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I don't think this behavior is much different from A26, except they would try to capture it instead of destroying it.

I lose this one, lol: I try some kind of flanking thing. Need to perfect it better.

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Looks better, but one of the problems with formations is that they auto-focus attacks onto one target, so there is a ton ton ton of overkill (lost attack value). Ideal, units within formation should spread their attacks across the full width of the formation.

I like Socrates as a hero because he actually fought in battles as a hoplite before becoming the famous philosopher. He even saved Alcibiades' life, I believe, when the Athenians were routed at the Battle of Delion, and was given a commendation for bravery. His execution was a reactionary blight on the Athenian government, similar in my mind to what they did to all of those poor generals and admirals after that naval battle they won (lol). You wouldn't disqualify Thucydides for having been banished, would you?

This couldn't, well, be less abstract?

Right. I was thinking his nearby presence could make a building work faster (productionqueue; training and research).

I propose this: Keep Hippocrates, but move him to the Greek shrines, that way you can capture a shrine and then train him (just once per player). He's not bound to any specific civ. For an Athenian non-combat hero, I suggest Socrates and we come up with some other kind of bonus for him besides healing. Perhaps the Athenian version of the Han Minister or (Maur) Chanakya.

At some point, yeah. Just takes someone with coding experience to get annoyed by the current behavior and create a PR fixing/extending it.

Formation attacking in general is bugged.

Hmm. That's true. An actual command button should be there. An oversight for the feature, perhaps. Not an art problem though, per se. Someone needs to code the button.

Depends if it causes any lag or not, but I wouldn't mind if the sinking ship blocked movement for a couple seconds.

This is probably because tech requirement code in the templates has changed from A26 to A27.

Pull Request: https://gitea.wildfiregames.com/0ad/0ad/pulls/7604

Yep, looks like my example was missing a set of brackets for each entity.

Yep! Variants for all the biomes that use the newer (big, the 2 middle ones as shown in the video) models. The only one that doesn't is the Alpine-Arctic ore, because it requires a "snow cap" prop, and such a prop I think would be stifling for the small ore models and hurt recognition. Will just use aegean_small_01 for that one. I think these run enough shades and colors that they can apply to almost any appropriate biome (for instance, Badlands, Sahara, or Savanna could all be used for the "Persia" biome or a "Middle Eastern" map, depending on the color of mountains and cliff terrains you're using). You don't see the filename in-game, so that's irrelevant to the player. All that matters is that the metal ore templates used match the map's color scheme.

Ope!

Gimme the entire file.

Persians, Ptolemies, Carthaginians, too. And possibly the nomad civs a couple releases from now: Scythians, Xiongnu.

You got some kind of character or space or something probably. Zip up the xml and post it and I can look at it.

I kissed the comma between Entity entries. Make sure to read the error messages. Sometimes they are helpful, specifically this line:

"requirements": { "all": [ "entity": { "class": "Village", "number": 25 } "entity": { "class": "Town", "number": 2 } ] }, Something like this. Also, in json files, we use tabs instead of spaces. In XML files, such as actors or templates, we use two spaces in lieu of tabs. Also, "any" instead of "all" in a situation like this gives the player to either build 25 village phase structures or 2 town phase strictures, which could be interesting depending on what you're going for. Make sure to be very explicit about the requirements in your "tooltip:" section. I hope this helps!

You need two "entity" entries.

An example from DE: