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I'd really love to make them work like the Einherjar character from AOM.

@wowgetoffyourcellphone Scaled, changed proportions, the columns and the gate. I also added some more deco around the top and closed some supposedly "hidden" downward faces, because I could imagine a cutscene walking up the acropolis with the new camera path possibilities. The Nike sculptures are those from Athena Parthenos. temple_athena_nike.zip

The gaul trumpeters should make sound. I was just scrolling reddit on the trumpeters. Some user says it's somewhat altered and provides 3 other examples: https://open.spotify.com/episode/0eABuyDFXAM09jKd7MWPZh?si=vc-gGIsATEij3GbV-p0Ebg&t=1 https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/cgk1p8xk7z7o https://www.instagram.com/reel/DU4spHMAM1H/?utm_source=ig_web_copy_link&igsh=NTc4MTIwNjQ2YQ==

Improve the AI's personality rather then efficiency. Rather then a balanced army, make it so that they have a certain build in mind to play against you. Mass horseman, siege focused, spearman mania, ranger runner, champion gigachads build type of memes. The goal is to have fun rather then being competative all the time, as well as strategize many weird build to counter their army rather then booming, turtling and aggresive only, might as well introduce a new strategy called countering Sun-Tzu.

This would 100% improve single player experience. We can also make the AI focus on certain units in future campaign scenarios, similar to how other RTS games have done it. Example, you would have 3 AI opponents and each opponent will focus on his own unique army. So, the player will have to adjust to 3 different armies at once and choose wisely which army to defeat first.

https://www.anasynthesis.co.uk/index.php/nike/the-temple-of-athena-nike I'm thinking it would be possible to use the current Athenian temple models as a basis for the Temple of Athena Nike. Athena Nike would be narrower and the columns would be skinnier. It would also have nicer sculptures at the top. I think the structure would be overall about 80-90% the size of the buildable temple and would have the white rooftiles of the Parthenon instead of the brown tiles of the standard temple. It would also have the bronze gates inside of the columns in front of the door.

Yep. I think the Parthenon could use that treatment too. And Greek docks.

Oh my goodness. Awesome.

I really like the idea and would test it out in a (community) mod! May I request to have this and all related messages from 2026-03-23 moved to a proper thread?

While reading through the pinned thread I came to the position that it should be moved to 0 A.D. -> General Discussion. Guess most people will search it there ...

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

Hi @nifa My semester has just started, and the workload is significantly heavier than last term so I’ve been quite busy with that. I’d really appreciate it if you could help me complete this. Thank you so much in advance

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you missed Naturalvegan and GinFrozen

The Crush damage type is a mess because it incorporates three different kinds of attacks: Small blunt objects, e.g. stones Blunt objects with a lot of mass, e.g. maces Anti-Building attacks, e.g. rams This will always lead to weird gameplay implications. E.g. currently Slingers are more effective against "lightly armored" targets as they should be, but they are also somewhat of a siege unit. Macemen behave more like arsonists with high anti-building damage but low damage against human units, especially heavily armored ones. How to fix this? Idea 1: Two "new" damage types: Thump and Crush_new Slingers deal (mostly) Thump damage, and resistance of units is similar to current Crush Resistance. Low for weakly armored units, significantly higher for heavily armored units. Like 1-5-10 for infantry ranged, infantry melee / champion ranged, champion melee. This tries to simulate that the Sling loses comparably a lot of its lethality against armored targets. Crush_new is the damage type Macemen and partially Axemen deal. Crush_new resistance would be fairly low, like 1-2-3. This tries to simulate that maces and to a lesser degree axes have so much kinetic energy that armor is a lot less effective against it compared to how well it protects against e.g. swords or arrows. With two new damage types it would also be easy to incorporate them into Forge techs; Pierce Armor upgrades increase Thump Res, and Hack Armor upgrades increase Crush_new Res. Siege units get their own special damage type, or a bonus against buildings. E.g. a Ram deals Pierce and Crush_new damage and has a huge bonus against buildings. One issue with this idea is that very few units would use the Thump damage type. Mostly just Slingers, and maybe Onagers. Idea 2: Blunt and Piercing Both Slingers and Macemen deal Blunt damage. Blunt Rest is similar to current Crush Resistance. Macemen also deal a little bit of Piercing to simulate them being good against heavily armored targets. Units would have 0 Piercing Res, and buildings a very high one. This would also enable the option to make other units relatively good even against heavily armored targets, e.g. Bolt Shooters. Against, Siege units would either get their own damage type or a damage bonus against buildings. One issue this idea has is it's hard to decide with Forge Armor upgrade should affect Blunt. Idea 3: Crush_new Crush_new Res is something like 1-2-3. Only weapons particularly effective against heavy armor have the Crush_new damage type, e.g. maces. Slingers deal only Pierce damage, but have a bonus damage against ranged units to simulate the Sling being effective against unarmored targets. Siege units deal either Hack, Pierce or Crush_new damage, and have a damage bonus against buildings. This doesn't add any new damage types, but has to heavily work with bonus damage. The issue is if Forge Armor upgrades should affect Crush_new Res, and if so which one.

This is the best scale I have seen so far and the most useful

this scale is okayish as well but it seems a bit too generous. in your scale you assume them a bit better than I do,which is close enough to be still almost same as mine

but if i were a host doing TG i would judge rating like as follows: <1000 as useful as maginot line in WW2 (complete new,as useful as a tiny roadbump) <1200 knows how to get full pop at some point <1300 can get 200 pop at min 17 with a few forge upgrades <1400 mature enough to play the "elite" TG if hes lucky. can get 200 pop in 15 mins and all forge upgrades in 17, but dumb at choosing what fights to take,how to fight in a battle,that (actual fight) sort of thing <1500 has enough IQ to understand what is rushing and how to play with/against it pretty well. has eco good enough to reach 200 pop before min 12 and all forge upgrades in min 15, can be officially considered as a "strong player" in most TG games these days <1600 old enough player to know what is OP,what is gimmicky,what works great in a given specific situation, what is bad asf, and etc. <1700 knows the very rarely known things (e.g what type of army to make against a certain civ, what kind of resources your particular civ takes up a lot, how to heal heroes at giga fast speeds without any temple) and knows how to play atleast one civ perfectly well, in the best way that civ can be played tactically 2000+ right now = vinme,vali,borg,wolf

For ELO to work near to correctly, you need matchmaking system. Otherwise, as guerringuerrin said, this is small community - you will find out your relative skill level by playing with others. Btw, i'd not use ELO numbers, rather Tier 1, Tier 2, Tier 3, etc. Or Level 1,2,3....

My 2 cents: Ratings is not that accurate as it seems until you get 2000 with 1000+ games

Yeah I probably should save some keystrokes but I'll repeat it again here: We are not ready for the influx of new players, on a forum/lobby moderation standpoint. We are not ready for the influx of new players with the current mod situation Regarding licensing we can't link with the steam api directly we would need to make a launcher. We haven't looked yet into the specific of submitting a cross platform game. We need to take what happened other games that did https://ftp.fau.de/fosdem/2020/K.3.201/gamedev_spring_steam.mp4 into account Regarding auto updates, the game is now on the Windows Store https://apps.microsoft.com/detail/9n5vvjr2dz9w?hl=fr-FR&gl=US which i believe supports it. I've merged this conversation with the other one.

So, uploaded DE r28 to mod.io tonight. It just needs to be approved. Thank you to all of the playtesters. There are still several things I could fix and improve for r28, but at some point you gotta move on to the next development cycle. Here's something I'm thinking of doing for Release 29 ( thanks to one of @vladislavbelov's latest pull requests):

Thank you for the hosting suggestions, guys. I went with @Grapjas's idea. Here's the Github page link for the preview release: https://github.com/JustusAvramenko/delenda_est/releases/tag/Release-28-preview And here is the direct link to the download: https://github.com/JustusAvramenko/delenda_est/releases/download/Release-28-preview/0ad_delenda_est_r28.pyromod

Requested a few times was to be able to get vanilla top panel. Now the option is here (live setting in GUI builder).

A new video of Evropa Antiqva on the druids. English subtitles.

I added in a post above a translation of a German article about a semi-academic reconstruction of a sanctuary in Austria with the addition of elements from other sanctuaries. The original article with the references and the bibliography (I scrapped them for readability): https://www.academia.edu/2262344/Roseldorf_rekonstruiert_Ein_keltisches_Heiligtum_entsteht_in_Asparn_Zaya You can find a critical review in English of their work: https://exarc.net/issue-2012-1/aoam/roseldorf-rekonstruiert Some pictures to give you some motivation to read it: