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This map is designed to be played in singleplayer/2 players. VI century b.C., Sparta and Argo, are competing for control of the Peloponnese. The other faction starts as neutral, but you can sign alliances by paying the right amount. The map is designed to enjoy hoplite battles and strategy, putting a side the building part of the game (the map is quite full of cities/minor settlement: is there Corinth, Olympia, Messene, Mantinea and various villages). I still have to manage some issues with uploading the map here, but for now I want some comments on it. Let me know.

Hi, When I set up the lobbybots, I get the following errors: 2025-07-23T15:14:25+0200 ERROR No appropriate login method. 2025-07-23T15:14:25+0200 ERROR Can't log in. Aborting reconnects. I’ve checked my ejabberd config and confirmed the user credentials are correct, but the bot still fails to log in. Could someone please advise how to fix this issue? Thanks in advance! Best regards, LogicXPlaysYT

Citizen soldiers (CS) are currently good for only two things. One of them is collecting resources other than food. The other is dying before becoming good at combat. Not a lot of your CS survive until the Elite rank, when they truly excel, both at fighting and at fashion. Of course, you can train them at the Barracks and Stables. But, those structures can hold just 10 units, and often it's better to just let your CS gather resources. Also, you can't exactly tell which rank your CS reached while in the buildings. So, how can we train them quicker? One way is to make "Rigorous Training" an aura around your Barracks and Stables. This aura will provide faster training to CS, but only if they are idle. Another idea is to dedicate special "Training Grounds" areas, either buildable by females and CS or provided scattered around the map as neutral structures. This way, we can award players that use these units primarly for map control and combat.

In general the instructions in https://github.com/0ad/lobby-bots should still work, although I haven't set up a multiplayer lobby using them in quite a while as using https://github.com/0ad/lobby-infrastructure/ is just much more comfortable. Regarding your specific error, I can only guess based on the limited information you provided, but somebody had the same problem in the past using SleekXMPP (the predecessor of Slixmpp currently used by the bots): https://github.com/fritzy/SleekXMPP/issues/250. So my guess is you try to connect without TLS encryption, which Slixmpp doesn't allow with PLAIN authentication out of the box.

nice, thanks @ffm2! There are certainly meta heroes, but honestly there's a pretty good mix here.

Correct. It's basic rank spearman, just a different model. Spears are slower than javs, though. Marian Reforms is powerful, but it's mostly a flavor tech. You can build multiple Army camps near your opponent's territory and train swordsmen that are almost as good as Marian Legionaries.

Who can solve this ?

That story reminded me this Credits again for https://www.instagram.com/0ad_memes_eae/?hl=es-la

@Boudica Hahaha, I knew one of those was much longer and actually a combination of three names. how could I have missed it!? In the end, this crossword was much more difficult and creative than I expected. Putting aside the controversial -but fun- technique used for some players in 0 A.D., the secret message is a true story and an activity we should all keep doing until the end. And I truly love it, so I’ll keep doing it !

Now for something a little more difficult. If you cross out words that are (parts of) JC's smurf account names, you'll get his life philosophy.

For our math friends: