[Devel Hell with OpenSUSE]

Every Linux distribution needs their dependencies, and package names may differ. Fedora may install -devel packages by default if requested during install.

OpenSUSE specific build instructions for 0 A.D. are here:

http://trac.wildfiregames.com/wiki/BuildInstructions#openSUSE

[Enemy Teleporting?]

Also make sure to update to latest alpha 21 version, you are still using alpha 20.

Then you can also use the Map Filter in map selection to avoid using Trigger Maps, so that when using a random one this type of map can be excluded.

[OpenAI]

The main, and possibly only, benefit to 0 A.D. of this, is the increased publicity for us. I don't expect other benefits. The good thing is that it won't cost us anything registering and given 0 A.D. licence they could likely do it anyway.

And I am just curious to what could be the outcome, I am very sceptical about it, still their team is very motivated and already has at least a RTS game they plan trying.

[Flying buildings]

@Juli51 did you place that buildings in first post in Atlas or during a game? IIRC in Atlas you can place buildings everywhere, while inside a game the terrain is required to be flat, and that should make this issue more difficult to happen.

[0AD cannot open in Ubuntu]

13 hours ago, zzippy said:

If you do not want to update your  os  and alpha21 on 14.04 you have to build it yourself without that suggested --with-system-mozjs38

option, then it runs.

https://play0ad.com/download/source/

 

I tried building this way in a PPA but it still fails:

https://launchpadlibrarian.net/298448581/buildlog_ubuntu-trusty-amd64.0ad_0.0.21-2~gd~t_BUILDING.txt.gz

[New version 0ad_0.0.21 crashes on ubunty 14.04 LTS]

AFAIK there is no more packaged version of alpha20 for 14.04.

You may want to upgrade to 16.04 which works fine with alpha21, wait for a proper fix or wait someone (maybe me when I'll have some time) packages alpha20 for 14.04.

[0AD cannot open in Ubuntu]

This issue only happens in Ubuntu 14.04. Upgrading to 16.04 will avoid it. See here for instructions: https://wiki.ubuntu.com/XenialXerus/ReleaseNotes#Upgrading_from_Ubuntu_14.04_LTS_or_15.10

[OpenAI]

39 minutes ago, wraitii said:

I'm not sure what the procedure would be, but it would be interesting to give them 0 A.D. I remain unconvinced that machine learning can efficiently learn to play an RTS with current technology, but who knows.

I thought the same, but also noticed they have at least one other RTS (Red Alert 2), (don't know if there are others RTS in their list).

[OpenAI]

https://openai.com/blog/universe/

https://universe.openai.com/

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We're releasing Universe, a software platform for measuring and training an AI's general intelligence across the world's supply of games, websites and other applications.

They are also searching for games to use to train it:

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Grant us permission to use your game, program, website, or app.

If your program would yield good training tasks for an AI then we'd love your permission to package it in Universe. Good candidates have an on-screen number (such as a game score) which can be parsed as a reward, or well-defined objectives, either natively or definable by the user.

 

 

 

 

[Default AI is Now Too Strong for Newcomers]

A thing that annoyed me about the alarm feature was that units gets randomly garrisoned in buildings. And women in towers (and also in other military buildings?) cannot fire arrows (IIRC). Would be possible to prioritize garrisoning in a way to maximize defence, for example women in houses (both cannot fire arrows IIRC) while soldiers in military buildings? (Not sure if this still applies in latest release)

About the AI: yup it is very strong! A trick that works with AI is to use towers, put them as soon as possible near the AI base and it would easily kill most of it workers walking around, in the meantime you can develop your economy and later attack in force without any hurry. This is probably not a fair way to play, it just spots a weak point of the AI (hint to improve it ), but you can easily win this way.

[Square map]

Apparently many new maps introduced in A21 are square:

https://play0ad.com/new-release-0-a-d-alpha-21-ulysses/

[Graphic issue: All territory and units white]

All your installations used Debian 9? Do they also have the same version of mesa? Mesa in Debian 9 will be upgraded from 12.0.4 to 13.0.1 in 5 days, anyway: https://packages.qa.debian.org/m/mesa.html

Maybe you can try the 13.0.1 packages currently in sid and see if the issue is fixed.

[Graphic issue: All territory and units white]

Most likely an issue with vmware driver. You may want to report it here:

https://bugs.freedesktop.org/enter_bug.cgi?product=Mesa

[Art Dev. Task tracking]

Some animals also miss some animation. Someone should make a list

[Crash Report]

Your hardware shouldn't make the game crash. When does it happen? Is it always reproducible?

[Paris in Flames]

Awesome!

If you have some time you may want to da a video about it with in-game cutscenes:

http://trac.wildfiregames.com/ticket/3301

 

[Crash]

Already briefly discussed here:

I would suggest to update his video drivers and eventually, if he has an integrated gfx card, increase video memory.

Other suggestions can be found on google, as this may be an error not only specific to 0 A.D..: https://www.google.it/#q=gl+error+1285

 

[Rogues/Barbarians (as in the Civilization series)]

There is already a trigger map with Romans passing by, IIRC. These could be useful for future campaigns.

[Your 0 A.D. Screenshots]

13 hours ago, fcxSanya said:

Its too highpoly for pyrogenesis (so requires some modifying, which damages the quality) and doesn't have a texture, and with proper scale should be much larger than anything else. But I did a picture with low-polyfied-uglified-textureless-scaled-down-version
Thanks for the idea/link in any case

It's looking great! I also posted this in the ITS 3d-print model NasaSpaceFlight forum thread, where the model has been posted.

[Your 0 A.D. Screenshots]

On 14/9/2016 at 7:11 PM, fcxSanya said:

Model and texture sources/credits:
* http://nasa3d.arc.nasa.gov/detail/nmss-hdu  Habitat Demonstration Unit.  Author/Origin: NASA LaRC Advanced Concepts Lab, AMA Studios
* http://nasa3d.arc.nasa.gov/detail/70-meter-dish  70-meter Dish.  Author/Origin: NASA Ames Research Center
* http://nasa3d.arc.nasa.gov/detail/astronaut  Astronaut.  Author/Origin: DigitalSpace Corporation
* http://nasa3d.arc.nasa.gov/detail/mero-3766  MER Opportunity.   Author/Origin: NASA Ames Research Center
* http://nasa3d.arc.nasa.gov/detail/orion-capsule  Orion Capsule.   Author/Origin: Manuel de León
* http://opengameart.org/content/mars-rover  Mars Rover.  Author: JamesWhite
* http://opengameart.org/content/tilling-textures-pack-32  Tilling textures pack 32.   Author: yughues

Cool! You may also want to add the ITS spaceship, a CC-BY model (likely an incompatible format, but other formats are in work) is available here.

[Game doesn't load on 1920x1080 resolution]

xres and yres works only on windowed mode IIRC. On fullscreen the screen resolution is always used.

[Can I help with Android port?]

An open source ETC2 compressor is available now: https://medium.com/@duhroach/building-a-blazing-fast-etc2-compressor-307f3e9aad99#.1l2q8fiwh

[Suggestions for 0 A.D.]

About 1. there is such a setting to scale the GUI:

scale = 1.0                       ; GUI scaling factor, for improved compatibility with 4K display

See this page for more info on using custom settings: http://trac.wildfiregames.com/wiki/Manual_Settings

[Just played the game and its heavy on my ROG]

Enabling vsync in the config will cap the fps at your monitor refresh rate, and probably decrease CPU usage.

[===[COMMITTED]===[SOUND]=== Nick notification sound]

If you want to submit audio files you should provide them in lossless flac or wav format, not ogg, so that they can be stored in the art repository as original format, and then recompressed in lossy ogg (this can be done losslessly more times when having the original uncompressed file).