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The spartan bonus for women can be easily rephrased to refer to just "citizens" and justified by the strict Spartan discipline. EDIT: It's Fertility Festival, not Female Festival. I guess we don't have to change the tech name, but only the tooltip. The same for Loom.

Rome: Cīvis Rōmānus (Roman Citizen). Greek city states (Athens, Sparta, Macedonia): Polítēs (Citizen).

https://www.indiedb.com/games/0-ad/news/a-year-in-review "Since the last IOTY we have added two of the remaining civilizations: the Iberians and the Carthaginians. In the upcoming Alphas we will add the final two, the Persians and the Romans." The game was meant to be much more humble originally. There's a lot of interesting points in the article.

The game was balanced for having CS from the start, so they should stay. However, we should still get rid of the Female citizens and replace them with the generic two-gendered citizen unit with slightly altered gather rates. But, I won't get too much into off-topic.

@BeTe, I put it, please remove the quoted spoiler part.

"QUICK! Nerf the champion spear cavalry!" Meanwhile, CS javelin cavalry: Exists The main reason ALL cavalry is OP is speed. They're simply too fast when compared to spear infantry (which should be their counter). Either increase hoplite armor, or decrease the cavalry speed.

Two more replays against the Hard AI, one playing as Rome and other as Carthage. RomeVSSele_H.zip CarthVSAthens_H.zip

I like Rome the way it is. Marian Reforms tech introduced in A27 added an unique twist to them.

Yeah, I thought you wanted them to suddenly promote to cavalry, lol. "Olympic Spartiates" sound better, honestly.

Again, more knowledge comes with experience. You should slowly switch all of your females to farming by the time you click the Town phase. CS will gather enough wood if you keep training them after your 30th-40th female citizen.

After some experience with the game, I retract all my statements above.

The more I play, the more I think that Forts should just be very strong defensive structures.

@george One easy solution is to re-order an attack move for your army from time to time. Unit AI will prioritize attackers.

That poor female citizen... Alpha 14 was a good release.

Mason, lumberjack, merchant, a blacksmith (profession, not a building). Fishermen in the coastal areas. Probably a lot of other things. Women did mostly knitting, some farming and some other stuff that would be inappropriate to talk about.

Sparta VS Han, Hard AI. SpartaVSHan_H.zip

I commend you on getting all that metal with female only economy. But, it should be easier in a team game if you get a lot of traders. Plus, your ally can send you his excess metal. Anyway, CS have an inherent advantages - low cost and fast training time. 60 Roman Hastati cost you only 600 metal, which is pennies for such a fighting force (that can be buffed by Centurions and later turned into Legionaries).

It might be possible, but it is not really optimal. I'm not sure which champions or CS are we talking about? If it's Persian and Seleucid spear cavalry, yeah. 40 Spartiates will also decimate pretty much anything. Anything else will hardly beat a full, balanced CS army. Please, hold that thought. While watching the Age of Empires 2 DE casts, I've noticed an absurd situation of people having 100 or more Villagers and almost no army. Like literally 5 Scouts and a few Pikes or Archers. The games were either decided in the Feudal age Scout Cavalry rush or they turned into a turtle boomfest that we here all know and love. Which often ends in the trebuchet or bombard cannon wars. So, for all intents and purposes, we should do our own thing. At least it leaves a bloody mess once two huge armies collide. Also, let's not introduce some new thing that will need to be balanced for years. We have experience with rushed changes, already.

Playing and having fun would be the best rating you'd ever have.

Hey @Dakara, I've edited the poll and added A21, as it is indeed a major release.

Now that there will be no more alpha releases, it's time to declare the best alpha release we had. The poll mentions some more significant alphas with major changes (but not truly old ones). You're free to vote in the comments for some other version. I personally love A27 as I've been playing it the most, but will vote A23 as the last "old-school" version of 0 A.D. It has a specific feel that some later alphas lost. Even the artwork is "more serious" to me, personally. Why I believe A23: Ken Wood stands out as the best release so far: 1) Much leaner on resources and disk size, 2) Artwork that stands out more, has that gritty feel that makes you want to stare at the icons, 3) Fortress produces "unique" champion units for most civs, while others have a special building for them, 4) Much tougher AI, that will end you if you're not careful. This is perhaps a consequence of it being able to produce champions earlier, without having to research a tech, 5) Named in honor of one of the founding members of the game, 6) Unit dialog screen introduced, allowing for more descriptive entities, etc.

True that, it's an REAL TIME Strategy game. Time is important. Can't really agree with this. There are some issues in the early game that can be addressed, but the strategy is there. You can't just spam random units and win, no matter what APM you have. In the end, your army composition matters. Is a very different game, where attrition warfare can make the matches last for hours. Infinite resources are generally a bad thing. 0 A.D. has infinite food (from farms), but the scarcity of other resources makes sieges and area denial possible (hence more strategic depth) . It is technically possible to have infinite resources in 0.A.D. using long trade routes with lots of traders, but that is a very late game thing offset by the high opportunity costs. I don't know. The last time I checked, Seleucids were still there.

An epic battle against a Hard Roman AI. I won't spoil much SeleVSRome_Hard.zip

While I'm in the minority that believes the change was good, attacking buildings without siege or a good number of elephants is currently a waste of time (in vanilla version, not Community mod).

While logically sound, this is not really reflected in the gameplay and the current meta. Most of the time, you're just spamming mass CS until you or your enemy wins. Also, let's not forget about the CS cavalry. AoE is not open-source. It is also rather bland with every civilization feeling the same. I'm talking mostly about AoE2 here. AoE3 and 4 are not my cup of tea. They are not treated as such. Often, they are your only army, even in the late game. I'm forced to train soldiers, even though I don't need to. Soldiers cost both wood and food, but I need wood for stuff at the start. When the AI suicides his army, he suicides his eco, as well. Etc. Will do.