Dunedan

The most recent release of 0 A.D. is Alpha 27 and can be downloaded here: https://play0ad.com/download/ The link posted by @Stugna points to unreleased code, which might be buggy and break stuff. It's not meant to be used instead of Alpha 27 for regular playing, but rather for testing upcoming changes. Unless you really know what you're doing, don't download anything from there. If you want to test upcoming changes, please report your findings as described here: https://gitea.wildfiregames.com/0ad/0ad/wiki/ReportingErrors Once there is a new release of 0 A.D., it'll will be an announced and you'll find updated instructions how to install it on https://play0ad.com/download/

Yes, that's correct. The hashes are sent to all other participants of a game each turn to detect out-of-sync issues, so without having computed the hash you can't send it and therefore can't advance to the next turn. Same is true for recipients as they have to build the hash of their own state to compare it to the hash they received from the host. @Seleucids If you're interested in digging deeper into this topic, you might want to read about all the different ideas how to improve it in Gitea: https://gitea.wildfiregames.com/0ad/0ad/pulls/7610 https://gitea.wildfiregames.com/0ad/0ad/pulls/7657 https://gitea.wildfiregames.com/0ad/0ad/pulls/7738 https://gitea.wildfiregames.com/0ad/0ad/pulls/7829 https://gitea.wildfiregames.com/0ad/0ad/pulls/7830

You might be happy to learn that I don't play with these or any other patches, as they're not part of a released version yet.

Please mind that this thread is solely for reporting, not for discussions. All replies which do not report disputes or offenses will be moderated.

Good point, the information returned right now is just for rated games.

The number of games won, lost and the total number are already provided by RatingsBot and are visible when selecting a player in the lobby. You could try out the chevrons in a mod and if it's works well propose it as a pull request for 0ad.

Maps removed could be moved into a "all maps" mod, so they're still available if somebody really wants to play them.

Any update regarding this? I'd very much appreciate more quality over more quantity. Maybe an approach to proceed would be to group certain similar maps and unify or only keep one of them.

What I'm referring to are the number of players playing online using the multiplayer lobby. The data you quote is from players having feedback enabled and from players using the Linux snap packages. Both of that isn't representative.

Most of the players who started playing 0ad during COVID, stopped doing so before a24 got released. There wasn't an immediate decrease with the release of a24, however during a24 the number of players playing online continuously decreased, until it reached a point where it was roughly equal to the number of players before COVID. I'm not sure if we can attribute the loss of players during a24 entirely to a24 or to what percentage it was just due to lifted COVID restrictions or people naturally loosing interest for a game they played for a while. That said, I personally stopped playing 0 A.D. after a24 got released as it felt just dull and boring compared to earlier versions. Even if we would want to, it'd probably be a bad idea, as only players with the same version of 0ad can play together and the constant need to update 0ad would annoy a significant portion of the player base. Many players aren't as invested into 0ad and aren't as tech savy that they'd want to update 0ad once a week. In my opinion the perfect release cycle is somewhere between once a week and once every two years, however the number of players playing a26 online had been pretty stable over the course of its life time. For such issues, players can use mods. If mods are limited to a small number of changes/fixes it also becomes easier to get them onto mod.io and to convince other players to install them.

There is a long-living thread for this kind of reports: Please comment there the next time.

https://gitea.wildfiregames.com/0ad/0ad/wiki/Localization

@fullmetal: please don't spam with such threads. Reporting it once in the dedicated thread is sufficient:

I'm locking this thread, as we have a dedicated one for such reports (where this incident has already been reported as well): For future reports what's useful in addition to the logs are screenshots of the ingame messages exchanged, as they're not part of the logs.

Thanks for the report, but please report something like that privately to a moderator next time. Also screenshots and other logs of such activity are much appreciated.