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    +20% Ram Bonus for Kushites and Romans

    in Balancing Discussions

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    - the Macedonian hero bonus is actually not 20% but 33% (armor)
    - Persians also have a 20% ram bonus

    - Ptolemies have stronger rams than Gauls (25% hero bonus)
    - Unique strengths of Macedonians compared to Seleucids are: Spear champs, spear cav, all heroes, bolt shooters, building health bonus, much better team bonus, crossbows. I think that's something.
    - no additional ram movement boni please, they are already hardly catchable by infantry

     

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  8. overcorrected archers

    in Gameplay Discussion

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    For Mau and Pers you can look at archers as their nerf for their OP pop bonus.

    Carthage has very strong p2 Mercenary cav, more mercenaries and Hannibal Barca, and Catapults etc... Looks still fine

    Kushites have also nice options: Swordsmen, Pikemen, Champions, Nobas, Pyramids etc

  10. feature request. extra question if more then 20 solders

    in Game Development & Technical Discussion

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    56 minutes ago, seeh said:

    yeah. and i always disable that. becouse some 100dred times i want it without question. only if very stupid desicions, like destroy all (or nearly all) my military or so. typical i select all miliary to attack tower, click to tower, but it was not correct get focus, => all military destoid ;) :-O

    Maybe the hotkey for skipping the confirmation question is already enough

  23. How about lowering rating of people who dont play anymore/dont play rated anymore?

    in General Discussion

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    1 hour ago, Aoidos said:

    Why not simply use a well established rating system, like ELO, or Glicko? There are plenty of sports out there that use them regularly. I think what @Player of 0ADsaid pretty much sums it up.

    That is how it works, at least in online chess, which I play a lot, if you stop playing rated your rating will fluctuate more when you next play, also this is the case when new players start until their rating is adjusted to their level, with each game played the uncertainty decreases.

     

    As asides, a system like in tennis of "defending" points as I saw mentioned above doesn't really fit here, in my opinion, as we don't have regular, fixed calendar events. Also, I don't think we should care about possible "inflation", it doesn't matter if the lowest rated used to be 1250 and now it is 1000 or whatever, what matters is that the difference between a good player and a not so good one will show in their rating difference, after all this is not a professional competitive game (although people can be very competitive even when no stakes are on and that is ok) and I also think the relatively small pool of player is to be blamed a bit as it makes harder for ratings to stabilize overall.

     

    Finally, I also agree with @LetswaveaBook that rating shouldn't be reset between alphas for the reason he just exposed, players that know best the underlying mechanics will inevitably crop up to the top.

    I think the rating system is some kind of ELO rating.

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