[yjftsjthsd-h]

> It's alpha for so long, how stable is it to play ?

It is 100% playable and has been for years. As sibling comments note, I think the only reason they label it as anything but stable is because there are still significant changes between releases. Although I personally think they could fix even that by just chopping the first parts of the version number off - if they stopped calling it "alpha" and just called it 0ad version 26, and then released version 27, everyone would still have the right expectations.

[baobabKoodaa]

I tried to play it at a LAN party. It started off great, but as the number of units increased, the connection slowly deteriorated until eventually it was literally unplayable. You say that it is "100% playable and has been for years"?

[yjftsjthsd-h]

Honestly I've only ever played it single player or with 2 players. So yes, it's 100% playable under all conditions that I've been able to test. There are plenty of games with unacceptable performance on my machines; do I get to call all of them alpha-quality?

[baobabKoodaa]

My objection was not related to 0AD versioning their releases as "alpha". That's absolutely fine by me! My objection was related to you describing 0AD with words "It is 100% playable and has been for years". Clearly it has not been 100% playable for years!

[pbhjpbhj]

Some details would be good: what machine was the host, what network, how many clients, which 0ad version? Just curious.

[baobabKoodaa]

This was a few years ago, so I don't remember all the details. I remember that we had 4 players in the LAN.