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Can you have a unit (or a group) focus on attacking a particular enemy unit? In more specific terms, the enemy had three battering rams which were destroying my structures with virtual impunity. Part of the problem, I had a bad mix of units myself, so I was not inflicting much damage on the battering rams. Anyway, a "solution", (if it is available) would be to have units (swordsman) with high hacking attack points specifically target the battering rams.. Can that be done?

Agree. I've been posting suggestions that elephants are too powerful against stone structures.

Based on the graphic above; when attacking an elephant, you would primarily use piercing (projectile) weapons. The resistance to piercing is 41%. Hacking would appear to be less successful at 52%. The least successful would be crush at 88%. Is that interpretation correct?

A follow-up note. Everything is working well with 0AD. The follow-up note relates to the cabling between the device (computer, Roku) and the display screen (monitor, TV). With both my computer (to play 0AD) and my TV, I recently upgraded my devices. I used existing cables(HDMI and Displayport). Everything appears to be working correctly. Cabling may not be an issue with 0AD. I had not considered the potential that recently adopted new cabling standards could affect your video quality. In looking to upgrade my TV soundbar, I ran across several articles that discussed HDMI and Displayport specifications. Basically, my existing cables were now "obsolete" by new standards. I just installed a "newer" HDMI cable between by Roku and TV to see what would happen. It was cheap enough. The picture looks better, but that is subjective. A lot of testing would resolve that, but I'm not about to do it. Whether current industry standard HDMI and/or displayport cables would have a positive effect on 0AD is an unknown, but still something that should be considered. HDMI ARC vs. Bluetooth - Is ARC/eARC Better Than Bluetooth? DisplayPort Explained DisplayPort vs HDMI: Which is Better?

Are there any visual cues on the mini-map for showing where the enemy is attacking you after the notification alert? I've been having trouble locating the enemy a lot of times. In a recent game, I was successfully flanked by the enemy which was very devastating for me.

Thanks very much. Extremely helpful. Still reading through this guide. I would like to suggest including in your document header, the hyperlink to this thread and the date of publication. That will make it easier for the reader to re-find this thread in the future and to see if they have the latest version of this guide.

Good point. My units were all up-to-date. But that does not obviate that the enemy may have had superior troops compared to my troops. Also it seemed that the enemy had an apparent endless line of reinforcements. Where I seemingly could not build replacements as fast!! Yes. I was actually, in the last game, faced with a two front war where the enemy alternated between attacking on each front. I did make a mistake in that the enemy was able to flank one front to get inside my lines. While I was finally able to finally "kill" that attack, it left me open to getting overrun on the other front, which is what happened. Pretty intelligent AI!!! I was wondering about the points your raised. The AI may have decided to pursue the strategy of dedicating every possible unit to attack. But it didn't seem that they were getting exhausted.

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When hit with with a massive attack would it be better to attempt to send your newly generated units to garrison fortresses and towers? A reason for this is that it seems that the newly generated units go into battle disorganized so they get decimated. Also the fortresses and towers that are being attacked by the enemy tend to get destroyed. I suspect that units inside a tower or a fortress have a defensive bonus. Units inside a tower or a fortress would also add to the defense capability of that building. A downside to sending units directly to a building is that the enemy can get inside your defense perimeter.

Roman Republic: The Rise and Fall of Ancient Rome's Government. I ran across the above article. Since this article covers the time period of 0AD, I thought it might be of interest to add some additional context to 0AD. There have been other (scattered) links to informative articles on this forum. Additionally, a slightly modified internet search turned-up, unsurprisingly, a large number of hits (articles) that could also be added.

Thanks for pointing me to the "structure tree". Very helpful. I am also wondering about tracking heroes, they need to be highly visible. I ran across this post, which refers to a mod though. boonGUI: .

From ATHENIANS CIVILISATION PROFILE: Athenian Woman: "Good at gathering food. Has an 'aura' that boosts the productivity of citizen-soldiers around her.". Does productivity include combat? By extension, does the 'aura' presence of women apply to regular troops? I would hesitate to send women into combat if they can't defend themselves, so would it be possible to include an upgrade for women so they can posses some minor combat capability? In mythology, there were women warriors (Amazons).

Once again, I was wiped by the AI. I was playing with a team mate. Is it possible for your team mate to donate a worker to you? I had a bunch of horseman aiding my teammate, but no workers or citizen soldiers to rebuild the civic center. Though I had no people to construct a new civic center, there were still a lot of buildings "owned" by Gaia.

Experience is the best teacher. At the time I bought by 4K monitor (VA32UQ) I was unaware of G-SYNC and FreeSync. I also did not have any games installed either. But stuff eventually gets added. After getting X-Plane, I had a rude awaking. And just recently, 0AD added to that awakening as you need to know what monitors work with which games. (Also the graphic card itself needs to be considered, the Linux NVIDIA driver did not originally come with Vulkan installed, but it was installed with a subsequent update.) My 4K monitor (VA32UQ) was not on the approved list. Thanks, very much for providing a sounding board and for your research into the issue so that a solution was found. Last night, played a game for approximately two hours with no problems. As a reminder, for anyone else who may be following this thread, disabling FreeSync on the monitor appears to have resolved the black screen problem.

Based on very limited testing, he game appears to work correctly in windowed mode. A graphic headache. At the time I bought the 4K monitor, I did not have 0AD or X-Plane. I subsequently bought X-Plane and they then upgraded X-Plane to use the Vulkan graphic engine. Turned out that required G-SYNC, which my monitor did not have. Fortunately, NVIDIA had a setting to mimic G-SYNC. The monitor does have FreeSync. Just after mentioning FreeSync, I had the thought to disable it. Disabling FreeSync seems to have SOLVED the problem. Of course testing was extremely limited. PS: if I add the # symbol to the beginning of a line in the ~/.config/0ad/config/user.cfg file, does that comment (disable) that line out?

The fps default was hovered around 60fps in both windows mode and non-windows mode. I changed the fps, so that it was around 40. That did not go too well. The screen flashes almost immediately to black now. I see that @Norse_Harold has identified changing the fps through the configuration file. I'll give that a try. -------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Well, revising the configuration file proved interesting. adaptivefps.menu = "100" With the above, 0AD did not go a black screen and the fps was just over 1000fps. (This is limited testing. Long term ???) adaptivefps.session = "100" With the above, 0AD did flicker to black periodically while in the game. However, the game was displayed correctly for significantly more time and stayed black for less time. The fps in this case was just above 100fps. But, it also seems that the fps changes with the degree of zoom. When I zoom in (detailed image) the fps shot-up to around 200. Zoom out and the fps dropped to under 100.

0AD is the only 3D game that I have unless X-Plane flight simulator qualifies. A lot to digest in your suggestions. As a preliminary dive into looking into this, I ran across this article: "Linux Overclocking Software" which mentioned CoolBits. I know nothing of this program. Furthermore, the article is a bit "old" now so it may no longer be relevant. The link below is simply for future reference as the author has provided a sample configuration, which I assume would still have to be tweaked for the specific card that I have. https://forums.developer.nvidia.com/t/solved-coolbits-without-xorg-conf/37305/5 Thanks very much for providing your suggestions on how to solve the problem.

Disabled windowed mode so that the screen flicks on and off to black, then looked for the file. Good news. Found the file. Copy attached. Quite True. Appears that an image is being rendered even when the screen is black. I pressed F2 when the screen was black. userreport_hwdetect.txt

A bit ironic to take a screenshot of a "black" screen. Since I am using Linux, I switched to a different work space and took a screenshot, where you will see that 0AD shows up in the control panel as being "active". (lower left, last icon to the right.) When the icon is "activated" it goes to full screen, but then goes back to black after a few seconds. I enabled window mode. That appears, at first glance, to have solved the issue. Testing will confirm. A search of all files did not locate "userreport.txt". I'm using Linux Mint. How can this file be generated, if still interested?

The screen normally goes black after the title screen is displayed. Periodically, I can get to the game set-up screen and even the game itself for a short-time. I have not tried that. I will have to look into testing that mode out.

0 A.D. was working without issue. But recently, the screen has begun to flick to black. It then restores itself momentarily before going to black again. This on/off cycle keeps repeating. Unfortunately, that makes game play impossible. The game itself does not crash. I suspect this may be the result of a recent Linux Mint update. I am using Mint 20.2. Also using a 4K monitor. The graphics are superb. The graphic card is: EVGA - SC ULTRA GAMING NVIDIA GeForce GTX 1660 Ti 6GB GDDR6 PCI Express 3.0 Graphics Card. Anyone else experiencing a similar issue or have an idea for a workaround?

Carbon neutrality and climate change are faux issues since they are meant to detract the gullible from the real environmental issues that we are facing. It is "wag the dog" mentality. Each person, through their mere existence, is a carbon consumer. That means that carbon has to be produced for them to exist. Reduce the number of people, then you need to produce less carbon to serve those people. The current strategy of using existing and as yet undiscovered speculative technology to reduce a person's carbon footprint is actually cannibalization. That will also mean "rationing" resources generating carbon.. At some undefined (future) point, that will eventually mean a reduction to the standard of living and significant loss of freedom. As a minor amusing editorial followup to the paragraph above, the production of food takes energy plus a variety of other resources, obesity is a common first world health problem. A while back, I recall seeing this headline: TAKING THE PIZZA Restaurants set to shrink sizes of pizzas and pies after health officials set new targets. Today, this is humorous, but it carries future troubling implications, suppose farming becomes restricted in its food production in the name of carbon neutrality and we also have health officials "protecting" us by limiting our caloric intake. Let me toss-in this absurd hypothetical. You have a world of four people which has a carbon neutral footprint based on each person being allowed 25 carbon "credit" to maintain their lifestyle. So in this world the total available carbon credits is 100 to maintain a carbon neutral world. Should that imaginary world grow to 5 people, each person would only be allowed 20 carbon "credits". That would reduce the lifestyle of each person by 5 carbon units. What would a real-world translation mean? Less eating out, smaller cars, smaller houses, less clothes?????????

Correct. I was interpreting live expectancy to be the same as time in usage. I believe that those who shout the loudest (climate arrogance) have no intention of modifying their behavior to live by the climate change philosophy they (falsely) preach. John Kerry (who is currently (2021) the US’s first Special Presidential Envoy for Climate) arrogantly asserted that because he was a busy important privileged person that he was entitled to use a private jet. They are hypocrites. The North Face is the new king of environmental hypocrisy On the issue of gas prices, I do not like the price increase for obvious reasons. My primary concern is that the Biden administration is purposely creating these problems and is not being adequately challenged concerning what would be a better approach. I already pointed out the reaction of Granholm, who simply laughed at the reporter and implied "not our problem" even though it is. I also just wrote in a prior post: "Biden's nominee to lead the Office of the Comptroller of the Currency, Saule Omarova, said she wanted to see oil and gas companies go 'bankrupt'". This is a clue that the Biden administration is intending to put an industry out of existence. That is wrong.

Biden ran on a platform of reducing hydrocarbon production. Biden has taken actual actions to reduce hydrocarbon production. In response to a question from a reporter about the growing hydrocarbon shortage The US Energy Secretary, Granholm, laughed in his face and said that OPEC should produce more oil. It is not OPEC's responsibility. It is up to the Biden administration to disclose a plan to the public as to how this growing problem will be fixed. No such plan was offered. The Biden administration is refusing to accept responsibility. Since posting, I ran across this article from the Daily Mail Online. Video emerges of Biden's Soviet-born Comptroller of the Currency nominee saying that she wants oil and gas companies to go 'bankrupt to tackle climate change". This is obviously a more aggressive approach than I've previously heard.

Think about the life expectancy of the wrapper and bag used for one McDonald's hamburger. It is perhaps 15 minutes long. How Many Hamburgers Does McDonald's Sell Each Year? Also don't forget paper napkins, drinks, and straws. All with short life expectancies.