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I'm absolutely no fan of the new resource distribution on Corinthian Isthmus. I never liked this mixture of berries and wood; I think it just makes microing your workers more pain without any real gain. (One of the reasons I dislike Belgian Uplands, besides it being an objectively terrible map because it is so massively unbalanced.) Hunting opportunities seem unbalanced. I had a handful of deer available, but not exclusively, while my neighboring enemy had >a dozen sheep conveniently available where no one else could reach them. The two 1,000 lumps of stone are too few and usually in my way around my CC, and I don't enjoy to make it a p3 priority getting access to more than 2,000.

Ah yes, the famous ancient goldfish-fleets...

If fish are visible in shallow water against the ground, would it be possible to add a second layer to deeper waterbodies to make fish more visible?

More fish jumping - and their splashes make the selection ring visible! btw now it doesn't say 'Tuna' for every fish, but usually 'Fish'; maybe there's a nicer solution...

I always had that problem. I think deep water is a problem there: That never stopped me from fishing, though: I align my view with the minimap, max zoom in and then scan the screen with my cursor...

@FreagarachYour suggestions sound good. Nope. No idea about editing templates, making or applying patches.

It appears as if someone(s) decided to change each animal's behavior to its most annoying variant. Tigers and lions now never cease to track and follow a unit once they saw it from afar (unless you briefly hop into a building). On Ngorongoro for example that means if you take a look around the map you'll have literally dozens of lions coming for it. That's more annoying than their previous behavior of stopping the chase once out of sight. Elephants on the other hand now will quickly stop the pursuit after you hurt them and ride off, again more annoying than previously if you want to kite them near a dropsite. From what I got from @Player of 0AD's post elsewhere the same is true for walruses. Rhinos now are incredibly aggressive, unlike before where they only aggroed if you came too close. Someone wrote somewhere that they don't like the new behavior of the musc oxes now running away when hunted. Of course this is a list of subjective preferences, but I at least would like to know that those are deliberate choices that the community agrees with.

I really like it. Besides that it looks better and runs more smoothly, the push mechanics alone was worth it playing the RCs. @Player of 0AD I agree, especially the animal behavior...

ITT: nice user support!

a25 is out, maybe that solves that.

I don't know how you prevented Norton from deleting files, maybe you have to set exceptions to let the .exe run. I had to do that with my antivir to prevent some issues. You could also try another antivir like Avast (I don't trust Norton anyway).

Yeah, I still don't get what the problem is supposed to be, or why trading with someone else being beneficial wouldn't make sense.

@chrstgtr Either I'm confused or you are; metal from trade doesn't have anything to do with deposits? So access to metal deposits has nothing to do with trade? It's an abstraction of the benefits int'l trade offers? Again, an abstraction of the benefits of int'l trade? And 'someone else would want' is not how it actually works in-game? So again, I don't get your point of being hurt by it.

Someone once offered me a snack-bar with insects and it was ok; if it became more common, maybe I'd eat more insects. Nutrition/environmental impact ratio is better than meat, they're less sentient than mammals plus more distant, so nasty stuff like brain damage isn't as likely to contract (speaking about the Creutzfeld-Jakob sheep again).

I don't understand the point with the middle man; I also don't understand why you say Carthaginians are hurt by international trade. I think it's historically correct that trading internationally is stimulating trade, if only because other regions have stuff not available domestically.

There are still better and worse choices, IMHO. I haven't eaten meat in decades, because I think this industrial production is brutal and harming animals, humans and nature alike (the series of BSE, swine fever, nicotine chickens and Creutzfeld-Jakob sheep made me think); I eat seafood only in small quantities and with a seal (like MSC, whatever that's worth, better than nothing I guess). I don't have an own car anymore, I don't buy throw-away clothes. I've never ordered from Amazon, because f that f'head. I'm paying a bit extra to not have energy from nuclear or coal plants. Guess I'm not saving the planet with that, but just like you, I'm at least trying to keep my footprint small.

I had no doubt it was done on purpose; I just wanted to roll my eyes to that with ostentation. The only 'reason' given there is that you thought it was poor design, without any explanation why. :p

Women can't enter the turrets anymore.

Of course there's not one source of all evil (assuming there isn't actually a cabal of lizards or whatever controlling everything). But it's not like there are no boogeymen. If companies know their business model is ruining the planet and still lobby, lie and bribe to keep it going, I consider that evil. The same is true for the politicians playing along, of course. Our current Wirtschaftsminister (~Minister for Economic Affairs) has effectively shot down our domestic wind and solar industry while being very friendly towards the coal companies. With rampant corruption I'm sure he's not just an idiot but will profit from that financially.

I'd be fine with that, too. Next step: Wolololo!

@chrstgtr If you can't produce units house/pop cap don't matter either. As I can't think of a way a unit not being able to build or capture bringing up a civ again, I'm fine with healers etc. not counting towards the defeated status.

The basics of climate change were known in the 60s/70s, so it's more half a century of wasted potential. And all the money grabbing/corrupt people responsible for keeping destroying our planet will never be hold accountable.

But if they're technically dead by conquest they at least shouldn't have a temple to train new healers, right?