How to attract more lobby players?

[Seleucids]

5 hours ago, Thorfinn the Shallow Minded said:

In a similar vein, the Andromeda Galaxy's collision with the Milky Way in 4.5 billion years may pose a serious risk to the survival of the community.

This is actually not a problem. Both galaxies are empty enough so that an actual collision between stars or planets is extremely unlikely. The most plausible case is erratic trajectories of bodies and formation of some new constellations. 

More immediate threats:

1. Aggressive military actions destroying internet cables or causing electricity cuts or killing the players in real life

2. Wxwidget failure or bugs (already totally borked on Wayland). We should have switched to QT

3. Microsoft windows doing something funny and all windows players can't run game anymore 

[Stan`]

3 hours ago, Seleucids said:

Wxwidget failure or bugs (already totally borked on Wayland). We should have switched to QT

That's just Atlas and the actor editor. @trompetin17 is rewriting it using the engine GUI.

[ShadowOfHassen]

On 5/7/2025 at 3:55 AM, Seleucids said:

This is actually not a problem. Both galaxies are empty enough so that an actual collision between stars or planets is extremely unlikely. The most plausible case is erratic trajectories of bodies and formation of some new constellations. 

More immediate threats:

1. Aggressive military actions destroying internet cables or causing electricity cuts or killing the players in real life

2. Wxwidget failure or bugs (already totally borked on Wayland). We should have switched to QT

3. Microsoft windows doing something funny and all windows players can't run game anymore 

 

Those are not really, the biggest problem, you've all have seen the news about of the code eating Cthulhu monster right?

[Dakara]

On 05/07/2025 at 9:55 AM, Seleucids said:

This is actually not a problem. Both galaxies are empty enough so that an actual collision between stars or planets is extremely unlikely. The most plausible case is erratic trajectories of bodies and formation of some new constellations. 

More immediate threats:

1. Aggressive military actions destroying internet cables or causing electricity cuts or killing the players in real life

2. Wxwidget failure or bugs (already totally borked on Wayland). We should have switched to QT

3. Microsoft windows doing something funny and all windows players can't run game anymore 

Will 0AD build a professional army to defend its players?

[Thorfinn the Shallow Minded]

1 hour ago, Dakara said:

Will 0AD build a professional army to defend its players?

Since it is an open source project, all soldiers it employs will have to be a volunteer militia force.  Alternatively, it could work with a model in which access to the game requires a certain number of years in its military.  Either of these methods could protect the game from its most immediate threats. 

[BreakfastBurrito_007]

Can we change the name of this topic to something slightly more positive so that it’s not the first thing visible when searching for 0ad forums. 
 

[Grautvornix]

Alternatively, we might as well close this discussion...

 

[Grautvornix]

[_FeRRaN_]

Hello 

Is the forum for Reporting host people that quit rating game without resign still working? 

Thx

[Dunedan]

57 minutes ago, _FeRRaN_ said:

Is the forum for Reporting host people that quit rating game without resign still working? 

yes

[AlexHerbert]

I see new players in lobby, but some don't come back when see some behaviours of "some" players...