Odd vacuum Posted May 10, 2014 Report Share Posted May 10, 2014 Hi 0ADers,I just installed 0AD and unfortunately I'm quite unskilled. Therefore I didn't really figure out how do deal with all values and how to actually all controls work. (I red the in-game introduction but wasn't able to remember what I need in time.)Is there any way how I could adjust the game for kind of a sandbox trial for learning the controls without getting wiped from the map in a few minutes?I use debian stable (version r11863-1). Since the optiions menu is not included in my version I looked in the config file but couldn't find any trace of how I could for example level the difficulty way down or how I could get a trial map without any enemy at all.Is there any chance of getting any sandbox-like trial not causing any stress?The game looks like a real master piece. It would be great if even I could actually experience a little more than just a few minutes. Maybe with time I get better and can manage to play like normal gamers... Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
FueledByOCHD Posted May 10, 2014 Report Share Posted May 10, 2014 hmmm you can change the ai to be sandbox style Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
sanderd17 Posted May 10, 2014 Report Share Posted May 10, 2014 In that version, you should have a demo bot I think.For no ai, you can leave the opponent to "unassigned".But I really advise you to install a newer version. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Odd vacuum Posted May 10, 2014 Author Report Share Posted May 10, 2014 Wow, you are fast. The unassigned option might be the best for starters. I didn't see any adjustment for difficulty anyway. Was this feature added in a later version?I tend to stick to debian stable since I don't want to deal with manual adjustments if I do updates. My notebook is quite old anyway. Therefore the old version of the game runs probably better on my system. I own no 3d-acccelerated graphic card. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
FueledByOCHD Posted May 10, 2014 Report Share Posted May 10, 2014 yea sorry i am running svn and alpha 15 na the new one should run fine Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
sanderd17 Posted May 10, 2014 Report Share Posted May 10, 2014 We try to improve performance over releases, though we also add features, so that probably evens out.And of course, you can play with an old version, but multiplayer games only work if all players use the same version, so that won't be possible for you. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Odd vacuum Posted May 11, 2014 Author Report Share Posted May 11, 2014 Ok thanks for your advise. I'll try how far I get with the old version and will probably update to a newer version when I'm done with learning the basics... Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
FueledByOCHD Posted May 11, 2014 Report Share Posted May 11, 2014 you would be better of learning on newer version, due to big differences Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
niektb Posted May 11, 2014 Report Share Posted May 11, 2014 (edited) you would be better of learning on newer version, due to big differencesI agree with that (there have been almost 4000 newer revisions since yours), plus upgrading is free. And most is not compatible with older / newer versions. Edited May 11, 2014 by niektb Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Odd vacuum Posted May 11, 2014 Author Report Share Posted May 11, 2014 Oh, I didn't expect even the handling has changed. Therefore I agree with you. I hope the game doesn't have too many recently updated dependencies... Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
sanderd17 Posted May 11, 2014 Report Share Posted May 11, 2014 We will release a new version in a few days, so better wait a bit with updating.I don't think there's a working PPA for Debian which has the latest version. But if you build from source, you don't need the newest libraries (and all uncommon libraries are also in our source tree).You might want to come to the #0ad-dev IRC channel on QuakeNet. Vincent_c often hangs around there, he's a Debian user/maintainer who usually packages the game for Debian. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Odd vacuum Posted May 11, 2014 Author Report Share Posted May 11, 2014 Ok, thank you for mentioning the new release and the IRC channel. I fear I won't have much time in the next days anyway, but if I can find a reasonable guide for installing the game from source I will look into that as soon as I can manage... Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Loki1950 Posted May 11, 2014 Report Share Posted May 11, 2014 (edited) There is a detailed how to build page in the wiki http://trac.wildfiregames.com/wiki/BuildInstructionsEnjoy the Choice Edited May 11, 2014 by Loki1950 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Odd vacuum Posted May 19, 2014 Author Report Share Posted May 19, 2014 Great. It didn't work instantly, because CMake was left out in the example apt-get command for Debian, but I finally managed to build the game with the linked guide after I installed it separately. Only my old notebook the textures get loaded very slowly. At first I saw just gray objects where the landscape and buildings later on appeared. So actually the much older version in Debian stable worked better for my system, but even if everything is very slow. I love all the details. If I only was a more dedicated and talented player. I refuse to slaughter or raise animals. They are just too cute. Further more I do not want to fight at all. Luckily I can leave out the enemy in single player mode and ignore military completely. Maybe I will come back to that if the rest gets boring, but I doubt I will be through with it before more new stuff will be available.Unfortunately my mouse-button got stuck after a few minutes and I couldn't stop the scrolling on the map any more without quitting the game. But that easily could have been caused by my hardware. Occasionally my left mouse (touchpad) button has this issue. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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