0 A.D. Alpha 25: Yaunā

#1

Post by mfsch » Sun, Aug 08, 2021, 4:01 PM UTC

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#2

Post by ummonk » Sun, Aug 08, 2021, 4:36 PM UTC

We always see Hellenized / Romanized versions of other lands (e.g. "Persia", "India", "Africa") so it's nice to see the release nickname reference the eastern name for Ionia.

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#3

Post by philipswood » Sun, Aug 08, 2021, 4:46 PM UTC

This game changed my mind about what is possible for an open source game.

I'm also wondering when they will stop calling it alpha.

Re: 0 A.D. Alpha 25: Yaunā

#4

Post by ransom1538 » Sun, Aug 08, 2021, 4:47 PM UTC

Hats off to the 0ad team. It is a great game with a fun AI to play against. Give it a try - however, it is pretty addicting.

Ubuntu: sudo apt-get install 0ad

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#5

Post by adaml_623 » Sun, Aug 08, 2021, 4:56 PM UTC

philipswood wrote: post #3

This game changed my mind about what is possible for an open source game. I'm also wondering when they will stop calling it alpha.

From the features page: "As of August 2012, this feature has not been implemented yet."

Re: 0 A.D. Alpha 25: Yaunā

#6

Post by cl42 » Sun, Aug 08, 2021, 5:08 PM UTC

This game is awesome. I also love that they have support for reinforcement learning[1]. I wish all the research in RL and video games was on open source games. Slight bias on my end. :)

[1] https://trac.wildfiregames.com/wiki/GettingStartedReinforcem...

Re: 0 A.D. Alpha 25: Yaunā

#7

Post by YakBizzarro » Sun, Aug 08, 2021, 5:12 PM UTC

I should give it a try again, last time the AI beat me so badly every try...

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#8

Post by mdaniel » Sun, Aug 08, 2021, 5:22 PM UTC

Nice of them to include torrents, and I long for the day when the browser speaks it natively, choosing to seed for as long as the page stays open, as a good start

I like both the tone and the content of the torrent FAQ page they made, too: https://play0ad.com/download/bittorrent-faq/

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#9

Post by capableweb » Sun, Aug 08, 2021, 5:31 PM UTC

ransom1538 wrote: post #4

Hats off to the 0ad team. It is a great game with a fun AI to play against. Give it a try - however, it is pretty addicting. Ubuntu: sudo apt-get install 0ad

> Hats off to the 0ad team

Agree!

> Ubuntu: sudo apt-get install 0ad

If you want the latest version, you're probably better off with either the development PPA[0] or any of the following distribution models:

- Snap - https://snapcraft.io/0ad

- AppImage - https://www.appimagehub.com/p/1438982/

- Flatpack - https://flathub.org/apps/details/com.play0ad.zeroad

From https://play0ad.com/download/linux/#Ubuntu

- [0] `sudo add-apt-repository ppa:wfg/0ad.dev` and then the apt-get dance

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Post by dmpk2k » Sun, Aug 08, 2021, 5:33 PM UTC

mdaniel wrote: post #8

Nice of them to include torrents, and I long for the day when the browser speaks it natively, choosing to seed for as long as the page stays open, as a good start I like both the tone and the content of the torrent FAQ page they made, too: https://play0ad.com/download/bittorrent-faq/

Some old versions of Opera from over a decade ago supported downloading torrents. It sadly didn't catch on.