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it is the community mod.

this whole proto-indo-european mythology thing is pretty interesting. I wander how do they know that before the many myths similar to each other, there was a "common ancestor", instead of just maybe assume a myth spread from people to people in more recent times.

no. it's been a requested feature for a while.

is this a problem? one can look up any name, not just the ones belonging to a ruler. anyone having had an attested name is potentially interesting to a curious player. I wonder if there are any civs for which we couldn't come up with 8 names that we know they were given to just anyone minimally interesting.

submit the patch or make a mod. if the change creates a requirement for civs to have at least 8 ruler names, that's a new requirement codewise and it should be made clear.

I liked this video quite a lot. Maybe pvp onboarding is the true weak spot of RTS. I also liked his whole onboarding video, the idea that multitasking is the core skill of RTS whole genre is interesting, and the sections about build orders and strategy were good too.

there was never a tide change. just bad balancing. if competitive players complain about a feature, making that feature optional doesn't change a thing for such competitive players (they'll just work around the change trough shortcuts or whatever), but it does disrupt the game experience for newbes and give them a bad impression of what the game is like when you learn how to optimize your performance.

nice

acyually, I was thinking about something focused on the community mod because it could be merged to a27 and then the community mod would become the standard for pvp games.

time ago, I suggested that a massage would pop up every time someone with an outdated community mod joined the lobby. can you do that? the latest version to the mod could be retrieved with a web request.

If that's the case, I would try, if possible, to just disallow audio captchas. I don't imagine many visually impaired people to be interested in a game like 0AD.

keep bulding arrows random is my two cents. you fixed something that wasn't broken.

what do you mean exactly?

quite too early for worrying. but in fact I guess the champion units captcha would be a problem for people who look for help because they can't install the game, for instance. too bad, it was a fun idea.

about captchas, something like "which of these is a champion unit" would really work better than anything else, I'm not joking. It's a test too challenging for any AI not spefically trained for it, only thing to worry about would be if we want out the humans who can't solve it as well.

really?

I don't know the melee buff change, but if there was a flat buff to melee damage, it makes sense that swords are more used, even OP maybe.

this happens all the time to me and my friends. it should be just that, it happes when a building switches sides.

I don't believe this is true. it's a proven fact that random targeting is more effective than closest-unit targeting - see @chrstgtr comment as well. this patch is going to buff buildings against early rushing, but nerf them against late game armies.

is he though?

can I put a 'confused' reaction to @wowgetoffyourcellphone confused reaction?

there are open-source text-to-speech models: https://huggingface.co/models?pipeline_tag=text-to-speech&sort=trending

this is not really competitive though.

for MP, that would be very low. you'd usually make twice that many fields, at least. 9-10 fields is pretty standard. sometimes you see 11, even 12. 5 women for field of course. I also want to remind that there is a pretty solid consensus in the forum for taking away the diminishing returns mechanism of fields.

If I remember well, swordmen used to be faster than spearmen, and skiritais were given swords to reflect their more-mobile role of ekdromoi. but I could be confused.