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Hey everyone! I made a simple mod for 0 A.D. that changes the civilization selection screen into a grid layout. No more scrolling through a single row – now you can see all civs at once and pick your favorite faster. Features: Clean grid display Works with vanilla and most modded civs Lightweight and easy to install Installation: Download the folder. Place it in ~...../mods/ (or your mods folder). Enable it in the mod manager. Launch and enjoy! Download: https://github.com/0ADMods/civ_grid Feedback is welcome! Let me know if you run into any issues.

@Lopess I had to translate a few things from Spanish (edit" Portuguese!), but I added it to Delenda Est and this is what I've come up with: So, here're some fixes I've made an some requested improvements: Green (verde), is the CivGrid section. gui\civs\civbrowser\grid\CivGridBrowser.js Line 154: Fixed the emblem's "squished" ratio from 4/3 to 1/1. This makes them perfectly round. Lines 156, 158, and 160: Values changed to make the emblem sizes more aesthetic for my 1080p screen. Desired Changes in this section: Remove civ name from under the emblems. The civ names clutter everything up. Change the tooltip from their history description to their civ name instead. The history information will show up in the CivDescription area anyway. I wish there was a selection sound when clicking on the emblems. Civs which are non-playable should either not be shown in the grid, or grayed out (still selectable so their history can be read, but not selectable to play) (this line is in the civ json file) Red (rojo), is the CivDescription section. gui\civs\civbrowser\controls\CivDescription.js Line 5: Fixed the emblem ratio from 4/2 to 1/1. Desired Changes in this section: That the large emblem shown here pull a larger sized emblem in a an emblems\512x512\ folder. So, whatever the civ xml says (athenians.png, for ex), but 512x512\civemblem.png (512\athenians.png) That there be a bigger gap between the bottom of the emblem in this section and the civilization name. The civilization name in this section should be bigger (more dramatic). "Civ Type" should be called "Region." "Region" dropdown should capitalize the regions and list them discretely. So: Asia Europe India Iran Mediterranean etc. Let's make "Civ Filter" into "Culture." We can extend "culture" in each civ json with more options: As others have suggested, adding buttons for the selected civ's Structree and Overview windows would be nice to have (but not 100% necessary). Perhaps right above the 'Pick Random civ' button. Speaking of this button, another 'nice to have' button would be 'Pick Random Civ (Hidden)', so that it picks a random civ for you, but you don't know which one until the match is started. It would highlight in red all of the civ emblems. This will work nicely, because you can choose a Region or Culture, and then click the Random (Hidden) button and it'll randomly choose a civ from the selected categories. In the Match Setup screen, it would show you as Random (All) or Random (Asia) or Random (Hindu). General changes: All Spanish in the code should be translated to English so it can be properly translated on Transifex. Summary If these changes and fixes happened, I think this feature would go nicely into the base game.

I think @Lopess wants to do that, and I am committed to helping him make the Pull Request for it.

This is currently being worked on here #8989. I hope we can have it ready for the next release =)

Moar mockups, this time for the Civilization Overview :

this looks great,we should add it to the main game!

@wowgetoffyourcellphone@Stan` Or any of our active 0ad developer friends, I'd like you to test this mod and, if possible, add it to the base game. I welcome feedback for code/logic improvement; I created it with the intention of it being easy to use with any mod. The only detail is that the region filter only works with the civ.json file if the "Region" key is filled in.

I think the 'generic' theme could be based on this Athenian example. Just remove all of the Athenian-specific things, like the owls, anchors, and ocean waves. That way, when a modder adds a new civ or the base game adds a new civ, the new layout will still work without necessitating a whole new theme right away. The theme for the new civ can be created later and will be helped with the fact that there will be a dozen examples of how it's done. I really like how the bonuses are represented by stencils, while the 'entities' such as technologies and buildings are represented by simplified, aesthetically pleasing round icons.

Gotta say I like the inertia in these two videos: https://gitea.wildfiregames.com/0ad/0ad/pulls/8957#issuecomment-140218 Especially the ships slowly drifting before stopping looks so much more natural than the abrupt stop now.

I think this button could be called, "Surprise Me!"

Great work, @Lopess!

For capitalization in the dropdowns, I think we can simply capitalize the words in the civ jsons: "Albion" is the ancient word for Britain. Sounds nicer to use.

When it's summer in Europe :

Edited the Athenian mockup with some DE-accurate information: I threw in some vertical scrollbars for 3 of the information panels and a horizontal scrollbar under the Hero portraits at the bottom.

Exactly. All we need at first is to make a generic layout (so every civ's Civilization Overview will look nicer right away), and then a civ-specific layout: perhaps for either the Achaemenids and/or the Athenians. If can make that work, then it should be a lot smoother making the rest of the civs follow suit with their own themes. All of the features will be in-place and all we need to do is plug-n-play.

Yes, looks great. I also think that all the civilization-specific ornamentation adds a lot of personality. I can imagine a base template with more generic decorations that act as placeholders until they're replaced with civilization-specific ones. I think that could help the visual development of each civ overview.

Yes, I liked several of your suggestions. They seemed sensible and, more importantly, straightforward to implement and likely to get accepted. Unfortunately, I just haven't had the time to work on them yet. I also agree that this redundancy should be removed. This one is very clean. Love it!

would like to share a few suggestions to improve the tactical depth and usability of unit formations in 0 a.d.: Maintain Formations During Attacks: Currently, when ordering a formation (like a Roman Testudo or Greek Phalanx) to attack, the formation breaks apart as units rush to fight individually. It would be great if formations could move and attack as a single cohesive block, maintaining their defensive bonuses and structure during defensive advances or slow pushes. Improved Stance and Range Management: Managing ranged units or tactical retreats is currently difficult because troops automatically engage anything in range, disrupting the battle plan. We need better control or dedicated stances to prevent units from breaking formation to chase retreating enemies or breaking ranks to attack targets of opportunity. Custom Formation Dimensions (Width and Length): It would be extremely helpful to choose the specific dimensions of a formation before or during placement. For example, allowing players to adjust the grid to be 10 units wide by 5 units deep, or vice versa, either through hotkeys or by clicking and dragging the mouse to draw the line of deployment If you see any AI, it's because I used it since I don't speak English. Thank you for your hard work developing this magnificent game.

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These are videos from a current work in progress to implement different forces into unit motions, like inertia, knockbacks and charge attacks! The values would be very customizable in unit templates for mods too! Screencast+from+2026-06-04+23-57-24.webm Screencast+from+2026-06-18+18-01-22.webm Screencast+from+2026-06-18+17-53-13.webm

So, exactly—since I plan to submit this mod for the next release, I’m currently updating it to the development version (I’m using the Alpha 29 dev build via Snap). If you want to test the Alpha 28 version of the mod, you can download (Releases 0.28.0) that older version from GitHub, though it won't include the latest updates.

Yeah, either remove the names entirely, or something like a name plate that overlaps the emblem could look really nice too:

Excellent observations, I agree with them, and yes, Spanish and Portuguese are definitely very close to each other . I'll see what I can do here later this afternoon.

Title screen -> Learn to Play -> Tips and Tricks or binaries/data/mods/public/maps/tutorials/ The chevrons above the units' heads signify (from single to triple) basic, advanced and elite rank; they go along with increasing attack and HP values and decreasing gathering speeds. (Since this site's search function is phenomenally terrible I don't know if there's a good overview somewhere.)

@Seleucids If you stick to raiding the formerly Roman parts we should have no problem. Here's one I thought you might like:

Another potential layout. It's less "graphical" and doesn't have icons. it's a simpler layout and follow the current more closely. Potentially more text on the screen than the other one, which I was trying to get away from.

Items like this for Civ Bonuses and Team Bonus. Stencil format. onHover tooltips give Description/History: Then for technologies and structures, we get icons like these, which have onHover tooltips giving costs, etc., as in-game or in structtree, plus Description/History: (technologies) (Structures)

I agree that a lot of them are visually noisy. In anything final, I'd reduce a lot of the noise in the textures and not pack in so many flourishes and details. I think the Athenian one is perfect for what I'd aim for. I'm super fond of the Han and Syracusan ones too. These are only mockups. The techs, bonuses, etc. in most of them aren't real. The ones which are real I had to do a lot of work to force the LLM to pull the relevant data from the civ profiles in Trac, which are outdated of course. The LLM doesn't have the entire source code and public mod inputted, of course, let alone Delenda Est.

@wzyas you are not saying anything that has not already been discussed in the link I've sent you, even in more depth regarding balance between what is automated in relation to added complexity. Please read that thread, you might find some interesting things being discussed. Now, if that is indeed the case for higher-level players, then I find this argument quite convincing. It would make things easier for lower-level players, without making it unfair in relation to higher-level players, which I find a desirable feature.

I am making a campaign which contains scenario-like levels to teach players advanced micro skills in battles to improve their fighting performance. This is the first version: battlecampaign.zip I will be adding more levels and tactics to it once Atlas Editor fixes itself from crashing all the time Feel free to give suggestions ! Link to the github (actively developing): https://github.com/Yekaterina999/battlecampaign.git

Omg amazing, didn't even know about that technique, i thought maintaining a good formation and ranged to infantry ratio was all i needed. I just gained 50 ELO

I think it would be nice to have auto-scout as a feature. In a lot of games with the feature, some people use it, while many don't. Higher-level players find it doesn't scout as efficiently as they want it to, so they prefer to scout by hand. Lower-level players like the APM it frees up, so they are more likely to use it. I think it's a fine feature. It's something that was desired in the original game design 20 years ago. It would be neat to have it come back.

I've submitted 3 PRs and 4 Issues.

It looks amazing! I think what would be great is if a feature like this had some kind of knock down effect for foot soldiers. That way an elephant could run into units, know them over and deal them damage. The ones who aren't dead will then be able to get back up like the trample effect in Battle For Middle Earth.

Two things. To let engine read your new tag in template (so that no error pops up), you need to edit the schema at the beginning of formation.js. To let the bonus really happen, you need to modify a few js, and you must understand the whole unit AI attack flow.

Yes it does, but in the videos, this opposite force is just not applied as it should, so the effect is less then its supposed to be.

OP! Thanks!!

We have a PM chat going, but for everyone else reading this, yes, you can do this: Make sure to update all of the refs (references) to the files. So, if another tech file refs that moved file as a prerequisite, you have to update that line in that tech file. Same if you have any pairs, etc.

Of course not, but I was having in mind some marginal use like using that wood to set some small fires and such, so they should give very little wood. It just seemed more realistic than leaving them with 1 food (what if one wants that food?), with the available resource change being a cleaner "completion" of the food gathering process, and the wood gathering presented as a new option.

Maybe buttons to also view Structure Tree, Civilisation Overview and Catafalque Bonuses from there would be useful.

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Single player, you resumed the game from a save? Replays can't handle that.

I think the balance is fine. Spears are strong, but need to close the distance first. Swords are in general worse that spear or jav. Their strength is their fast attack rate to mow down civilians. But they need to run away from anyone with near equal numbers. On Athens: It's a bit skewed anyway atm. since usually champ cavalry and naked fanatics are usually banned from games. Athens have neither and can shine with the other strengths they have. I don't think its so much unfair how they rank up if you compare it to e.g. elephant archers ranking up. SDL2 really has some issues. Most notably the common complete click bug (fix: ctrl+shift + a few left - right clicks). I tried to play with recording the screen with "screenkey" and "key-mon" but the few times I tested I couldn't replicate it. I am convinced some key inputs aren't reliably processed. This results in some players repeating the H hold key - which results in the units first attacking the nearby unit, but on the next H aborting the current attack and starting a new one. But if you only press it once, there's still a bit of doubt if it actually registered. The unequal heros was once discussed here (one version ago though):

It does in the video, but there are reasons why it end up just slightly slowing down the attacker. Now taking a step back from what I did empirically and reading the comments, I might just rethink some aspects that would address some defects like this one. Would be very nice, yes more realistic movements and collisions would make a boarding mechanic interesting.

News: Following my initial idea and combining it with the Endovelico mod (however, I'm developing it completely separately for easy application for anyone who wants to use it) World map: Made with GeoJson using the QGIS application; It is now possible to train more than one Hero/General. Coming soon: FrogWar, province defense updates, and perhaps skirmish maps entirely focused on combat, a total war-like hybrid. I'm still seeing what's possible at the moment.

https://www.bilibili.com/video/BV1xf4y1473M?t=3.1

Lose games→ this game is a waste of time, I should go touch grass Win games→ THIS GAME IS SO GREAT I'M SO GREAT WOOOHOOOOOOOO YEAH BABYYYYY

Here is a video demonstration of the playthrough @Stan`if you think it's a good idea, maybe I can make a PR and add these campaigns into public? I get that my maps are very empty, so any artistic recommendations would be welcome as well We really are missing campaigns and it would be cool to merge in some other people's campaigns as well so that the singleplayers have something fun to do :O