Hero selection at the start of the game

[russnes]

There should be a set of heroes at the beginning of the game that the players can choose from. Once, a player has chosen their hero they will enter the arena and be able to control it.

[mithray]

I know three ways to choose a hero:

• Delenda Est, a 0AD mod, already has a hero selection at the start of the game. I actually don't like the layout, but it does work.
• You could "train" a hero once the game has begins, this is what happened in the original Warcraft 3, DOTA map.
• Use the Civilization selection feature at the start of the game.

Delenda Est actually is putting quite a bit of work into historical heroes. We could potentially use all of that.

[russnes]

I think whichever one is the simplest is probably the best option. If it's possible to create a custom barracks where you can train all types of heroes, and limit the number of heroes to 1, then it's already good enough.

[LenaTheWolfess]

See https://github.com/SlavomirSlovenkai/MMO/blob/master/simulation/data/civs/archer.json as example
Important is "SkirmishReplacements": {
"units/mmoPlayerSkirmish": "units/mmoArcher"
},
and having units/mmoPlayerSkirmish for every player placed on map
also this component is needed inside unit being replaced 'SkirmishReplacer'

[russnes]

See https://github.com/SlavomirSlovenkai/MMO/blob/master/simulation/data/civs/archer.json as example
Important is "SkirmishReplacements": {
"units/mmoPlayerSkirmish": "units/mmoArcher"
},
and having units/mmoPlayerSkirmish for every player placed on map
also this component is needed inside unit being replaced 'SkirmishReplacer'

Great. Just for the record I would link to a specific commit just in case you end up moving this around, so the link doesn't die in the future.

So this is defining on a building with trainable units?

[LenaTheWolfess]

this is 0ad feature nothing special, you can find it in current civ files

no,
you put 3 units for each team on the map and that units will have skirmishreplacer element in template.
inside each civ file there will be defined which unit/entity will be used instead