Atrik

In plenty of games, unit abilities with delays are prized as skill. Increasing maneuverability of bolts make them more susceptible to be spammable as a main force alike siege towers. The pack/unpack time differentiate catas and bolts by giving opportunities to opponents for responses (units are vulnerable to cavs because of this pack/unpack time). Having to carefully plan position of catas/bolts is fun. I play blots ~80% of games they are available for my civ and I enjoy it because it's not failsafe. To counter bolts, I often see my opponent running out of their range (at the cost of retreating and losing few soldiers) with a -50% pack/unpack time (remember to move bolts you'll get this delay twice) this evasive technique would be seriously nerfed/useless. Kindly reconsider. Crossbow champs are already an option for players that don't want to bother with pack time, no need make the bolts too similar to them. Spartans and Athens seems to have some big changes too Would be indeed interesting to have them tested.

I won't pretend understanding all the code but from the constants names it seems that multiplayer games already run on 500ms turns lengths. static const int DEFAULT_TURN_LENGTH_MP = 500; //Multiplayer turn length is ms. static const int DEFAULT_TURN_LENGTH_SP = 200; //Singleplayer https://github.com/0ad/0ad/commit/cdc07b66ea53b769265a86a4fb918b2816e4fc59 Would be nice to have displayed the player throttling the game in the gui.

@nababuDownloading it from your browser then installing it manually seems a quicker solution to me. I think it should work for you. 1. Download: https://g-5.modapi.io/v1/games/5/mods/2144305/files/4964810/download 2. Unzip in mod folder: System Default location for the /0ad/mods/folder Linux: ~/.local/share/0ad/mods/ macOS: ~/Library/Application\ Support/0ad/mods/ Windows: ~\Documents\My Games\0ad\mods\

Siege towers can be a bit annoying because they are hit and run units. If you remove the pack/unpack time of bolts, that would also allow hit and run.... But with much more range, and aoe... Bolts are the most interesting units right now because they are challenging.

You don't play/spec enough games. If you can plan repack few seconds ahead of infantry movements, they are even op on open terrain. In dense terrain, it's easy to place them in a neat spot. The wheeled onagres will be problematic for the same reasons if they don't have any weaknesses of the same kind. If you have a ranged aoe unit that can retreat easy, then you don't give much counter actions possible to your opponent. Siege weapons should be carefully trained as support for main forces, if the meta would be to spam any of them, I think it's a fail of balance.

They are used. They are just high risk high reward units. Easy to lose, but if you manage to get them on a good safe spot, they are extremely effective. And they are indeed effective against compact enemy formations. If they didn't have pack-unpack time, they will just be broken, and a too easy replacement for ranged units. I guess this is why hans don't have access to their wheeled bolt shooters, they are just too op.

@real_tabasco_sauce Most agree that A26 was reasonably balanced, units, buildings, even civs... If your changes introduces new game-play opportunities, I think you should consider making sure your suggested changes are consistent. First let me remind you that I don't try to just be negative as I already said I liked the melee re-balance, and in 26.8, I like the cc arrow cap that open up for more rushing opportunities in 'mid game', (min 7-12). My own 100females squadrons are a bit more threaten then before which is fair. However I do regret how 26.8 wasn't though out much and clearly was pushed to fix the unbalances introduced by non-random arrows. If for reasons non-random arrows will not be reverted despite the pushbacks, I would still like to suggest give back a role to towers. After thoughts, nerfing them was maybe good to avoid stalling turtle game. But now they are just always a bad investment. Here is my line of reasoning: if the maximum power dps of a tower is nerfed by that much (reminder garrison contribute to -50% dps in 26.8), the associated cost of building the towers or upgrading them should have been scaled in consequences. Here some ideas: Sentry towers build cost reverted back to 100wood, or even lowered to 80wood. Share Carrier Pigeon tech for towers. Sentries, Crenellations techs cost at least cost -50% since they provide -50% dps from before. Han great tower and even Iberian tower need adjusted default arrow count as they are a big investments for half the max dps now. Thanks for reading.

Thanks @SKAcz. It was my bad again, sorry. I've just fixed that for nomad.

Thanks for the screenshot I've discovered the problem. That was a oversight from me... For testing it again in some more context, you should never get the "Could not auto-queue unit, deactivating." message with this mod, excepted if something is wrong like in your case. If you patch the mod (https://gitlab.com/4trik/resizequeue/-/archive/master/resizequeue-master.zip) your issue should be fixed. Just delete/replace the old ResizeQueue folder to patch and it should work.

Please check if 1) you have enough housing space 2) you have more then 150 wood (if you are training a unit that require 50 wood, then with default settings, 100wood will always be spared so will only start production at 100 + 50 wood. For females i would still be 0 wood needed. This is to prevent production to take some wood you could need for other buildings. You change it to lower or higher value in settings. 3) Auto-queue is effectively turned on for this building. You should see the icon below WITH the red cross blinking or on. 4) Double check settings for resize queue. The defaults setting should work like this:

Y all threads about mods you have nothing interesting to say look the same now, you spam 10 bs posts together with the anti-atrik team until I make the mistake of correcting unfactual claims, and from here you can spam 10more bs posts until I tilt.

I don't care if you want to make me or any mods a bad reputation nubs. Now even when I talk about it only to reply to a player who actually describe the features in it the same 3 people feel the urge to intervene and make sure to anchor in all minds "imagine if you automate the entire game" or other silly and unrelated things. The topic you quote also start with masterclass of describing some features that have implementations in progui, while the few same people take the very same progui as a counter example. Add to it that the author admit never tried it, just like @chrstgtr, yet are the most vocal guys advocating against for reasons. I'm am guilty of [Whatever you want] idc f u. Autoqueue with the ability to resize the batch also will just kill the game, I agree with all your impressive logic. CheatedyCheat Atrik = cheat Here is your win flag, you'll sleep a bit happier now I hope.

Wow. You go far into the made up stuff. I remember well enough that after you banned me from your host, I asked 1-2 question to understand, then other one when banned from spec. So 2-3 questions to understand what are you up to is "playing the victim". Seriously you just want me to reply to your bs so that the topic become as tribal as possible right?

ResizeQueue isn't on mod.io, so you need to install it from git. Download the archive from git : https://gitlab.com/4trik/resizequeue/-/archive/master/resizequeue-master.zip Locate your Mod folder: Linux: ~/.local/share/0ad/mods/ macOS: ~/Library/Application\ Support/0ad/mods/ Windows: ~\Documents\My Games\0ad\mods\ snap : snap/0ad/592/.local/share/0ad/mods Unzip the zip your downloaded into the mods folder. Restart 0ad and enable it in mod selection Done!

Just in case I would precise: constraints are the same with the features I described. @chrstgtr meant to do a metaphor. Also, in my opinion, removing meaningless repetitive tasks doesn't take anything away from the game. @SKAcz started this thread expressing that vanilla production system could lead to frustrations. When I have to disable autotraining that's the only thing I feel different about the game. Just little more frustration about having to restart autoqueue when notified "Insufficient resources...". Making production more beginner friendly (and user-friendly in general) is probably a good idea for this game if the goal is to get more players. Maybe having visibility over witch building is idle or not would be a good start to improve vanilla UI.

Probably that come from over-simplified calculations. There are enough variables in this game that no formula could define the optimal number of units to train at a given time. But what's for sure is that in a lot of cases, if your goal is to get fastest population grow, consuming a maximum of available resources into training units is extremely often the best. Because of this, you can assume that a better autoqueue would try to always train with the biggest batch possible. I use this assumption in ResizeQueue mod. @Baelish @SKAcz If you want autoqueue to be able to adapt to resources and housing, well, I did a mod that do exactly that. I've just added some default configuration to ResizeQueue, so you don't need to checks options to make it work. Resize Queue repo : https://gitlab.com/4trik/resizequeue With this mod, autoqueue should: Resize the training batchs. (will not consume last 100wood, this is a setting you can change) Stop production when housed, or out of resources, and resume it when possible. Prevent autoqueue to consume resources for a building while player is placing it. (I hated when autoqueue made you fail to place a building, and sometimes you don't even realize it) I'll summit this mod for review for mod.io today. The mod progui also has a feature that does exactly the same with added graphical panels to: Control production settings (change for example how much wood not to consume (for advanced players in some cases you want to change it briefly to 0, or 200..) In addition of picking units to produce from a specific building panel, you have a global panel where you can select what units to train, it also make mixed production accurate so you can get the army composition you plan for.

I don't understand this. To what change does it refers to? Also the poll should include all the building changes.

@real_tabasco_sauce Good thing you tried to make rams more maneuverable and durable. For the defense building debuff of -50% it seems to me a ridiculous overshot. Defenses were a good way to prepare for asymmetrical battles and the only thing that was needed was to better options to break through them. Increasing the cost and build time of sentry towers also feels sad, as often, building some early was already a sized investment. I would wish for a total revert of those changes. I rarely play defensive, but, it seems to me to decrease the 'viable' strategies and this is bad.

Nice! @BreakfastBurrito_007 Ok I was just loading wrong version to play.

Why wasn't this implemented?

Yes, here are some solutions i know of: With autociv: I don't use it but I've just tested, and you can very well create a autociv hotkey. (With autociv mod) Add to your config: hotkey.autociv.session.entity.select.barracks.by.state.idle ="YOUR HOTKEY" This seems to select only 1 building at a time, for reasons, maybe ask @nani if there is a solution to select all the idle barracks instead of just 1. With proGUI: 1. (graphical solution) With the proGUI overlay you have the lists of idle production. (The idle building row display 1 idle barrack, you can click on icon to select it. 2. (hotkey solution) Since your idea is to have a hotkey that you can link with a double click, a solution could be to use this hotkey: hotkey.progui.stockfish.filterIdleBuildings = "YOUR HOTKEY" It work by selecting all desired buildings, (ex: with control groups) then pressing the hokey to filter out idles only from selection.

@Feldfeld Chickens won't spawn anymore?

You CAN play on windows! You just need to use Linux. EASY.

Thanks @guerringuerrin! You were right about the smudging, and that the text should be more spaced, I couldn't move the content too much down as it's supposed to be able to fit 8 players (when ffa, all are team 0) so I moved to title and brass axes, up, but It seems to look better in the end.