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There's a lot of great very high quality 3d modeling in 0ad and mods, but hard to really view and contemplate each of them (or and commenting, etc.) It would be great if we could see them in 3D, and even better if it can show up inside forum/blog post. A simple way to do that would be uploading you work (dae is supported out of the box in the upload form, but there's 3d softwares exporter plugins) inside the forum, using www.sketchfab.com (free) and then just copy/paste the bb embed link auto-generated by sketchfab, which gives : maur_civic_centre.dae (click to view in 3D) (edit: changed to sanderd17 uploaded model as demo) Best would be to go the way like other forums did, allowing iframes from sketcfab, allowing to embed it directly in the forums ( no new window ), but that need forum admin work ( https://sketchfab.com/faq#embed ) Would be nice for all the glorious art discuss/share/view. ( could also leads to nice art galleries on blogs/sites, by civilisations, by artists, by mods, etc.) (need a nice browser with webgl enabled for a good 3D view, like chrome or firefox)

The exact numbers will have to be tested so we can know for sure which gives the best result, but in general we do want to encourage players to expand. To build new civic centres and compete for land rather than just be able to stay in a small space and just create a lot of units without having to think about it. + It makes it easier for the enemy player to raid farms, which means you will have to think about protecting your farms, and the risk of leaving your farms unprotected compared to being able to put more units into attacking. And also to make it more useful to gather food by other means (bushes/trees/hunting/corrals once they are properly implemented). The build time per food amount is actually decreased a lot. Now you just have to build one farm field to get 5000 food, previously to get the same amount of food you'd need to build three fields (with a build time of 60 that would mean 180 seconds, which is obviously a lot more than 100 seconds.) True, you'd then have some more food left, but even if you just count two fields (and thus compare 4000 at 120 seconds to 5000 at 100 seconds) it's still a benefit in terms of build time for the new stats. Sure, it takes longer to get your farming going, but once you have things going it should definitely not be that much of an increase in playing time. And to the extent it is it should hopefully add some new room for strategy and fun

Very nice pictures of the Scythian warriors. Here is a link to download. http://zalil.ru/34504697