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All civs should be able to win regarding unit roster. I think that aoe 3 made a good design (at least in the vanilla), some civs were harder to play but could strike hard with the right strategy. Today I played some games, and almost everybody playeed Britons. Currently rushing it's not viable and therefore turtling it's not needed. When designing unit military roles, you should take into account economic side. Booming it's the only strategy cause there's no real choice: you can make more or less citizien soldiers or woman, but an average player would try to set up a ranged CS economy. Cause booming it's almost the only way (to get champions), phasing doesn't have really sense. If the idea of phase I the choice to make a rush, some structural changes have to be made. For example, as Ancient empires mod, I think that spearman (militia) should be the only unit trainable in phase in civic center. Then you could build barracks and train spearman (rank 2), one ranged (rank 2) and cavalry javeliner. Militia units shouldn't be able to rank, in contrast with barrack infantry that should start at rank 2 with better stats, but 50% penalty at work. Then you should have to make more decisions between training units on civic center or more military oriented units in barracks. Defending a rush should be more difficult without ranged spam. Then cavalry javs could fit main rushing role (with low range attack, but not the OP way of the first online alphas). They should die if spearman gets close, but expect hit and run tactics. If player suppose an early rush, he/she should build towers that cav javeliners shouldn't be able to stand / capture. Civic center should grow the fire potential with every phase, starting lower. With this post only wanted to say that unit should be viewed in the broader context, taking into account the economic side of the CS, the availabilty, their role as defenders.. Sorry for the randomess.

Select a group of citizien soldiers with females, order to attack a unit. They will move to the unit (ranged soldiers also) and they won't attack. This way you will lose a lot of precious time under enemy fire. BTW, excluding civilian selection could be a nice addition (as age III)

Maybe he could do it better. Empire Earth, at least II, have a very weird counter scheme, and units die easily. Didn't like it at all, good concept, bad executed. I actually enjoy 0 ad better.

If autoupdate system comes some day to 0 a.d, it would be nice to be optional, but I think that's a needed feature for the Beta

Maybe rams shouldnt be able to capture

You're a not the only one. #3648 was trying to say that, I think.

Reminds me Minecraft I think that ores should differentiate more in relation to stones and bigger sparks could be a fast solution. BTW I don't know if in reality ore veins are shiny. About gameplay, maybe it would be simpler to have two kinds of ore, rich and standard (mining rate) and two kinds of size.

Nice concept. Included or not, it would be nice to include the models. Also colored sparkings could be a good addition to the different ores.

Very good job! 2016 will be Beta year!

Rc2 is the actual alpha? Cause inexplicably... it works. (at least I can launch it) Sorry for the headache

Buildings shadows are inaccurate right? Would be nice as option.

If I understood correctly, she's talking about new models (meshes). They are done, but need animations. Jos3BV started some women animations, that you can see there. He said that would return and send them, and maybe he will make more. Enrique, the artist leader, said that want to work in the upcoming months. He was away for a long time. You were asking about that? Edit: rereading the post, maybe Lion is right. Units get improvement with experience, getting better armors and stuff. In current alpha (18) leveling up was disabled, but in the newer would be renabled, so you could see the "improvements".

My idea: one market allowed per civic center. 5 traders allowed per market. So there should be a tweaking of profit gains, but IMHO trade should be a complement, not a substitute to the economy. This way trade isn't allowed with a single town (you need an ally or another population center), and there's no crowded commercial rute (and related lag)

No mods installed. Also as I said I removed 0 a.d manually. I installed the rc on my older pc, and worked (laggy as expected, cause its old with low hardware), but in my Windows 7 it doesn't. Reinstalled A18 and it runs as normal Bruno, I will send you the two files. Not sure if I have done right with the DebugView thing

I tried with automatic (with the setup) and manual uninstalling. 360 free GB. And yes, I tryed to reboot and redownload the setup, but didn't work. Tomorrow I will try to reinstall A18 as empirical evidence...

Windows 7. Any additional info that I should provide?. I didn't get any error installing the game

I tried to install and play both release candidates (1 & 2 ) from here, and I really can't open the game. It doesn't even launch a error console, it just doesn't appear. If I open the Task Manager, I can see the pyrogenesis.exe process (not in applications tab), but I can't finish them. I know that there isn't clues to think what is happening, but I could run 0 a.d always prior this alpha EDIT: I can't even taskkill the process.

The objective of this thread is summarize the unit roster of units, cause I didn't found any place where you can see it. With game getting near beta, gameplay design discussion is getting more relevant cause almost all features are getting done. So, my little way to contribute is doing this. Unit Roster Athenians Spartans Carthaginians Seleucids Ptolomies Britons Gauls Iberians Macedonians Mauryans Persians Romans If somebody notices some error, just give me. Would be nice, along the heroe summary, to copy that into wiki. Next day I will do a bonus summary.

I would be nice to have the "live" version embedded on the main web

The choices are based on the current DD, so the thing that I have done is fitting the old bonus (that you can check in the summary) into my new categories. I have made some changes, trying to avoid overlapping. Also I tryed that all "barbarian" (don't like the word) civs get a rebel heroe BTW, conqueror was a class that I didn't think about it. The 10th class.

It's explained in first post. Champion heroes get bonus on stats and Generals give bonus to nearby units. Edit: I rewrote the Champion heroe entry to avoid confusion.

Udapted all heroes with the auras. This is my sketch, inspired by the current DD, with some tweaks. Classify all heroes with a historical view into one category isn't really easy, cause a lot of them were generals, but also tacticians, leaders, kings, and warriors. With this concept, only a few civs overlap their heroes. Sketch: * means not sure Some ideas about special civs features: - A civ with an emphasis on heroes that allow a secondary class. - Iberians could train two heroes instead of one. With the fact that all iberian heroes have the same Rebel class, this would encorauge a gameplay based on ambushes

I think that the Starcraft II concept is the best for 0 ad in a KISS sense. No running, no marching. Only charging. When a unit is near to another, they should automatically charge (it should be able to turn off the autocast and to manually select targets) when a unit is near to a enemy in x space. So units would charge continuously in the mosh pit until stamina is drained. (just small cooldowns for the ability) BTW, for immersion sake, I think that units in fight mode should use run animations. There are some design decisions here: if stamina is used, we should think about an ability system, instead of hardecoring the features (camoflauge, charging, healing) make them working in a more dynamic and comprehensive way for modding (thinking about warcraft 3/starcraft 2 ability system). But I know, that it's easy to write, and the important is getting the things done, so that it's only a humble opinion.

Feels aoeish

Finally, I finished the summary of the current design document. Could be useful to devs, as well. Next step that I may do is trying to blend the DD with my suggestion.