[Oddity detector]

This is really cool-- I wonder if we could get it as a setting in the game proper though.

[WFG gitea not forking.]

4 hours ago, Stan` said:

Yeah usually it takes a few tries :/

cc: @Itms

For a few tries, it's been a lot. It has pretty consistently refused to fork for me.

[WFG gitea not forking.]

I've been having a problem with gitea not forking the 0 A.D. repo for me. I've tried forking on different systems, web browsers, and networks, and consistently I'm getting a 502 proxy error. Is anyone else getting the problem?

 

[AI bot spam on the forum]

Honestly, if we can just require the first forum post to have to be approved by a moderator, that would work.

 

Another idea is to get proper privileges on the Ubuntu discourse forum I had to click through a MASSIVE tutorial-- something like that might help too.

[Training Times (Or Why the Fastest Click Wins)]

3 hours ago, chrstgtr said:

Sounds like your gripe isn’t with the game pacing but with difficulty. 

Well I don't play multiplayer so they're kind of the same thing...

[Training Times (Or Why the Fastest Click Wins)]

2 hours ago, Grautvornix said:

One possible way out is to reduce the game speed to 0.75 or lower - this leaves more time to organise your own strategy.

I think I played that once, and it did get pretty slow. So slow, I got bored and sped it back up. I will give it another try though and let you know.

 

[Training Times (Or Why the Fastest Click Wins)]

On 6/4/2025 at 3:31 AM, chrstgtr said:

Great. I always find these stats interesting.

It would be amazing if we can consistently retain these users. 

If you like stats we also have the flatpak ones 

 

https://flathub.org/apps/com.play0ad.zeroad

(Scroll down they're there. The graph is too big to screenshot on this system.)

 

Also in regard to the pacing thing-- I always do end up dying pretty fast in 0 A.D medium. because I can't move fast enough, and easy and very easy are too easy. I would appreciate it if the game could be tweaked have a little slower of an entry curve for newer players.

[A poll on the new naval system]

8 hours ago, real_tabasco_sauce said:

random maps are also handcrafted. Just programmatically.

I didn't know that. I'll have to try those out!

[A poll on the new naval system]

5 hours ago, wowgetoffyourcellphone said:

Skirmish maps?

Do you mean the random maps? I don't play those -- I guess I should, though. I like the handcrafted maps.

[A poll on the new naval system]

One request I have is could we have some more naval maps or maybe some AI changes? The only kind of sea map is Barciana and still the AI just decades to hoof it over land to attack me. i'd love to play Athenian navy and go sink Persian ships but I can't find a map to do it.

[What's your favorite Civilization?]

I like Athens, Sparta, and Britons though I haven't played the latest update other testing

[Can we take control of the Flathub repo?]

7 hours ago, Stan` said:

You can now edit the wiki  

Edited!

[Can we take control of the Flathub repo?]

The flatpak is in its very last steps of being good. I don't have edit control to the wiki so could someone real quick edit the wiki so the flatpak doesn't things like "Unsupported" or community maintained, because it isn't now.

[Running A27 on any Linux distro and version (in theory)!]

11 hours ago, Seleucids said:

A different strategy: download the released .zip file then build from there. 

Well to be fair that's kind of hard to do-- I certainly haven't been able to figure it out.

[Can we take control of the Flathub repo?]

Yeah, WFG now has the flatpak and me and Stan are working hard to get it working perfectly. It is now verified though and A27 is on it.

[Running A27 on any Linux distro and version (in theory)!]

WFG now has control of the flatpak repo and while we're still working on it behind the scenes we do have A27 on flathub!

 

The Nix package is pretty cool, by the way, I just wanted to put this here in case someone doesn't want to install Nix. Nix is cool, but it is a lot of work for someone to just play 0 A.D. keep it up with the nix package though.

[The Problem With Hippocrates]

1 hour ago, wowgetoffyourcellphone said:

I like Socrates as a hero because he actually fought in battles as a hoplite before becoming the famous philosopher. He even saved Alcibiades' life, I believe, when the Athenians were routed at the Battle of Delion, and was given a commendation for bravery. His execution was a reactionary blight on the Athenian government, similar in my mind to what they did to all of those poor generals and admirals after that naval battle they won (lol). You wouldn't disqualify Thucydides for having been banished, would you?  

Could we do Socrates and Aristotle and give each different bonuses -- something like Socrates makes researching faster and cheaper, and Aristotle increases buildings of sight and units production quicker?

[The Problem With Hippocrates]

Small correction-- I guess by Plato I do mean Socrates, because Plato says Socrates says X-- I get those confused... e

[The Problem With Hippocrates]

23 minutes ago, wowgetoffyourcellphone said:

Right. I was thinking his nearby presence could make a building work faster (productionqueue; training and research).

We also have Plato and Aristotle in Athens too.

Personally, it'd be cool to give an option between Socrates and Aristotle because of their different ways of reasoning and each one does something different.

[On the inclusion of other civs]

I think we need to calm down a little, nobody is any adding any faction to the game--Geneva55 is just reviewing archeological books from the time period and keeping track of them in case we ever need them. If you want to discuss why you would potentially want or not want to have a South American civilization, go to the forum post about that. Whatever you do, please be polite. The devs have been putting a lot of work on the game, please don't make them have to stop their work and sort through a fight.

[pyrogenesis.exe - Application Error]

On 01/02/2025 at 7:08 AM, Stan` said:

Do note however that the next release won't support Windows 7

0 AD is the only thing i know that still is

[How to attract more lobby players?]

I think 0 A.D. is doing great. I've been here for almost two years and the forum is the busiest.

[Ideas for the next alpha... uh, I mean beta - and spicing up the game's content]

10 hours ago, Genava55 said:

We could also toss out the awful idea of separating the two time periods into two games (or expansions/mods/whatever Empires Ascendants and Empires Besieged are), that way we can include the Zapotecs more easily from the mod. What's more, as the team has decided to follow the path of eternal releases, freeing itself from explicit milestones (alpha, beta...), this division clearly no longer makes sense.

I actually kind of like that idea still-- ideas like that keep us from feature creep

[Ideas for the next alpha... uh, I mean beta - and spicing up the game's content]

One of my favorite authors Brandon Sanderson has a rule regarding world building its "Expand what you already have before you add something new."

I think this rule applies with 0 A.D. as well. I don't think it's very fair to our devs to expect research, design, new civilizations, even cool ones when the current civs are still not finished. Even if the civs are perfectly balanced and WFG didn't want to make any other changes, I don't think it'd be fair for them to not have some at least one campaign highlighting a historical event they participated in. (Or cool additional in game information...)

Also, there's more to a game than just adding civs-- and I don't think we should put any expectations on people. Everyone is volunteers, if people want to make and mantain a new civ that's good for them-- but the WFG team needs to feel free to make whatever they want.

8 hours ago, Genava55 said:

Yes I understand your idea. But oral tradition is generally related to myths and folklore. Achilles, Cúchulainn and Beowulf were characters from oral traditions until someone wrote the stories down. And there is a long chronological distance between the known legends and the ancient people.

I agree-- 0 A.D. at least from my point of view is supposed to have civs firmly grounded in history. We shouldn't change that now. Beowulf would be cool though, but only if I can train Grendles too.

 

Just as a side note-- with working on the encyclopedia, I have an idea on how hard it is to find information to something, even though I knew exactly what I'm looking for. Writing for the Han dynasty was hard-- and when I tried to find things on the Kush it was difficult too. I can only imagine how hard it would to get information for civilizations without widely available primary sources, even as a research project that would give me nightmares-- even more if I don't have money to purchase archeological journals.

[New Release: 0 A.D. Alpha 27: Agni]

Yay a new release! -- I'll try to get the flatpak ship shape as soon as I get access.

1 hour ago, Itms said:

Social Media Management

I don't think I'd be the best to spearhead this, but I think we could do something really cool with our socials once we start getting the encyclopedia into the game-- which should be a28 (hopefully)