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Ok, but what makes https://code.wildfiregames.com/D4952 bad? There are already 2 very niche heroes for Maurya, one of which has an eco/military combination as @wowgetoffyourcellphone discusses. The other is a purely economic hero. It makes perfect sense to have a more militaristic hero in the form of chandragupta.

You are not executing the command in the right directory. The reason it says no such file is because 0AD is not in your home directory. If its anything like my mac, it should be in Applications. Try something like: xattr -cr /Applications/0\ A.D..app

Yeah, just changing the name would allow for that mod to be played, but other discrepancies will cause Out of sync errors, which is when your version of the game differs from others'. These discrepancies can be minor, like different values for crush by elephants, but in your case it is probably a big difference, like different locations for files and/or folders. I would suggest just deleting the mod and reinstalling it with the in-game mod downloader.

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Honestly, I'd say it's not very conventional. Its one of 2 attack rate auras. Also its the only global buff for eles. Also, I am not aware of any "soldier" auras that affect both armor and damage. The bonus affects a archer/spear + elephant composition like no other hero does and this is a signature comp for maury. I think the Mauryans need a more conventional hero for more general purpose fighting. The two existing ones are quite niche. Sorry if I don't really follow the logic here. I think having a eco focused hero and a military focused hero would be better, because the user tailors their strategy towards what the heroes enable. In other words, choosing a hero is a strategic choice. If the heroes all have low-impact eco and military bonuses (compared to higher-impact combined military or combined eco bonuses), I think we lose a lot of strategy. Now, I have done combined eco/military heroes and I think they are good, but to make 1 military, 1 eco bonus a standard for all heroes doesn't sound fun. I'd say some "conventional" heroes to change would be the roman heroes.

Ok, there was some disagreement with naming Chandragupta's first aura "Great Standing Army." What do people think of the new name "Empire Builder" (Thanks to @wowgetoffyourcellphone) https://code.wildfiregames.com/D4952 And also, any last comments on the bonus itself? aura 1: +10% damage, +1 armor for non-elephant soldiers, 60m aura 2: +15% attack rate, +10% speed for elephant units, global

Yes, I forgot about that part. I think its fine.

I am a little bit concerned about this feature. If a corral can both garrison livestock and train livestock, then one could use autoqueue to establish an exponentially growing amount of unraidable, 0 pop food economy. This wouldn't be great in the early game (I think) but later in the game, making more and more corrals and autoqueing to fill each one from one another could result in a disastrous gameplay consequences. Players could make dozens of corrals just to garrison each one. Then, there is much more pop space for more champion cavalry AND it is economy that can't be raided, at least like women can be raided. I think if the trickle is low enough to avoid this, then it will be weak/unused and if it is higher, then it will probably be used as above which I don't think is the intended use case of this feature.

If you are more familiar with AOE gameplay, "cycling" through CCs is common, but in 0ad, gameplay is much less CC oriented because economy largely comes from the barracks. In a typical more competitive game, players will end up with 1 or 2 CCs. With additional CCs used for resource acquisition or offensive positions. I'm not saying you shouldn't be able to cycle through the CCs, but that it might not be as helpful as it is in AOE2.

Looks like the idea came full circle Anyone have thoughts on this aura? 1- global 15% attack rate for elephants, 10% movement speed 2- 60m radius: Non-elephant soldiers +10% damage, +1 armor of all types For bonus 2, I could make it only infantry or non-elephant, as it could be too OP with ele archers. -> Done, I made it apply to non-elephant soldiers. https://code.wildfiregames.com/D4952

@zxphxr I think the issue may be that the mod is not installed correctly. The mod appears to be housed in the "user" folder where it should be in a folder called "community-mod" within "mods". I am pretty sure one of the checks for mod compatibility is that the folder names are the same. to access the mods folder: Go-> Go to folder -> Library/Application Support/0ad/mods Here is where you should see a folder called community-mod alongside other mods like BoonGUI. Did you get the community mod from mod.io? You could redownload the community mod from the mod downloader, perhaps after deleting any community mod related files from the folder "user". If you see "community-mod" within user, then all you have to do is move it out of user and back one directory into "mods".

Yes you are right, the concept is the main thing. What I was mentioning earlier was not to make the resource icon smaller, but to just stratify the two, so that they are less overlapping. With the resource dead center, it is a little bit visually confusing.

It also improves performance for some users. Some have a much better experience, while others don't see much of a difference. Probably depends on your computer. For me it was smoother movements and about 15 more fps. This is @leopard's video on the differences in performance: I should mention that "A26" in the video was actually the development version of a27 which included the spidermonkey update which was also a performance enhancement.

Ah I see, well there will likely be at least 3 to 4 weeks before the first is released, just for enough branches to accumulate. Also it might take a bit to get it set up.

They are all already in a27: Here is the changelog for community mod version 4: community_mod_changelog (1).txt

I considered this, but I decided on the flat +50% train time because this would be a flat upgrade compared to normal champions. Too many strengths without tradeoffs will be OP. Remember that these units promote to olympic champions (even stronger unit) with xp from fighting, so allowing them to be cheaper and train faster in the late game would be OP for sure. The nice thing is that if they prove to be weak, this civ bonus can be easily fine tuned between community mod releases.

Assuming we make a version of the community mod for a27, I will request to merge a branch for @borg-'s sparta ideas. I left out the two kings idea because of regicide issues and also 1 hero seems like a good thing to hold constant across civs. As for the champions, I think access to spartan hoplites in p1 is a must as this seems like part of the spartan identity. The current model implemented as a civ bonus is the following: Champion hoplites may be trained in p1 from the syssition, cost double population and half resources. This is a nice idea but my concerns are that they will become unhelpful later in the game by taking up lots of population, and that deviating from the 1 pop per soldier is introducing too great of an inconsistency. So, I thought of an alternative to the current model that would allow hoplites to be trained in p1, but retain their usefulness over time: Champion hoplites may be trained in p1 from the syssition with a universal -25% discount of all resources and costing 1 pop. However, their train time compensates for this discount: +50% train time. Note that a train time of 30 seconds means it will take almost a minute to train a batch of 2. Importantly, the +50% train time becomes less of an issue in the late game as the spartan player may build more syssitions. It may also be necessary then to add a limit to the number of syssitions available, perhaps 5.

On button placement, I'd say moving them close to the bottom would work pretty well. Another option could be to add some transparency, but this might end up looking worse. But really it's good enough as is in the middle.

yes from around 27390 to 27400 you can see community mod features. I'm pretty sure they all made it into a27. https://trac.wildfiregames.com/log/ps?action=stop_on_copy&mode=stop_on_copy&rev=27411&stop_rev=27390&limit=200&sfp_email=&sfph_mail=#

Hi Everyone, With a27 on the horizon, it will be decided whether or not to make a community mod for a27. @Stan` mentioned making a poll for this so I figured I would go ahead and put it out there. Please fill out the poll and feel free to add additional comments on this below.

I have to disagree here. I have not done any statistics on these outcomes, but to say the red team is more likely to lose is a speculation. It may be easy to assume this if you find yourself a "noob" on the edge with a poorly supportive ally, but at least in my experience, the other factors (all gameplay related: player skill, civ choice, map generation) are much more influential on the outcome. There are also many scenarios in which the red team wins, for example: red "pro" overbooms while the noob gets ruined and gets champ cavalry and is able to beat blue without any help from red "noob". While there may be some minuscule significance to player positioning and game outcome over the massive sample size of 4v4s available, the other variables are much more influential. That being said, I do agree that some additional player positioning options for mainland would be nice. There are some choices for "unknown" fyi.

Should that be done here in this thread or maybe a new topic? Another option would be to use an external polling resource and post links to it in various places.

epic, good ideas.

Probably wise to hold off on that, however, because there are some huge changes to eles: https://trac.wildfiregames.com/changeset/27391 This will make them less effective against buildings and much more effective against units.