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I guess it's known issue and will be solved in next release?

Again! Wtf is going on with these maps?! This time I chose map, tho... Do I miss something? He had much more resources that he can reach on P2... Attached is video. 0AD_wtf_2.mp4

I just played against Gonzalo1995 on Northern Island... Wtf is this map? I didn't have place to build structure and go P3 b/c my part of map is surrounded with cliffs. Attached is video of how it looks. 0AD_wtf.mp4

@guerringuerrin Oh, nice. "U" shortcut was what I was looking for! Yeah I know this technique but didn't know this command @Gurken KhanWhy lame?! Isn't that standard! Thx for hints guys. btw, how can I kill women when I want to build hero units but reached pop limit?

Yeah true. I was checking popup which is opened by right click on CC picture - not hover popup... So women does not add bonus arrows. Infantry add arrows , same number of arrows as garrisoned units. Yeah, it's more than worth microing... Although I am not sure what to do with womens from crop fields in case of attack... I am still not sure about garrisoned barracks or other buildings... Barracks is not showing same popup (number of arrows) as CC...

I just tested with Spartans - no matter what I garrison in CC, I always see "3 arrows / 2 seconds". On Fandom Wiki it says: "Infantry garrisoned in a Civic Center add to the number of arrows fired." (https://0ad.fandom.com/wiki/Civic_Centre) But what is exact bonus? Is it worth to micro and garrison women in houses and infantry in CC? Impossible that nobody knows?!

I just found this discussion and I like it. Countering is important in RTS games I guess so I want to bring my concerns into this discussion... It was about too many units on field: https://wildfiregames.com/forum/topic/86939-why-units-are-produced-so-fast/ It's kind of boring if you need to do development for 15mins. and then just send blob with attack move. I guess we don't want 0AD to be like The Sims and similar games 1. I watched SC2, WC 2, AOE 2 - they all have small number of units and you can attack with smaller forces and make advance by microing. We should not "reinvent the wheel" and focus on things that these games are NOT doing properly. 2. Also I like countering system in OpenRA TD ( example: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=msDHcYf0Qqs )- the game has some issues and is different type than 0AD, but for examples: as GDI vs Nod faction you can't just go T2 and produce Medium Tanks if Nod is going 2x war factory on Tier 1 - they will be overmaneuvered and overwhelmed by T1 units... If you see Nod opponent has 2 War Factories you must build faster and cheaper units (Humvees) to clean his T1 army. If you do it and he scout it, then he must go Tier 2 and make stronger armored unit, etc. Then there are also air units which makes this even more interesting. Gdi's air is good again economy/harvesters, Nod's against infantry.... So all this will force you to scout and build proper units, not only big blobs.

Indeed, what's point of these colors? Not sure if disrespectful, but it looks strange...

I think we shouldn't discuss tournaments here - it requires completely separated and focused topic. Point is only that it would have good impact to player base.

Also I think tournaments + it's streams would help as advertising/PR content. I know not easy but... It keep game more alive I guess.

@Gurken Khan Awesome comments. Sorry for sound, I realized later. Should have waited for better video and then make this post... All clear. Did I start making Skiritais too early considering it's gather rates? When should I start building them?

Yo guys. If anyone has time and will to watch, I streamed POV of my game with comments so wondering what I did wrong? Later I watched replay and gave some comments - was I right there? https://www.twitch.tv/videos/1584352141

We should also stream POVs on Twitch.tv - it's also popular platform in gaming. And it's bizzare how easy is to stream using OBS. Once configured it's 2 clicks to start stream, literary. Like (1) open OBS and (2) click "Start recording". I encourage creative and people with good narration talents to start doing it. Btw, small feedback as newcomer to 0AD - the biggest issue is "unable to join host" problem. It's anyways annoying to wait for game and then you can't play with only person available b/c of this... Sending Wiki page of "how to open host on router" is not solution, imho.

Not sure if anyone posted already, but there is open source of RA, TD and Dune: https://www.openra.net/ If someone needs more info, build orders, tutorials, communities, etc. feel free to reach me.

Not youtube, but livestream: https://www.twitch.tv/bete8

darn, I figured out. Problem was strange behavior of Game window - when I am focused to another window like OBS, it gets resized and cropped. When I play game, screen gets to fullscreen and OBS stream looks properly.

Hey. I am using Ubuntu Linux and trying to stream 0AD using OBS. Problem is that screen is cropped if full-screen. On "windowed" mode it's OK but I can't move in-game screen properly... Attached is screen recording of what is happening and what I tried to change. Anyone some hints, ideas? 1731834186_OBSissue.mp4

And double hit number on keyboard to jump screen to selected unit.

No man. We should have less but stronger units. Which will keep game duration same but more interesting, better microing and maybe a bit less lag. And for me personally more appealing. I just don't like big blobs.

Yeah but it's like different game in terms of how many players is available to play against, ie. people that play "normal" 0AD don't play this mod. So in theory I would wait much longer for 1v1 game on this mod...

I am actually against blindly copying other games. I referred to AOE as game where there are smaller blobs and still is very playable and has big player base. So just as proof it's possible. Also there is a lot of lag issue, not only for me but I saw it in Youtube. I also mentioned microing large blob on small screen is very hard or impossible. These are things that should improve game, not only blindly copy others, right? @wowgetoffyourcellphone I am lazy to install and play yet another game. And I am not sure if it has enough player base. Btw, redirecting new players to mods is not good for 0AD I guess. I think we should increase it's player base, not reduce it.

All this topic is about smaller blobs in general. That's all. To be more like AOE 2 , WC 2 in that sense...

Yes, but I mean you can't capture / destroy anything. You can cav. rush with 5 units and attack only women, but even that works only if unscouted which is not likely to happen on intermediate level. Also it's risky - if failed you are behind in number of workers, unless there is much hunt around. I'd not consider "rush" strategy as argument to my concerns.

> Anything lower than 200 isnt really fun We are comparing 0AD to AOE where there is much less units and I don't think AOE is boring. Off course to make 0AD fun with less units I guess we would need another changes. > It depends. The classical approach is to reach the pop limit, get most blacksmith upgrades and to attack then with a huge force. Mixing in some siege might be helpful but is not totally necessary This sounds just terrible and boring. Would it not be more interesting to be able to harm opponent with 5-10 units like in AOE, which you can micro and do some tricks to win fight? Like cavarly dance or whatever name is in 0AD...

Good point LWB. Btw, maaan, I just played 1v1 game. My opponent was just defensive... I spent 25 minutes in marcoing and then when I got to 250-300 pop I attacked and game started to lag so much that it wasn't playable. So frustrating. Pointless match.