Grapjas

Why not discuss liked/successful open world games? sounds like it could give some good recommendations for readers. While definitely not an RTS in itself, have you heard of Foxhole? It does have RTS elements to it. EDIT: As to add one myself, Forza Horizon 5 was rather a dissapointment to me compared to what we already had to 4 (and 3). Also getting tired of them re-using old assets and not fixing / improving car sounds.

Out of curiosity, what exactly did you update? The chipset drivers? A windows update?

Yeah but try 50% damage increase over your un-upgraded army. Wouldn't pick that battle.

⚙ D4745 Espionage rework - Hide diplomacy and stats of enemy units (wildfiregames.com) (for reference) That's far from the only thing, and that can be important.

One could also make tabs between Statistics and History and BuildList(? for anyone who wants it, but might be a good idea if D4740 gets pushed). With tabs you have more room to work with.

Can be nice to have indeed, i could look into it sometime. Ticket

Could also make a rule that it needs to be a minimal X range from a CC.

I'd be ok with promotion techs at the barracks. Still personally prefer them to actually earn it out in the field though. Good.

Actually units getting to elite level happens quite often, at least in teamgames around 1500 rating i've experienced. The weird 3s(?) invincibility when getting promoted certainly helps it. Especially when players spam healers too.

I think you can do that in the same file.

You need to define it in `templates/special/player.xml`. IIRC you need to put the generic name of the unit without spaces.

with a Bee Gees song in the background?

it's part of ⚙ D4385 Multiplayer lobby ui enchancements (wildfiregames.com). I restricted it to 100 there from 256 as it currently is.

I fixed it, @Stan` shall i make a patch?

Played this game for 6 years and only now noticed i don't have it on either lol. Could make the button red if it's disabled or something so it catches the eye better.

Gonna be hard to properly test it with my mod because you can't isolate that change only. Better to make a seperate mod. It can be a good first mod for you to make

Good point, i actually haven't thought about that. Could maybe implement that soldiers can only get to 1st rank from barracks. Units above rank 1 won't get trickle.

Adding a 4th rank for some units (if a champion of that unit type exists in the civ roster) is what i did with Grapejuice. For example Athenian hoplite into City Guards. Imo it makes the most sense that they get experience out in the field to earn a champion status. If this would be the goal of a player you would need to play with a different mindset. The upside is, you get champions for free, The downside is, it's not so easy. But i guess that's balance. I agree that history should be supported for promoting them into champions and possibly even dress up specific unit models for it but that's certainly not the hard part to do.

0 A.D. Trac Mod List Introducing a new way to get more visibilty for your mods, you can now get featured on Trac. The idea is that modders- if interested- add their own mod to the page on Trac and we get a nice list together. Gonna tickle some modders to possibly spark some interest @nani@Langbart@azayrahmad@wowgetoffyourcellphone@Lopess@andy5995@Lion.Kanzen@maroder@LetswaveaBook@Stan`@wackyserious@asterix (unpinged people welcome too ofc)

sooo it isn't easy to count then? lots of people around with a weird smurf fetish. And i think the people that are actually playing competitively is well below 40 ppl. The rest often get instakicked from games or are smurfs anyway so you always end up with the same bunch. The rest of the lobby are mostly buddies playing together in a relatively relaxed setting.

https://code.wildfiregames.com/D4385 but it's a wip and needs some updates though. I need to get back to it sometime soon aswell as other patches. I'm certainly open for suggestions to include in the patch though.

I haven't tried it myself, so I'm not sure what's your best option. Pinging @Stan`

I think you can do it, i'll PM you (pretty busy this weekend though).

@Darkcity do you know how to make a patch? Otherwise it will be all talk but no action like many other discussions. If not you could learn how to if you want. EDIT: if you're on windows i can help you out.