Delenda Est: An overhaul mod for 0 A.D.

[sphyrth]

The icons look beautiful even outside the game!

[wowgetoffyourcellphone]

10 minutes ago, sphyrth said:

The icons look beautiful even outside the game!

Attempting a Technologies table as well. Not every technology, mind. Just important/unique ones.

 

http://delendaest.wikia.com/wiki/Principate_Romans#Technologies

[wowgetoffyourcellphone]

Spartans page. Anything else I should include on the faction pages?

http://delendaest.wikia.com/wiki/Spartans

[Lion.Kanzen]

I love wikias.

[sphyrth]

Vanilla needs to catch up if you keep this up.

[av93]

In the wikia, separate the Team Bonus from the faction bonus (or indicate which is the team bonus), for a fast look into it.

[Servo]

I played DE white Dover cliffs and the maps is really nice! One thing I noticed is that fishing boat/s has very short LOS that I can only see the enemy warship when almost side by side with it. 

Also is it possible to add 400 pop cap? 

Edited September 20, 2017 by Servo

[wowgetoffyourcellphone]

400 would be easy to add. I'll do it just for you. Lol

[wowgetoffyourcellphone]

Just for fun. 

[Servo]

The game is almost unplayable at 500 pop with so many players but quite not enough with 300 even using .5x speed. Thanks!

Edited September 21, 2017 by Servo

[Stan`]

2 hours ago, wowgetoffyourcellphone said:

Just for fun. 

Looks pretty badass though.

[wowgetoffyourcellphone]

8 hours ago, Servo said:

The game is almost unplayable at 500 pop with so many players but quite not enough with 300 even using .5x speed. Thanks!

500 pop is really only about 250-300 units though, with DE's population mechanics. 

[Servo]

I know maybe my pc lags or the game lags. Anyhow it's alpha but if we it will take years to fix lags on more pops a quick fix should be in place to make it playable for max number of players on a given map. 

I tested monkey wrench mod last night and had a max 300 pop and maybe between 200 AI and it's lagging quite bad(as in MP lag of 6 players at 200 max pop) though it's just a 1v1. 

[Lion.Kanzen]

You will be need a soundtrack badass to follow that screen.

[wowgetoffyourcellphone]

19 hours ago, stanislas69 said:

Looks pretty badass though.

 

 

If I was in charge, which I'm not, I'd commission an artist to create a series of backgrounds, one for each faction in the core game. Two layers: The background layer, and the foreground soldier/unit/character looking over his/her shoulder at the player, like, "Join me, or die!"

Edited September 22, 2017 by wowgetoffyourcellphone

[sphyrth]

This kind of artwork can slap the faces of those who made that movie of naked Spartans

[wowgetoffyourcellphone]

1 minute ago, sphyrth said:

This kind of artwork can slap the faces of those who made that movie of naked Spartans

LOL yeah. But even this image is incorrect. Mostly the shield patterns.

[LordGood]

1 hour ago, wowgetoffyourcellphone said:

If I was in charge, which I'm not, I'd commission an artist to create a series of backgrounds, one for each faction in the core game. Two layers: The background layer, and the foreground soldier/unit/character looking over his/her shoulder at the player, like, "Join me, or die!"

You would be dropping several thousand out of the treasury, possibly tens at that level of finish. 

[wowgetoffyourcellphone]

21 minutes ago, LordGood said:

You would be dropping several thousand out of the treasury, possibly tens at that level of finish. 

Yep. Or maybe not. Depends on who you get. Deviant Art is full of talented people.

 

Also, it depends on the composition of course. The top one has a lot less going on than the bottom one. I'd model them all off the top one anyway.

Edited September 22, 2017 by wowgetoffyourcellphone

[Stan`]

Maybe we could put up a challenge on art websites. People love contests. 

[Sundiata]

0AD definitely needs more promotional art, backgrounds and top-tier screenshots for promotion. The screenshots on the 0AD home-page are more than 4 years old! They need to be replaced because they don't showcase the game nicely, but those are the first screenshots people see.... They're not even taken at highest graphic quality settings, and make the game look old and cheap, which it really isn't...

LordGood has done an awesome job, on the new backgrounds for the home screen, but having one for each civ would be awesome!

The loading screens also have incredibly old (kind of ugly) screenshots. All of them need to be replaced in my opinion.  

I recently played around in Atlas, to try to make a nice environment for screens:

Spoiler

I know the game can't currently play on maps like this, but this is the direction 0AD should be heading in my opinion:

 

[Imarok]

4 hours ago, stanislas69 said:

Maybe we could put up a challenge on art websites. People love contests. 

Good idea, we just need someone managing that

[av93]

Is there a way for making screenshots galleries by alphas, if wanted? Its nice also show the progress

Edited September 23, 2017 by av93

[niektb]

@stanislas69: except for the scenario design contest   

[Stan`]

I think that's because we have a too small coverage. Because me @wowgetoffyourcellphone @kali_ @Skhorn @Tiber7 @shieldwolf23 @Hannibal_Barca could have participated in that. That gives interesting challenge but if we could gather social media coverage it would be way more fun. 

@daker