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Hi Ceres, apt pinning is possible but risky if you don't know first precisely what you're doing.
If you're not in a hurry, you can wait for a bookworm's backport of 0ad, it will come sooner or later.
If you're in a hurry, you may use the flatpack or snap packages of 0ad, which are up to date, until bookworm's backport of 0ad is ready.
It would be separated from the Debian packages if you want to compile yourself a version from the repository for testing purposes.
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1 hour ago, sil-vous-plait said:
it appears to me online "competitive" players always jump on whatever bandwagon emerges from minuscule unbalanced advantages across versions (i.e. sling/ram in a23, archers in a24, what appears to be merc cav in a25), so maybe it's overstated how homogenous things need to be...there will always be some lever to manipulate, so to speak
Yes, in this idea, that's why I think that it is almost impossible to get a perfect balancing without playing too similar civilisations (one or two visible differences would not be enought), that's why it could be a good idea to create a kind of optionnal system as proposed by vv221 :
On 22/09/2021 at 10:03 AM, vv221 said:I remember that Age of Empires Ⅱ (sorry, not the best example of civilizations diversity outside of a couple exceptions) provided an option for that: by default all civilizations would use their own technology tree, but you could enforce a default tech tree for all players if you wanted to play a very balanced game.
Another option would be to provide civilization "sets", a bit like what Battle for Wesnoth proposed through "eras": you can chose to play with a core/balanced set, perfect for multiplayer, or with a full/extended set, including civilizations with more interesting gameplay quirks.
I guess what is important to remember is that there are players who have much more fun with imbalanced gameplay. Playing human against AI is imbalanced anyway, and can not be balanced by playing very similar civilizations, so in my opinion the game could be much more engaging in such modes by embracing the imbalance instead of trying to level it.
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2 hours ago, maroder said:
I agree very much with the type of civ uniques @chrstgtr is proposing. Unique techs are fine, but from a non competitive player perspective they don't make much difference for the unique felling of a civ.
It is way better to have something unique that you can easily see and experience. I.e. some phase two champ, the war dogs, the workers ele or as an extreme example the Scythians from DE who have a completely different gameplay.
@ValihrAnt for that reason I also agree that D4280 is superior to the alternative D4233
I can only agree with it: for a casual players, tech differences aren't really relevant, unique buildings, items, units, building improvments, etc. things which are really visible are.
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vv221 proposes good alternatives to solve the problem which could please everyone.
I like both solutions. Maybe the "set" solution is the simplest at the moment ?
The "tech tree" solution would the most interesting in the long run I think.
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I was thinking the same for a while !
The game seems to be more and more tailored only for hardcore competitors who expect perfect balancing between all civs : something which is impossible without making them completely similar.
This withdraws most of the game diversity except graphically and, to some extent, the interest to play different civs to get a different playing experience.
The game becomes quickly annoying for casual playsers and generally not hardcore competitors players.I believe the game is not played only by hardcore competitors.
Maybe the generalizing civs movement was intentend to get a sens of balancing before re-adding diversity to the game to take it out of its competitor niche market ?
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Posted · Edited by Locynaeh
Agreed for the git pros:
I think the shutdown argument is a strawman. The problems are rather in my view:
So my view is that self-hosting is a good solution over these points but using, for example, an instance of the community (FLOSS) version of GitLab from a provider is OK :
I said it for GitLab but the same goes for any git management FLOSS solution (Gitea, Tuleap, etc.).