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Hey guys. Managed to pullout my dusty blender on a free saturday: Need to create a specific texture for the building with the many windows. and there will be a small poseidon statue ontop.

Wildfire Games proudly presents the new 0 A.D. website, a new showcase for the game and FOSS project we have all grown to love. You'll notice that the content has been redone, the design better reflects the interface within the game 0 A.D., and it is easier to get to download the version of 0 A.D. that is right for you. New Address The new website is available on http://play0ad.com. Please point your RSS readers to the new website if needed: http://feeds.feedburner.com/0AdNews (The old website will remain at http://www.wildfiregames.com/0ad for posterity and so as not to break any links to old pages. We'll put up a notice soon.) New Features A new game manual, with video tutorials, is available on the new website, to help newbies negotiate the complexities of an RTS game. (Thanks, BrynnOfCastlegate!) Also, the global navigation on the top right corner will help surfers navigate between the main website, intended for a broad audience, and the forums and development wiki, which are usually for hardcore fans and developers. For the more technically inclined readers, the current website runs on Wordpress and conforms to modern web standards, which is important and a big step forward from our older website. Credits A huge round of applause goes to the team members who made this thing happen: Geek377 Brian Stempin (bstempi) GerbilOFDoom Ludovic Celle (Ludo38) Michael Hafer (Mythos_Ruler), and Pureon Please enjoy and give feedback on the new website here!

The legal argument against having swastikas in the game seems tenuous at best, it appears to be more of a cultural/social issue for a minority of the game's users, and in that case, how many groups do we have to appease to release 0 A.D.? How much history do we need to revise or erase before it's approved by the politically correct? The Mauryans existed outside the context of modern Germany, free of its guilt, they had their own history, and the same is true of modern Asians. The swastika is still used to this day, totally independent of Nazism. We would be doing a disservice to the Mauryans and Asian cultures by removing this symbol if it was truly important to them. To me that is just a form of cultural imperialism; the rest of the world has to alter its history to suit the sensitivities of modern Germany. Can you imagine being made to feel ashamed for seeing or using a symbol your ancestors have used for millennia because someone in Germany distorted that symbol 70 years ago into something awful? Me either. Edit: and more to the point, a lot of websites for example host content that is illegal in Germany but legal most other places. Music, videos, art, and writing to name a few media. The solution is pretty simple, you have a disclaimer that says there may be content that is illegal in Germany. If anyone is really worried beyond that, there could be a patch to remove the offending content from the game.

I personally think it's a matter of what we/the game is trying to do, are we trying to be all kinds of things or are we trying to create a game? And more specifically, what should be the focus of the game? Should it be gameplay/fun or should it be historical accurateness or being able to show everything (both literally and figuratively ), or what? In other words, is showing swastikas/nakedness important enough to risk turning people away from the game? I'm not saying I necessarily think this means that we can't have these specific things in the game, but I am saying that I think we should evaluate whether showing some specific symbol or nudity is important enough. I mean it's one thing that there is violence in the game, it's a game of warfare (and economy of course), but it's not primarily a showcase of ancient symbols, or clothing (or the human body for that matter), in which case including these things would have been an easy choice.

Agreed. Wolfenstein 3D is based during the second world war and features Nazis. These are not the droids you are looking for.

It is a matter of taste and priorities, eventually this can only be resolved one way or another, such as by the project lead's decision, by committee or by team vote. Sorry, I was typing on the smartphone

Still, I don't think we should have bare breasted women...There are a lot of cheapos out there who'd just get a lame joke out of it.