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  3. Why not moving to Git?

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    19 hours ago, Stan` said:

    It's most probably EXT4 but from what I've seen gitea copies the whole .git folder.

    Then a COW filesystem like Btrfs might be best bet as it supports "offline" de-duplication so even if gitea doesn't cp --reflink you'd be fine. https://www.man7.org/linux/man-pages/man2/ioctl_fideduperange.2.html

    Added bonus of using Btrfs, backups are easier.

     

    Don't know Go but I'll grab the gitea sources, maybe I can figure out what it does.

     

    9 hours ago, Stan` said:

    The same vm is used for gitea phabricator and trac.

    They don't share subdomain so splitting sounds like a good idea regardless?

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  4. New Civ for Alpha 28+?

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    43 minutes ago, Lion.Kanzen said:

    It's not invented, it's reasoned, why didn't they have horses?

    Because they went extinct around ice age and were only reintroduced by the Spanish? Not sure what the current science stand is on the topic. I just remember that this one is/was hotly debated due to the book of Mormon.

  5. New Civ for Alpha 28+?

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    12 hours ago, Genava55 said:

    Maybe you are not getting my point. They won't have any interactions with the current civs. Ever. They were historically and geographically disconnected. You cannot add a missing link. Furthermore, we don't know their history. There is only a few inscriptions known from this period and we don't have any info about the events they lived. 

    We can't name a battle they fought or a king they had at this time. It is only much later we know their history better.

    Being connected or easily balanced or similar I don't consider valid reasons. The more different or spread around the globe the better I'd say. As long as the AI can reasonably play them.

    On the other hand I fully agree that we need enough historical material to not make it a fantasy game. Inventing structures and units for the sake of game play isn't a good thing at all. We probably do this to often already.

  6. shiny - alternative main menu & UI theme

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    3 hours ago, maroder said:

    If you like any of these options and want to see them in the mod let me know - and if you don't like any of them and none should be included let me know as well.

    For option 1 and 2 the button placing is a bit unfavorable. Option 2 is still in the realm of ok-ish. Maybe placing the main buttons vertically would make it much easier on art. The stargate (option 3) works tho.

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  8. Naval Overhaul (Alpha 27)

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    Visible garrison is quite the joke without scaling, battlements on walls look like shin guards. Now I imagine an archer roughly the height of ship body in a crow's nest.

    I doubt making ships anything else than simple units which work mostly like land units will ever lead to something playable.

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  12. Alpha 27 Naming Poll

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    39 minutes ago, Stan` said:

    I'll admit that I messed up on that one

    If even you mess up then I take it as solid proof that a release is far to expensive :)

    39 minutes ago, Stan` said:

    and the health issues

    Sad to hear and wish you all the best and a speedy recovery.

  13. Alpha 27 Naming Poll

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    @Stan`

    A good code name is one that people know how to pronounce and is available from the day the development cycle starts. That way the vulkan announcement could have mentioned it for example. Cynically speaking, currently the code name is simply another RB (even a month after FF), sort of a tradition already.

    I don't expect everyone to agree but unless the two points I mentioned are fulfilled we are better off without a code name in the first place. Axx naming convention is how everyone refers to releases anyway.

  17. boonGUI

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    58 minutes ago, Chesnutter said:

    It brought up the other 0ad pyrogenesis app. And then there was a red line top right in the menu screen saying that it couldnt find boonGui folder. 

    I downloaded the boonGUI.zip and discovered it's a zip containing the boonGUI.zip which is the actual mod :P

    So either unzip what you downloaded once or repeat the steps using the *.pyromod download.

  18. boonGUI

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    37 minutes ago, Chesnutter said:

    ERROR: The mod file 'path/to/someMod.zip' does not exist!

    Ah, I thought it was obvious to replace 'path/to/someMod.zip' to with the actual path. My bad for assuming something to be obvious that is not.

    Let's say its in Downloads and is called boonGUI.zip then it be 

    0ad ~/Downloads/boonGUI.zip

    Hint: use tab completion whenever possible

     

    As said before, right click and "open with 0ad" in file manger will work in all likelihood too if a terminal is to foreign, but you won't see any errors then and it will be a lot harder to figure out what goes wrong if it goes wrong.

  19. boonGUI

    in Game Modification

    Posted · Edited by hyperion

    4 minutes ago, Chesnutter said:

    I ran that in that in the terminal. it opened a new 0ad application... i dont think thats what you meant...?

    It should open the mod menu with the mod already installed and selected, click save and restart and you are good to go

     

    Edit: @Chesnutter, yes, nautilus is one of many file-managers, and likely the one you use.

  21. Why build with XP toolset?

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    On 28/01/2023 at 6:00 AM, stephenjust said:

    the Windows 10 SDK can still build apps for Windows 7 given the right compiler flags

    Are you sure those flags survive any and all of those creative hacks cross platform software developers came up with to work around quirkiness in windows headers.

    Even if building with an w10 sdk would under circumstances produce binaries that work I see no reason to not use an w7 or older sdk for CI.

     

  24. Catapults fire infinitely.

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    11 minutes ago, borg- said:

    Building attacked by catapults, become visible to the attacker.

    There is also a patch by @wraitii making attackers temporary visible so this would make a reasonable combo, probably attacked units should become visible as well.

    Compared to attack_range + ~70m  vision_range which would only reasonably solve the issue this would be full solution.

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  25. Catapults fire infinitely.

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    16 minutes ago, wowgetoffyourcellphone said:

    Such a ridiculous outlier will have to be dealt with if it occurs. Design for what is likely.

    Sure, just mentioned it to show it's not _that_ obvious.

    So minimum vision range  is "horizontal shooting range" + "largest building size" / 2 + "some 30 meters for elevation to make it unlikely" for all units?

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