Yekaterina

I am thinking about a special unit with the single purpose of capturing elephants. This unit is able to dodge angry elephants and capture it from a distance, meanwhile it cannot engage in any other combat.

Rename it to what? Lol the game is stuck, we can't end it because somehow the host escaped the lobby.

@Stan` @user1 This TG has been going on for 3 days now. This player is no longer in the lobby but for some reason his game is still there. I tried to join but cannot connect. Some players want to ban him for profanity. Can we kick him or delete his game at least, please? It is very annoying to have an empty game in the lobby because it distracts players from joining genuine games. Thanks

if I understood that correctly, you want to train other people's mercenaries from the structures that you conquered? The programming is trivial but this might upset the balancing advisors. Logically it makes sense as mercs just go to whoever pays them the most.

Well, we could let all civs capture elephants (that is easier for me to program ). But to convert a gaia ele to a proper war elephant we can make it very costly in time, so that you cannot mass to many elephants all at once. True. I guess I will leave mercs alone for now. But their huge metal cost discourages me from using them.

That is easy to implement, it is just some xml trickery. Currently in the Athenian CC xml template: <ProductionQueue> <Entities datatype="tokens"> units/{civ}/infantry_spearman_b units/{civ}/infantry_slinger_b units/{civ}/cavalry_javelineer_b </Entities> </ProductionQueue> {civ} will be filled out as the current owner's civ. This means if you don't have infantry spearman in your civ then you won't get any infantry spearman out of the captured Athenian cc. For example, if a Macedonian player captured an Athenian CC then they will get only a Mercenary Slinger and a Mercenary Cavalry javelineer out of the CC. To fix this, we replace {civ} with athen: <ProductionQueue> <Entities datatype="tokens"> units/athen/infantry_spearman_b units/athen/infantry_slinger_b units/athen/cavalry_javelineer_b </Entities> </ProductionQueue> In this case no matter who captured this CC they will always get Athenian units out of it. This might not be ideal though.

Nice idea! I was thinking about an elephant trainer unit for Carthaginians.

I agree. In some maps gaia rush you very early on and the mvp became gaia. We can give mercs a high capture point, so your soldiers need to wave at them for quite long. When a merc is being captured it would think that you are attacking him so he will attack you back. I guess this evens things out. Same applies for elephant. If you try to capture an elephant it will get angry.

In the summaries for each game there is always an 'unit captured' list but it is always empty, because the game currently does not allow units to be captured. Clearly the ancient devs wanted to implement such a feature but never managed to do it (or it was removed for some reason). To make this column not obsolete I have the following proposals: 1. Allow Carthaginians to capture gaia elephants and then upgrade them into war elephants at the cost of some metal and time. I believe they actually did this. 2. Allow enemy mercenaries and auxiliaries to be captured. Traditionally mercenaries were never loyal and would defect to whoever gives them higher pay, and riot when there is no war. 3. Allow gaia women and gaia troops to be captured. I have already made a mod that does this. But I would also like to consult our balancing advisors. I know weirdJokes is very against this idea, but I would like to hear from others as well. @Lion.Kanzen @BreakfastBurrito_007 @maroder @LetswaveaBook@nani @chrstgtr Also any suggestions from our historians would be helpful @Thorfinn the Shallow Minded

Winetricks, lutris, crossover... You can do most Windows work-related tasks, but not gaming. No PUBG I am afraid, but fortnight runs I think. You don't need Zorin OS for wine but Zorin has a pretty desktop. I tried GhostBSD once and it felt quite similar to Linux. I will run it on virtual machines

I guess balance across civs is fine, but I am not sure if the players would like this change and it is a lot of programming.

A rough day in the lobby...

They are both Greek One is a spear civ one is a pike civ. Seleucids boom faster than Macedon but Macedon can use its spear cav for more efficient hunting and harassment.

@DerekO I don't think your challenge board will work. Player of 0AD (aka weirdJokes) will smash PyrricVictoryGuy instantly... we don't stand a chance against him! You probably would want players of the same level competing in the same rounds I am 1400 Pyrric is 1300-1400 weirdJokes is rated 1700 but actually 1800+

lol xD I will 1v1 you if you want

svn updates on the instant a patch is approved, so you can get the absolute latest and greatest. git waits for 1 day and updates every midnight. That means git is slightly more stable than svn because the devs have a few extra hours to correct any mistakes. But, you are a few hours behind svn people. both are fine for submitting diff

What building is this? Looks nice, would be good to implement.

Windows doesn't save you from terminals, it just gives you a stupid terminal that is almost unusable. If you don't like terminals, check out Deepin OS (if you don't hate China), Manjaro (for nubs and gamers), Linux Mint (I think Letswaveabook is using this), Ubuntu (a lot of 0AD players are on this) Using Linux does not necessarily mean you have to use terminals; Linux gives you an option to use terminals which makes a lot of things very simple and efficient. There is always a long-winded graphical way of doing things but most users would rather type in 1 line of command and hit enter instead. The habits of these people give you the wrong impression that anything other than Windows is CLI heavy but in fact they just give you an efficient alternative that you will eventually fall in love with. The same applies for BSD. But Lion I would recommend you to stay away from Arch because that stuff is actually command heavy and you need to install it by command yourself.

Personal favourite: Fedora Workstation 34. If you like stability and outdated software: Debian and its derivatives If you want something easy: Ubuntu and its derivatives If you have high IQ and want bleeding edge: Arch If you are feeling adventurous: OpenSUSE, BSD, Mandriva, Slackware... I already ditched windows since 18th June 2021, graduation day.

If you make mods then that will not affect the basic functionality of the game and therefore you will not get OOS errors as soon as you disable your mod. The files in your mod folder should have an identical hierachy to the public mod, and the game will prioritise reading from your mod folder instead of public mod. The game only searches for the necessary files in public if it can't find the correct files in your mod folder.

that works. Extract it and delete the original. You might need to restart the game a few times but when it runs stabily that is when you can start making changes. I recommend just tweaking the damage values slightly in the template xml files to begin with, so that you don't break something and confuse yourself. That was how I started. Note that once you tweak your xml files you can't play in the lobby anymore; you will always get an OOS error because the templates between you and your opponent are different. Therefore I recommend preparing to reinstall the game before starting this.

I would put it in Off-topic because it is not really related to 0AD You can also put it in help, because you need help with understanding and explaining why the forum has changed. I believe Invision Community is resposible. Let's check other forums powered by invision community and see if similar changes have occured?

Just get a NVME M.2 SSD and you are ready for anything. If you are extra fancy you can go for PCIE SSD. NTFS has the worst performance out of all file systems second only to FAT32, so no matter how they optimise it any Linux or BSD system will smash them easily in performance. Unlikely for them to remove graphics effects. They think their customers are stupid, and the sad fact is, a lot of them are. People spend extra money on the looks of their systems and chassis... when you don't know any computer science... Dude, wouldn't it be easier to allow users to install xfce or gnome or kde on their windows system?

64GB is not optimised for tablets my friend. A lot of tablets have 32GB or 16GB emmc disks, so Android is the way to go here Windows 11 is said to be more optimised for gaming... they say they got some SDK component installed by default... I doubt that will increase my fps in 0AD 4v4 TG. Let's not even talk about aesthetics... who are they to talk about appearance when they can only have one desktop environment?

I don't like star wars sorry I don't know much about it, I was so confused when I watched their movie.