[Please make it a little less ... sexist]

6 minutes ago, Grapjas said:

Why would an economical role be the equivalent of being worthless? Why is the warfare role more important than the economical one? You need both, without economics you can't deploy warfare. I'd say thats far from being useless or honourless.

Yes, you are absolutely right. But the issue is not true analysis of economics & warfare, it is simply the intro text to the game is worded in a sexist manner & that can easily be corrected.

"Female citizens are purely economic units" has a dismissive tone as to imply females are like currency & nothing more. 
I'm sure these words would roll easily from Caligula's tongue.
Remember, it's not about historical arguments if they were or were not, it's about how the text reads to a player today.

I think azayrahmad did an excellent job in just putting a positive point in there about those units. I would just drop "purely" & then the whole thing is less negative.

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You have two main types of starting units: female citizens and citizen soldiers. Female citizens are economic units; they excel in gathering resources but they are not trained to fight. Citizen soldiers are workers by default but in times of need, can utilize a weapon to fight.

There is no 'woke' agenda here, I am not part of that movement at all. All I noticed was a intro that was a bit poorly worded & sounded negative & then I saw Crea's post & I replied because I agreed. It must be a bit off-putting for a girl reading that intro even before you start playing. Hopefully everyone can agree the above sounds more positive & clear for the game.

[Snap install wont open, Ubuntu]

14 hours ago, fabio said:

Hirsute has an old 0 A.D. version, 0.0.23.

In my signature you can find a proper Ubuntu PPA with 0.0.24. To be seen if the issue still reproduces.

Thanks for the info fabio. Although I haven't done this yet, it may be relevant to note that I also installed SuperTuxKart via Snap & had exactly the same issue with the error:

si_init_perfcounters: max_sh_per_se = 2 not supported (inaccurate performance counters)

That game also wouldn't open. I removed it & installed as "ubuntu-hirsute-universe" & then it ran fine.

[Please make it a little less ... sexist]

Crea is right. The language in the tutorial could be worded less sexist. I'm a 49 year old man & even I noticed that.

This isn't about historical context, it's about wording modern game text in a way that doesn't make women sound worthless to people playing it.

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You have two main types of starting units: female citizens and citizen soldiers. Female citizens are purely economic units; they have low HP, no armor, and little to no attack. Citizen soldiers are workers by default but in times of need, can utilize a weapon to fight.

The description above singles out Females & then dismisses them as worthless in every area.
 

Since this is part of the Tutorial, it's one of the first things you read opening the game.

Personally I'd like to see both men & women in this untrained role, but at minimum the wording should be updated. 

[Snap install wont open, Ubuntu]

4 hours ago, Yekaterina said:

In this case you might want to delete the sudo actually because your system thinks that 0ad is not entirely safe and if you give  it admin previllages it can harm your system. Just say '0ad' and you will be fine

Thanks. This is what happened ~

rico@Sulaco:~$ 0ad


TIMER| InitVfs: 18.2078 ms
Writing the mainlog at /home/rico/snap/0ad/220/.config/0ad/logs/mainlog.html
TIMER| CONFIG_Init: 3.20412 ms
Sound: AlcInit success, using OpenAL Soft
TIMER| shutdown ConfigDB: 0.299 us
TIMER| resource modules: 3.00928 ms
TIMER TOTALS (9 clients)
-----------------------------------------------------
  tc_pool_alloc: 0 c (0x)
  tc_png_decode: 0 c (0x)
  tc_dds_transform: 0 c (0x)
  tc_transform: 0 c (0x)
  tc_plain_transform: 0 c (0x)
  tc_ShaderGLSLLink: 0 c (0x)
  tc_ShaderGLSLCompile: 0 c (0x)
  tc_ShaderValidation: 0 c (0x)
  xml_validation: 0 c (0x)
-----------------------------------------------------
TIMER| shutdown misc: 226.053 us
TIMER| InitVfs: 174.242 ms
Writing the mainlog at /home/rico/snap/0ad/220/.config/0ad/logs/mainlog.html
TIMER| CONFIG_Init: 1.77505 ms
Sound: AlcInit success, using OpenAL Soft
si_init_perfcounters: max_sh_per_se = 2 not supported (inaccurate performance counters)
X Error:  BadAlloc
  Request Major code 149 ()
  Request Minor code 2
  Error Serial #105
  Current Serial #106
UserReport.cpp(516): Assertion failed: "!m_Worker"
Assertion failed: "!m_Worker"
Location: UserReport.cpp:516 (~CUserReporter)

Call stack:

(0x55d4f01a7aee) /snap/0ad/220/binaries/system/pyrogenesis(+0x5a7aee) [0x55d4f01a7aee]
(0x55d4f014d401) /snap/0ad/220/binaries/system/pyrogenesis(+0x54d401) [0x55d4f014d401]
(0x55d4f014f48e) /snap/0ad/220/binaries/system/pyrogenesis(+0x54f48e) [0x55d4f014f48e]
(0x55d4efed36d3) /snap/0ad/220/binaries/system/pyrogenesis(+0x2d36d3) [0x55d4efed36d3]
(0x7fb27815d161) /lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/libc.so.6(+0x43161) [0x7fb27815d161]
(0x7fb27815d25a) /lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/libc.so.6(+0x4325a) [0x7fb27815d25a]
(0x7fb27a2ff888) /snap/0ad/220/usr/lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/libX11.so.6(+0x40888) [0x7fb27a2ff888]
(0x7fb27a2ff9ba) /snap/0ad/220/usr/lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/libX11.so.6(_XError+0x11a) [0x7fb27a2ff9ba]
(0x7fb27a2fc8eb) /snap/0ad/220/usr/lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/libX11.so.6(+0x3d8eb) [0x7fb27a2fc8eb]
(0x7fb27a2fc995) /snap/0ad/220/usr/lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/libX11.so.6(+0x3d995) [0x7fb27a2fc995]
(0x7fb27a2fd2c5) /snap/0ad/220/usr/lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/libX11.so.6(_XEventsQueued+0x55) [0x7fb27a2fd2c5]
(0x7fb27a300085) /snap/0ad/220/usr/lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/libX11.so.6(_XGetRequest+0x55) [0x7fb27a300085]
(0x7fb23b5bbbb2) /snap/0ad/220/usr/lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/libGLX_mesa.so.0(+0x34bb2) [0x7fb23b5bbbb2]
(0x7fb27cdc97b3) /snap/0ad/220/usr/lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/libSDL2-2.0.so.0(+0xcb7b3) [0x7fb27cdc97b3]
(0x7fb27cd9c746) /snap/0ad/220/usr/lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/libSDL2-2.0.so.0(+0x9e746) [0x7fb27cd9c746]
(0x7fb27cd9e8e4) /snap/0ad/220/usr/lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/libSDL2-2.0.so.0(+0xa08e4) [0x7fb27cd9e8e4]

errno = 0 (?)
OS error = ?


AL lib: (EE) alc_cleanup: 1 device not closed
(C)ontinue, (S)uppress, (B)reak, Launch (D)ebugger, or (E)xit?
c
AL lib: (EE) alc_cleanup: 1 device not closed

rico@Sulaco:~

EDIT  / UPDATE : I'm not allowed to post any more, as a new user I suppose, so instead i'll edit this.

I solved the issue & now the game plays fine - what I did was uninstall the Snap & instead select "ubuntu-hirsute-universe" as the source in Ubuntu Software.

[Snap install wont open, Ubuntu]

9 hours ago, Stan` said:

You might have to give it more authorizations.

Hi Stan, As I mentioned Im quite new to Linux so im not sure what this means.

[Snap install wont open, Ubuntu]

6 hours ago, kangz said:

open terminal

sudo 0ad

rico@Sulaco:~$ sudo 0ad
[sudo] password for rico: 
********************************************************
WARNING: Attempted to run the game with root permission!
This is not allowed because it can alter home directory 
permissions and opens your system to vulnerabilities.   
(You received this message because you were either      
  logged in as root or used e.g. the 'sudo' command.)    
********************************************************

[Snap install wont open, Ubuntu]

Hi, I'm running Ubuntu 21.04 on a new Thinkbook 14 g2 AMD Ryzen5 4500. 24gb ram

I'm quite new to Linux so im not sure where to begin with this.

I installed 0AD from the Ubuntu Software app, it is version: 0.0.24b-alpha, source: snapcraft.io
When I try to open the game nothing happens. No error, no window. I just click on the icon in Apps & it goes to my desktop & that's it.