Game Balance

[balduin]

The 0 A.D. team balanced Alpha 21 very nicely. The previous problem in Alpha 20 was that elite forces have been cheap to train and did not take much time to train. The Balancing made elite forces expensive again and even stronger, which makes them very special. Other changes in the overal balance are positive too.

Overall the new balancing gives the game a different character and it takes much longer to play. Previously a game took me 1_5 hours, now the game takes around 3 hours to play.

[elexis]

3 hours is a lot though. If you can, defeat the economy of your opponents early on (women only have 25 health!). Citizen soldiers are much more useful in this release now as they are not mowed immediately by towers anymore. In order to completely wreck your enemy, you have to take out the city center with a ram that is defended and repaired by your guarding citizen soldiers.

You might also want to take a look at the replay thread to see how lobby players reach city phase in the first 15 minutes and wipe each out each other a bit sooner:

 

[fatherbushido]

3 hours is a lot though.

I played several days in an old alpha against AIs. And finally noticed it does nothing when loading a save game. (saved games didn't yet work with ai's).

:-)

[balduin]

@elexis I am pretty sure you can play it faster.

@fatherbushido In the latest Alpha 21 and the previous Alpha 20 it is possible to save/load the game and the AI does not have problems to resume the game.