Yekaterina

You can research poison arrow tech, after which, your fully upgraded champion infantry archer will do 20.3 damage, which is on par with upgraded javlin infantry, so it's not a certain death for the Han player. But, they have to reach P3 and be very rich to afford many champions, so they are still underpowered. All other civs have javelin or slingers, but Han only has archers so theor maximum dps output is low. There is no chance a Han army of swords + spears + archers will survive something like javelin + pikes or slinger + pikes. In terms of cavalry, they start with cav archer (fine...) but their champion cavalry is basically a mobile version of Macedonian crossbowmen, and we all know how useless those are. There are spear champ templates but they are not trainable yet... Need to add them to a production queue of some buildings Champions can only be produced from the academy -> bad They need some buff to organic units. Their bolt shooter, however, is extremely OP. Valihrant's bolt shooter rush will destroy anyone if he gets Han civ.

After trying out a few battles against the AI I think the civ is not yet ready for commit; there are big balancing issues. The techs available to archers solves the range vs dps problem, but the crossbow champions are quite useless... we should replace them with a spear cav champion, or add a spear cav champion alongside (like the Seleucids and Persians).

@Lion.Kanzen @Stan` @Freagarach

For some reason I can't, because I can't log into my dev account. I will create a smurf dev account then.

I won a legendary 1v1 without losing a single unit: the enemy resigned after I killed 4 of his units. He was terrified by my 130 units large army that arrived at his base at minute 15. It was the height of A24 when everyone spammed archers. He was 1200 and I was 1300-1400 at the time.

In terms of skill: we get new players joining everyday so it gets updated every day. In terms of personality, well, we don't know the AI players, but out of the ones in the lobby who can speak English: 1. p _ _ _ _ _ (luckily this guy is gone now after dancing is nerfed) 2. J _ (doesn't like vaccines) 3. S _ _ _ _ S _ _ _ _ _ (haven't seen him in a while) 4. M _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ (was active in A24 then got banned, likes to spam the chat with insults but never plays) 5 F _ _ _ _ ? (likes to farm points from noobs then quit without resigning to keep his rating high) 6 ? 7 ? 8 ? You are free to fill in the gaps with letters using your imagination. Those who stay in the lobby a lot can know from just the first letter and name length. I am glad that I can only find 5 names, out of hundreds of players I have seen.

Who is this? Lobby name? Decger is inactive or smurfing so he can't qualify If ChiLLaOfVanilla really was him then yes, he deserves to be on the list. But, we don't know which smurf account (if at all) he is behind nowadays... I have only experienced decger myself once but he got beaten when I teamed up with hannah in a push. In terms of skill or personality?

I take it back now Luckily, he keeps his rubbish within the lobby and doesn't harass you afterwards It's fine to refuse to play with me but it's not ok to call lorenz that.

Why? I can beat him easily. Just take Ptols, get a few slings + pike, do your boom and push with a few rams then he's dead. Only 1 of these is active on their main account... others have betrayed 0ad by playing AoE and 1 or 2 of these might be in a smurf account. Historically they probably were the best but if they come back now they might get beaten up by any 1700+ players in the lobby. If these guys are in a smurf account then that's another story, but I think smurf accounts should be disqualified. Out of the active players, never underestimate the power of vinme, berhudar (who claims to be nub) and hamdich (who is everywhere but invisible). Also @MarcusAureliu#s is capable of pulling a few OP moves. @nani is an incredibly OP player but I don't know exactly how strong he is because he almost never plays on standard settings or 1v 1. It's hard to say who is good if you are looking at a weird map with nomad (potentially imba resources). @Emperior is also very good but again, I don't know exactly how good. Wendy just did an OP hold against Dakeyras and half of JC so he is also a potential player on the list. lorenz11 did support me well and finish off all enemies in our 3v3 so he is to be considered. Out of the 3 1v1 games I played with him, I won the first 2 but lost the last one where he surprised me with a skirm inf rush.

@user1 Typical JC

Borg is too inactive and plays AoE instead of 0ad (traitor)

Indeed he is, but he sometimes makes mistakes and I am not sure if he is on par with the rest of the people on the list if he doesn't abuse certain OP units. I need a proper 1v1 with him.

Some of these are inactive or very rusty. In my opinion the list is as follows: 1. berhudar / felixix (Has beaten Vali and borg and Book.) @felixix 2. ValihrAnt (we all know his OPness) @ValihrAnt 3. vinme (very OP rusher and 1v1 player) @vinme 4. defenderbenny (aka Deathwing-) (veteran player who returned recently with some smurf accounts, I only put him before hamdich because I don't know his exact strength) 5. Hamdich (hugely underrated; OP at rushing and Ptolemies, can smash anyone below him in this list whether you like it or not whether you agree or not) @hamdich 6, 7. LetswaveaBook / weirdJokes (former is stronger in 1v1 and the latter is stronger in TG) @LetswaveaBook @Player of 0AD 8. Choose from list below: Andreassadi - return of an OP rusher Rorrosaar - similar to hamdich but didn't practice enough Roscany - similar to rorrosaar Wendy - Return of an old Pro Rauls - OP boomer and Pusher, also decent at rushing reza-math - OP rusher, 2000 fighting skills but slightly slower boom Filipos - Havran's brother, very strong indeed Havran - OP at booming then P3 Push, also surprises you with a sneaky rush Father (and his smurf accounts) - just strong, likes champions SaidRdz - used to be 1800+ Some smurfs (NoobDude, Anka), dakeyras (if he is still active) @Dizaka (unstoppable merc cav rush). DoctorOrgans / JC / corona-virus (Spartan Brutality) Cl2488 (1v1 player who has beaten me in a 1v1 after a 40 minutes long struggle) ------------------------------------------------------- Feld, Jofur, borg are not active enough; stockfish is a bit rusty (got beaten by me before), but can return to the list if he revises his skills Anyone whom I have beaten directly in a 1v1 or a similar situation is automatically disqualified for the list.

1. Download the mod files as .zip from github 2. Extract the .zip file. 3. Copy the extracted folder into your mods folder. In Windows 10, this folder is at user/Documents/My Games/0ad/mods/ In Linux, it is ~/.local/share/0ad/mods 4. Once the above process is done, run 0ad, press options -> mod selection. Find the mod you downloaded in the list and double click on it to enable. Then, save configuration and restart 0ad.

Thanks. Next step I plan to make dogs red or purple so that they are even more visible.

New update v7.0: Audible projectile sounds Bows and javelins have amplified launch sounds and hit sounds British war dog model has been enlarged to a fat bear-sized canine, so you can easily spot enemy dogs attacking you and find your own dog on the map. This will make you much less susceptible to dog rushes, especially dog rush by black.

I had a smurf account called letsReadaBook

I made 5 attempts to become new person in the 0ad lobby but some smurf speculators are obsessed with finding out my past (which has nothing to do with them)! The longest identity lasted for 2 weeks until someone interrogated me and a bunch of 'new' friends for evidence of who I am.

There is a new player (very underrated) called Anka. They may / may not be a smurf. Either ways, I am not them, so don't suspect that I am creating new accounts then ban me. I heard some people claiming this Anka is me so I just needed to clarify. Thank you for your cooperation.

Do you mean solid houses that cannot be captured or destroyed, like rocks on terrains? That would be quite inconvenient and helps trolls who build all over the place. If units can go through these houses, it will be weird...

I suggest a unit: HwaCha It wasn't invented in 0AD but will be a fun unit

OP idea! we can definitely use more space on Mainland looting gaia is dishonourable

In my opinion, if the stats are moderate or weak then that's fine. Most people use champion swordsmen instead; if you want both champion pikemen and champion skirmishers, that costs too much

Very nice, Romans and Spartans are quite limited in range at the moment. Nice one as well, but maybe make it a merc unit? Otherwise Mauryans would be too OP again. A great civ like the Persians can't do without swords or mercs. Approved. OK as a champion unit. There are no infantry skirmisher champions so this will increase diversity without causing OP problems (if you keep the stats low) Generally, when adding units a structures, rather make them weak than OP. If they are weak then no one will use them and hence no one will ever complain about balancing. For example, Macedonian champion crossbowmen...