sanderd17

Ah, so it also happened when the enemy wasn't beaten yet? Well, I believe you can't attack walls and wall towers with normal units. And it looks like you're playing with the athenians. Athenians only have ballistas as siege engines, (I don't know if it has improved lately), but as far as I know, the AI didn't really know how to efficiently pack and unpack them. Most of the time, they just go into a cycle, without doing any damage. So to prevent this: * don't let the AI handle the Iberians (as it will tear down the walls immediately, it can't handle walls), * if you want a realistic game, don't use the Athenians until the ballistas are fixed. If you play against Athenians, they have a hard time getting your buildings down.

There are some talks about "capturing" a unit though, and making it a slave for you.

It's a problem with AI. When an opponent is killed, its remaining buildings become owned by Gaia (=nature). But the AI doesn't attack Gaia elements, even if they are threatening it (like a tower) or blocking its way.

Plus de niveaux? Comme les phases (village-town-city)? Les technologies sont seulement inclus depuis Alpha XII, donc beaucoup va changer dans le "technology tree". Je pense pas qu'ils vont changer l'apparence, car ça coûte beaucoup de travail.

Je parle assez de français pour vous comprendre, donc vous pouvez l'expliquer en français.

Wohoo, another Belgian. There currently isn't a translation interface. Some developers are looking at it. Once there's an interface, I'm sure it will arrive in French pretty soon, as there are a few French guys active. I don't understand this, you want to explain? Same civilisations make it easy to balance, different civilisations make it more interesting. It's a matter of making the right choices. This far, the designers wanted to give each civilisation something very unique (unique unit or building), although that didn't work out with all of them.

Multithreading would make the game so much faster. If you would put every AI in its own thread, you could play 1human vs 3AI on a quad core, and it would still be faster than the current 1 vs 1.

Temporary surveys are better. As the game develops more and more, you don't want to average the results over different releases. That said, maybe it could give a nice insight if every time after the release a new survey is launched. You could investigate how much better it becomes version after version.

Ancient Aliens man, it's all Ancient Aliens. And I give you some very trustworthy sources: http://www.alienswerehere.com/AncientAlienEvidence.html http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ancient_astronauts Now do remember, Poe's law always applies, but you never know in which direction.

Confirmed to work here. Pressing the hotkeys causes to produce the units, no matter if they're locked or not.

It's already in the game (in the svn repo). Just look in the atlas and you can add them.

This water rendering is just amazing, I thought I'd leave it here: http://mashable.com/...eo-water-games/ It probably won't be possible in 0AD (given the amount of water on some maps), but you never know.

In the distribution version, I believe everything is packed in one zip blob. If this still isn't efficient enough, maybe take a look at the pbf format: http://code.google.com/p/protobuf/ The reading speed of PBF is about 6 times that of XML, and the files are a lot smaller. As a drawback, PBF isn't editable, so it would probably only fit in the official releases. Translation of XML into PBF goes pretty quick too. And for the pathfinder, take into account that a lot of paths are often to the same place (like how many times does a citizen soldier needs to go to a certain dropsite), but with different starting positions. So flowfields (backwards pathfinding+storing) could help with that. Flowfields are mentionned on the forums here.

Je ne sais pas quel niveau d'anglais que vous avez, mais je dois demander d'éviter d'utiliser des machines à traduction. J'ai vu des exemples ou c’était impossible d'aider une personne parce que il utilisait une machine comme ça. si vous voulez répondre en Anglais, c'est mieux d'aussi télécharger une version française. Merci en avance pour votre travail. Et bienvenue sur les fora. (et excuser moi pour mon niveau de français, c'est seulement ma troisième langue)

@Mythos Ruler, also see the first part of that video: (You can remove my comment if you added that).

The right combination should be something a player learns by playing the game. If all his units are melee, he shouldn't be able to win, and if all his units are ranged, he shouldn't be able to win either. But this was only some Idea, if others have different ideas, I'm fine with that. After all, it those who do the work that get to choose how it's implemented. I suggest we come back to the subject about how formations should be managed.

They can kill a melee unit, but generally, ranged units are better at breaking the strength of an army, before they enter the real battle. Until WWI, ranged units were primarily used for a first attack (in WWI, this was done by firing a single shot). But once (healthy) melee units reach the ranged units, they're no match any more because they lack armour and suitable weapons (unless they have a secondary attack). When you use a right combination of ranged units to weaken the army, and melee units to finish the work, you should be able to defeat a bigger army that doesn't use the right combination. Currently, this isn't really the case, everything just comes down to total numbers.

Are all occurences of "trees outside the map scope" fixed now? Because I've seen some trees outside the map of gulf of bothnia in my build from April 5th. Also, every now and then, a berry bush appears inside a stone or metal mine, and workers from the AI desperately want to get it. I do launch my games from command line lately, if that makes a difference (regarding the allowed map sizes etc, although I normally use the default map size)

I know you're not really in favour of that HP - effectiveness link proposed here, but such a link could really help ranged units soften up the melee units in formation. Ranged units and defence buildings should not be able to kill a complete formation of melee units, but they should be able to soften them up a big deal. It would make the battle a bit more realistic because players would want to keep their ranged units outside the battle, and use them mostly at the beginning of the battle.

And have less range, and no "double arrows" technology. So as towers (although they have the same firing power according to the UI), they're not that useful. Anyway, it's equal for every player.

Or maybe experiment with a different restriction: a minumum distance between the towers. So a player can't make a "wall of towers" anymore, but can protect (almost) all ground with it. I think half of the range of the tower would be good as a minimum distance, so players don't need to leave a gap in their defence line, and towers can still protect each other.

I agree with the concept, less hp is less effective. But the function should be simple. Just calculate the percentage of HP left, and apply that percentage to all attack parameters (maybe ceil them to have at least a bit of strength) Btw, it all reminds me of this:

I don't think the territory border issue is a real issue. For me, it looks like a real battle for the territory (which 0AD is). Also it's an annoyance for the blue player because he can't build there. It's like a punishment for getting too close to the red player without defeating that CC. Anyway, I like that. There are other bugs with the border though (mostly rendering). Look at the screenshot

you need to use a combo, like mod+delete or something. It's because the mac delete button is in fact a backspace. It should be fixed in the next release (at least, someone said he had a fix, I don't know if it's implemented).

Too bad he isn't on the forums a lot, but it looks like he does a great job.