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Implementing a feature based on slavery could make a lot of differences. Firstly, it would be much more realistic and historical. Secondly, it would bring more differences between civilisations because they didn't practice slavery in the same way. Thirdly, slaves could be much more efficient at harvesting resources. The citizen soldier would therefore be more versatile and more defensive.

I want you to picture yourself 2000 years ago, you are chopping wood in the forest, and an enmey soldiers comes up to you. What do you do? A keep chopping wood B run and cry for help C piss your pants D fight back E ALL of the above

He made an amazing job at updating the mod to the current A27 version of the main game and fix main compatibility errors. Of course, there's also the official page on Mod.io for the a26 version that other great contributors have made available: https://mod.io/g/0ad/m/millenniumad#discussion Hopefully I will be also able to assist Lopess and improve the mod in the future

Maybe I am wrong, but basically the "two-gendered citizen" mod (in A26) was getting quite close (women and men as standard citizens able to gather resources, but had poor fighting abilities). The only change instead of just depicting male and female citizen with the same gather rates (high for food, low for everything else), would be to determine a gather rate for male citizen and a different one for female, right? The only difficulty is now to allow creating intentionally a number of males citizen with a certain gather efficiency and female citizen with a different rate. IIRC the "two-gendered citizen" mod just arbitrarily added two different avatars with the same properties.

I worked on 8 colors for the players. Background colors are reserved colors from the original game. I took the chart background, the font halo, trees and terrains. To get one color for each I blurred the terrain. To get 8 new player colors I used some approach with CIELAB which should be better than HSV. CIECAM02 should be even better. In this python script a color distance is calculated. One can compare the numerical value from player vs. background and then player vs. player. Since this is also subjective the colors are then plotted. On this plot one can see and compare if this colors look good and are distinguishable next to each other. These are the colors I arrived at: [40, 80, 160], [180, 59, 73], [227, 119, 194], [200, 189, 16], [148, 0, 235], [255, 127, 14], [23, 190, 207], [115, 0, 84] This topic is very important for silhouettes in the forest. But there was also a incident where 2 players captured my cc, the capture bar seemed still over 50% but one of the players had a similar color to mine so I actually missed the 50% mark. I do NOT accept this loss. It was a fault of the game. color_by_distance.py

A useful document: https://hal.science/hal-03117028v1/file/Proposition d'inscription Nisa TURKMENISTAN.pdf This is for adding the Fortress of Nisa to the UNESCO.

Buenos días o tardes; -Aquí la actualización de los Arsácidas(Parthians) (Se describe el imperio ,como uno extremadamente rico, con hermosas ciudades, y quiero reflejar eso) -Me inspiro en las ciudades fundadas por ellos (Nissa, Ctesifonte, Hatra...), no en las conquistadas, así parecen más únicas, originales y auténticas. -También @Lopess y yo pensamos en un bonus o tecnología especial, que los edificios tuvieran dos fases; Fase 1 o "nómada" con yurtas. fase 2 o “sedentaria” con construcciones de piedra. -Cuando construyes cada edificio, aparece como una yurta, y cuando eliges uno, pagas un extra, y ese edificio específico cambia (cambia su aspecto al de piedra,ya no se puede desmontar y trasladar,se vuelve más fuerte, tiene más área cultural, genera más población, más rango de visión, con algunas tecnologías más... etc.) (Para reflejar su cultura seminómada...y darle una jugabilidad interesante) -¿Qué opinan? Disculpen las molestias*

Anyone else miss the Millennium AD mod?

we are working on that in historical too. Maybe share on server how some of the civs practice it differently?

Honestly, it was probably one of the clumsiest and most immature changes ever made. Currently it is a hidden feature most new players won't see and understand. The information is buried in the manual and the list of hotkeys. Clearly, it should have a button in the UI. Don't forget that you're in a bubble and that other people don't follow all your discussions all the time.

Why? If this is not just an opinion you wanted to share with us, but an argument, you have to convince others that this is true. I mean, the current system makes sense logically; every man that can work as a lumberjack or miner can also be called to fight in war. Those conscripts would not be the best fighters, but they would be plentiful. Professional fighters on the other hand cost lots of money, but are a lot stronger. Those would be mercenaries and nobility/bodyguards/temple guards. Ingame, the second category is represented by champs. Ok, that was my cent about the logic part... but how about gameplay? In his original post, @Deicide4u mentioned that the cs concept was which I interpreted as the first argument, even though it is (merely?) an argument of personal opinion. I am not sure how many people that come from AoE have this opinion (I myself dont), but if you like the way AoE did it, why not stay in AoE? (And I dont mean to tell you to leave, we all love to have more people here, but sometimes certain games just arent made for certain people). It was continued on with which is presented as a desirable goal without argumentation, while simultaneously already being the case; champs and mercs are fighting units, cs are just poor citizens you told to get a sword and fight in your war. As a third point, we have the feeling that 0ad starts too quick; and this point, I actually agree with, but its just a design choice/preference issue. Many players love the fact that a 1v1 round of 0ad only takes between 5 and 20 minutes. (while a 1v1 in AoE can easily take up to an hour) Lastly, I want to ask a question; Why is it a problem if "booming equals turtling"? This is only really an issue if you accept the notion that there needs to be 3 types of strategies (booming, rushing and turtling), which have to be differentiateable and counter each other. But why would 0ad have to follow this notion? What exactly is the problem with the gameplay right now? (in your eyes) I already commented a bit on the way I see it, but I will reiterate; which is true, but doesnt mean you lose the fight, if you catch your opponent by surprise or use stronger units (mercs, naked fanatics, cavalry), or just have better upgrades since you went p2 sooner. here I unfortunately chose the word "soldier" to refer to a citizen (cause they are citizens foremost and soldiers secundarily). But I still dont see this as a problem; as @Deicide4u pointed out, you dont want to give the player a unit thats too versatile right from the start.

Just tested historical mod playing Spartans and they have a similar system with their Women, Helotes and CS: Women and champions can be trained in the CC while Helotes are trained only in a separate building. Champions cannot do anything except fighting (but they do it very well obviously ), Helotes can both gather and fight. Oh, and CS are trained in separate camps. Seems logical and diverse enough, at least for Sparta.

Link to the original, if anyone is interested: https://github.com/0ADMods/millenniumad It's obviously out of date.

It also boosts the gather rates by 20%? I remember seeing higher gather rates for economic citizens on the Structure Tree when I tried to "glue" it on A27. An icon next to the Female Citizen? But, that will just confuse people. We can just reuse the mod and lower the CS gather rates for food and wood. Maybe even for all resources if the testing phase allows it.

Found this totally by accident: https://www.facebook.com/photo/?fbid=1118356523659872&set=a.554138156748381

Yeah, the majority in my poll doesn't like it.

Default is now to attack buildings (as of A27). Press the "Capture" modifier (by default it is "C" key) and right-click on a building you want to capture.

A bit more from olive to yellow for you? [40, 80, 160], [180, 59, 73], [227, 119, 194], [210, 210, 16], [148, 0, 235], [255, 127, 14], [23, 190, 207], [115, 0, 84]

@Grautvornix Could you make a clean install, e.g. uninstall the game through the windows tool, and then reinstall? Just to see if the warning you got was because of the old installer.

No counter if you play romans , you should find another way than fight Produce gladiator unit, the special unit roman in the secret building ARENA, they have a bonus against all champions but you can only produce 20 by building. --- This Selucid/Persian champion makes no sense. It costs 10 more metal, but it has 3 more range and additional resistances (Kush, Ptol, Macedon, Gauls, Han, Carthage). And since we wanted to unbalance as much as possible, we also added the possibility of having a technology that increases health by 20% for these two civilizations. Their only drawback is their slightly reduced movement speed; I don't think it's enough to balance the unit with other equivalent units. I also won't go into the topic of hero bonuses or population. The Selucids are OP, but the Persians are their OP big brothers in Cav. You can have 20 more guys in your economy to spam the best unit in the game, in addition to having better heroes and discount on stables building. If you play CAVs, the Persians are better; if you don't, Selucid CAVs. So even if you manage to match your opponent's numbers, you'll be at a disadvantage because this poses a major balance issue. This is especially true for maximum population. I've said this before, but knights can overlap excessively and will concentrate their attack on a small number of units.

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I would prefer forts not to have a too a central role in 0ad. I actually like having the choice of not building any to go aggressive vs building it if I plan to defend. Putting units trainable in the forts reinforce the need to just build it whatever, and therefor you play a bit more every game with the same build. Regarding balance, I think a framework for balancing should be worked on. It would be interesting to make relation graphs to have clear views on what are each unit role. Below some example with some existing relationship between units in 0AD (A27 stats, they rounded but they are actually real). Power is dps * hp (after converting armor to hp equivalent, so it does take into account armor, thoughts if hack and pierce armor value are different, a decent mitigation is to use the average of the two), so for jav above, it doesn't account for the accuracy gains.

If you post them here i might be able to help you find them

The main point is this: You shouldn't be allowed to both boom and grow in military strength at the same time.

Hello @Ludwik, first of all welcome to 0 A.D. i recommend you to see some ValihrAnt videos on YouTube. I am sure you will learn a lot of him. Here mates gave you good advices that I suscribe. I would tell you also to start focusing on eco playing alone, becouse it is the main reason you lose vs the AI. I am 101% sure that is the reason. Make fields closest to cc so you dont lose time walking to gather resources. Also storehouse nearest to woodline possible. Try to avoid iddling time... As you can see this game is about using your resources with the maximun efficiency possible and lose the less time always. Also Never stop producing units. Try this and you will see you kick izi the AI I hope to see you on 1400s soon! If you see me on lobby ping me if you want more deep advices!

It sounds very interesting and strategic. There could be variants depending on cultural groups and civilizations? To make the game more asymmetric.

Which mod? Do you mean the oddity detector? That one should work with 0.27.0 and 0.27.1 in my tests. What is the error?

Thanks , but it's a sketch/invitation to make a complete map of all unit relationship. As said, primarily to give some kind of framework to unit balancing but it could also be useful for curious people learning the game.

Ah my bad “Su Nuraxi in Sardinia is a settlement consisting of a 17th century BC nuraghe, a bastion of 4 corner towers plus a central one, and a village inhabited from the 13th to the 6th century BC, developed around the nuraghe. The 2nd image is what the settlement would have probably looked like” No credits for the image.

It doesn't seem to be working. Is it the same process as with other mods? Just download the file into 0ad mods folder and extract? Isn't even showing up on the invalid mods list *Aw hang on I fixed it. Mod looks dope

Oh No! We HaVe To UrGeNtLy NeRf ThE cApTuRe RaTe Of CaV!

UPDATE: Version 0.8.1 - Added new resource: Coins - Market prices now change from the start of the game Buildings: - Coins are now required for constructing buildings - Economic and certain other buildings generate coin income - Military buildings require coin maintenance Units: - Coins are now required for training units - Support units generate coin income - Military units consume coin maintenance UPDATE: Version 0.8.0 (compatible with A27) Basic mod functionality. Only dynamic price changes on the Market. Without new resources and other changes. Barter multipliers have been changed(Metal is the most expensive resource) Resource Buying Selling Food 1.0 1.0 Wood 1.1 1.1 Stone 1.15 1.15 Metal 1.2 1.2 Changelog for А26 Installation method: download archive Right-click on the downloaded file Select tab: Open With... specify 0 AD. In the Settings menu the Mod should be displayed in Green color. Enable mod Save and Restart the game volatile-market.zip

This heavily depends on the number of champions, as they get exponentially more powerful in numbers. Early game CS army without upgrades fares poorly, especially as Spartiates get promoted to Olympic status. EDIT: But yeah, if your opponent gets to train 20 Spartiates, you should have enough citizen soldiers to defend by then. Those champions aren't cheap. However, you'd need a lot to hold that many with acceptable losses, so make sure you scout what he's doing.

I'm making a balance mod and I will add them.

what a F* jokers

yeah, we tried that a little, but then decided to go back up because its kinda nice to be able to differentiate between the range repeats and what not so they aren't all the same.

@Dakara is just trolling you. the only counter to champ spear cav are mustangs. Create them by typing “how do you turn this on?” into chat

Hmm ok, wait reduce fire rate meaning less time inbetween or reduce it even slower? reducing it slower u wouldn't want to decrease dmg? i think accuracy, they should still probably be most accurate ranged weapon, but i guess things to think about and play around with.

ahh, I was sure that gladiators existed. I saw them in atlas

Crossbows have higher dps than slingers. The problem with xbows is overkill.

Hi everyone, We are preparing the first "patch release" of 0 A.D., now that our workflow allows us to do that. We need your help testing it! What is a patch release? A patch release is a minor release of 0 A.D., bringing a few selected fixes from the development version into the latest release of the game. All fixes of the patch release are already present in the development version (the future Release 28). There are two important aspects to a patch release: Patch releases are OOS-compatible with major releases. If your friend has not heard about the patch release, or cannot install it for whatever reason, they should still be able to play multiplayer with you. This limits the kind of fixes we can include in a patch release. Patch releases are prepared on the side, and do not take precedence over our work towards the next major release. We prepare and provide patch releases as our resources allow. This limits the scale of the fixes we can include in a patch release. What is the current status of A27.1? We have setup all the infrastructure for generating patch releases, and a first testable version is ready for you. It is still incomplete, and thus labeled as "Release Candidate Zero" (RC0). In A27.1, we wish to include, but those are not yet in RC0: a fix for the flood on non-flood maps reloaded from a save a fix for modifying your lobby password when you have an uppercase letter in your username In RC0 are included: a fix for the large performance issue observed by some players on older hardware several small performance improvements in the calculation of simulation hashes (related to multiplayer stuttering) a fix for the distorted 3D models with GPU Skinning fixes for crashes with Vulkan and/or with GPU Skinning a fix for the game crash on pressing Fn key a fix for a crash in Atlas when the map generation fails fixes for multiplayer port forwarding package fixes for Linux desktop environments various build fixes for Linux (some sent by package managers) A27.1 will not include: a fix for the Britons OOS on rejoin: unfortunately it would make A27.1 incompatible with A27 (against rule 1 above) any modification of simulation hashes: it could remove stuttering entirely, but it would make A27.1 incompatible with A27 (against rule 1 above) incremental simulation hashes: those improve stuttering as well, but are too complex to backport (against rule 2 above) How can I test it? You can download the release bundles of A27.1-RC0 at https://releases.wildfiregames.com/rc/ Please report below any crashes or new issues (that weren't already present in A27, unless they are listed as allegedly fixed above). Thanks for your help and support!

Why nerf the speed of cavs? The whole point of cavs is being fast. If cavs are slow then just use infantry instead. We do need strong units but at reasonable quuantities.

We have more units in historical that swtich back and fourth. Lead bullet/stone slingers Theracaian Peltasts

Great suggestions, but this one is too micro intensive. 0 A.D. is not a RPG, players already have a lot to think about during the game. Plus, ranged units already die too fast to cavalry. Roman roads could be a great benefit. Maybe too great, as Romans already got a huge buff in alpha 27. Perhaps, the roads could be made into a neutral structures on some "Roman" maps. Maps with the roman theme will have them. Traps/pits would be a nice addition, and also a good homage to Stronghold. Certain citizen-soldier units could have an option to make them for moderate amount of wood. No need to make them too deadly or too expensive, to avoid abuse.

Hey I did a reasonable chunk of the A25-A26 porting for the mod I've added you on Discord. Ping me if you need help. There are some migration scripts here https://gitea.wildfiregames.com/Stan/pyrogenesis-migration-scripts

Farmstead of "Early" Germans, aka Cimbri

I said this because I had not even seen any siege on the list and it seemed strange to me that they had not had one, being so prosperous economically and militarily they do not have those tools so to speak

Check this out. Try using these textures.

Great job! we may have versions for Terra Magna?