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"Crocodiles have an important role in the environment. As adults they regulate the populations of other animals – stopping them from overcrowding and degrading ecosystems. Crocodiles also create habitats for other animals by burrowing and nest building. During the dry season, the presence of crocodiles deters land animals from using and drinking the limited water supplies. This protects aquatic life and systems. Protecting and restoring crocodile habitats benefits people by creating clean water supplies and healthy fish supplies." also favourite animal of world chess champion Magnus Carlsen

im certain world wouldnt be better without crocodiles, surely theres some butterfly effect that would totally decimate many ecosystems similar to how wolves going extinct/getting hunted down in some areas caused creation of deserts via herbivorous animals like deer totally decimating the local flora. https://www.worldanimalprotection.org.uk/blogs/amazing-animals-compelling-crocodiles1

ofc i dont have screenshot. ddoser cant know u are online, even if he knows ur OGname and ip, as long as you use alt acc, becuase rn IP cant be read through lobby, one must join a game to read ip of ppl in that game, pretty sure this was in the a25 info i read when it came out, as a solution to ddos apparently. so as long as he wont join your new account, in a game should be safe. also as long as he cant just randomly ddos known ppl ips, see who disconnects, and identify alts based on that, but this shouldnt be reliable, and will require manual labor, not something a program could do reliably becuase its not clear cut when the ddos jams the connection, and when this causes the disconnect, som1 might just be leaving lobby coincidentally, even in this case, just making a new alt, should suffice if old one gets compromised. well if worse comes, we can host off lobby right? idk how it works but cant be hard.

got ddosed 4x today, in a row, even got ddosed, b4 even starting a game, after planning to make an alt acc, and saying this in lobby(so as to avoid ddos, since his program, or he himself cant connect ip with in lobby, player). also read some stuff from lobby, about game crashing issue, prob ddos i assumed.

why cut the cables instead of removing them? or are they screwed in or glued in or something? why would anyone do that? probably accidental removal prevention.

i skimmed through that mapsize link, couldnt find answer, maybe i missed it idk. hyperion, how do you know that? could you tell me small/med ?

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many good things, many bad things in 0ad, for one huge example, brokenness of pto that seems to be increasing instead of decreasing, removal of stoas from athen and sparta, for smaller example merc cav slightly too cheap(ik its fixed a26 ive been told), jav inf are way too slow in relation to slings, merely 5% faster(if its 7-8% would be much better) archers are considered too weak ofc, but i changed my mind on this with the way sniping is now the new meta, which totally transforms the way the game is played, towards the better giving unique qualities to all units. the ease of defending with longer ranged unit when near cc, baracs, closed or cluttered landscape, and advantage it has when played properly totally makes archers completely fine, especially the boost in value later on in game with 20% spread tech becoming cheap as game progresses, with mapcontroll play and in again, closed areas. yes archers weak in direct fights, but all archer civs have some other ways of gameplay, without relying purely on archers dps. OP complete denial of inferior range cavalry harass play if spear+archer with proper reaction time and army composition. huge denial of enemy small count cav mobility around your base, etc.

a25 selecting enemy units i think is a rly bad idea, itll ruin part of game which is randomness/esimtating enemy forces. wasnt distorting enemys perception of your forces a thing historically? making differing formations to show an illusion of greater or lesser numbers. 501 doesnt always beat 499, in such numbers especially, randomness will be huge prob nearly 50/50 wins. because of pathfinding, and fundamental randomness of engage, fights will always vary insanely. you cant ever get rid of luck, without getting rid of interesting aspects of the game, which is open systems, not based in concrete, known or predictable paradigms. This is what makes 0ad interesting and allows for infinite improvement and options. in even game, one side gets some tiny advnatage from luck, and has to capitalize on it since if popcap is hit, any small advantage diminishes. Therefore luck creates scenarios and variability thatll bring out unique landscapes of competition, and it evens out eventually, over many games, everyone getting even random advantages/disadvantages.

because units overlap with eachother, so 4 may almost look like one.

he starts sending ton of tribute, i had to pause so messages are visible(already gg, ofc) i tell him to resign, he says "im leaving bye" and abandons. then he says in general chat that he resigned, while im afk(writing this). i ended game, alegedly he resigned, then he wont give points ofc(no point transfer since i ended) stupid way to abandon game and pretend it wasnt his fault, ofc wont give points after either. heres replay, and screenshots. commands.txt metadata.json

reduce cost of persian hall to 200 metal/200 stone and 200 buildtime, idk why its so expensive for no reason whatsoever(rn 300 stone 200 metal 300 buildtime)

i changed my mind, 15% move speed for all 15% dmg for cav hero, too op, then 20% dmg for cav hero wont be as viable. maybe 15% move speed for all, 10% dmg for cav? that seems reasonable. also removing the immortals tech debuff, of 10% less hp 50% less traintime.

i have recently started using persia, its not as weak as one would think, but very hard to play properly. id advise perhaps p2 10% food tech. make cc archer range tech cheaper maybe 300/150 over 400/200 food/metal. decrease atack, increas armor of citizen spearmen? so just pikes? with no hack armor? thats a bad idea. make the traintime -10% 300 food for cav tech into 20% less traintime. give better hero, instead of only cav hero, provide 15% move speed one maybe 15% dmg for cav. bow women too extreme, would change game completely, i dont like it. archer rank advance seems boring, given rn archers weak af, unless you mean cav archers as well, then interesting. accuracy boost for archers? maybe civ passive 10% less spread? all persian cav from cc can be interesting, but changes game too much still i feel, maybe all can come from special stable, that has limit of 2?(normal stables avalible also) cav hp to p1? maybe instead, do the "nisean war horse" tech p1, affects all mele cav,as long as you dont give swordcav to persia, this way could work, but make it expensive, 600-800 food perhaps. (20%+hp for mele cav but 10% more traintime)

on the internet, saying "i ate a @#$% meal" or somethign shouldnt be banable offense, if it is then there have to be mods who review the bans, and thats tiresome and costly for no reason. better question to as is, what does this muting provide? what value does it bring? and the answer is, absolutely none, its simply a nuisance. i understand banning ppl who spam, threaten others but those never get banned, but i say "o@#$%" instead of count and i cant properly organize games for 2 days.

everyone knows not to say the xyz words, changing 1 letter easily prevents mute, so nothing is actually being censored. its always a typo that causes the mute, or forgeting to self censor, almost never som1 who is insulting people. like i tried writing "count", mistyped "o@#$%" and it muted me, mute lasts for too long as well. its already a pain trying to join games 100 times for it to work, when getting muted its even more tiresome.

idk what happened on other side wasnt paying much attention but my side was interesting. metadata.json commands.txt

even more drastic, thats slight longer build and slight tankiness. im talking +3-5 crush at least and maybe 2x buildtime. altho this would deincentivize larger coverage of area walling. swords work great vs rams, many other units work ok too, rams are too weak rn if anything, compared to ele especially, but in general also.

stone walls arent that expensive, depends on what you are walling off. buildtime is so tiny, its neglegent, you may even build them easily in time if you see enemy coming, the question is really what you want to wall off, of course walling off completely farms and cc will be costly, but not a 1 by 1 walloff of cc itself, or a castle, or even a front wall to block off castle/towers from ease of access. Honestly since the scenarios of legitimate use are quite rare, people dont even use them when tehy are useful, myself included. Id like if they were moderately tankier, and moderately harder to build(buildtime)

ballon d'? ill assume you mean to twist my point into "only someone personally accomplished and at the top of their field should have the right to commentate on others performance". First of all that example doesnt work, someone can far more likely and easily have a great understanding of football with lack of physical capacity to play at the top level than have a great understanding of 0ad but not be able to play it at a level of 1600. This can be transferred over to 0ad insofar as mental capacity and strategic or informational understanding are 2 different things, 90-95% of the game is micro/macro/stamina. Nevertheless vast majority of people who played long enough, to have an absolutely basic conceptual understanding of the game, will have developed enough capacity to utilize this understanding and in a combined effect of these 2 things they most likely surpass 1300-1500 in skill, yes exceptions exist but we cant embed our thinking in exceptions obviously. i did say i dont see a point of a -1600 commentating on a game for others to learn from it, i will add to that that anyone below 1300 would most definitely be totally unable to commentate in an entertaining, productive or informative manner for the enjoyment of anyone who actually plays the game. to use the sports example not to extend the explanation further, imagine you are watching football, and the commentator is yelling @#$% like "why didnt he grab the basketball! he coulve thrown it into the net more easily that way!" "why are these idiots sitting outside the field? if they helped out then their team would win much more easily!" etc. theres a limit and its completely reasonable to say someone who doesnt understand some level of basics can not competently commentate. can this be entertaining for some people who have 0 understanding of the game? sure, i suppose but you cant fault me for saying this is ridiculous. So dont misunderstand my intent as "if people dont have a PERFECT understanding they shouldnt commentate". Cant recall how many times ive watched commentary and the commentator is passionately complaining and criticizing a play that was completely correct, or blaming the outcome on some completely unrelated and insiginificant factors, etc. or even spectators that dont know what they are talking about informing others of their so believed genial observations. My concern really isnt someone who is 1200 or 900 commentating, its the annoying delusion in terms of how much they think they understand, speaking with full confidence and arrogance, getting into details, or complete fantasy of their own making stating blatantly ridiculous things with full authority over and over again for 90% of the commentary that i feel is pointless. if the player understands where they stand and comprehends their margin of understanding even watching a 900 can be enjoyable, they could be lets say amazed at some feats they couldnt perform, or confused about some things, trying to understand whatever, even if incorrectly as long as the perception isnt that they know for a fact what is happening. as long as they dont explain in depth 20 step theories left and right that detach from reality from step 1 and go into absurd nonsense afterwards.

I wanna reply to a few points of the commentary. 1.early stable being too expensive and not giving value because you cant sustain production from it: i believe since mayu gets extreme excess of extras, per pop this gives much more production value(eco rate), in the same way one gets earlier barack when extra several berries, compared to no extras, per 1 woman, you get 2-3x eco on food(berries vs farms), ie if to rly simplify, 30 pop with berries being used gives far more production than 30 pop with farms. this being said i was doing the early stable strat for the first time from what i recall, so i did it too early, perhaps by 30-40 sec by either starting it early, or putting too many units on it, which + other eco mistakes caused idle time. 2."must attack when making that many cav early": i dont see making 6 women, then 5 cav (20 pop, 5 cav) as super early and unnaceptably costly to sustain without immediate agression/rush, especially as mayu hunting being a detrement. i dont agree and i dont see why you feel eco-ing with cav is bad for eco, or puts you behind When there is hunt availible, and one is adding onto those cav(increasing numbers initiative to later rush) why would you feel only offense is the option? yes i know cav very slightly more expensive for eco, when using to gather hunt, as opposed to making women for berries but given that i was then planning to add on more cav, the cav gathering hunt is only option for large mass(15+). Important point being of course, that enemy doesnt scout you, once they do scout you immediately initiate attack not to lose initiative. Point of rush ofc is to apply stress drastic enough to break the enemies adaptive qualities(ie better attack with 5 cav enemy hasnt scouted, than 15 cav enemy scouted u making 1-2 min ago and had plenty of time to prepare, make men/tower/what have you.) The whole point of mayu, i maximally utilize, for as long a time as allowed, taking as much netural as possible, or viable. with your rhetoric(go immediately, hunting is wasteful of time more than is benefitial via res accrual or otherwise unless post agression, or with a few while rushing), mayu would be mostly useless(still usable tho), you are criticizing the very viability of ele, given if i shouldnt use neutral hunt, and mass with it, thats the main point of op-ness of mayu negated, and if you think merely hunting AFTER rush is the only option, or post agression, with not all cav availible this makes no sense as you are decimating the profit potential of the mayu advantage, by merely using it mildly, partially and post key benefit window timeframe(after u attack, not b4 to mass up the attack force via neutralhunt i mean), basically eating crumbs and throwing away the sandwich. 3. The point about me being able to send 5 cav and force ur woodline to retreat, which you said was better than "idling" or implied half-assing of a rush: n1 i didnt have location of ur woodline scouted, so i couldnt attack you there immediately, directly, with ease or without some delay of going around the wrong way 50%, etc n2 even if i find the woodline, 5 cav most likely wont do the damage you were describing, in nash equilibreum(both sides playing perfect) you would most likely retreat for 2-3sec , giving enough time for ur cav to rejoin your 4 men, now it being 5v5 with 2 archer 2 spear 1 cav vs 5 cav realistically, as it often does it would end up in spearmen being exchanged for cav, as spear(s) get close to cav the 5cav side retreats back, spears die off with 1/2 cav dying too, all rest(2arch/cav) get into cc, and ofc while after all this happens maybe your cc has 10-15 more sec left to get the next cav/inf batch out(2-3 or 4), so no potential of houses/storehouse being captured, ofc also 2archers defend(deterrent) well vs such things via harass, and easily retreating to cc if chased. ofc if reality were as you had described, that 5 cav could easily win in perfect play vs 4spear/archer infsize every1 would do it every time. im not saying this strat doesnt work, im saying most likely it wouldnt work against a player of your skill level, or even a 2000 or 1900. but the actuality is my 5 cav cost a great deal of res(750+far higher traintime), walktime/searching for target. the fact that i made stable for the purpouses of training units at a much faster rate, with 2 prod buildings, relying on heightened eco from extras meant i HAD to hunt with 5 cav, had i sent them sr8 to you as you said wouldve been best, id have no production, as happened because of my misplays multiple times during the game(not sending women to berries/getting baskets on time, not having some cav hunt(1-2 or injured ones), many more i forget. The mild delay for ur wood women to walk to ccwood, and then back to woodline, while ur men fight me off(equal unitcost res exchange at best for me 200/200 or so), and reinforcements get trained isnt worth my 750 investment that i got an equal exchange on + lost all initiative as now u know my state and that i can make more cav afterwards, and uve made more military(cav/inf). Even worse if i wasnt mayu, and generally just atacked with 5cav(can be done with any javcav civ ofc) now i have no targets, my cav are guranteed value drain/burden/lost investment because you have the info, and will surely adapt with ease and close off all chance of me getting value(in perfect play ofc, which isnt unrealistic or unreasonable, jav cav are simple to counter and extremely familiar to all players) 4. point about either attacking all in, or ecoing all in, no half assing(i completely agree with sentiment ofc, you cant have your cake and eat it too, point of an action is to make a sacrifice in one avenue while overloading in a specific avenue, far above your enemies level as to get initiative, a snowball effect(geometric progression)result with a linear investment/sacrifice) ex 10 vs 15, 5 arent left alive, more like 8-9. with gathering hunt, 24/7 as long as ur cav are employed in eco you dont have any gameending, or improper play level, real severe drain on eco compared to the opponent, you dont at all fall behind(at least pre enemy starting to make men as carth, for minerals, but i play carth so i know generally at least 20 women are made, which tells me the timing of a general build order) and based on how long he lets you mass, without scouting you, and thereby being unable to prevent/counter you actually get more insane initiative, more and more so the longer you "waste time", as you said when you were dissaproving of me attacking at such a late stage as min 3.05. the future potential of a guranteed win lets say 20 cav vs 7 men or something, outweights the 100-300 res worth of loss in eco value stalling the immediate option to attack for a few min. not even fully speaking of the boost in later advantage that having extras untouched in ur base, compared to enemy who used them up, while u were draining midextras gives. 5. split units, 5/4 bad, better to go all together. while i generally agree with this sentiment; I do know it was my mistake, needed to scout woodline with 2 cav harass far ahead of the attack and forgot. I had just improvised on the spot, given unit positions of mine, and walktime/initiative wasteage that would come from me organizing them into a single group, also keeping in mind the 50% chance of huge time waste since hadnt scouted yet, and this way cav could find berries sooner if split apart, engage sooner, stall eco sooner at least with taunt/harass. this was not pre-planned, i also presumed that they could reconnect at behind, after the berry harass but afterwards decided against it having seen your numbers and knowing attacking further was pointless with 8 cav after scuiciding 1 cav+bit of dmg incured on the rest. i saw you scouted me and thereby had to attack immediately planning to not let you make men, thats why i didnt have the time to scout you, already having forgotten to do so beforehand. It did work quite well, my on the spot plan of distracting you with 5 cav, expecting you to focus on them with all men, and feel that your woodline was threatened, so that i could target your berries with rest, having scouted enough area to know where id find the berries at(at the back, front was scouted. 2 women dead, 1 cav dying was purely my micro mistake of idling them too long under line of fire, and 2 was the bare minimum i shouldve been able to kill, bad execution, not bad strategy, no men wouldve been in cc when you see woodline being cavrushed, youd bring all in, to get most optimal kd vs 5 and + not have me add in more and win vs ur 90-95%, while few were in cc for no reason. 6. keep in mind that this isnt an "ALL IN" as you state in title of your video i understand given last 2 or maybe 3 plays vs you, of same interesting setup carth. vs mayu. you would think that this would be an all in, since maybe 2/3 or 3/3 of the previous plays were all ins, and for all of them you thought they were, having not watched any replays and simply inferred. i woudnt call making 6 women, and then making even more women along the way also, an all in, which also gives me slight leeway in terms of few mins of delay or flexibility room as to how i act, as opposed to str8 0 women/men train, allcav b4 atack, keep only 8 workers on eco type build. i had maybe 17 women or so at some point, when 15 cav were attacking(and scuiciding 1+dmg+scuiciding position/engage which cost me the game, as had many other instances i failed, for example another being right after, where ur spearmen had a lot of time needed to come, and i was far ahead in numbers, retreated cav for no reason, letting u kill of my spearmen/attack archers). as long as i have hunt to gather, it have 0 forced all in only option move so the strat itself isnt an all in rush nessesarily.

none of the games are worth covering except the last one, and maybe one where i kill the ele(forget which one it was, probably one of the later ones).

i dont see any point of people below 1600 "covering games" from what i have seen of them theres only incorrect info that would harm the spectators understanding or skill. i suggest being extremely general and objective(purely reacting to occurence), avoid statements, facts, opinions or insights or simply adding "i think" and low player skill disclaimer helps also. nevertheless im completely fine with it.

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