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  2. 0 A.D's Built-in Encyclopedia

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    I noticed you use non SI units for lengths, don't think this is a good idea. Many play the game in English that don't live in the US, the default should be English international. Foot has maybe 30 definitions and a mile ranges between ~500m and ~1850m.

     

    57 minutes ago, ShadowOfHassen said:

    So starting on the temple and there's no way I can fit all the information about the greek pantheon that I want to.

    Isn't the history element a scroll-pane? Anyway it's not like the UI can't be tweaked and I think @wowgetoffyourcellphone even made a proposal in some other thread which I overall like.

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  3. Help with my first test mod please...

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    11 hours ago, krt0143 said:

    About #4 - Do you mean to say that the Windows version can't handle maps bigger than "tiny"? :blink:

    Don't know where the cut off is, little bigger than tiny should still be fine tho. Giant certainly will crash.

    There are also snap, flatpack and appimages for linux, see https://github.com/0ad-matters/0ad-appimage/releases/tag/v0.0.26-alpha

    And building from source is rather easy for linux unlike for windows and if you are modding it's probably the best to do so in the long run anyway.

  15. 0 A.D's Built-in Encyclopedia

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    13 hours ago, ShadowOfHassen said:

    Did that fix it?

    berries_04 duplicates specific name. Also the sentence "These berries have not ripened until autumn." Doesn't add anything meaningful (spec name is Berries after all), so I'd drop it and just inherit the parent.

     

    About formatting, here an example of what I mean: 

        <History>
      Since ancient times, wild berries have been a viable source of food.
      While caution had to be taken so that poisonous fruit were not
      gathered, the berries, whether they be strawberries, raspberries, or
      blackberries, were one of the few sources of sweetness. Not limited to
      consumption whilst fresh, berries could be dried or squashed and their
      juice fermented.
    </History>

    If you need multiple paragraphs and maybe other markup you can file bugs. Images should be possible to implement.

  17. Alpha 27 Pre-release/Release Candidate Build Testing

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    2 hours ago, Gurken Khan said:

    I captured a barrack as Han and couldn't produce archers; or maybe it was crossbow men, I don't remember. If I have a barrack what is the difference with supplying my dudes with bows or crossbows? Why are the options limited?

    This is a general thing: I think captured buildings should give you the same options as buildings you built yourself. Is there actually any reason why that isn't the case?

    Yes, deliberate game design. In the past the only way to train a ram as Mauryan was to capture an enemy fort for instance. Feel free to discuss this in a dedicated thread. My personal take it is fine as is.

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  18. Why does Sparta have a theater

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    12 hours ago, Thorfinn the Shallow Minded said:

    I have before mentioned the strangeness of this inclusion.  Honestly the theatre might just be a better thing to have exclusively for Athens.

    Athens might be the originator but by the time of 0ad I believe it already spread across Greek, so giving it to others doesn't feel that wired to me. If it was a named theater used as a wonder then it would be a different story.

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  20. 0 A.D's Built-in Encyclopedia

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    7 hours ago, ShadowOfHassen said:

    Umm what does this mean? That I should make a template and inherit stuff from that? I don't know how to do that. Or where you put it. If you tell me where and how I can do it, but you could also create your own PR. It's a smart idea though.

    The parent attribute for the Entity element specifies where to inherit from all that isn't explicitly stated in the current template. So yes, my suggestion is to create a berries template inheriting fruit and then inheriting the generic berries one in berries_XX templates. It probably should have been done already but requiring translators to translate the same over and over pushes it past the acceptable limit in my view.

     

    8 hours ago, ShadowOfHassen said:

    @hyperion I have no idea what you said there.

    One or more white space, be it space tab or newline are all the same. You can simply continue on the next line whenever reaching the 80 chars boundary. Lines that wrap in the editor are to be avoided whenever possible in programming.

     

    8 hours ago, ShadowOfHassen said:

    Also, I could reference Shezmu or other ditties related to wine.  But I see your point. Baccus was pretty big with wine.  However, sort of rewriting the article to talk about the religious significance of wine, but if you have any ideas...

    Well, a sentence like "The soil around the grapes had to be aerated and the vine branches had to be pruned so that more grapes could grow." reads like they already had basic knowledge of wine production, which isn't surprising and not much info at all to be honest. So I'd rather elaborate on the role of wine in antique society, given there where even gods for it that role can't have been shallow. This one isn't a formal issue and so not a blocker, just mentioned it to give a hint as to how to possibly beef it up. Make of it what you want.

  21. 0 A.D's Built-in Encyclopedia

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    Just a quick look at pull 11, to much duplication, probably should introduce template_gaia_berries and inherit from it in berries_xx.

    About grapes, I'd expected a reference to Bacchus/Dionysus.

    Also xml is supposed to allow you to format your text without having an effect on the rendered result. So I'd suggest you split your one liners at around the 80 chars boundary.

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    Stoa was part of the game and bolt tower was intended to be part of it, they are available in atlas for use in maps. There are quite a few atlas-only entities.

  22. Underated (Vanilla) Hotkeys

    in Gameplay Discussion

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    On 30/06/2023 at 8:21 PM, Atrik said:

    What do you mean? :o

    Pathing and targeting algorithms.

    OAD puzzle: kill 100 spear inf bunched together with two sword cav. Use atlas to try, the 100 aren't controlled by a player. Two sword cavs so most peoples micro skills should be able to pull it off.

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  24. Balancing for resource gathering improvment costs.

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    On 17/06/2023 at 12:32 PM, alre said:

    but it's also cool that one can go to phase 3 just by booming, before the deciding part of the game even starts. that has to be allowed, and many players would go for it anyway.

    Well, there is little strategic depth to 0ad. The discussion around proGUI shows this clearly once again. Sure you should be allowed to play to pop cap in p1 but shouldn't expect to be competitive with that. That's what I mean by forcing.

    Anyway I play for the visuals and the great sound tracks, so I don't care enough to debate this to death.

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