you can still make the trade-off to fish intensively with more boats.

I was under the impression we wanted to reduce the capture-delete mechanic.

I can get used to manually choosing whichever mode no matter what the default is. The only case where I think it matters is for capturing low value things like houses. If you are attacking someone and if for whatever reason your best way to damage them is capturing and deleting buildings, then capture is the better default as multiple buildings can be captured in parallel.

Also I feel like many modern games would just call what we have a live service and charge a fee for each update.

games are not open source and only maintained by volunteers. it's an impossible comparison.

Posting just to add that which building have their own territory roots and which do not should be explicit. Gaia buildings are way more useful if they have roots...

Possible/probable future civs which will have Storage Carts: Cimbri, Scythians, Xiongnu

Yes, something like that is sorely needed. Endgames are a PITA sometimes, for no reason. Also, there should be an option on the minimap to show only enemies (buildings and units).

We can eventually have bigger or more luxurious versions of houses for the civs, but as far as gameplay goes having 2 different houses isn't very cool or interesting unless it's something special like the Carth houses. I can envision having Insulae for a hypothetical Roman Empire civ in the future.

I have components for that but they aren't fully finished yet. although they're enough if you want to make it for players only use it. PS: in my WIP mod food resources are devided. so, you need few customizations to use it with the public mod. edit: you also need the custom unit ai for the purpose of the units break for launch don't break the cammands' series. MeatSupplies.js VeganSupplies.js WaterSupplies.js UnitAI.js

A technology for unique formations? I've always wandered what's the point of unique formations that some civs offer. In reality, they consisted in a material advantage for melee troops during fights. In game, they are more or less completely useless. Would be viable to offer some buffs with their utilization (thought the research of a related technology)? E.g., roman testudo was designed to offer more cover against ranged troops, so it could be reflected easily in game with a buff on ranged defense. I find would be very cool if the historical and tactical revolution such formations brought to the field was represented in game.

The big economic problem of 0a.d is that you can obtain thousands of resources without having expand your city. You can literally reach 300 pop with all the upgrades without needing to expand a single inch. A simple solution without the need for new developments would be to change the standard cost of units, add metal to all infantry and cavalry units, except slinger which already has its stone cost. It would also be necessary to reduce the game's initial mines to perhaps 1000 resources for metal and stone. I think that this way the player really needs to expand his territory and look for new game alternatives. Of course, this is just a vague idea, it would need to be worked on better.

It´s a shame that there are no archaeological finds of these helmets and armor.

From AOE3:

https://twitter.com/XavierMT3/status/1667807403524648960 Kofun era terracottas.

I've been debating for a bit whether or not to do my "every five years post" about renaming the Sword Champion, and I finally decided to do it. I still believe that they should be labeled as Silver Shields. The corps has been listed as being 10,000 men strong and only 5000 were present at Daphne, with another 5000 royal guard units appearing "in the roman style." It has been hypothesized by period and modern historians that these 5000 swordsmen were in reality the other half of the Silver Shields, retrained into Thorakites to shown the future progression of the Seleucid army, but I am aware that this point is debated amongst this community. While I still believe that they should be called Argyraspides Thorakites, I will settle for at least removing the "Romanized" moniker. This has been a term used by historians to describe a number of late antiquity swords units, because the concept was make famous by Rome, but some historians say the transition to swords in many armies could be influenced by Gallic and Galatian forces, which were common mercenaries and proved effective in this time period, and that warfare was shifting from a rigid formation based affair into a looser more flexible style. An alternate name if the Silver Shield title is not well-liked could be Agema Thorakites, or just Thorakites.

The xiongnu storehouse crashes the game on the most recent release candidate for a27 (not sure about svn since I can't yet build). It is very reproducible and happens only on placement. Edit: same with the house. Both my changes and terra-magna working version have this crash.

nomads.zip @wowgetoffyourcellphone @borg- @chrstgtr I made some major gameplay revisions for the two nomadic civilizations in terra magna, Scythians and Xiongnu. Horses can't build buildings must be in own territory nomadic civ bonus where buildings decay 5x slower. Ovoos are a weak but cheap territory root that may be built in neutral territory, available p1. Stone upgrades are back in the storehouse. Scythian women promote to maiden infantry. Maiden cavalry are available from the temple in p2 and are a fast, weak, high damage raiding unit. Skilurius has a cavalry discount and can directly train maiden cavalry. Scythians have p2 access CS javelin infantry and in p3 unlock champion spear infantry using a tech.(with a new mixin merc_inf_champ) xiongnu start with axemen and access swordcav and spearmen in p2. xiongnu yurts can upgrade to royal yurts in p2 which train 3 warlords for each royal yurt. warlords start as high damage, vulnerable axemen that can weopon switch to a cavalry archer which is only slighly slower. Royal yurt limit of 5 means total of 15 possible warlords warlords cost extra food and metal and provide a damage and speed aura for surrounding units Xiongnu can access 'Han diplomacy' from the CC in p2, which allows the construction of the han embassy (academy). In p2, the embassy can train mercenary crossbows. in p3, the technology unlocks catapults and medium warships, as well as allowing champion chariots and spear infantry from the embassy. I think this is a great framework from where we can proceed, but a few things are still needed: Xiongnu 'heavy cavalry' spearcav champ (use icon from warlord, which was a spearcav) Warlord needs a new icon featuring an axe. Royal yurt = bigger yurt with more bling. some really basic ships for xiongnu/scythians. I think even some raft style vessels will suffice, but they have to have some navy. here, I toyed with the concept of a 'mercenary' chinese ship for the xiongnu. The stable needs some structure: some small yurt attached, or a shed-like structure. For the scythians, split the corral from the stable (my opinion) Ideally, they should also have some sort of siege workshop and dock. lastly, figure out what is going on with technologies and civ bonuses. You will see that there are a lot of duplicates in the civ bonuses part of civ overview. I deleted these, but they remain :l I also deleted the special yurt based phase up for xiongnu since it is OP, but this also remains unfazed.

I use call to arms a lot; I changed its hotkey to c, and made z select idle and x select wounded so all three are in easy reach. I should use attack move more.

Tenia entendido que el poema de Roldan se basó en la invasión carolingia las ciudades aragonesas , no recuerdo bien que ciudad al final la retaguardia del ejercito terminó siendo emboscada por tribus vascas y todos perecieron . Sabes algo de eso ?

I will be grateful to you if you make The Great Sassanid Empire It's a popular civilization and you have many iranian(persian) fans here so it would be great to have their medieval civilization and empire. It's a win win situation plssss

Hola, pronto habrá una actualización de alpha 27, una vez que se lance.