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  1. What features in 0AD are underappeciated, misunderstood or otherwise just not being used enough?

    in General Discussion

    Posted · Edited by badosu

    On 24/10/2021 at 10:37 PM, wowgetoffyourcellphone said:

    We should take a cue from some other games and have a few different types of flares. I think they'd be more useful then.

    I've seen a game has 3 types of flares, map drawings (impractical for the theme and pacing I think), pings (a typical flare) and ping with label.

    Ping with label is incredibly helpful, I think could be a worthy idea.

    Ping with label is written by the player, but I could see a quick ping opening a circular picker for standard pings as potentially a good/better alternative.

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  4. Suggestion: Players should NOT start with 5,000 Stone and 5,000 Metal right next to their CC

    in Gameplay Discussion

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    On 24/10/2021 at 4:46 PM, LetswaveaBook said:

    FeldFeld has been able to create balanced mainland and that one seems to be used. Also, if there are complaints then those people might enjoy a change. The only problem with the mod system is that it can be a little cumbersome to install mods (It can take up to several minutes!). If map mods are published on mod.io that could make it less cumbersome.

    Ugh, I really should stop being a lazy basterd and port A25, how come slopes is not the competitive standard yet? :-)

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    Player positions.

    in Balancing Discussions

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    Balanced maps has a grid configuration for starting positions in certain maps (slopes and bal hyrcanian shores). The algorithm can be adapted to make 6.

    1. 2. 3. 4. and 7. is just adjusting the already existent place players in a circle algorithm (adjusting by map size and radius of circle)

    5. and 5.1. is just adjusting the algorithm to use an ellipse with starting angle

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    Sparta Rework

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    I think it would be nice to see sparta developed to an extreme, even if balance might be challenging. Making it mostly eco-driven run by helots could provide both a great differentiation value and be historically accurate.

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  16. Are there bugs in A24 Atlas? I can't get previews or allowing civs to be selected to work!

    in Scenario Design/Map making

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    The preview must be an image crafted by yourself, it is also very buggy if you don't provide an exact format that the game expects (otherwise might crash the browser or bug the preview itself).

    On the map json you need to include:

    ` "Preview" : "<yourmapname>.png", `

    and then provide the png on ├── art │   └── textures │   └── ui │   └── session │   └── icons │   └── mappreview -> <yourmapname>.png

  17. The release of Alpha 24 and the recent announcements about AOE 4.

    in General Discussion

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    Some feedback there:

    > The biggest problem in this game is the networking. It seems to have the same sort of networking issues Age of Empires did before the HD revamp, except worse. Once you hit a 100+ units for each player, the gameplay slows down dramatically. If the multiplayer desyncs, the game is over and there's no way to continue. The unit pathfinding is pretty janky as well.

    > I've played it, we liked it, but the multiplayer issues made it a non-starter for us. And while other changes have been made, it doesn't seem like any real networking optimizations have been made in years. The only recent change that might help is them adding a global population max in addition to a per player one, so you can keep the lag from getting too bad but add more units per player as other people get eliminated. But it's not enough.

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  20. The release of Alpha 24 and the recent announcements about AOE 4.

    in General Discussion

    Posted · Edited by badosu

    45 minutes ago, wowgetoffyourcellphone said:

    One question that needs answered is: Do we need to do a bunch of PR blitzing at this stage of the game's development?

    My answer would be no until we have at least specs asynced, ideally with perf optimizations and network rework.

    Look at this post that is on first page on hacker news atm: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=26558180

    My first idea of sharing gameplay was to post this video for reference:

    After inspecting it for a bit notice how much attention is brought to lag and having to kick specs, the trees inside walls, lack of hotkeys, having to use low graphic settings, etc etc... It was just embarassing, eventually I had to edit the post.

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    Roman "Roads"--Civ Differentiation

    in Balancing Discussions

    Posted · Edited by badosu

    More importantly it would tie in with how logistics were a great advantage for Rome, imagine making a forward cc and being able to deploy units faster, seems like a great idea to me. Keep in mind a side effect might be op traders and eco due to walk speed, so perhaps we should disallow the bonus for traders, women or citizen soldiers not in formation.

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  24. Help with linux - balanced map mod

    in General Discussion

    Posted · Edited by badosu

    - Go to your mods path (see here)
    - Remove any file or folder with balanced_maps or balanced-maps in the name

    - Download the latest development version:

    - Create a folder named balanced-maps and place the file there

    - ????

    - Profit

    By the way, this is the development version, so if you're having trouble with this procedure (which I don't recommend if you want your 0ad clean of buggy code) I don't recommend proceeding. There are 2 fixes that still require being completed, a crash on map browser due to map icon loading doing huehue brbr stuff and the game stanza messages to avoid nobs trying to join host without mod.

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