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Freagarach 86ddf09640 [Gameplay A24] - Drastically change artillery attacks. 
Artillery is not that effective in 0 A.D., partly because their damage
per second is unimpressive (especially compared to rams or war
elephants), partly because of their splash damage.
Splash damage was added in f72d820cd4 (nearly eight years ago). The
values have changed multiple times, as has the exact calculation (see
simulation/components/Attack.js). While it's quite interesting in
theory, in practice it's not that effective. @fatherbushido explained
how it works on the forums. It's important to understand the actual
splash damage depends on the distance to the centre of entities, in
contrast to ordinary attacks, which do full damage when they hit the
footprint (edge).
Splash damage has some serious problems:
- It may have no effect vs entities with footprints longer than the
splash radius, such as many (most?) structures and warships.
- The AI does not take it into account.
- It's anachronistic: exploding shells did not exist yet in 0 A.D.'s
timeframe. Missiles were rigid objections, and even the very largest
projectiles were well under a metre in diameter.

This patch therefore removes splash damage from artillery (except bolt
shooters).
Fireships and fireraisers now deal fire damage instead of a combination
of other damage types.

Basically, stone throwers are good against large unit masses and
structures only, while bolt shooters are unit killers.
Artillery and bolt towers no longer get additional projectiles from
garrisoned units.
Roman artillery does not get a larger range but keeps the increased
damage.

Patch by: @Nescio
Differential revision: D2494
Reviewed by: @borg-, @wraitii
Comments by: @Angen, @Stan
This was SVN commit r24608.
2021-01-14 16:18:26 +00:00
binaries [Gameplay A24] - Drastically change artillery attacks. 2021-01-14 16:18:26 +00:00
build Add a pipeline to generate test coverage. 2021-01-07 15:05:24 +00:00
docs Update the pathfinder docs. 2015-06-27 15:16:21 +00:00
libraries Do not attempt to rebuild bundled libs every time, and do not run CMAKE for nvtt everytime. Also pass -fpic for NVTT to prevent build failures on FreeBSD (reported by @nephele). 2020-12-01 19:29:21 +00:00
source Removes CPU lighting after no FFP 2021-01-13 21:03:55 +00:00
.arcconfig Add an Arcanist configuration file to interact with Phabricator. 2016-12-22 08:26:18 +00:00
.arclint Upgrade premake5 from alpha12 to alpha13, refs #3729. 2019-01-04 21:20:45 +00:00
.coafile Fixes and improvements to the CI pipelines. 2020-08-18 12:47:09 +00:00
.gitattributes Deletes internal mod (see SVN history if needed) 2013-02-14 22:32:17 +00:00
license_dbghelp.txt Initial attempt at describing licensing details 2009-06-20 17:45:51 +00:00
license_gpl-2.0.txt Initial attempt at describing licensing details 2009-06-20 17:45:51 +00:00
license_lgpl-2.1.txt Initial attempt at describing licensing details 2009-06-20 17:45:51 +00:00
license_mit.txt Adds globalscripts/BicubicInterpolation.js, the corresponding license_mit.txt and points to it for other files with the same license in LICENSE.txt - reviewed by Philip and Itms. Uses that to fix an interpolation issue in gaia.js and also fixes a "fail by one" there - reviewed by elexis. Fixes #4174 2016-09-06 21:49:57 +00:00
LICENSE.txt Update (and debundle) fmt dependancy 2020-11-26 21:01:32 +00:00
README.txt Add where and how to contribute to README.txt 2020-07-17 09:11:38 +00:00

README.txt 

 0 A.D. Introductory Information
=================================

0 A.D. (pronounced "zero ey-dee") is a free, open-source, cross-platform
real-time strategy game of ancient warfare.

This is currently an incomplete, under-development version of the game.
We're always interested in getting more people involved, to help bring the game
towards completion and to share the interesting experience of developing a
project of this scope.

There are several ways to contact us and find more information:

  Web site: http://play0ad.com/

  Forums: http://www.wildfiregames.com/forum/

  Trac (development info, bug tracker): http://trac.wildfiregames.com/

  IRC: #0ad on irc.quakenet.org


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Running precompiled binaries on Windows
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Open the "binaries\system" folder.

To launch the game: Run pyrogenesis.exe

To launch the map editor: Run Atlas.bat or "pyrogenesis.exe -editor"


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Compiling the game from source code
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The instructions for compiling the game on Windows, Linux and OS X are at
http://trac.wildfiregames.com/wiki/BuildInstructions


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Reporting problems
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Bugs should be reported on Trac. For information on reporting problems
and finding logs, see http://trac.wildfiregames.com/wiki/ReportingErrors


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 Contributing Code
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If you want to help out programming for the game, have a look at
https://trac.wildfiregames.com/wiki/GettingStartedProgrammers
or contact us on #0ad-dev on irc.quakenet.org


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Contributing Artwork
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If you want to make artwork for the game, have a look at
https://trac.wildfiregames.com/#Forartists:
or visit the forums http://www.wildfiregames.com/forum


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Translating
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You can help translating the game at https://www.transifex.com/projects/p/0ad
for more information, see https://trac.wildfiregames.com/wiki/Localization