[Balanced Maps mod]

Hmm.. checking it, thanks for the feedback

[Improving the capturing mechanic]

43 minutes ago, Freagarach said:

I would really like to see the ability to instantly capture empty Gaia structures (EDIT: and mechanical entities, see the War Story) by just garrisoning an entity within it. Then, instead of deleting, one can abandon a structure, i.e. give it to Gaia.

Well, if you think about it, outposts should do exactly that. And only give vision when the unit is garrisoned (or at least a considerable bonus).

But the same could be said about towers so, I guess gameplay-wise for those structures makes sense.

But in general it makes sense, I just am trying to imagine which sort of structure would be like that,

[Balanced Maps mod]

RC3: Fix for goats 70 food now, on alpine sheep are used instead

 

balanced-maps.pyromod

[Balanced Maps mod]

RC2: Fix DiskPlacer usage since it was merged and modified into upstream, fix hyrcanian shores flora changes.

 

balanced-maps.pyromod

[Mods on A24]

Release Candidate, if no bugs are reported I'll release this on mod.io next week:

 

[Balanced Maps mod]

First release candidate for A24, as far as I can see only remaining thing to fix is the new stanza command to deny entry for unmodded players on balanced map host.

Issue was that all berry templates are now inside `gaia/fruit`, which is very handy, thanks!

Please test, I won't be testing extensively so it will be what will be released if no complaints arise.
 

balanced-maps.pyromod

[Balanced Maps mod]

@ValihrAnt provided some useful data showing that there are possibly changes to fauna templates messing up with the counts, so even if gen is successful food won't be balanced (everything else will).

[Spec mod]

Yeah, I fixed that, unfortunately the top bar replacement is a bit tricky with the new handlers architecture without a proper way to deregister, working that out.

[Mods on A24]

balanced-maps updated, currently dev version (requires adjustment for blocking joins when hosting balanced-map against players without mod), find on balanced-maps thread on map making subforum

[Balanced Maps mod]

Dev version, only install if you know what you are doing.

Proper update requires further adjustments to avoid people without mod joining room if balanced-map being hosted.

balanced-maps.pyromod

[Can't host: enet_host_create failed]

enet: 1.3.17

[Can't host: enet_host_create failed]

Does not show any more info than that, that is the message...

Any ideas?

[Autociv mod 0ad enhancer]

@nani Would you mind sharing the diff for a24 or the repository if you use a VCS?

I'm having a little trouble adapting the mod checker for a24 (sendRegisterGameStanzaImmediate)

[See you soon !]

Chill out and be happy :-)

[0AD GUI and icons]

15 minutes ago, wowgetoffyourcellphone said:

Go ahead. You have a design in mind? 

Not really, what I'd have I'd probably introduce as a mod, if it ever came to fruition.

[0AD GUI and icons]

If we ever do this reskin, can we also do some rework on the UI to optimize screen real estate?

[0AD GUI and icons]

 

[0AD GUI and icons]

@go2die

[Slaves in 0AD]

Perhaps each house can train at most 1-3 slaves could be a good way to make it a gradual unit to integrate in the game. At least for athens, for sparta would be nice to be able to mass recruit slaves instead of citizens for eco.

[Civ Differentiation: Athens]

4 minutes ago, borg- said:

Anyway, I think I can keep the idea of having slaves trained in houses for athenas and for sparta it can be slave soldiers.

I think the more accurate and civ differentiating approach would be for slaves to be the majority of sparta eco.

I'd keep slaves as a new unit just for this case to validate it works and keep the changes minimal.

[Others RTS - Discuss / Analysis]

Great game: https://www.beyondallreason.info/
 

 

[Civ Differentiation: Athens]

3 hours ago, borg- said:

Ok, thanks for the clarification. I will formulate some new ideas.

But I just said the same thing a few hours ago
 

 

[Slaves in 0AD]

@thankforpieOfficialComments like these are the reason the balancing subforum is restricted, please read the thread.

[Goals for A25]

31 minutes ago, borg- said:

My main objective for 25 is to have differentiation from civilizations.

I think the point is that we should have a shared objective, otherwise we'll have changes all over the place again, which is not a good prospect imo.

[Goals for A25]

One of the things I noticed is that there's no overarching goal for a release, at least what regards to balance changes.

The changes introduced in A24 were all over the place and while I feel it's a superior product it regressed in some aspects IMO.

I'd like to introduce the idea of having goals for each release, in particular A25. This allows for controlled changes to be monitored and tested accurately while avoiding changes to unrelated sections to the goal that might interfere with a successful new version. Concurrently balance fixes should still be accepted, e.g. bringing cav back to be able to fulfill it's role as a raiding unit **if** it's too weak to perform as such.

So with the mindset that A24 introduced a firm ground with regard to balance, a suggestion for A25 would be civ differentiation (which seems to be the biggest legitimate complaint from player feedback). Feel free to suggest other goals, but ultimately it should be ambitious while restrained in scope and a single one.

A parallel discussion would be to have better feedback from playtesting, I feel ultimately any measure of progress is only attainable with frequent feedback. I don't think reaching our goals will ever be possible in a sustainable manner if we don't have that in place, but this is something that can be discussed on another topic.