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Think of it like this: They are too important to chop wood and mine metal or stone. Their experience is much more valued in battle, so they are sent to battle more often by their superiors. Hence, lower gather rates to compensate for this historical truth. And since they spend more time on the field, doing repairs and building army camps, their build speed remains constant.

90 score Reasoning is 665 out of 666, so just a tiny bit below diabolical.

It makes no sense to nerf the build speed. Soldiers in ancient times needed to know how to quickly set up a base camp, repair siege engines on the spot, etc. If anything, they should get a build speed buff with experience, but that wouldn't be balanced.

Yes, they are one of the few buildings where it's justified to capture them. Even in real life, the enemy watch towers and other fortifications are usually captured first to provide an advantage. Is it fair that they fall so easily? No. I've recently played an alpha 18 game. Most buildings have at most 15 hack armor, including the Fortress, and capturing wasn't implemented yet. This makes it reasonable to use a swarm of melee units in case you don't have rams. But you still had to have a lot of units and destroy the enemy's army first.

Which one do you prefer to do? Why? Why not? For myself, I hate to capture things as I find the mechanic unfair most of the time. It also makes towers useless. Capturing a unoccupied tower, barracks, or a stable is also very easy with a mid-size force. Once you capture the building, 90% of the time, it's best to delete it. Unless it's a Civic Center or enemy tower/Fortress, your best bet is to delete the building. That's why I destroy almost everything except rarely for the towers and Civic Centers.

Yeah, it's a bit harder than I thought Changeset that implemented the feature: https://trac.wildfiregames.com/changeset/12832/

Release 28: Beta

Leonidas with his swag aura checking out ladies from the enemy camp.

Perfection. If anyone wonders, this is from Alpha 9 Ides of March. Yes, swordsmen had a charge attack.

Or learn by just reading the tooltip that says that Light Cavalry does bonus damage to monks?

I actually agree with you here. The game had some tips in earlier alphas that had listed counters for every unit, but never descriptive text like in AoE2 games. Also, we had this in early alphas. The gather rates, in particular, were shown just as "Bonus in gathering food" for females and "Bonuses in gathering wood, stone and metal" for male soldiers in the tooltips. Maybe we can return to those days of showing the bare minimum of stats, but told the info in tooltips? In any case, it needs to be consistent with the overall UI design.

Going by your logic, we don't need to show anything. Let's just play the game blindly and have fun, ey?

1) Does the number beside the sword icon show the current total damage, or some derivative stat like DPS? It should show all damage types, because of the way damage reduction is calculated in 0 A.D. Example: (sword icon) 3.8 (arrow icon) 6.0 On mouse hover: Damage: 3.0 + 0.8 hack / 5.0 + 1.0 pierce This way, we can also show upgrades cleanly, without cluttering the UI. 2) Movement speed stat is redundant here, no need to show it on combat stats. 3) The icons that are showing resistance levels should look a bit nicer. Too much blue. Perhaps it could look better like this: (gray armor icon similar to AoE2 or AoM) 4/4/15 On mouse hover over the armor icon: Resistance: 3+1 hack (34%) / 3+1 pierce (34%) / 15 crush (79%) You don't need to know it by the time you've learned the game. But new players need to know, and even one of the veterans didn't know about the hack damage of halberdiers. So, more obvious display of stats is desirable.

0 A.D. had a pre-planned roster of civilizations, that was fulfilled by Alpha 9. Starting with Alpha 10, Hellenes civilization was split into Spartans, Athenians and Macedonians. Additionally, the team decided to include more civilizations. Original civilizations are: Hellenes Celts (split into Gauls and Britons in Alpha 11) Iberians Carthaginians Persians Romans

The old 0 A.D. start screen/menu (alpha 6 Fortuna).

I don't think that building of the source is required. The only thing that needs to be done is to modify the hero unit templates and restrict the training limit in a JS file. I see there's BuildLimits.js file, but I need a similar one for units.

I've installed Alpha 9 in order to better understand the game's code and core gameplay loop from a simpler perspective. I realize that this version has many issues, one of the most glaring ones being able to train more than one hero at a time. And yes, having no phases or technologies doesn't bother me. How can I limit the amount of trainable heroes to only one?

Give Iberians "embassy" like structures, that will train Lusitanian and Celtiberian units. A good reason to make them more unique.

Sure you were. When you bartered 500 wood for 1352 food, did you stop to think how this might be suspicious? No, you kept bartering 500 wood for obviously large amounts of food. So, I call BS.

If the art guy says it isn't going to happen, it isn't going to happen. Feel free to close the "bug report".

That's sad. But that problem has a solution. The moment it happens, you just collectively let a 4v1 on the cheater. Until he's out of the game, everyone is on cease fire.

I...can? How hard it is to have a pretty tree that doesn't have huge treetops? We aren't playing real life simulation game here. EDIT: Age of Empires 2: DE trees, as an example. We are 3D, so just grow them a bit. I am not saying that they should look exactly like that, but older tree models from A23b looked better, IMHO.

I know the mod she uses, but that doesn't address the issue. Only obscures it. Also, I want to look at the pretty graphics

Yes, but if you get rid of the stats there, how will you know your real gather rates after all the upgrades? The stats written on the popup window don't show real gather rates, only the base ones. I got you, but if we remove those stats from there, we'd then need the popup window to show the real stats with all upgrades listed. As in Age of Mythology. The discussion is off-topic, so maybe we should move this issue to a separate thread?

See the image. Art on some of the trees should be corrected, as to not block the view as much. It's making it vary hard to guess where the base of the tree is, or where or when a storehouse needs to be placed. Bug: The trees are blocking the view of the ground beneath them. Desired state: Trees should not block the view. Map: Lake with Temperate biome. Also affects all random maps with the temperate biome, maybe some others. Version: 27.1