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Dear all, I think that the Mouryans could speak Sanskrit or at least Hindi. If the development team has the English texts of what the in-game units speak (currently Greek or Latin), I would be happy to help tranlsating them to Sanskrit or Hindi and also provide some of the male voice recording (in fact, with some of my friends, I could cover all of male voices and possibly even female voices)! Cheers, Mahesh P.S.: I and my friends have done some basic Indian theatre plays etc. so we could give decent voice recordings, I think.

I think this is a legitimate issue that can only be truly solved with hard data: we need to know who doesn't support Glsl "fully" in the 0 AD player base. We're currently only requiring GLSL 1.10. Apparently some semi-old linux machines have trouble with them. If that's not fixable by updating the drivers and the number of people running such machines are high enough (~5/10% of the total), I think we'd have a good reason to keep ARB, despite whatever pain it might be. Secondly, I think that this won't necessarily allow us to do much fancier stuffs in the GLSL shaders because fancier stuff require newer versions of GLSL and OpenGL. Though it's probably much less of a hassle to have different GLSL scripts for different versions than different types of shaders altogether. Finally, I stress that ARB is indeed old, deprecated, and that it's already not up-to-date with GLSL in 0 AD's current codebase. I also agree it adds a lot of code in the C++, I've run into it once in a while and it's not too nice.

Only one thing I wanted to add. I've recently watched some 0AD gameplay videos, and on easy the AI still can be way too hard for beginning players. It might be nice to add an even easier "sandbox" level for those beginning players and maybe even replace some of the extra "easy" bots with the new "sandbox" difficulty on Aegis.

Empires : Dawn of the Modern World had such systheme, it worked well, the only weakpoint was isolated animals( a small groups of bears in a closed narrow space ), they would start to multiply until all the empty space is taken... An interesting video(at least the 2 first minutes), "In which I discuss the pros and cons of olive farming in the ancient world, and then get kicked for my efforts" : (the author also did points on longbows, shieldwalls, etc...)

Amazing work Lord. Please continue!!