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lol, as for the juicy details, well it would be rude of me to anything more indepth then i already have about his story- though perhaps I can arrange for you to "meet" him on the interweb itself, though that will probably take a few days to organize- I'll shoot you a PM about it in a day or two And as for the anthro route- perhaps its worth taking a look into! Its always been there, floating around the back of my head a 'possibility of a possibility' but never something I focused my attention on too much, given that much of the potential field work for some of the more remote tribes and populations that might be of interest to me... well, dosent entice me much. Would much rather dig around in the dirt of a nice Italian summer along the coast then trundle around a jungle for a few months/years. But perhaps its worth looking into specifics, and not let those stereotypes take hold. God knows that i probably wouldn't end up with that Italian dream anyways

well, there are pros and cons to it- generally speaking, I was considering History major because its a FAR better be to keep a stable relationship in- a close friend of mine has gotten screwed over royally (before I met him) in two relationships (one of which, had circumstances been different, could have ended up in his marriage) mainly because they were both archeologists, and without getting into details, their professors pretty much unknowingly screwed them over at the same time. He has gotten a PH.D in early Spanish colonial archeology, along with the Mesoamerican civ interest that spawned him inot that sub field, but the situation he's in now money and career wise -let alone relationship wise- is really scary stuff. I mean, as much as i like my friend, I don't want to end up in his position, and he has said as much to me about it before. The flip side is that a period that strongly interests me- the late stages of the neolithic to the bronze age in southern Europe inst a period really covered by historical texts outside of the Greek myths, legends, and epics- and that doesn't even loosely begin to cover western European civilizations like fabled old Tartessos. In order to really do anything with them it certainly involves doing archeology for a living.

Hey there- I suppose there isnt a @#$% load to know, or at least that'd I'd go over out of the blue, but I'm a history major/pondering switching over to archeology major who'll be entering my real core fields of study soon. I'm not a huge gamer myself, but prefer a more casual play more then anything else. For a long time I eschewed RTS in favor of TBS games like civ, but it wasnt helped that the last RTS I got myself was Age of Mythology- no RTS has intrigued me since then, other then the Total war games, which weren't my thing. For the above reason, if anyone here has spent any time in a place called "CFC" I might have some name recognition from that, though I havent been an active member in that community for a while. I joined up just to say how awesome I think this project is- you guys could have a really big success with this thing

Just found out about this thing- its really awesome! I've been craving a new AOE style game that would revisit the original source, and given that ensemble studios no longer exists, well... ...thank god there looks to be a real game out there that could bring sweet relief for the gamer who desires to wage his wars well before christ, and dosnt like the Total War style of game!