Feldfeld

Feldfeld vs LetswaveaBook Feldfeld vs LetswaveaBook.zip

I expect needing 1 or 2 substitutions in the tournament. Even if you are not sure you could play every week that could help (nothing lost by trying). Of course if you don't like the idea of playing lower rated opponents it's fine. I would expect your first game to be against a ~1600 and if you win then close to ~1800 next one Anyone interested in substituting could message me

I'm not sure I could understand which one.

Well, arguably it's my responsibility since I'm knowledgeable in that area, not to mention other devs agreed balanced with balanced map changes for when I complete my patch. The problem is, well, development is slow, be it for me or WFG team so the long term is not really a choice here

that's the berry patch I'm talking about. That makes 6*200 = 1200 food, + 6 sheep = 1800 food that's explicitly distributed by my algorithm. On the other end, you had 1800 food from animals so the result is equal. The other 400 food berry trees are what I call straggler berries. They are not taken into account by my food generation. When they are isolated, they are quite irrelevant from my experience, as it often is better to just transition into fields earlier instead of taking them. If they are near another resources, that could lead to some small imbalance. That is the case here, one tree is close to his hunt, so he can have a good efficient 1 for 2 farmstead. I would argue that makes his map a bit better overall. Not really game deciding but straggler berries could take a change, once I go back to working on that (january or february maybe).

I'll check again when I can but from what I remember he had a full berry patch on the bottom right of his base, which on this biome is equivalent to about 2 hunt patches (anyway my algorithm does the calculation so the total amount of food is equal without considering straggler berry trees) From my experience at playing at high level this alpha, none of my losses could be explained by food imbalance. Wood generation is way more important and even after removing Nubia biome I know it will need a more sophisticated change. I found that I always have a way to take advantage of my food distribution, and if I didn't unnecessarily mess my macro I always had an equal or better economy than my opponent. As far as I know, apart from straggler berry trees, I never saw evidence of imbalanced food generation.

Your additional hunt was compensated by his additional berry patch. And the position of your hunt relative to your starting berry near CC is irrelevant because it is worth it to build a farmstead at a hunt location anyway. If you don't the hunt food collection will be way slower. It's a tradeoff but it's never bad to build a farmstead anyway. All features of my berry patch / hunt generation are something I wanted. Resource diversity while being balanced at the end. The only thing I didn't balance about food are the straggler berry tree. Imbalances with this could happen although rare and it is rarely relevant.

The last match has been played, we can now start the 2nd round! Standings are here as always: https://challonge.com/sv36zmko/standings But first I have an announcement: the new version of feldmap (0.2.1) has been signed! It is now available on mod.io. This new version drops the quite imbalanced Nubia biome, so now we can drop the previous convoluted biome rules, and back to simply a random biome setting. Note: if you previously installed feldmap manually and wish to update through mod.io, I recommend you first delete the mod to avoid bad surprises. __________________________________________________ Round 2 matches: @ValihrAnt vs @Edwarf @Feldfeld vs @LetswaveaBook @Player of 0AD vs @Dakara @MarcusAureliu#s vs @Philip the Swaggerless @borg- vs @chocapoca @rm -rf vs @BeTe @alre vs @seeh The deadline for this round is Wednesday 23, 23:59 UTC. If all matches are finished sooner we could try to get closer to the original schedule but that's not a priority. Please try to organize your match as soon as possible using forum private messaging! Beware of timezone differences. Please message me personally if your opponent doesn't answer you after 2-3 days. EDIT: I see there is a new Community Mod version released, please update and use it for this round!

I talked to them already

I gave a final deadline extension for this Wednesday! So you will know your next opponent Wednesday evening at latest.

The deadline has passed and one match has not been played so I am looking to give a deadline extension.

If he couldn't connect to your original game yet without changing anything could connect to your new game, it looks like at the very least he didn't have the community mod.

Small note, you didn't play with Community mod. It's fine but don't forget next weeks!

No, I meant that slingers have lower range but higher pierce damage than archers in their template, and skirmishers have lower range but higher pierce damage than slingers. Edit: In other words, if you are using skirmishers unit it's probably wise to have more melee infantry in your army than if you were using archers

Meat shield is important too. Personally something close to 2:1 - 3:1 for ranged should be good. There is probably a wide range of working ratio, especially if you can afford to retreat if your meatshield is done but the enemy is still going good. I'd argue that the closer your ranged units is to the skirmisher line (low range high damage), the closer you will be to a 1:1 ratio. Meanwhile archers can afford to have a more imbalanced ratio. Mixing the type of ranged units can also be good btw.

Not enough spearmen, it doesn't matter that your units do more damage if the enemy can just attack your ranged units with much fewer overkill.

That is not hard to verify, each building has a set build time, so you can start a building with one unit and check that the announced build time is consistent with the tooltip. Personally I think it's fine not to show unimportant stats like acceleration or prepare time. You can easily have a feeling for it. I never checked prepare time of units and play by feeling, and, for acceleration I barely felt an effect from last alpha (though it's probably due to me being inactive before). For precision however, I think it's quite important, also this stat can dynamically change from promotion and technologies.

Well, technically, there are large battles, but there are also small skirmishes which could be very important early game. The game should be balanced such that a good player wouldn't need to rely/ be forced to be in a position where randomness decides the game. AoE2 has imperfect accuracy early game, and even monk RNG which is definitely questionable and can decide some games but in the end it stays because only rarely it makes a difference (for example map RNG would be just as if not more important). I'd say we need to tune this so accuracy RNG doesn't have too much impact in fights, and small skirmishes should be predictable up to a reasonably good level for a good player (they are currently, I don't know if/how it would change with reduced rate of fire).

I think the "Stand Ground" (not sure if this exact name, can't check game now) will have your units ignore tower fire, but it might not be convenient for fighting afterward so be careful.

I made a similar suggestion here: except I intended for it to be a straight nerf to ranged units + a rebalance of a few other units. If I make a merge request with that i'll do some experimentation myself to avoid starting with huge imbalances. If you want to lengthen repeat times and minimize effect on balance, from my understanding this would result in even higher damage for ranged units to keep DPS. Personally not fond of such high damage values though it could always be tried.

Feldfeld vs 011235813 Feldfeld vs 011235813.zip

The second edition of 0 A.D. Friendly Tournament Series has started! Here is the list of players: ValihrAnt (2345) Feldfeld (2201) borg- (2169) weirdJokes (1913) Edwarf (1861) LetswaveaBook (1815) Dakara (1778) PhiliptheSwaggerless (1642) 011235813 (1598) MarcAurel (1547) alre (1500) chocapoca (1493) seeh (1150) Bete (1108) ________________________________ The tournament has a swiss format. You can follow the tournament in challonge https://challonge.com/sv36zmko We have the pairings for the first round: @ValihrAnt vs @Philip the Swaggerless @Feldfeld vs @rm -rf @borg- vs @MarcusAureliu#s @Player of 0AD vs @alre @Edwarf vs @chocapoca @LetswaveaBook vs @seeh @Dakara vs @BeTe ________________________________ The deadline for the first round is Sunday 13, 23:59 UTC Please try to organize your match as soon as possible using forum private messaging! Beware of timezone differences. Once the match is over, please announce the result in this thread (possibly hiding it in spoiler) and provide the replay. Please message me personally if your opponent doesn't answer you after 2-3 days. You will find the precise game settings in the first post of the thread. Verify them before readying up in the lobby.

There is a small change in the rules. I have seen quite a lot of evidence of the wood generation in Nubia biome being sometimes very imbalanced, with some games where a player starts with no forest in his territory. Game 3 of previous edition between me and Valihrant was restarted because of this reason. As of right now I don't have the time to program a proper balanced wood generation. As such, I submitted a new version of feldmap removing this biome to mod.io, but I do not expect it to be signed before the start of the tournament, which means it won't be available for download. So for now, we stick in the current version of feldmap, I do not want to confuse players with having to manual download, so manual download is not available. Instead, there are new rules for biome selection: - the biome for the matches should be random - if it turns out "Nubia" is chosen, one player may call a restart (please do so before one minute of gametime) - if a game was restarted because of this reason, one player may force to select "Temperate" biome for next game. If you are not sure if a biome is "Nubia", you can pause the game and check the "Objectives" window, the biome is written in there. __________________________________________ On another note, we have enough players to have a swiss system. I will still host it on challonge as it looks like it handles it just fine. If you don't know how the swiss system works, you may research it on the internet. I set the first tiebreaker to be the Median-Bucholz, and the next tiebreaker to be wins against tied opponents. https://kb.challonge.com/en/article/rank-and-tie-break-statistics-1p5f7y4/ Players will be seeded using their ratings. You may see a preview of the tournament here: https://challonge.com/sv36zmko/standings of course, registrations are still open. Here I did the seedings from memory but when registrations close I will check players ratings and make final seedings. If the number of participants is odd, one player will receive a Bye (free win) each round. Normally it's the player lowest in standings that didn't receive a Bye who gets it. Unfortunately, challonge doesn't offer a column indicating player elo in the standings as far as I know. You may tell me if you want to see the ratings right next to player nickname (like we see in a game lobby in 0 A.D.). If someone wants to make a custom template for 0 A.D. swiss tournaments they may contact me.

Bien reçu mon cher There is no missing player but there is no limit to the number of players, so i'll happily register you

Yeah 3 is not enough, I was hesitating between 4 and 5, with a preference to 5.