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I love 0AD's basegame maps, dont get me wrong, but some of them look a little dated. This is where Map Remakes comes into play. This mod remakes the Base 0AD maps to fit right into the modern era! At the moment, four maps are complete- Mediterranean Coves, Gallic Fields, Gambia River and Two Seas (This map is rather scuffed from the begining, so there is a good chance that I will give it a complete overhaul at some point) Features of the remake(s) - Grass, New flora and fauna, and in general, more detail (The performance impact isn't much however) Also, if you notice any floating grass, this is an game bug and not something I can fix map-remakes.zip

I'm proud to present to you a new mod for 0 A.D. called Imperia Vetera. As the mod is based on an alpha that introduced the final original civilization, Romans, it makes sense to name the mod in honor of their ancient language. Imperia Vetera is "Old Empires" in Latin, and the name itself reflects the vision and the source for the mod. Be aware that this is a so-called "retro" mod. It doesn't and it will not, represent the full features of the original game. Changes overview from the original thread: Changes so far, when compared to Alpha 9 vanilla. Siege Weapons overhaul: Siege weapons are much better at destroying buildings, but much worse at killing organic units. At the same time, all economic and civic buildings are more vulnerable to hack damage. Building costs overhaul: Overall, higher tier buildings (Fortresses, Army Camps, Gymnasiums, etc.) are now much more expensive to build. This is in part to compensate for the lack of phases. In the future, there may be some form of requirements for certain buildings, similar to StarCraft. Champion units: They are now much stronger than Citizen Soldiers, but also cost more population space. Champion infantry costs 2 population, champion cavalry costs 3. So, there is no more champion unit spam. Heroes: All Heroes are now just very powerful units, identical to Greek heroes from Age of Mythology. I'm still working on implementing a training limit. They also cost more population space. Celts and Hellenes can now train only 3 Heroes, the same as other civilizations. Hellenic heroes are Leonidas, Alexander and Themistocles. Celtic heroes are Boudicca, Brennus and Vercingetorix. Technical changes: All features that weren't implemented, or were implemented partially, were either removed or tweaked. Charge attacks are removed because they didn't work and they were cluttering the UI. Priests are removed for now, but the Temples now heal faster and can garrison up to 30 troops. GUI buttons that did not work are removed. Civilization pages that showed technologies and bonuses are also removed, as almost nothing was implemented at the time. Population cap is now at 200. In Age of Empires 2 campaigns, you had only 75 population space. I think 200 should be more than enough. I considered reducing it to 150, but it could have made some scenarios hard. The AI (legacy qBot as base) is now harder, and attacks with more units. Roman AI can train Marian Legionaries from the Army Camps, while Hellenic AI can now train Siege Towers. Towers and Fortresses: Towers are now weaker, but you can build more of them. You can now only construct 5 Fortresses, so turtling is not really an option. Changes not considered: There are some features that won't be included. For example, does it make sense for our civilizations to research "Iron Plow"? No, so technologies that can be researched won't be included. For the short term, I will explore other options for bonuses, that don't require compiling the game from source. I would like to implement auras on the more basic level. More changes and testing is on the way. I will provide more when the testing of the current changes is complete in Single player. In the meantime, you can help me test drive the mod, by downloading the files from the link below. One of them is a README file, which should help you get started. I forgot to change the game name on the main menu, but here is how it looks (also, pretty easy to change): Download link (Limewire): https://limewire.com/d/79Sdu#XsxLknoKrz Thank you for making this wonderful game.

I'm here to bring you exciting updates on my project, Mod World Rising! This week, I've been diving headfirst into developing new buildings, units, and technologies that will revolutionize the gameplay experience. Improved Units Units in the game will be enhanced with cutting-edge technologies, such as primitive weapons that replace the crude weapons made of wood, stone, and animal bones. With these technologies, your units will gain lethal new weapons! Furthermore, their protection will also be reinforced with advanced armor, making your units nearly invincible. General Evolution Even your hero, priests, and citizens will evolve over the ages, reflecting the progress and development of civilization. Buildings will also have an upgrade and evolution system through technologies, allowing you to build increasingly impressive structures. New Content This week, I created approximately 10 new buildings, developed new textures, and brought to life about 10 new units with variations. Additionally, I've implemented new technologies and tweaked textures for a more immersive experience. To top it all off, I've added new music that reflects the rich Asian culture. What's next? I look forward to sharing more news soon! Stay tuned to find out what else is coming to Mod World Rising!

You can check out the animations in Atlas as shown. Also the mane is funny moving and the horse goes bald for a while. aux-2025-08-19_16_02_31.mp4

Walling in 0ad is costly in both resources and the mental capacity required to make sure they are actually sealed. palisades and stone walls need to become easier to seal and place if they are to become more impactful on gameplay. I've had moments before where palisades were remarkably successful in protecting my base from large amounts of cav in p2, but its quite rare to see palisades actually accomplish what the player envisions when they are built.

Because when 0ad was designed that was the trend and that was the last of the series with some setting in ancient times. Also some of the artists were AoM heaven modders.

Besides the Fanatics, Spartiates are by far the most broken units in the game. Seriously, these units are insanely overpowered and hard to counter. Can anyone name a unit that can reliably stop Spartiates? I bet you can’t. They hit hard, have massive armor, can promote to Olympic status and even have technologies that make them stronger and faster. The only thing the developers could have done to stop the spamming of this unit was to add a population cost of 2. Unfortunately, they didn’t do that. There are players abusing this by spamming Spartiates in P1, and it’s ruining the game for everyone. I wouldn’t be surprised if some ecobot or clever Sparta player designed this unit to exploit the game by spamming them relentlessly for an unfair advantage. What do you guys think? Any ideas on how to properly nerf or counter these broken units? I believe adding a population cost of 2 to build them would be an effective way to balance this unit. Moreover all Athenian Marines should be nerfed for sure. We’ve already banned Fanatics from our games, and Spartiates definitely need to be banned as well. If the developers don’t nerf these units in the next alpha update and keep introducing unfair, broken units, we’ll have no choice but to keep banning them from our matches to maintain fair gameplay.

You know it will be "Yes" eventually. Why not start early?

Adding a metal cost would be lame. A small adjustment to armor values or hp or speed or a combination would be all that’s needed if anything at all.

When there is champion spear cav, the naked fanatics are an effective counter. But now the champion spear cav is banned, the power of the naked fanatics begin to show in TGs. Their problem is speed, damage and decent durability combined together. Although less unbeatable than champion cavs, they have no particular weaknesses and are cheap to make. There are no parallel units for any other civs in phase 2, which makes them OP. In the past, they were truly fragile and costed metal, so they weren't great as late game units / meatshields. But now, it's too easy to spam them and Gauls just got a hypercharged spearman unit that nobody has. This breaks the inter-civ balance. Suggestion: 1. Fanatics cost metal. 2. Fanatics get no shield, or at least are not affected by shield upgrades.

For correctness's sake, Temple of Apademak is the Kushites normal Temple. You can check the specific and generic names of the Temple in Alpha 23. Never mind, It's the same name in the latest alpha. I'm just trying to be smartass here and failing.

Optimal farm placement in Imperia Vetera. Farms yield about the same food as the most upgraded ones in AoE2. Persians get a bonus 100 food per farm.

@Dunedan @user1

Let's not include virtue signaling in a historical war strategy game. Heroes and generals of the past were usually far from noble.

Buenos días, -Aquí les dejo las últimas 3 facciones americanas(haciendo un total de 16); Zapotecas (México) Paiute (EE.UU/Great basin) Hisatsinom (EE.UU/Southwest) Disculpen las molestias*

May I suggest using Photopea? It has a Normal map generator out of the box. You can also easily alter the channels of the normal maps after they're made.

Well... 1. True, not much to say to that 2. Even if fanatics were op, your solutions are both bad. Adding 50 metal to their cost means they are more expensive than regular champions. Considering that they are vastly more vulnurable, that would make them entirely useless. Restricting them to p3 would just reduce the amount of possible tactics, as going for champs p3 mostly just means ecobotting. Do you want more ecobotting? 3. 4. and 5. are skill issues. If your enemy micros his units better than you, you lose. No "solution" will change that. If they use formations to great effect, why dont you? If they put their hero on flee, why dont you? If they utilise palisades to great effect, why dont you? Saying its a "balance issue" or an "exploit" just because you arent able to use it the way they do is not very honest. 6. and 7. dont have a solution. Using them as cheats is already forbidden by the WFG "Terms of Use" (which you should have read?). But you shouldnt ban any mod from mod.io just because some people edit them to use them as cheats. If I want to play with proGUI and autosnipe in singleplayer, I should be able to download the respective mods from mod.io. They are, after all, marked as incompatible, so you wont be able to join a normal game after just downloading them from there. And if someone is ready to edit files to play in a vanilla lobby with those mods enabled, not putting them on mod.io wont have any effect on them, as you can always download them from github.

Changes so far, when compared to Alpha 9 vanilla. Siege Weapons overhaul: Siege weapons are much better at destroying buildings, but much worse at killing organic units. At the same time, all economic and civic buildings are more vulnerable to hack damage. Building costs overhaul: Overall, higher tier buildings (Fortresses, Army Camps, Gymnasiums, etc.) are now much more expensive to build. This is in part to compensate for the lack of phases. In the future, there may be some form of requirements for certain buildings, similar to StarCraft. Champion units: They are now much stronger than Citizen Soldiers, but also cost more population space. Champion infantry costs 2 population, champion cavalry costs 3. So, there is no more champion unit spam. Heroes: All Heroes are now just very powerful units, identical to Greek heroes from Age of Mythology. I'm still working on implementing a training limit. They also cost more population space. Celts and Hellenes can now train only 3 Heroes, the same as other civilizations. Hellenic heroes are Leonidas, Alexander and Themistocles. Celtic heroes are Boudicca, Brennus and Vercingetorix. Technical changes: All features that weren't implemented, or were implemented partially, were either removed or tweaked. Charge attacks are removed because they didn't work and they were cluttering the UI. Priests are removed for now, but the Temples now heal faster and can garrison up to 30 troops. GUI buttons that did not work are removed. Civilization pages that showed technologies and bonuses are also removed, as almost nothing was implemented at the time. Population cap is now at 200. In Age of Empires 2 campaigns, you had only 75 population space. I think 200 should be more than enough. I considered reducing it to 150, but it could have made some scenarios hard. The AI (legacy qBot as base) is now harder, and attacks with more units. Roman AI can train Marian Legionaries from the Army Camps, while Hellenic AI can now train Siege Towers. Towers and Fortresses: Towers are now weaker, but you can build more of them. You can now only construct 5 Fortresses, so turtling is not really an option. Changes not considered: There are some features that won't be included. For example, does it make sense for our civilizations to research "Iron Plow"? No, so technologies that can be researched won't be included. For the short term, I will explore other options for bonuses, that don't require compiling the game from source. I would like to implement auras on the more basic level. More changes and testing is on the way. I will provide more when the testing of the current changes is complete in Single player.

It's great seeing your progress-I wish you a good portion of endurance! Personally I never crossed the border to modding, only a bit towards development.

No man... Spear cav are better than them. Everyone calls everything OP. Also marines are better than fanatics. Not fanatics vs cav, but in general. 9 marines beat 10 fanatics. +-------------+----------------------------+-----------------------------+ | Attribute | Marines | Fanatic | +-------------+----------------------------+-----------------------------+ | Cost | 60 Food, 40 Wood, 60 Metal | 120 Food, 100 Wood | | Total Cost | 160 resources | 220 resources | | Train Time | 15 seconds | 15 seconds | +-------------+----------------------------+-----------------------------+ | Attack | 16 Hack | 10 Hack, 8.5 Pierce | | Interval | 0.75 seconds | 1 second | | DPS | 21.33 Hack/sec | 10 Hack/sec, 8.5 Pierce/sec | +-------------+----------------------------+-----------------------------+ | Health | 200 | 200 | | Resistance | 3 Hack, 5 Pierce, 20 Crush | 3 Hack, 2 Pierce, 20 Crush | +-------------+----------------------------+-----------------------------+ | Speed | 11.4 | 13.3 | +-------------+----------------------------+-----------------------------+ + Athens have Hippo in p2 in combination +slingers that can rank up from the back This is ok imo, since athen have no champ cav at all. The play style in the community is very conservative and a bit uncreative. Meow came along and showed everyone how good elephant archer can be when utilized right. Stockfish rolled over other players with 30 rams. My point is not that any one of these is OP, but that a lot of units can be very good.

Actually weirdJokes discovered the market bug 4 years ago but he didn't abuse it and the few people who heard about it just ignored it. This was because of the unit cost and the lower floats at the time. Karim and Cube demo it in a few TGs in front of many people and it became viral.

This is actually funny . But i don't really get how reading Mein Kampf has taught me about South American living conditions

Is this thread went restricted? Aprove my post plss

Mascotte of Primal Age. Ready for war

Besides cost effectiveness, you must consider the activation cost. Champs are much more cost effective than citizens but they have such a large initial investment that blocks players out from making them. Fanatics are the champs with a low activation cost, because food and wood are gathered en mass and the 100 each is nothing for a P2 player. You can put 70 units at one forest and station 55 womens to farm, but the metal mines and stone mines allow up to 24 units only @TheCJ raised a good point about viability. Fanatics are only available for Gauls and other civs Dont have effective counters

Well, I believe you are wrong. For the following reasons: 1. Just because you're better at the game (supposedly), you aren't necessarily smarter or better at balancing. Even a complete noob that uses their brain can understand why champion cavalry are too strong at the moment, no matter if they ever built some themselves. 2. If you're actively playing the game and investing a lot of time into it (which you need to reach a highly skilled level of gameplay), chances are that your opinion on a good balance is biased. Because you want your favourite strategy to be viable (or perhaps even the best), while you want strategies that you struggle against to be reduced in effectiveness, even if they may not actually need any balancing. 3. Concerning yourself only with the opinions of pro players inadvertently leads to a worse experience for less skilled players. This can be seen in almost all teamgames that have an E-sport scene; some tactics only become very good with communication and teamplay, but nerfing the tactic itself will make it unusable in casual play. Well, either you make fanatics more expensive to reduce their cost-effectiveness or you aren't actually making them more expensive, in which case such a change would be useless. A good player can balance his eco (as you should know if you're playing in "op games"), so it doesnt actually matter to him whether its a metal or food cost. The only exception being that metal has a ceiling of how many gatherers it can have and a ceiling of how much metal you can mine. Both of which are pretty much irrelevant in early p2.

On top of what TheCJ said, the elevated terrains give ranged units and towers an additional range bonus, so they can shoot further. The projectile trajectory is calculated using a real physics model which ignores air resistance. Complicated terrains confuse the pathfinder of units, which give archers a huge advantage as they can shower the confused enemy melee and javs without taking any damage. You can build walls in neutral areas to protect your bolt shooters.

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@Obelix one belongs to my sister (cadenza) and one belongs to me (xerxes235). additionally we never played against each other (to gain rating) or we never teamed. we play totally separately, Admins can verify it as well.

Are you using normal maps on your units? If so, you may need to invert your green channel.

Greetings my fellow gamers! I've decided to embark on a completely different kind of game development and I'd like to use this thread to share my progress, get feedback, take criticism, and share ideas! I'm going to develop a tabletop game based on the Greek gods, heroes, and monsters! This is going to be a huge project that will put to the test all of my creative abilities, whether it's designing characters, creating playing cards, creating map layouts (which can then be printed into large sheets for tabletop use), deciding gameplay rules, writing character bios, laying out a rule book (and have it printed) you name it. Over time, if anyone wants to contribute, then that will be very welcomed (and contributors added to the final credits). For now, I'm just putting a lot of pieces together and deciding how I want to tackle it. First things first: I've already acquired 20+ character pieces (!) and they will be arriving to my house piecemeal over the coming days. They range in height from 8.26 cm (3.25") to 9.65 cm (3.80") and will be played on a table approximately 1.33 m (4') x 1.83 m (6'). (Above: Some of the 'God' class of characters) There are God characters and there are Men and Monsters as well. For the sake of gameplay and character variety, demi-gods such as Hercules will be considered part of the Men category and figures such as Pan will be considered Monster class. (Above: Some 'Monster' class characters) (Above: Some 'Men' class characters) Some of the Gods, such as Athena, Dionysus, Atlas, and Asclepius, could have features that make them 'Friends to Man' for cool team combos: (Above: 'Friends to Man' characters) And one could imagine Gods such as Poseidon, who sired several monstrous offspring in myth, to be 'Friends to Monsters' for more team combos. Other ideas include making Hermes the fastest traveling character in the game. Leonidas could have the ability to summon a squad of Spartans to his aid. Both Leonidas and Alexander could have a special relationship with Apollo and Hercules as they are descended from both characters. The idea is to create rules for 2 players and up to 6 players. Each character has its own stats and abilities. The idea also is to create an extensive deck of cards that players can pick from and affect gameplay. This is a huge project and I expect it'll take years to complete and lots of my own money (such as getting maps and cards printed). That's okay, because I need a new obsession. lol

And what about the gameplay? Are you going to use the counter system from the old alphas? I mean gsm play from the latest alphas + balances from alphas 10-23.

AN RX 550?? IN THIS ECONOMY? you're rich

sanafur: 99 +100pts for trying to make archers build works -100 pts for making archers when enemy is spamming champ cav +100pts is nice and teamworks -1pts cause he doesn't deserve perfect score

WeirdJokes: 100 score - plays 0AD too long to be nub - late stage game changer - la viva cows - I love his german accent on jitsi - Non toxic person

97 Score Is reasonable in discussions and likes my memes.

yea, but thats why i like vanillas system; you dont get the stats on your screen all the time, but you can hover over the icon and read them all if you want

The old 0 A.D. start screen/menu (alpha 6 Fortuna).

More different structures the better.

Yes, this is what is needed. Options. Cavalry can raid well, but it should 100% die to spears. At least, it shouldn't be cost-effective at killing it's supposed counter unit.

Right, I'd really like to see "column" movement implemented. Basically, battalions would form one by one into the column and they'd all "snake" together to the destination. Or else, if it's a short distance, they'd stay together side by side in a battle line.

No. This is exactly what makes 0ad different and we would like to keep it that way. Many of your ideas are trivial to achieve with mods which you can make yourself in 10 minutes.

Hello! I would really like to see in the game, in addition to demolishing buildings, also the ability to disassemble them and return some of the resources spent. What do you say to this? Something like a command button that sends construction workers to dismantle the building. Or you can simply return part of the resources to the treasury when a player simply demolishes a building. If the building is damaged, then the percentage of resources should be calculated from the current hit points of the building. This option, which is simpler than the one described above, allows the computer player to use this feature too. In addition, I noticed that, unlike Age of Empires II, repairing buildings and mechanical units for some reason does not consume resources. Is this how it should be?

It really depends on what you like. Tigris and Euphrates is a classic game set in Mesopotamia. It focusses on heavy area control with occasional wars that can completely level cities you have carefully cultivated. Concordia is a fantastic game set during the Pax Romana period. You establish trade networks and try to dominate different Roman provinces. Hannibal and Hamilcar is a card driven wargame that models the 1st and 2nd Punic Wars. The games can be long yet in theory a good sort of long. Not for the fainthearted. Command and Colours Ancients is part of a simple but classic wargame system that serves as the basis for the more popular Memoir '44. You can recreate a variety of historical engagements with it. Paolo Mori's Caesar! is apparently an incredibly well made game for representing Pompey and Caesar's war in only 20 minutes. Also, if you like Pandemic, there is a Pandemic variant representing the migration period, where you play as various Romans trying to stave off the barbarian threats. I especially enjoy the fact that the game models the historical paths the various tribes took.

I think the coolest and most comprehensive way to do victory conditions would be, as @elexis mentioned, to have a list of different conditions and let the host select them with a check box. That way, you can have multiple routes to victory if desired. Can maybe allow the players to create presets too, although if there are, say, less than 20 possible conditions then presets may not be necessary. Kill or Capture All Enemy Units and Buildings Kill or Capture All Enemy Units Immediate Victory or Timer Kill All Enemy Heroes Immediate Victory or Timer Destroy or Capture All Enemy Buildings Immediate Victory or Timer Destroy or Capture All Enemy Civic Centers Immediate Victory or Timer Capture All Mercenary Camps Immediate Victory or Timer Wonder Victory Immediate Victory or Timer Score Victory Choose Score Amount Team score or individual score Capture and Hold All Relics Immediate Victory or Timer Map Control Percentage Choose Percentage Immediate Victory or Timer Population Race Choose Population Amount Immediate Victory or Timer Technology Race Phase Race Game host checkmarks all the victory conditions she wants. Other things, like Capture the Flag and Deathmatch and King of the Hill are game modes to me, not victory conditions in themselves, though a couple of them might come with their own custom victory condition. Victory Conditions can be applied to nearly any style of map, while Game Modes might have other variables that prevent application to all maps. I'll start a game mode thread.

Would it be fun to have optional random victory conditions secretly assigned to each player? Like in Risk. Then you would have to try and work out which victory your opponent is going for and shut them down while going for your own victory. Some more victory condition ideas: Population exceeds X Resources exceed X Build X Civic Centers We could even have some silly ones for fun: Survive for X minutes without progressing from the village phase Breed X hundred sheep Let your enemies destroy X of your buildings