Gurken Khan

You can change the players' colors in the match setup.

Not super important/war deciding, but on "Fortress" the starting resources don't spawn prettily; with the food treasures I really couldn't see that there's five. (There's been another issue in the courtyards with buildings where a workaround has been implemented.)

Mmm. That can lead to a unit slowly being killed without dishing out retribution; it's not like they're fleeing into a secure building. I usually have my CS on aggressive, but that also depends on what work they're doing and at what point of the map they are. But I agree that the player should handle it. Besides the text warning there's also the flashing on the minimap, one should look at that frequently imho.

The main counter against rams is: blades. If you have access to them build swordsmen; I've seen players garrison them in strategic locations just to counter rams. Ofc sword cav has advantages over pedestrians. But here comes a special counter tactic: women! With their daggers they actually damage rams significantly, and if you swarm them rams will have difficulties reaching their targets.

Did you ever play around with the game speed? (Via the clock symbol in the top right corner.) I play on turtle speed (0.1x), mainly because I don't like losing units and my units are friggin' stupid; so I can leisurely zoom around, build, micro...

@ShadowOfHassen "It serves as an amalgam of maternity ward/hospital/clone lab, barracks, stables, research lab a ruler's seat or other places that decisions were made and people convened, communal efforts were undertaken and signifies the heart of a settlement and is a gameplay mechanics necessity ..." or something along those lines?

Huh? If I just want to check out something in p3 I use gift from the gods and just go about it; you wrote you didn't want to play 15 minutes before you can check something... Just so you know: I'm reporting you to the moderation team.

Might wanna check out the cheats which for example advance you a phase or two: https://0ad.fandom.com/wiki/Cheats

Hi & welcome to the forums. Did you check your logs folder? https://trac.wildfiregames.com/wiki/GameDataPaths

While a TG rating might be good it helps zero with new accounts (noob or smurf).

It sounds nice to give the AI more character. I think right now the default setting is random if the AI behaves aggressive, defensive or balanced; I don't know how your suggestion exactly would influence that. The AI being able to surrender also sounds nice, although I'm fine with them hanging on to their life as long as possible; worst thing to happen right now is to check if there's a woman standing around in the woods or if some of them went off to build a dock somewhere... I don't know how difficult or expensive their ability to surrender might be.

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To clarify: is this without running 0AD? Glancing over your logs nothing caught my eye, but I'm not really a techie. Last idea I have is to disable mods and then see if the game runs better.

@MarcusAureliu#s It wouldn't hurt if you'd upload your logs, per chance there's something in the hardware we can catch.

If you say everything gets slow I doubt you will find the solution within 0ad. I'd recommend a fresh install of your OS. Alternatively look again for malware, update drivers, kill all processes you can.

Well, that sucks. @Stan` @Freagarach

First maybe check if the game uses the right (dedicated) GPU. From you description I suspect your antivir might be the cause; maybe you changed the one you were using or an update brings about this behavior. If it ~constantly checks the game's files & processes lags are likely. Maybe disable it for a test?

The stats should be visible somewhere. I don't think p3 is the right place though because you can get them earlier.

That's when you train your war chickens! I guess it's training cav from the start & putting them on the chickens until they're used up and then you sent your cav to your enemy.

@axo 1. I think it would be good if ppl spoke out immediately if they witness unwanted behavior in the lobby/game. 2. I don't know if the player base is actually shrinking. @Stan` had some statistics about devices connecting, but I don't know where to find it/compare it to previous years. 3. If you think a ~self help group thread is a good idea maybe just start it yourself. I only do single player, so everything MP I can't really judge/am not personally affected.

There's the disputes thread where ppl can officially complain & sanctions will follow if appropriate.

Oh, you think @nani could do this? If I just pinged @nani and kinda pose it like a challenge to @nani?

The vikings, who came from Scandinavia, used iron as their main ingredient for forging weaponry, but it was also common practice to add the bones of dead animals to the mix. The belief was that it would infuse the weapon with the spirit of the creature, making it stronger, but they ended up making a primitive version of steel because of the carbon in the bones mixing with the iron making the weapon stronger, just as they thought it would. (Supposedly true, via ebaumsworld)

I also have a few units I'd like other default stances, Ministers for example (they're strong warriors and shouldn't run by default). Could this maybe done via config file?