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Adds support for up to 14 players in random maps (default is 8). Features: - Player slots 9–14 with unique colors and default civilizations - Works in game setup, diplomacy panel, capture bars, and end-game summary Installation: 1. Download and extract the zip into ~/.local/share/0ad/mods/ (Linux) or %appdata%\0ad\mods\ (Windows) 2. Launch 0 A.D., go to Settings → Mod Selection, enable Extra Players 3. If using ModernGUI or any other mods that are not made to handle 14 players, disable them or use the patched version below 4. Click Save Configuration and Launch Notes: - Only works on random maps (scenario maps have fixed player counts) - Try disabling other mods if you encounter issues - Tested on 0 A.D. Alpha 28 (0.28.0) If not using ModernGUI : https://github.com/asuralolxd/extraplayers0ad ( latest) - ZIP (full repo archive): https://github.com/asuralolxd/extraplayers0ad/archive/refs/heads/main.zip - Pyromod (0ad installer): https://github.com/asuralolxd/extraplayers0ad/raw/refs/heads/main/extraplayers.pyromod If using ModernGUI : https://gitlab.com/asuraxd/ModernGUI - ZIP (full repo archive): https://gitlab.com/asuraxd/ModernGUI/-/archive/master/ModernGUI-master.zip - Pyromod (0ad installer): https://gitlab.com/asuraxd/ModernGUI/-/raw/master/ModernGUI-ExtraPlayers.pyromod

Next, the Gerudo Navy: (These updates are multiple posts just in case something goes wrong) Badan: A small, fast fishing ship, this boat doesn't do much else than gather fish. Dhow: Used for transporting goods as a merchant ship, as well as troops for raids, this boat can easily escape enemy warships if needed to. Safin: The largest ship in the Gerudo fleet, and also the most dangerous, the Safin excels at capturing other ships (it's a pirate ship after all), as well as escaping from fights to difficult to win. (If this is posted before the Goron Navies, my apologies, for whatever reason my post needs to be approved by a moderator before it loads.

OP even more lag, unbalanced team, and rage quits But awesomely done

This is just a simple mod that allows you to set up to 8 teams. I got the idea from Version 1.1 doesn't require everyone to have the mod, only the host more_teams1.1.pyromodmore_teams1.1.zip moreteams.zipmoreteams.pyromod

Everyone think that game needs more balance! Too balanced! Not fun! Catas fine! Fanatics and champ cav fine! Stop ruining game! It's going to be boring! Stagnant! Old! Everyone leave and play mods only! No one wants to play same civ with different colors! STTTTOOOOOOPPPPPPPPPPPPP!!!!!!!!!!!

I realized I haven't posted any updates on the progress of Revival for a few months now, so I thought I'd do a quick dump of stuff that me and my team have gotten done, before the upcoming release sometime soon. First, all of the Goron naval stuff: Barrel Sub: This is their primary trading ship. It's fragile, and not very fast, but it can submerge to escape some enemies. Troop Lander: Used for transporting soldiers and not much else, this ship is also a bit slow, but capable of holding a lot of units (30 garrison and 15 turret). Gunship: The primary warship of the Gorons, this large ship fires multiple cannons at once, and can carry a lot of troops. It is also super durable, able to resist most attacks.

Six months has passed. Development of stevenlauBot did not stop, but I have been dealing with a really difficult problem - optimal field placement around CC. The algorithm improved over and over, and now reaches an optimal solution worth sharing. Before I go into technical details, here are some screenshots of optimal placements in random Mainland. Pink represents the region where we can place field freely, and blues are the fields. Now I am writing some technical details. I first define Gap and Hang. Gap Ideally we want to let a field to touch (snap) the CC (or actually any dropsite), so that farmers can efficiently drop resources without walking. However, since farmers have a size and dropping range, we can actually leave a gap (around 5.6m) between field and CC and the farmer can still drop resources without walking. Leaving such a gap might allow more fields to be placed. Hang In games, we often see players put field snapping at the corner of CC. This is not ideal, because farmers will have a walk a bit to drop resources. We name this case "hanging" entirely outside of CC. If we now shift that field a little inward toward the CC, it is still hanging, but only part of it is hanging. Then farmers can farm in the part where the field is not hanging, and they can drop resources without walking. That non-hanging part is around 8m. Now to state our problem more precisely, we want to place maximum number of fields around CC, allowing gap between CC, but keep certain non-hanging part. We disallow rotation. Although rotation might give better arrangement, the problem will become too difficult. In fact, disallowing rotation is the sole assumption of our algorithm. Under such assumption, our algorithm gives optimal placement. I also claim that if we allow rotation, no efficient algorithm exists. People who are familiar with algorithm, especially computational geometry, should realise this is a very difficult problem. This is shape arrangement in continuous 2D space, and deterministic algorithm might not even exist. Scientists usually do heuristics to find good-enough (but not optimal) solution in these problems. I had also been working on heuristics, but as I keep improving my heuristics, I found that our problem is quite special and is much simplified. It turned out that we can work out a combinatorial algorithm to really find the optimal placement. We basically do trapezoidal decomposition of the region, that we do sweep line algorithm over all such trapeziums, exhaust all combinations, and merge linearly related constraints. The algorithm is super complicated, but I think I made it. Do you like it?

I guess you didn't understand what I said in the first place, which was: no unit should be so OP as to have some gentlemen's agreement not to produce it, and when there's a misunderstanding regarding that, to have people whining about it, as it happened recently. So, if you say "champ cav is nonsensically fast", "naked fana has capture speed of a champ despite not having any of the drawbacks of a regular champ", and what you now added, I'd assume you agree with those complaining that they are OP, so I was agreeing that they should be nerfed, at least to the point of no ban needed to even be considered.

Hello, thanks a lot ! I wanted 16 players , but lets say 14 is fine thanks ♥ you are so nice Hope we can play one game together

Nice @Asura! Two things though: 1 can you change the name to extra_players (adds the underscore), because I doesn't like the mod name when I restart 0 ad. 2 the selector overlaps the other settings

I like these simple ideas without repeating current house designs.

More ideas.

this is because this Germanic civilization is based on Cimbri and Teutons. these tribes were nomadic while the later Chatti and Cherusci were not. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cherusci

imo cav generally is too fast but people are probably not ready for that discussion XD. I think catas being OP must be the Ambush map speaking.

If you want you can try to finish some of the 70% done new animals here are a few https://gitea.wildfiregames.com/0ad/0ad/issues/1983 https://gitea.wildfiregames.com/0ad/0ad/issues/1993 https://gitea.wildfiregames.com/0ad/0ad/issues/2003 there's most of the info in the forum post that the issue links to.

I totally agree, but there are some issues that maybe need some more thought: -"Spear 111 hp for some civ but 100 for other, no sense": I don't see a problem with this, it could be some civ equipment characteristic. Maybe it would be nice to specify why exactly. -"cata too much hp", "catas too op": it has been said that the whole siege stuff is messed up, and that engines were capturable at some point. I've argued that civs should be able to capture/use them after building the Arsenal. -"héroe OP": it has been argued that the unit represents the whole retinue, which would be composed of the most elite warriors (most units would actually represent a bunch of them). -"champ cav is nonsensically fast", "naked fana has capture speed of a champ despite not having any of the drawbacks of a regular champ": it doesn't seem ideal to have units banned from games (and people whining about if they are being produced or not). Can't champion cavalry be more expensive, and naked fanatics have less resistance, for example? Or whatever that doesn't give an unfair advantage, without making things bland. Personally I don't care about unbalanced factions, but plenty of people here are too obsessed with MP, so there's that. -"palisades are useless,but when spammed are somewhat annoying": I'm not a fan of the "territory" stuff, but given that's there, I don't get why palisades can be built outside of it, doesn't this just enhance spamming? It doesn't make much sense to build palisades in the middle of nowhere, considering that they needed maintenance (the wood would rot). On the other hand, making them a bit stronger but weaker against siege would make them useful in the early game and not annoying later. Maybe civs that have weak siege should have other advantages, like fire units, if even. Also, Towers should be able to be built just besides Palisades (while pressing CTRL), Walls don't have this problem. Ideally, but more radically (and needing new animations), Palisades and Walls should be strong but not very useful if not supported: some units could be able to slowly climb over them, but have extremely reduced resistance when doing so, making Palisades and Walls quite useful when combined with Towers or ranged units.

I can animate and do a bit of modeling, but I'm a novice (most of my models are made by chopping and screwing other models together).

Good!

Oh, that's a good idea. I'll put the reason I close the issue in the issue itself so we have it. I may also compile some of the bigger/ cooler issues here for people if they want to pick up

Looking through old issues there are a lot that are either old and out of date patches, design suggestions that need to be discussed and nobody has for 10 years, or units / creatures that were worked on in the past and haven't been touched for a while. If nobody objects I propose we make a project for orphaned issues with patches and existing work, that I can put them all in, so people can find them (and maybe eventually pick up). I can also close them if we want. Also I may start closing older issues that are just gameplay and balance suggestions that nobody seems to want to discuss. Again if i close something important, let me know and i'll unclose it !

So I am trying to make certain structures "invisible" to bot players. My idea is to change the code in the file that checks for the nearest structure, and make it so it only sets that as attack point if the structure is not a certain class. I don't know if that would be easy, I think it would be somewhat easy. If someone could point me to where the file is and where in the file that would be, that would be helpful. I may also need help with the coding, if anybody would want to help. Thanks!

Hey just type umbalane things ! Spear 111 hp for some civ but 100 for other, no sense cata too much hp héroe OP

Good morning, I tried hosting a game on Migration with relics, however relics keep spawning on the player's island, thus giving a certain advantage for certain players and negating the incentives to go and fight on the main island. Is there a way to restrict the spawn area of relics so they all spawn on the main island ? ps : i might be on the wrong forum section, should i repost in map making subforums ?

played multiple 5v5, one 6v6 with others here, and I can say its pretty darn smooth than expected! quite good compared to what everyone would assume it to be... and @kheeva I had the mod installed and I also could not join his 1v1.. it seems to be problem of him.. I am currently in the game you are playing haha even though its without the mod

@Asura, thanks for the mod! We played several matches yesterday, and it ran with no noticeable performance differences. We did notice that River and Random Group Placement weren't working properly. River crash on loading, and Random Group Placement got stuck at 6% loading.

@Asura, if you add this line "ignoreInCompatibilityChecks": true, to your mod.json, then not everybody will have to have the mod, only the host. I'm not sure how it will work for this mod, but maybe try it

I saw this the other day and it made me smile. When we named the game, we didn't intend to get to the top of the list... Ha! Congrats on the latest release all, glad to see the project still making forward progress!

Classic-Burger is absolutely right, the core capture system needs a major overhaul before we even think about adding complex mechanics like faction unit recruitment. Right now, without a proper cooldown or assimilation process, introducing cross-faction recruitment would just lead to insane snowballing or broken 'cheese' strategies in high-level matches. I love the tactical depth it could bring to protecting key tech structures, but the balance nightmare of mixing faction bonuses and counters might be too much for the current meta to handle.

create feature then people adapt...

there's not one right now @diagonalo as I've been very busy. I'd like to make a release, but I can't guarantee when.

Note to future Mac users: enable it as the first mod. It crashed my game

Not 100% true. We add pop bonus to ssystion before it was added into base game. We also used ram garrison to add speed/acceleration to rams before it made it into base game.

very cool. 1 thing that catches the eye is that chat and parts of the settings screen glitch together visually. I hope we can get some players to test this mod been asking for something like this unironically for a long time very excited thanks again @Asura

I'm currently working on vassals, small randomly placed settlements on the map that will auto produce their own workers to gather resources in the area as well as a small patrolling army to gaurd their own territory. The player can capture these vassals in order to have them autonomously work for them. Vassals can provide income for their owners using their workers as well as add a basic level of defense for an area with their patroling army, after they have all their workers and a defending army, they will slowly build up a small army to attack your enemies with. I find it adds some really cool and valuable points on the map to take control of. While they wont be able to defeat your enemies on their own, coordinating your attacks with theirs can add a welcome boost to your own attacks. This also makes the maps feel alot more dynamic. Edit: 02/05/2026 Added latest version of the vassals mod. -Vassal units can be selected if you want to inspect them but they ignore all commands given to them by the player. -vassals once captured project the players influence around themselves. -vassals will produce villagers to gather resources for their owner. -vassals will produce patrol armies that protect their territory. -Once a vassals patrol armies get big enough, they will instead be used by the vassal to attack your enemies. Vassals will spawn randomly, but right now they will spawn in the same specific random place on every map type for testing purposes. Vassal produces units faster than in the final version for testing purposes. Edit: 02/05/2026 Added a new version with random and much better spawning of vassals around random maps. Edit: 02/05/2026 Last edit for today, improved vassal spawning so the game will try to spawn at least one per player. Also the game will try to make sure there is pathing to at least one other player before placing a vassal in an area. Edit: 09/05/2026 - Added several types of vassals that produce their own units. - Vassals now build structures, houses provide 1 pop to their owners, the vassal will produce a barracks in order to produce their own military units. - Improved villager ai, they should no longer sometimes move back and forth and will try to get a range of resources nearby. - Villagers can now hunt nearby animals. Edit: 10/05/2026 -Vassals now produce units much slower. -Fixed a bug where vassals would stop trying to build structures if they could not find a place to place a structure on their first try. Edit: 11/05/2026 -Impoved vassal spawning to make sure they now always spawn. Vassals Mod.7z

Yeah, I think being able to capture and use enemy siege machines (I don't know about building them) would balance their damage and health. Or maybe making them less resistant to Pierce damage. You can only have one hero at a time, I've never seen this as a problem. Their supposed to be OP. I think both are good ideas, Fanatics are WAY too resistant for being naked (IMO, they should have almost no resistance, but tons of damage), and champ cav maybe could be slowed down/more expensive. I play MP pretty frequently, (not on the scale that I know others do though), and I personally have only ever found Elephants OP. Walls are broken in general, but the best fix to this is to make palisades only build able in owned territory, and to maybe allow them to upgrade to real walls when those are unlocked. This would mean the player wouldn't have to delete them, making real walls more valuable as well.

The button does work, but after clicking on it you need to left-click the terrain to issue the command, just like with the other command buttons in the panel. You can try the same with Patrol, Guard, Repair. When using the hotkey instead, the command is issued with a right-click.

@Atrik considering your four points, and using the Construction Panel layout I proposed long ago, I end up with this, which has the same height as your panels, and the additional width is less than the width of a small button:

already have a topic

There was a mod in Age of empires 2 called CBA. I had tons of fun with it in 2008. Google CBA (Castle Blood Automatic)

Nice poll, @Atrik. Additionally, it would be good to address the exploit that allows capturing buildings in tight spaces using formations.

Hi guys! Would anybody want to help with the art design for the Classic Warfare AEA mod? Here is the forum https://wildfiregames.com/forum/topic/140701-classical-warfare-aea/

Nice to see Millenium A.D. being updated

There were a nuber of discussion is the subject e.g. the one below, but it seems to be quite complex to implement. My sugestion is to create bridges as a structure like a wall (with very low height) and the properties of a field (you walk on it and can cross it). Bridges need these properties: they need to be buidable - animations will be needed (builders cannot step left and right to the bridge unlike building a wall). Question: where should we allow building bridges: on map-defined points only (as in settlers IV) or everywhere? (I'd rather opt for predefined points as a start - simply to avoid that one clutters the entire naval map with criss-cross bridges that block ships. they need to block pathfinding for ships while they exist, and not anymore if completely destroyed they need to enable pathfinding for land objects while they exist - and not anymore if they are damaged to more than a percentage to be defined (or completely destroyed?) they need to be destroyable (ships only or also land-based siege engines? If ships only, which ones?) they need to be repairable by land forces - animations will be needed I anyone could come up with a test implementation as a mod on one test map, this would be phantastic! Unfortunatly, I am more or less illiterate in programming...

Here is what the LLM ended up with, take it with caution, but to me it seems kind of plausible. Some approximations have been made. One builder just build sequential houses, corrals or fields. Usually its more. The walking distances are neglected. Targeted are ~38.9 f/s. All resources are just pooled together. Realistically its also a big factor that one gathers wood and get food at the fields, while at the corrals you don't have so much food to invest at the start, except if you start out with elephants (or other plenty of fauna) nearby. The one big benefit with the corrals is that you need a lot less pop. Also this pop is way better as it can be used to attack. farms_vs_corrals.py

1250: sword and spear are similar melee units that is useful to make meat shield. 1300: swordmen is good to crack rams. 1350: if you want to go full pop attack with rams at min 13-14, an enemy with swordmen is harder to crush. In this strategy it is common to postpone hack resistance upgrade in favor to earlier attack, but swordmen in enemy is strong in hack attack. 1400: when rushing with melee cav, run if you see spearmen, fight if you see swordmen. I think Iberian having swormen is important to balance out the initial wall defence. If iberian has spearmen, it becomes almost impossible to rush them. 1500+: thoughts?

He is ancestor of Chris Redfield from Resident Evil 5

The capture system needs to be improved first, as it hasn't received many changes since A16. There should be a cooldown and an assimilation process. The Dacians learned a little about making siege machinery from the Romans.

@leopard you did a great job with this mod. You can't be mad at people for no reasons like this thoughts.

it would have to be like the 2 last references capped machine + siege battering ram. At least to make it like the other machines in the game. I read somewhere that they had a metal head. "The Chinese ram used an iron-plated head. After the introduction of gunpowder it added a cannon as well." https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chinese_siege_weapons but the reference of that is from: "Turnbull, Stephen (2002), Siege Weapons of the Far East (2) AD 960-1644, Osprey Publishing".

Probably not, this discussion came up before and many casual rts gamers felt it would add too much micro and such. But I am working on a delenda est/balance-mod/age-of-0ad mega fork that will focus on the tastes of more hardcore rts gamers with supply lines, more combat support units such as engineers, etc