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You are too behind on trends my dude. It's all about Web3 right now. We take the web and sprinkle blockchains on it. The result is the solution to every conceivable problem of the current web.

Usually large neural nets are blackboxes whose mechanisms are not entirely understood by the programmers who make it. Big data tunes the weights. Said data cannot be completely understood by humans due to its scale. See the axed neural nets from various large projects. Most famously, the recruitment engine at Amazon turned out misogynistic and was subsequently pulled. Then again, skynet isn't a thing. But there is potential for negative impacts here which are unintended by the authors. We don't make AI with if statements anymore. We feed it with enormous quantities of data in hopes that it finds a pattern in there. The pattern might not always be ideal because bias exists which manifests as artifacts in data sets.

Two years is too long without minor releases. Minor releases aren't really a thing since even small bug fixes can make versions incompatible. Minor releases should be compatible, else its a major release. There isn't a way to ship those changes without an actual release.

There is a pseudo-standard for getting heightmaps of size 512 (largest map size) from NASA Visible Earth topology maps if you are on Linux. All the random maps do it this way. /** * Heightmap image source: * Imagery by Jesse Allen, NASA's Earth Observatory, * using data from the General Bathymetric Chart of the Oceans (GEBCO) * produced by the British Oceanographic Data Centre. * https://visibleearth.nasa.gov/view.php?id=73934 * * Licensing: Public Domain, https://visibleearth.nasa.gov/useterms.php * * The heightmap image is reproduced using: * wget https://eoimages.gsfc.nasa.gov/images/imagerecords/73000/73934/gebco_08_rev_elev_C1_grey_geo.tif * lat=25.574723; lon=50.65; width=1.5; * lat1=$(bc <<< ";scale=5;$lat-$width/2"); lon1=$(bc <<< ";scale=5;$lon+$width/2"); lat2=$(bc <<< ";scale=5;$lat+$width/2"); lon2=$(bc <<< ";scale=5;$lon-$width/2") * gdal_translate -projwin $lon2 $lat2 $lon1 $lat1 gebco_08_rev_elev_C1_grey_geo.tif bahrain.tif * convert bahrain.tif -resize 512 -contrast-stretch 0 bahrain.png * No further changes should be applied to the image to keep it easily interchangeable. */ The actual map is split into 12 or so separate files IIRC and the above commands extracts Bahrain. The specific image file depends on the region you want to extract. Bahrain is in C1.

Since the sizing is the biggest problem, it would be an improvement. Our maps are not large enough for accurate scaling of ships.

I propose splitting the work to sections and merging the final pieces. Someone can write about unit classes, someone else can write about factions. Or combat mechanics.

Step 1: Write down an updated design document that reflects the current game. There was an attempt 2 or so years ago that failed. Step 2: Make it an open repository that anyone can propose changes to. Step 3: Add weighted voting to determine what gets accepted and what gets rejected. Someone who has been here for 5 years should obviously have more leverage than a new player. Might seem unfair, but knowing the culture and the community built around this is necessary to propose a change that's going to make most of that community happy. Step 4: ??? Step 5: Profit

Either that or work on engine bugs and underlying code without actually focusing on gameplay. In other words, what developers usually do. You can count with your fingers the number of actual noticeable gameplay changes that have been committed in recent memory. No one wants to be that guy.

A finer terrain grid. Water caustics for shallow water. Just use 30 or so frames and roll those on submerged patches with a stencil test on the water plane I guess. Do something to make ships better.

I can attest that I wanted to write some stuff in there at least two times. One was regarding something random maps that someone wanted to know the feasibility of, and some balancing stuff + historical discussions. I am not DMing someone just to post a reply. And I imagine a lot of people feel the same way. If I have the chance, this game would be beyond recognition, that's how different the vision is. And the spectrum of stuff people like are probably just as vast. It's like three gears interlocking, they don't spin. Hence why such a thing as making a rigid design document is going to cause so much controversy that the accuracy fix in A22 would pale in comparison. But at the end of the day, whose game is this and whose it for are questions that will eventually need answers. I suspect balancing per se is so dead because of the amount of work involved in proposing changes. You can't simply say, "X op because I got steamrolled by someone using X yesterday". Subjective reasoning isn't good enough either.

Without additional context, who knows. If you get sued, there is a greater than >90% chance that it will be considered fair use, because its non-profit, its used as reference and because screenshots have a legal precedence of not being considered under the same copyright as the software at least in the case of video games. The purpose and character of the use. The nature of the work that is used. The amount and substantiality of the work used in relation to the copyright owner’s work as a whole. The effect of the use on the market for the work. Fair use is subjective based on these 4 criteria. Regardless, online service providers fall under safe-harbor laws. Article 13 in EU also makes reasonable providence subjective based on the size of the platform, whether or not its non-profit.

You joke, but I see no more letters. It was always a countdown to get to beta and restart back at A.

I am pretty sure I have seen some of these arguments being used for adding stables. This not only contradicts the thesis of the thread but implies that building footprints and the fact that being scouted are actually side effects. What about house footprints? I am sure at times, that's an inconvenience too. The point isn't to create an autochess. Scouting introduces a new dynamic which is desired because the objective isn't linear gameplay. And I disagree that your opponent finding out that you are massing cav is actually a failure in game design. An equally valid stance is believing that not being able to scout stables gives an unfair advantage to the attacker and overpowers early cav strats. Ask any AoE2 player and they would probably agree with the latter. tl:dr; are these actually problems with stables?

I see, on my end it always opens as a raw image, not in the page. I guess a wordpress upgrade killed whatever dead plugin then.

It's a raw image. The back button is the browser nav bar.

No longer have the world. Although, I could probably find the circuit schema made with NI Multisim. It was originally done in an intro to digital circuits class, and I was like, hey all of these gates can be made in Minecraft, and just translated it gate by gate lol.

Doesn't have anything to do with map generation, so out of scope for the map script. The reasoning presented back then was that square maps look more unnatural, sharp corners provide an unfair advantage, there is unequal distribution of area and they are around 27% larger than the equivalent circular map. To be honest, I don't really care and I highly doubt the original proposer cares either.

Possibly something similar to what Unity previously had (deprecated in favor of video player). MovieTextures. C++ would be doing the same, but for the GUI pages, it results in a nicer framework. Also, existing animations itself could be moved into C++ with a new paradigm that replicates CSS3. Instead of translating onTick, you just change the position and define a duration for all position changes. The actual translating would be internalised and not done in JS tick functions. Probably a nicer GUI system for page design. The CSS3 animation system can be realised in 0AD just via mods without engine changes, so maybe something fun for one of the interested GUI mod developers here.

Those stretched textures on cliffs are ugly as hell. I wonder if repeating the texture without stretching it would look any better. Alternatively, make it so that the stretched texture looks more natural I guess.

Square maps were kinda deemed legacy and all new maps are preferred to be made circular according to the former maintainer of the random maps. Also, since the space is dead anyway, no need to have an extra 4/PI area for the sake of it.

That screenshot was atrocious, but I was mostly replying to the 2v2 game he was talking about. For the cattle spam, the answer is obvious and you should expect the lag with that much sheep or whatever.

I would say its more likely the AIs.

Submit the patch and find out. If your arguments are convincing, there is no reason why it won't be committed.

The point isn't about picking sides. Its more "does this warrant a FOSS game breaking conventions to do something unprecedented solely based on recency bias?". Especially when its going to stick forever. Why exactly does current events make it necessary to break a long running theme? Since the discussion is about names and justification of why said names either are valid or invalid, I would think its relevant here. The thread is after all, name suggestions. Zelensky is a suggestion and the discussion is about how appropriate it would be.

This entire conflict is about where NATO gets to draw it's border. Which is also why every other country in it has committed to keeping boots off the ground and not being directly involved. What exactly am I underestimating here? Nuclear war? Who will risk nuclear war over Ukraine? This has been seen coming since 2014. The motive is clear. Two nuclear states have been fighting over territory for years already. It escalated into airstrikes and guns being fired across the border just recently in 2019. Truthfully, I am more worried about that because the fate of the world is on two nations who hate each other held back just by mutually assured destruction. This has been the closest situation to a nuclear war ever since Cuban missile crisis. And just to mix it up, let's get China and their arsenal in there too so we get the full Asian experience. We didn't do anything then and we shouldn't do anything now. Seems like you are underestimating what has been going on already. So what exactly am I missing here?