Tonto_Icy_Tripod

I came here a few days ago. Been hanging around at 0ad until now.

I read uncle tom's cabin yesterday, and around the earth in 80 day's today (The one by Jules verne. I'm not really sure about the title in English...). Prolly gonna start reading Stephen King tomorrow ps. I read a lot when I read, but I only read like twice a year

I've done 3 or 4 different tests, and gotten approximately 130 every time, so I'll just stick that number in here

Awesome work guys (and girls?) Looks really good

yeah, I meant to link to them, as suggested in Griffin's post

Hot members wouldn't hurt either

That would depend on how much is happening, eh? Wouldn't be too fun reading something like ; Today was another slow day, so I thought I'd tell you I'm gonna have a birth-day in something like 200 days Cheerio Seriously though, move the link to the forums up higher, or make it stand out or something. Try to make it natural to join, or atleast check out, the community if you visit the homepage.

I'm crossing basically everything I have

Happy Birthday Have a good one

I know a little (stressing the little part), what is it that you wanna know?

Good bye Swellick, was good having you around

And since I've got nothing better to do right now (I do, but I can't be bothered to do it), I guess I'll add some more in here. Selecting units (and more importantly, cloning/microing) The idea here being, making a difference between selecting one kind of unit, or many. So, here's my plan: One unit type selected: AoK style. This is mostly used in battles I find, and for cloning vils. Seeing as vils aren't gonna be the same, it'll only be used for microing battles I assume. So keep it simple, keep it clean. Might be a good idea to arrange the units by health left? Several unit types selected: AoM style. Show the icon for the unit, along with a number. Makes it easy to just have swordsmen or cavalry selected, which is always good. Hm, that turned out less in-depth than I'd thought, but I guess I covered it all... sorry bout the double-post too.

think photoshop. Just not as free

Turning everything off would be great for screenshots I guess

It does, you just don't have the background behind the icons like normal. Or you could just learn the hotkeys I'd also like to add that I hated the EE interface... it wasn't intuitive in any way (which was also true for the entire game, but let's just skip that point ), which made functions which might've been good annoying. Haven't got TT myself, so I can't say I know how the enlarged minimap works, but I looked around a bit after I read this post, and it seems that instead of just the dots you actually get building symbols, for the different kinds of buildings (ie a barracks doesn't look like a house). You don't have to make it superdetailed, just make it like a one storey building for houses, and extremely high for towers and such. As I see it, unless you're playing competively you won't need that kind of feature, so there's really no need to make it look overly beautiful... Also, would it be possible to remove certain parts of the GUI if you didn't want them? For instance, I might not want to see the build part (if I only use hotkeys, why would I want to see the buttons?). If I could minimize or remove it, I'd be able to see a bigger portion of the map. Or, better yet, how about making the GUI into smaller portions, which you can then choose where you want. I'd make a pic, but I'd need somewhere to post it, so I'll just have to describe I guess... AoM is the example of course 1. Resource bar, you could move it around the edges basically, and it'd behave like the bottom bar in windows (if you put it at the bottom, it'll lie horizontally, while if you put it against the sides, it'll be vertical) 2. "Actions" menu. This is the one where you have the build house buttons and such. It'd be good to allow people to move it arond the bottom or minimize/hide this window. That'd require researches to have hotkeys as well though. 3. "Stats window" the one with the pic and all. Also a good idea to remove often, as it's big, and it's not like you're gonna sit there and look at stats during the game. I'd say, put this either in corners or by the bottom. 4. Minimap. Same positions as above, but This one is critical all the time, so I don't think it'd be a good idea to allow people to remove it (the way I see it, if it's possible to remove it people will think it's less important, while in this case it's rather the opposite, hence only the repositioning ) 5. Score, anywhere you please. Heck, put it smack dab in the centre of your screen if you wish Well, yeah, that's all for now I guess.

Anyone of you played Celtic Kings (or whatever it was called, I'm sure TRD can fill us in )? Apparently it had this ability to make the minimap take up the entire screen, allowing you to do quite a few things from there alone. I've never used a feature like that, but I believe it could be useful. Also, regarding the GUI being hard to understand, the simple way to get around that would be to just have an "advanced" option, like back in aok. You know how you could get things like formations, economic/military minimap and such when it was turned on? Something like that would solve any problems. In fact, even the vill allocation bar might not be the best thing for a newcomer to have, as they often won't have a clue as to what to do with it and it'll just be in the way in that case....

I guess the title say most of it, but despite that: Could you give us any kind of description of the GUI, or just tell us what you plan to have in it. I personally think AoM revolutionized it quite a bit, mostly by the group concept up top, and even more importantly the idle vil tab. The only thing I'd add to that (which was also done with an add-on program) would be to show vil-allocation (and yeah, I know you're not haing vils in that sense, but I actually think that makes it even more important ). Something like: Gold: 134/10 Wood: 300/15 Food: 321/16 If you see what I mean. So, any suggestions?

Welcome back

Sure did Thanks This premium website content you're speaking of, what is this? Things like having access to all art-work or...uh, I don't know... Care to inform me?

I would assume so. It's been so in all games since aoe I believe, and since 0ad seems to be very ambitious I see no reason why they'd miss out on that I could of course be wrong, but let's not talk about that

Just a quick question here, if points are there to show appreciation for good posts and such, what is the real difference between it and reputation? Except that in currency you also have postcount included. Don't get me wrong, cause I like both of them, and want to keep em both as well. It's just that they seem to do the same thing right now... If you perhaps made it so that you had an auto-ban for a week or so if someone dropped to -20 in reputation, and did....uh, something else with currency. Perhaps you could allow larger sigs at some point, or allow pics in sigs...I don't know, just distinguish the two a bit, cause right now there's hardly any difference as I see it. Also, I'd rather see scrapping points/gold/coins whatever and simply have the number. Something like: Currency: 23 Points sounds a bit artificial to me.

What you're saying is that the offensive player will lose his army, the defender will use what is left of his army (can't be too much or the bonus would've been too large) to destroy a large part of the offensive player's base. During this whole time the offensive player has created no new units at all. He didn't even replenish his first army, but sent them all to die straight away... I see your point, but I claim that the game wouldn't be played so statically that such a scenario would happen

It might not be completely realistic, but it's a good way of ending games that last too long. If a game goes on for hours I know I'd personally rather quit than keep on playing. And I do believe that's how wonders are used in games that have them... Gameplay>> realism

Raiding! Raiding and using small groups of units to control large areas on the map. I also can't get enough of doing the weirdest strats ever (ever done a militia rush? In imperial?).

I got the demo for aoe waay back over at a friend's house. Played it for a few mins, got bored of it and quit. Then we did some other stuff and... Anyways, I got the demo again a few months later and got hooked. I even found out you could play on the net So I did that for a while, until I found out aok would come out. Got that the day it came out and played it like mad...seriously. 3+ hours a day, 7 days a week. And I never really got bored of it Anyways, played it for a while again, got to inter or good player and then left for a few months. Came back, played it a bit more and then got aom. Aom is the only game I felt was intuitive enough to actually just pick up and play from the get-go. So I did that, to somewhere around 1800 and then quit that too Short summary: 1 aoe: I got no idea why I liked it, but it just got me hooked. I don't even have the demo anymore, but it was a good game (which I believe anyone can here can say as well) 2. Aok. There has never been a game that's as fun to play at a rook level all the way up to expert level that I've played. When you're a rook, huge paladin armies just blew your mind away. At higher levels there's just so many ways to perfect your play. The dedication needed was a major turnoff for a lot of people though I believe. You can't really expect people to pick up a game and realize that 60% of your units should be vils... 3. Aom: Very intuitive with the GUI, idle vil/military tabs and such. As I said, you could pick it up and learn to play very quickly, but then it got boring due to low pop and the lame strats that developed (I guess I'm not the only one who thinks fighting with monkies is lame ). If it had been better balanced regarding set and cav (and possibly a bit higher pop, but that wouldn't have been really necessary with the other changes) I wouldn't be sitting here typing this, I would be playing! I guess I should also mention that the zone played a major part in the success of aok, as it was almost the reason the fanbase developed. ESO proved to be a setback in that respect (though I hear it's been vastly improved...anyone care to comment on that?). Now that I think about it, that wasn't really a summary at all OTOH I know there are other parts I could add to that, but that I can't think of right now....I might add some more later if I come up with something to write