Essential Strategy

It is not that easy dude, that is why community managing exists, every platform has different audiences, algorithms and content that works. If you aim to Instagram growth, you should upload vertical videos following a content plan, not static images. The same with YouTube. Anyways, I am just pointing out this to try to help from my experience.

What I meant with that, is that short content can be recycled that way between those social networks, not between YouTube and Instagram. They should have different technical and creative formats, because target is completely different. Reels are practically the same as YT Shorts and TikToks, they have vertical resolution and work way better than posts in terms of reach and retention, which leads to account growth. TikTok and YT Shorts are a possibility that can be considered furtherly, with a well-based YT channel and Instagram account. I do not think that developers are targeting a smaller fan base if they are opening Instagram accounts of the game. It would be even better to have a news section in-game, in starting menu. I detected bigger issues, YT channel has not SEO neither. In a few words, videos are not optmized to be watched by a target public. They do not even have a mianiature, descriptions are too vague: I am gonna give you an example of an attractive game update video: Interesting title, advances the most important aspect of the update. Has a dedicated miniature and describes well what is the video about. This video currently has 2 views per hour, outperforms other videos in the channel by 3.6 times and was published a year ago, it is a success. On the other hand, the 0 A.D. one has a generic title, does not give details about the update nor generate interest. Has no description, with a generic miniature. Has 3 views per hour. The only good thing is that views are proportional to the previous video, which means it wil reach around the same amount of views in the same time. But players are missing it, it is the most important update to day and it looks like any other forgettable news. Interaction is precisely the point. Having a text conversation with devs on a Discord channel feels closer and more responsive than posting a forum topic and hoping someone read it one day. In my opinion, this is a critical issue for game popularity, and if devs want not to move to newer spaces, they will struggle to find donators to make the game better, as I have read it is not published on Steam because playerbase must be kept small due to multiplayer server capacities. So community size and managing is probably limiting game potential.

Hello, about this matter. I have a YouTube channel dedicated to strategy games with about 11K subscribers, and I want to upload more 0 A.D. content. I have analyzed the game social networks and they look kinda unproffessional, abandoned and even fanmade. These are the problems I have found: 1. There is no official Discord server. It is the most popular video game platform and social network in the world and 0 A.D. has no presence there. Most newbie players tend to look for a Discord server to know more about the game, but there are a lot of scattered and dead servers that make it impossible to build an informed community. I have also read some discussions about a Discord server, but it seems it has been unilaterally discarded by some forum admins, instead of voted by the whole community. 2. Instagram account lacks SEO, depends a lot on post format and does not have vertical videos, which probably means, it recycles content from YouTube. Instagram, TikTok and YT Shorts/content must be made appart from the common YouTube content, as they aim to a different target public and social network usage. 3. There is no video editor dedicated to upload videos to the 0 A.D. YouTube channel. The last update did not has any promotional video even though it is one of the most important updates the game has had. There must be someone and maybe several users in charge of community managing to generate an eficient and organic growth in social media networks. What I advise is creating a Communications Team, in charge of making periodic content for every social network, at the beginning: consolidate Instagram and YouTube channel with at least 10K followers and subscribers. An official Discord server must be set as soon as possible to communicate with potential players/donators in an easier, better known and more direct way. Discord server and YouTube memberships could work to attract more donators and share the game.

For some reason it shows like this for me, very confusing. Althoug Ai is very helpful to understand how to make things:

Well it seems it is outdated. Does the engine allows retrocompatibility for mods? I mean, that newer game/engine versions can run old mods. If not, that is a must do for sure.

I have found some of the guides, but they are incomplete or scattered, I mean, it is not as clear as I would wish. For example, I could not find any guide on GUI modification, the only guide I found was about creating an unit and I want to create complete factions. Thank you for that, it will be very useful.

Hello, good work. I got attracted by 0 A.D. because of modding capabilities. I want to bring to life a project I did for a game called Rusted Warfare RTS. It is about WW2 and i think everything I need is possible in 0 A.D., without several limitations on the engine and liceses I had in the previous game. The thing is I am strugling a bit with modding, as there are not clear or complete guides nor tutorials for modding the game. I tried to ask where to start before in this forum, but responses were not very helpful... I would thank you a lot for any help.

The path is: /home/USER/.var/app/com.play0ad.zeroad/data/0ad/mods/

It seems the flatpack version sets the mod folder on another path. I had to search for it manually through my file manager and found it, and worked.

I am on Linux Mint XFCE, and I have installed the flatpack version from the software manager but cannot use latest alpha. Although update manager is noticing me the game has a new update, it seems there is something wrong as it does not update the game when download finishes. Also I am a new Linux user, just installed the OS some days ago, so I might be missing something. Anyway I am going to use 27.0 until a find the way to build the 27.1 as @ffm2 suggested to me.

Hello, I am new here and tried to start a modding project some days ago by learning from some tutorials I found here: https://trac.wildfiregames.com/wiki/WikiStart#Formodders: But my try was not so successful. It seems I cannot manually install mods in .local/share/0ad/mods for some reason, but I suppose it is because my game was installed from the software manager or something. I tried to find tutorials in previous posts but there are few and are not about first steps. I am not a neophyte on modding by the way, I have modded several other games before, although this is the first time I am going to use JavaScript. Any help would be thanked.

I would do if it works, but is not the case

Hello, I just tried to download the latest alpha version from the official web page for Linux, but it seems there is no link or something and had to install it from the Software Manager of my distro, but it is not the latest alpha, as it says 0.27.0 in version.