Yekaterina

I prefer TGs with 500+ kills per person to 1v1s that end in 10 minutes after rushing with 50 kills. 1v1s make you improve very quickly, though.

I don't know any of these players, but if you are one of these great players reading this thread, I thank you for inventing these fun strategies! @sarcoma these players probably weren't the inventor of these strategies neither; the game goes back 25 alphas and there is no way to tell who was he first person to come up with the idea of archer cav spam. However, being able to admit who you copied it from without banning anyone from your host is basic respect. I copied the Ptol mass slinger idea from Hamdich, I don't know where he got it from but I can at least be honest that I learned it from Hamdich. He is a great 0ad teacher who raised me up from nubness (also berhudar and Marc and nagasushi). I can also admit that the first 5 minutes of my boom build order was inspired by Valihrant's videos, Havran and Christoffel's calculations. I learnt dancing from MarcAurel I can give credits to people who taught me things (intentionally or unintentionally). But some people with huge ego will refuse to cite where they got the idea from, then get angry if you ask them and bans you. But the problem at hand is, if someone can invent these, then it's not impossible for a new player to think about these things themselves. Newton and Leibniz and some dudes in Qing dynasty invented calculus in roughly the same time period, completely independent of each other! By the logic of smurf speculators, Leibniz is Newton's smurf identity and therefore should be banned from publishing maths...

I am starting to do this. I have also noticed some newer players such as LarsVanDijk, mebewell and sneakEP hosting games which allow both noobs and OPs. It's only been a few weeks and I saw a dozen of cosmic players rising to 1300-1400 level extremely quickly (even if their number can't catch up with their skills). Also it's not impossible to balance 1100 players if they are willing to learn. ALL OF YOU STARTED FROM 0, DON'T FORGET THE TIME WHEN YOU WERE SMASHED BY VERY EASY AI! It's often the case TG hosts swap out 'unknown players' for 'known players' who joins late, which shrinks the community smaller and smaller. Even old players coming back are discarded as 'unknowns' just because many TG hosts joined late A23 or A24. If Christmas, Rollo, Arkhipov, nagasushi etc come back, they will either get kicked or accused of being a smurf... sad Funniest thing ever, Boudica (one of the smurf persecutors), accused nagasushi of being a smurf xD...

That's a very gentle way to put it, 12 camels or 15 slingers at min 5 and it's gg

Many players are overrated and they don't want to admit it. Also some of them like to copy other people's strategy. In my opinion, copying good players is a great way to learn, I myself copied ideas from a range of players like berhudar, hamdich, Marc, weirdJokes, Valihrant, Christoffel-Symbol, Havran reza-math... But it's not ok to refuse to give the original author any credit and ban whoever claims authorship to the strategy you copied :/ Examples: Aslan's archer cav, Hamdich's Roman swords, Hamdich's Ptol mass slinger all-in push This leads to another problem: accusing smurfs based on strategy. There was a player Yafes who did archer cav and everyone claimed he is Aslan, although I know for a fact that Yafes is not Aslan or gertje. Aslan himself was also accused of being gertje but I have no idea about that...

@Dakara I am talking about a serious problem and you tell me to stop whining?! This is not about myself anymore, too many other people i e. New players are getting harassed, and I think that is an unhealthy climate in the lobby which used to be a friendly place in A23. You might want to know there is a Zakara impostering you although we all know who he is. We have confirmed that he is a smurf because he admitted it and told us all of his previous accounts. Most people claimed that Zakara is your smurf and even wanted to report you to user1. If that did happen then you would have been banned without knowing why. So dakara you were lucky. I politely asked him for his true rating after 2 imba TGs, and he gave up his other accounts because he never had a rating. So in future TGs we consider him to be 1500 instead of 1700. That's the way to approach suspected smurfs, not straight up harassing then non-stop. If the crowd did go with their instinct, I don't know what would have happened to you.

I know how to mute but most new players can't, that's why smurf persecution will only hurt the innocent and real smurfs will never feel any emotional damage

Some people just can't lose and they rely on knowing the dude behind the keyboard to predict their strategy and give themselves an advantage in balancing. If I just tell you I am a 1700 player, you have no idea how I will play, whether I will rush or boom or do some weird strategy. But if I tell you I am Reza, you know for 90% chance you will be rushed, or if I tell you I am metafondations then you know 95% chance you will be left alone to boom but be destroyed by a P3 push. Anonymity means you have to do scouting and more uncertainty, and some players don't like that. Furthermore, some people can't stand other players improving faster than them. So they come up with smurf accusations

We call that 'pancake'

No, I mean, their infantry is too weak on P1, which means a small infantry push from the enemy will be able to kill the civ completely. They need some serious ranged output, which is why I suggested crossbow to have identical stats to slingers

The crossbow walkspeed needs to be faster, otherwise this civ booms too slowly. To be honest, crossbows with this stat + spearman makes this civ very vulnerable to early rushes... at least give them an archer option for P1.

I prefer flapjacks to blackjacks: But the issue is not with the WFG lobby nor the moderator; the hardware doesn't change anything. It's people's mindset that needs to change and a few extremists need some re-education.

What are blackjack and hookers? If you can show me instructions then I will make another lobby. I just don't know how to do it on windows

That's how new players are treated these days, you just have to get used to it. These smurf speculators are often players between 1400-1950 who think they are OP and cannot tolerate new players who improve very quickly and surpass them. But new players often do improve very fast these days thanks to Valihrant, 0AD Newbie Rush and my build order guides. NO! because there will be dozens of false reports of smurfing per day and the clueless moderator will just ban innocent new players. @Player of 0AD why are you confused again? If you have a question, just ask here!

idk... 女人 vs 女孩 vs 女生 vs 姑娘 I am not sure which one was used in Ancient China

@AIEND please can you test the newest SVN version of the game and give us some feedbacks? Now you have convinced me to make Liu Bang a cavalry swordsman hero

Didn't see much of him in the action in 三国演义, but I suppose the novel is distorting facts.

SMURF SPECULATORS, STOP PERSECUTING RANDOM PEOPLE! As soon as I joined a TG, this happened: GOOD PLAYER != SMURF JUST BECAUSE YOU DON'T KNOW THEM, DOESN'T MEAN THEY CAN'T BE BETTER THAN YOU! WHAT GAVE YOU THE CONFIDENCE TO THINK THAT YOU KNOW EVERY SINGLE 0AD PLAYER IN THE WORLD??? IT'S COMMON SENSE THAT RATINGS ARE INACCURATE, SO PLEASE, RESPECT UNDERRATED PLAYERS! NOBODY IS OBLIGATED TO PLAY RATED 1V1s. THERE ARE 3,900,000,000 (to 2sf) WOMEN IN THE WORLD, BUT THERE IS ONLY 1 KATE. SO NOT EVERY FEMALE PLAYER YOU MEET IS ME. PLEASE RESPECT THEIR EXISTENCE AND INDIVIDUALITY! I AM NO LONGER ABLE TO MAKE MORE ACCOUNTS BECAUSE MY HARDWARE ADDRESS AND ALL IPs I HAVE BEEN TO HAVE BEEN BLACKLISTED. Funny enough, I am not using Arch anymore... @Stan` @user1 BreakfastBurrito, please explain yourself, why, in your mind, is this IuseArchBtw(1345) me?

@wackyserious I have fixed your template problems. It seems like you added auras without defining them, so it threw errors. Please give me commit rights on github so I can apply the fix. I spotted 2 additional logical errors: 1. Civ hero has no building to train them, so they remain theoretical beings 2. The heroes have no names!

Let me check it out. My concerns about it are woodlines, too much navy and turtling.

That will be OP! No sneaky ram can escape your sight!

I am really worried about 20 pierce per second after P3. That is more than a fully upgraded rank 3 javelin cavalry, and this thing has a range of 45m. The British champion chariot does 28.8 pierce per second and we still consider the unit very deadly (not as bad as iber cav) in spite of the heavy cost; a champion archer does 14 pierce per second. Maybe we should lower that number down to 12. Is there a particular reason why machine gun arms are bad? If we make the damage of each projectile sufficiently low then all will be fine.

I was thinking about 1 projectile per 0.5s or even 0.25s

@wowgetoffyourcellphone I think your ideas are really good, please give me an hour to work out the exact values for each of these though. About that champion crossbow cav, I am still thinking about a machine gun unit: most ranged units in 0ad shoot too slowly, but some designs of crossbows (or equivalent hardware) could fire at extraordinary rates, although the damage and accuracy of each projectile is low. Machine gun units in 0ad would be unique and funny.

I have nothing against the Han icons, because they are a new civ anyways. But the set you showed me this time is a lot better. What I was referring to is the icons for other units in other civs. E.g Athenians, Gauls