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Live stream, casting RAGL tournamet games: https://www.twitch.tv/thekaution

P.S. I watched the YT video and saw you are about to cast my game and was very happy... and then suddenly you thought you have wrong replay and casted another game. So much disappointment for me

He's forum username is different to one in 0AD lobby... That's same person - check here as well: https://challonge.com/sv36zmko

@Pemulis Nice topic. Somehow I skipped musical education in school and childhood and I didn't even pay attention to notes. I couldn't even distinguish what is higher in relative big intervals like between C and G notes. I was fired up with huge powerful subwoofers in high-school and it was about making your hair and body vibrate b/c of pressure, unlike listening notes, intervals, etc. I could distinguish only between bass on 50hz and treble on 5-10k Not so bad, but point is that my brain just ignored "small" intervals like in above example. Recently I bought guitar, started to read/learn musical theory, improve my ear by listening, started to listen more careful church choir during liturgy (Eastern Orthodox church music is so rich). It just opened new world to me - or better to say gave me "hint" of new world. As you noted, now I hate to see how people listen (not listen but USE), music while doing something else. It's used as "background noise" to make something more fun! Disguisting! I also hate to listen loud music on some celebrations here. What's point? It's not natural and I doubt it's good for ears and mind. It's not fun for me. I believe it will get even worse b/c of internet and non-stop entertainment. People will not be able to stay alone in silence. We hate silence today.... we are scared of it. As you said, we can't read books, listen quality music without engaging other senses/mind centers, we can't live without high levels of dopamine that other low-quality entertaintment provides. I feel that personally. It's much easier to play or spectate 0AD for hours than read book for 30 mins. I think that's issue, tbh. It can only cause social and health issues to us.

Idk about charts, but there is some Mod to display information about players. This is how it looks: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=niQ69mTcYV8

Starting on ~ min 7 - small hunt/horse imbalance. More hunt for ValihrAnt but there are berries for Edwarf so maybe they have equal food.

Just to collect info here, it seems seeh noticed one more imbalance in his video (around min 7-8). https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=niQ69mTcYV8

As FYI Source: https://wildfiregames.com/forum/topic/83784-introducing-the-official-community-mod-for-alpha-26/page/22/#comment-531609

@thephilosopher Long-term solution is not "don't play maps x,y,z..." and install 3rd party mod. I just hope we don't lose new players b/c of that. Also I'll use chance to remind to "can't join" issue... It can be even more frustrating then balance... Sorry @Feldfeld, I missed that berries.

P.S. yeah he had 800 from trees and 6 sheep. It's total 1400 . I had 1700 from hunt. But it's not big difference indeed. @Feldfeld

I agree that wood/metal is priority no 1. After that, incorporating food balance from Mainland Balanced to all other maps.

P.S. he had 2 trees (800 food). I had 16 animals (1600 food). But he had very near tree and 6 sheep. @Feldfeld

Thx for explanation. Idk, I just think that Farmstead = 2 soliders + build (or res.collecting time), which can be huge early game. I am not sure it's good for competitive games. IDK. On the other side I understand wish to have randomness and I like that, too. I just hope there is better algorithm.

I'd like to share my feedback/suggestion from this Topic: https://wildfiregames.com/forum/topic/93698-map-layout-unbalanced/#comment-531470 I'd suggest to put high on priority list task to fix resource balancing to make 0AD playable in competitive 1v1.

I do, but that's not long-term solution IMHO. And it's still not properly balanced, even food which should be balanced in Mainland Balanced, right? Check my tournament match with `rm -rf`: I had much more hunt in CC range and it was near cherries so I could build 1 Farmstead and reach 3 food resources easily. I think I didn't use it properly - some better player would quickly stomp opponent. I guess if players are near to equal in skills, these balance will decide game actually, especially on high level.

@rm -rf vs BeTe bete-vs-rm-rf.zip

A little feedback and appeal for community. I had like 3 of 5 ruined games in prev. 3-4 days. Resources were unbalanced either in my or my opponents' favor. Winner was one who had luck to have more resources around original CC. I am not sure but I feel people talk too much about UI updates, minor unit balance, adding new civilizations, etc. while some other important problems such as "unbalanced resources" and "can't connect" are kept unfixed. Attached is game. I think I had better early and mid game, but then I just couldn't collect enough wood to reproduce units, while my opponent had plenty of that. Or I miss something? Anyways, I hope people will focus on solving these issues asap. I think it's high priority. (Sorry, I am still new and I don't want to be more smart than older players, but I just feel frustrated and lose will to play 0AD. Off course, in general game is just awesome and I will continue to play. I'd just like to see it improving and getting more players in lobby.) Cheers! bete_unbalanced_match.zip

Maybe tag players here who didn't play?

Ah got it, thx.

Wait what? Lower range - more damage? Is that b/c of missed arrows? I wasn't aware of that...

Somewhere in balancing discussions I have read that current meta is kind of spamming ranged units... Obviously, I misunderstood something... What's the best ratio ? 1:1 , 2:1 or 3:1 for ranged?

Anyone has time and will to check again, please? I had equal number of Javeliners 16 pierce (+some P1 upgrades+2x towers) vs slingers ~11 pierce and I lost significantly. Is it about formation or what? bete-eskro.zip

Dakara vs BeTe Dakara-Bete.zip

It will install A26 yeah. For siege units the best counter is swordsman, infantry or cavalry, afaik.

I mean "build range" not attack range. Point is to reduce number of resources available without expansion...