Feldfeld

Hey guys, here is my try at making mountains in 0 A.D. with the new random map "Alpine Mountains", inspired by the skirmish map of the same name : However, sometimes the generation can make a player separated from the rest due to forest blocking the path, this should be fixed sometimes later. The recommanded map sizes to put in the settings is one size larger than what you would typically do for mainland type maps. It would be something like Medium for 2-3 players, Normal for 4-5 players, Large for 6-8 players . Hope you will enjoy it. Download here : feldmap.zip

Thanks. I need to make a few adjustments to the random map and then I'll release it as a mod.

Yes. Will probably only be good for single player though, I would like to use pathfinder for mapmaking but I don't think that's possible

I wish, but difficult task without machine learning.

I'm not sure I understand your question. The elephant aura was added for realism purposes and i checked and confirmed the resulting balance shift it could have.

The issue with some of these suggestions is that they take space on the map (so less areas for ressources). Now it wouldn't be a problem if the map is played at a size similar to those of skirmish maps (so i guess normal size for 1v1 for example) but i'm not sure if it will be the case. Yeah i'll consider adding those when i have time. I did give each player a guarranteed mercenary camp near their base but didn't make the distinction factionnal/native. For now I'm a bit busy so there won't be updates soon i think. On another note my version for github can become obsolete in the future (if the simulation/data/civs files are updated)

Added version for github DE (A24)

Yeah, I think it would be good. This tech comes in age 3 but even if it could be made sooner I think it's too easy to raid fields. I guess we can wait for the nerf, at least the time to see if a strategy made around early elephants (like saving coins only for slaves and then making elephants army) could be too effective If it was up to me i think i would prefer to remove the tech (also because i don't like how the gameplay feels with the tech), but with the new differences introduced by the nomadic factions I guess we could keep that tech at least waiting to see how standard and nomadic civilizations fare against each others. Other nerfs possible are to move the tech to later phase requirement or making the citizen train time lower in houses. Alright then Well, perhaps then the range bonus isn't the cause but the consequence of the problem where you can get attacked outside your vision range and not really know the situation (in AoE games a unit attacking from outside vision range is revealed). I have vague memories of the range being problematic but maybe i'll wait for more tests before making my mind

What I have from a23 version and i think still applies to last update : - Fields too weak, they can be destroyed almost immediately on a raid (much more efficient than targetting workers) - Elephants too strong I think. I would suggest train time nerf. I don't know how it develops with the new coin ressource but i think it doesn't change much. - About women and house fertility tech : I think the house tech to train women is too strong, either to grow eco or even to possibly use women to fight. Women are cheap and have decent stats. Spartan women might also have a bonus for them i don't remember - From years ago memories but I think still applies : Catapults too strong against human (even in vanilla where human units have high crush armor, catapults are still effective). I have memories of catapults melting melee cav - From last version but I think is fixed now : ranking up gave too much range increase, but after i checked Imperial romans skirmisher stats it looked fixed. I still leave this comment just in case. I don't have anything for things like balance between civs since it hasn't really been tested (yet)

New version for DE : - Ported most of the new features from the vanilla version of the map - Improved farmland placement a bit

As of right now, balance wise they are not very useful. It could perhaps be interesting to make them efficient vs armored units and less cost effective against lightly armored units . Could be done maybe by introducing new attack type and having other units have very little armor against it.

New version for vanilla : - Added mineral balancing - Changed a bit how the map looks

New version for vanilla : - Food generator is now smarter by using areas. - Players now start with a guarranteed forest near their base

Well, the only files i think that enter in conflict are the civ files in simulation/data/civs (I used them to specify the unique building for each civ). I'll probably just update them when the next DE release comes.

I just made a *sort of* working version for DE. Things to note: - I made it on a released version of delenda est, if you find that dependencies are not met, try modifying the mod.json file to change them. - If you play it on a later version of DE compared to the one i modded on, some files may be overwritten. - Added farmlands, i'll look to improve the way they look later if i'm able to. For now there is also a bug where if they spawn on the edges of the map there may be some areas not covered by the gathering bonus aura. - Added mercenary camps. As of now I didn't make the number of additionnal farmlands / mercenary camps scale with map size or player numbers yet. - Added unique starting buildings. In the future i will probably change the way base spawn to meet the looks of skirmish maps (ie. ressources further from CC). The way I added starting buildings may make base spawning bug in other random maps -The spawn of guarranteed farmland areas / mercenary camps has only be finetuned for settings 1v1 medium size. In other map settings they will work most of the time but i should fix that later.

An attempt at farmlands :

Update : - Changed lighting effects - Changed ground textures - There is now fewer but thicker woodlines (in smaller map sizes specially) in an attempt to balance wood and to also leave space for DE farmlands. - Wood can still be imbalanced, I will probably look into guarranteeing a forest to players - I am still not satisfied with how i deal with trees and leaves around the road

Update : reduced density of oak forests

Hi guys, I had the idea of making a new random map with multiple purposes : - To adapt a skirmish map from Delenda Est mod and making a random map compatile with it (so, notably to have farmland) - To have randomized but still balanced additionnal ressources near players. They will have the same amount of nearby food (+/- 200) and it can be of same or different types (hunt or berries). So I decided to adapt "Britannic Road" from Delenda Est by @wowgetoffyourcellphone. Thanks to @nani, @badosu and @elexis for answering all my questions on map making Version for vanilla : feldmap.zip Version for Delenda Est : delenda_rm.zip Version for github DE (A24) : delenda_rm_a24.zip

Basically there are 2 ways of changing hotkeys, via local.cfg or via user.cfg. default.cfg should not be changed and has lowest priority, it just represents default hotkeys. I didn't know which has the priority between local.cfg or user.cfg, by the looks of it the later has. I suggest you change all your hotkeys in either file (but prefer not to mix up). If you have hotkey conflict, indeed you have to put unused to the hotkeys you don't want, however don't do it in default.cfg but rather in the file you chose to modify your hotkeys. Edit : also, user.cfg is not inherited by autoCiv but can be modified by it.

Then you can try going to C:\Users\Odin\AppData\Roaming\0ad\binaries\config and edit user.cfg Check if there already are entries for unit training, and if not, add the lines you had in first post (hotkey.session.queueunit.1 = "A" ; add first unit type to queue) etc

Try this : [hotkey.session.queueunit] ; > UNIT TRAINING 1 = "A" ; add first unit type to queue 2 = "Z" ; add second unit type to queue 3 = "E" ; add third unit type to queue 4 = "R" ; add fourth unit type to queue etc.

Feldfeld vs Edwarf Feldfeld vs Edwarf.zip

What are we even supposed to pick as biome ? And why would Jungle (or Savannah) be a problem ? The game won't be laggy with just 2 players and small/medium size and i suppose with the balanced map pack tigers are not going to be a problem ?