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Thank you for all your work over these years Stan! I so appreciate your immense leadership on the project, and always coming in to help out even volunteers with very little experience like myself. You always made everyone feel very welcome and I can't thank you enough for that! Best regards for your future endeavors.

true, but their cavalry can cover so many bases better than swordsmen and slingers. Its just such a strong mid game and late game civ, i'd hesitate to add the additional capabilities.

I think adding catas and bolts would have to come with some kind of nerf because then there would basically be nothing the civ can't do.

Well the balance here, especially for siege is that you will have a lot of units nearby to defend rams and catapults. That being said, a current problem I have noticed for the last couple of alphas is that melee units are very highly armored and that ranged units do much more damage than melee units. So its not just the elite units that are 'unkillable' its really more about the ranged vs melee balance. to address this, I have a patch and a merge request in the community mod (https://gitlab.com/0ad/0ad-community-mod-a26), which may eventually be accessible in the mod downloader for testing.

Well the point here would be to allow changing those files if all players have the same mod, but ensure that they are inaccessible if the checks are disabled. If this can still be fouled, then maybe increase number of files that are off-limits to mods.

I have made a few mods and I have fixed mods. I do not hate contributing with mods. I love that modding 0ad is so easy and I really dislike that you are selfishly trashing the honor system that has worked until you showed up. And people will continue to believe that the earth is flat and that space doesn't exist against any line of actual reasoning.

right, so now all you have to do is package it as a mod and it will be used more frequently. Perhaps going forward, some files should be made impossible to overwrite using a mod when checks are ignored.

Stop saying this. You are gaslighting users that don't know better. I have never seen evidence of players revealing the map, and I have only once seen a player reading allied chat. Revealing the whole map is on the same tier of cheats as having the computer do part of the game for you, aka highly egregious. Furthermore, your mod is threatening because it is packaged nicely and highly distributable and it contains multiple cheats under the guise of a GUI mod. The difficulty of making their own cheats is an obstacle to 99% of would-be cheaters. In most games, cheat developers are the reason for cheating problems, not individual cheaters. The real solution would be for you to own up to your mistake and only use your mod against proGUI players.

I think its also done in age of empire, but I can't confirm.

You forgot: Autoqueue: Acts individually per production building, must be turned on manually. Trainer: Acts globally on production buildings with no user action required for training.

Sounds like standground will be your friend. This is the double shield icon.

It would be a good thing to put in the tutorial.

This priest is on the juice for sure.

Hi artists of 0ad, the nomadic factions need some additional buildings to fill up the tech tree and round out their content: Royal Yurt (xiongnu) : This is supposed to be a larger and more decorated yurt that would house the leaders of smaller subgroups within the xiongnu people as a whole. Each royal yurt will allow for 3 warlord units and provide 10 pop just like a house. Dock (xiongnu/scythians): This should be a very simplistic building. Its completely ahistorical, but a necessary structure for the nomads to fit in. It could basically be a yurt on land with a rope ladder serving as a boat ramp. Possibly some scrap wood could be added, or the 'skeleton' of a small canoe or river boat. Stable (xiongnu/scythians): This should be a simple cover for horses and/or equipment, possibly tarp-based. A small fence would complete the structure, making it rectangular. Ovoo (Scythians): The scythian ovoo is currently the xiongnu one, where it was actually built differently with mostly wood piled up and an ornament at the top. Wonder (Scythians): Kurgan (burial mound). https://www.cam.ac.uk/stories/gold-of-the-great-steppe-exhibition Some help on these items would be awesome!

https://www.sciencenews.org/article/asia-xiongnu-nomadic-empire-expansion nice article about xiongnu.

Sorry @Genava55, I'll keep quiet on history lmao.

https://github.com/0ADMods/suebian_art/tree/main/art/actors Seems like garamantians are in the suebian art repository. I was going to just check out the units and buildings, but I think surely this is a mistake and something else was supposed to be committed?

They are great! Did you draw them, or are they from screenshots? I think they would just need to be resized into 128x128 or 256x256 pixels. And I think it would be pretty easy to make the mercenaries green toned. If you share me the png files I can go ahead and do this. I would also crop them to have the same framing as the vanilla icons, if you don't mind. Apparently the chariots are in fact historically accurate, look at this amazingly well preserved chariot: https://www.rferl.org/a/bulgaria-tomb-raider-thracian-chariot/31324243.html

@Duileoga where are you working on this civ? I'd like to check it out. Like do you have a github link?

Icon for this could be 'shields_wicker.png'

Its high time we remember this absolute gem:

so you can train just 1 unit but not a batch? Ive never seen this before.

yeah this was meant as a psa. I haven't heard from @wraitii either, hopefully nothing has gone wrong.

There are a lot of bots recently making comments copied from other comments adding a link at the end. See below for an example. A lot of them are very similar. Don't click the link. Hopefully all these accounts can be removed and their comments too.

Well spearmen should be roughly the same, as they do a mix of hack and pierce damage. But with this change, ranged units kill rams 10% faster than they do currently. You could make it -3 or -5 pierce armor if you wish. Feel free to increase or decrease the armor to suit your preference, but the idea I had was to make more units decent at destroying rams, not just hack and crush damage.