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Thanks, a good idea. Enjoy your Arch! AUR helpers are seriously OP.

I think a plausible cause is a contact problem between the USB and the PC while it is booting. It has happened to me before. Just try booting again.

Hmm the first one is very strange. Endeavour OS should only present you with graphical interface and no command line. If UEFI fails then falling back to Bios boot is a good idea. I am just not sure if you will encounter problems when you try to dual boot. If you want to dual boot, make sure you install windows 10 first, then Linux, because windows automatically overwrites everything.

@Ceres I typed up this document on how to install Arch Linux, KDE desktop and set up Arch dev environment for 0ad dev: Arch install guide.docx Please skip to step 15 if you have Endeavour OS installed already.

Ok. Endeavour OS is a good starting point. It is easier to install. However, the setup bit is the same as Arch

@Ceres Do you need me to show you how to install arch? Or can you install it by yourself, using other tutorial videos?

Yes, use rufus to flash the image is the most reliable method. Choose to write in UEFI or mbr mode (just not dd). If you do it right your USB should be named something like ARCHLINUX_2021 Then boot into UEFI mode if your PC supports it. I am making a tutorial video on how to set up arch for 0ad, please stay tuned!

Sorry man, but that is what I initially thought. Again, a poll would be informative.

Please don't get me wrong, I have nothing against the mod or Wow. I am just used to sending women to farming and wood then men to wood and mining. It has been like that for as long as I can remember (at least 3 alphas) and there is no point in making changes to the base game. I can make the two gender citizen mod a part of autociv or BoonGUI or something that is lobby compatible as well (for people who are interested), but implementing it into the base game makes sorting out models in the public folder slightly harder. It would be quite surprising for an old player when they upgrade to A27 and see the women icon in the CC gone. We can have a poll to decide whether to implement 2 gender citizens or not. Furthermore, since most soldier units are male, having half of the gatherers being male means even less females being produced and represented in your population composition. Not sure if that is a step towards or away from gender equality. To summarise, put your ideas into a lobby-compatible mod but please don't make changes to vanilla 0AD.

I make spearmen farm with women just in case there is a melee cav rush.

I do that as well, I think it is a good strategy. I guess killing male units also isn't politically correct, nor does it make the game less 'sexist'. So, to be absolutely politically correct, the units can't depict men or women, let's make them pure robots that look like Among Us characters or Pony Ascendant. (was sarcastic, please don't do that)

Tbh female players are more concerned about lobby harassment than 1 gender citizen...

Play against an Iberian AI, or on a map which offers walls by default?

This has gone a bit too far. 1. 'Female citizens' in 0ad are UnitAI + template.xml + actor.xml. They have nothing to do with real women whatsoever. So there is no sexism involved since we are dealing with purely AIs. 2. If you make 'male gatherers' , then someone could ask for 'female soldiers'. But if you implement that, you see women killed on the battlefield, then they will protest because women's rights have been violated... So these people will never be satisfied... 3. Women rush can be an effective strategy to delay your opponent. I don't see why the creator of the thread just sprays in a random criticism and never returned to check out the the mod. They have not returned since November 2020... No other female players have had this complaint, nor are the interested in installing extra mods to make the AIs more politically correct... This led me to suspect that whether this Crea is trolling...

A kernel is a sort of a bridge between hardware and software. It is the very basic core of an operating system. Xanmod is another alternative linux kernel that is better optimised than the default one. It doesn't matter too much. The idea is, if you install Arch, you can choose which kernel to install by yourself, so you won't end up with one that you don't like and spend hours compiling a new one. For other Linux distros, they give you one by default. If you like their default one, that's good, but if you don't, then you need to compile a new one and reinstall the kernel. This process is very tedious on some distros.

@Stan` Please take a look at this: The lobby is not displaying any games, so we can't join or host.

Yes https://github.com/0ad/0ad/releases

Yes, I suppose so. However, if is some extra work and you still can't get things as bleeding edge as Arch. You still can't get KDE Plasma 5.2 on Debian, but it has been available for a long time on Arch. Xanmod Kernel might be worth it but it really isn't as convenient as Endeavour OS.

Arch Linux has good performance indeed; you can get access to the latest nvidia drivers quite easily and use custom kernels (I use linux-zen) for even better performance. Furthermore, getting an AUR helper like yay or paru means easy access to a huge database of software packages, including proprietary ones (Zoom, MS Teams, Whatsapp, WPS Office) and testing versions of Windows-only apps. Furthermore, all of the packages you use are the latest and greatest. However, there are 2 major problems with Arch Linux: 1. You need install it via command line interface, so some might find it hard. However, there are so many tutorials on Youtube so it really isn't a problem. If you are afraid of damaging your PC, you can try it in VirtualBox first. 2. It is a rolling release, so it is very possible that your OS will run into errors after some kernel updates. To prevent this from happening, I recommend you update your system every evening to ensure everything is compatible with each other. System update is easy with an AUR helper: just type yay in the terminal and the yay AUR helper will do everything for you automatically. So, I would recommend Arch if you are comfortable with command line interface and willing to spend 15-30 minutes installing your system. Some other OS: Fedora34: Very stable and also up to date software. Easy to set up. However, it is a little bit difficult to install nvidia driver on Fedora and their package manager (dnf) has relatively few software in comparison to apt (Debian, Ubuntu) and Arch AUR. You need to rely on Flatpaks, which may or may not be a good thing. The system will not fail if you forget to update it often. Endeavour OS: Based on Arch Linux, but has easy graphical installer and nice desktop interface (which you can choose during the installation process). It is basically a noob-friendly version of Arch that has all of the features of Arch and some bloatware alongside it. OpenSUSE: has a user repository like Arch and is more stable. However, I haven't spent much time with this distro so I can't be sure. OS to avoid: Debian based (Ubuntu, Mint, etc)- stable, but packages are so outdated! Manjaro, Garuda - so much bloatware! Gentoo, Void Linux - unfriendly to beginners.

Normally I don't control group my units. Javelins (skirmishers) are ranged units, not melee. In general, you want to make the melee units run at the very front to block enemy units from moving forward, then use your ranged units to output damage safely from behind.

Range + melee. Javelin + pike is the strongest combination, followed by javelin + spear, javelin + sword. Slingers + pikes with Cleopatra hero or Philopator is also very strong combination. Replace infantry javelin with cavalry for even stronger attack.

Javelin mercenary and camel archers are also effective. Use pikemen to stop the elephant and use the ranged units to shoot it down.

@nani what is your point about champ cav?

Yes, not everyone puts balancing above everything else. I would also go with the hard option, except it involves a lot of discussion among players. Diversity means some civs will be favoured more than others on certain maps. For example the mauryan worker elephant is OP un Belgian Upland or Anatolian plains.