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abandoned village and date orchard by a dried up oasis. merchant caravan spending the night

Clearly the metal is for making the dog tags.

The way I see it, mine slots won't have to be enormous. It could be visually pleasing to have one or more mine slots near large hills or cliffs, but in principle they could be placed anywhere on the map. Cossacks for comparison: Mine slot + structure in red, farmstead in blue, storehouse in green, several small rocks for stone in yellow.

@elexis That was straight to the point... I like that! Actually, the phrase was popularized by Samora Machel, a socialist leader, who defeated the Portuguese in the Mozambican war of independence (ended 1975). He meant to say that after the war was "won", the fight continues: My personal knowledge of Portuguese is limited to such lovely words as "caralho!" and "Foda-se!"

Copper mines of the Great Orme (Wales): http://www.bbc.com/earth/story/20160420-the-ancient-copper-mines-dug-by-bronze-age-children https://www.historic-uk.com/HistoryUK/HistoryofWales/The-Great-Orme-Mines/ Neolithic flint mine (Britain, Norfolk): https://www.english-heritage.org.uk/visit/places/grimes-graves-prehistoric-flint-mine/ https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Flint Iron mining, iron age (Southern France), the red square on the figure: https://www.researchgate.net/publication/322010581_Remains_of_the_iron_exploitation_during_pre-Roman_and_Roman_period_in_the_mining_district_of_Baillestavy_Eastern_Pyrenees_France Different iron ores: Bog Iron: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bog_iron http://www.hurstwic.org/history/articles/manufacturing/text/bog_iron.htm https://www.researchgate.net/publication/289236536_Prehistoric_iron_smelting_in_London_Evidence_from_Shooters_Hill Ironstones: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ironstone https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Siderite https://www.wealdeniron.org.uk/hist.htm Bonus: Salt mining Hallstatt period (Austria): https://www.nhm-wien.ac.at/hallstatt/en/salt_mine/hallstatt_period Edit: For bog iron, it is quite common in wetland and forested streams where the geology is rich in iron. Here a picture of field campaign I did in Hessen in Germany: This is due to iron-oxidizing bacteria, forming biofilms: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Iron-oxidizing_bacteria The iron minerals are dissolved in anoxic conditions (no oxygen) below the water table as Fe(II) minerals and when the water rises up it got oxidized in Fe(III) minerals, bacteria use this difference of oxidative potential to fuel their metabolism. In the case of my picture, this is a seepage because there are beavers dams and ponds in the area.

Depends on what the implementation will look like. Not everyone will be able to implement that, so I suspect few big companies will offer such a service and most might end up using that. Then the change the users see would depend on what that corporation decides to filter for. Also there is a difference between not being affected and not seeing how you're affected. If you can't read the books that were burned, you don't know if you missed something. It's true that they probably can't kill the message itself, but people like investigative journalists, political activists and such who rely on facebook, youtube, twitter and co to reach a big audience invest years of work into maintaining these channels and have been blacklisted for random stuff. Quite many. It seems like the main use case of such global monopolies, slowing things down as well as possible. In fact there have been alternative social media systems being put up, they got censored on the financial services paypal/mastercard too, went for CEOs etc.. If you look at China, it doesn't seem impossble to lose our internet freedom. It's a little remaining oasis. Meatspace also getting invaded by the internet of things, every lightbulb and toaster being connected to the internet... and as a computer science student I was supposed to help with that, thks, I'm fine, let's do some GPL non-profit software first. Maybe one can't silence the expression of a widespread belief, but how many whistleblowers uploaded to some honeypot whitleblower platform and disappeared without anyone ever noticing? We only know about people who were public figures and wanted to publish some controversial material before they ended up in a suspcious death (for example Gary_Webb allegedly having shot himself twice into his head). I don't think that the law is about copyright but establishment of more control mechanisms in general since they introduce just the next law to establish upload filters, this time against terrorism. Seems like looking for reasons to establish upload filters, rather than looking for means to stop terrorism and copyright infringement. Whenever terrorism laws are introduced that provide the government and private corporations more control, that is typically widened some years later to be used against the average user who has the wrong hobbies. They are even requiring artifical interlligene / machine learning to detect terrorism content upon upload. Would my post also be affected? Am I stirring hate that could result in terrorism already according to this AI? The Voss guy for sure talks bull on the interviews. But the politicians just pass on what some people hand them over. So the question is whether the law (and new laws passed in general) dont actually exactly achieve what they're supposed to accomplish, and just break (internet or meatspace) freedom except that of few whitelisted megacorporations; consolidation. Related: I heard there is new legislation against darknets coming up.

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Stone and Wood should suffice, yeah. (same as in DE) I also have a yuge problem with a lot of the costs of things in vanilla, technologies especially. I don't think anything should cost more than 2 different resources except for special cases.

Not sure if Art topic or Gameplay topic. It would be great to improve the mines in the game. In ancient times, mining was quite advanced. I know it's an Age of Empires convention to just have piles of Gold laying everywhere, but with many other things 0 A.D. and WFG has improved upon in the genre, I think mines and mining can be another. Just with the assets already in 0 A.D. and Delenda Est, I was able to make a cool looking and more realistic mining depot than is currently in the game: Now, if anything the cliff face objects ("stone_savanna_cubic") should be more rounded and the "mines" more jagged, but you guys get the idea. It's a crude representation, but gets the point across (this screenshot is for my rework of Saharan Oases). Stone mines would look like open pit mines, while metal mines could look like mine shaft tunnel entranced. Both mining methods were used in ancient times. This in and of itself could be enough. They could work just like current mines, but be placed more strategically, be larger and more important. You could still have a couple of smaller starting mines in the home territory, but the bulk of a match's stone and metal would be mined from these larger strategic mines. To take it one step further, with a slotting concept you could add slots to mines whereby you can allow the player to "claim" mines by building storehouses there (and could extend this to a farmland concept where you claim juicy free farms by building a Farmstead on a slot). Like so: This could be a way to allow players to gather these resources outside their territory and provide points of contention outside territory boundaries while providing additional immersion. I hope you liked my brief presentation.

This topic is for suggesting the creation of custom in-game menus that better suit each civilization, as well as improved unit/building thumbnails and mini-map. I've created two examples of this:

Let's have a look at the dog kennel (Briton special structure): Looking at it critically, there are a couple of issues: its cost: 50 wood, 50 stone, 200 metal. Wood I can see, but I don't understand the stone or high metal costs. (For comparison, a large tower costs 100 wood and 100 stone) its height: assuming a male is about 1.7 m, this structure is about 3 to 4 m high why does it have a door? why is there a Gaul faction emblem above the door? why is there a human shield against the wall? To me, the kennel structure looks like a tiny house more suitable for a single human warrior than for keeping dogs. Moreover, I'm not sure dog houses such as this actually existed in Antiquity; my guess is dogs were simply kept inside or outside (human) houses, but not in special structures such as this. If anyone has any references for ancient dog kennels, I'm certainly interested in seeing them. Perhaps it would be best to disable the kennel structure in 0 A.D. and make war dogs trainable at Briton houses or barracks.

Surely the kennel is a gameplay convention similar to the fact that all civs have a "barracks" even if the concept of a barracks is an anachronism. I agree about the cost though. I've said before that costs in this game are super weird.

I'll ping @Hannibal_Barca he'll probably want your commands.txt file for that match, you can find it in your 0ad folder (I've also had issues with people in wonder matches, it's just obnoxious)

This project looks awesome. I was thinking though that Sigurd would work better as a hero for Odin since he is Odin's champion in the Volsung Saga

Your posts are always full of knowledge. lol that's already 50% of what you need in daily life...

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Before this week, I'd never been cheated. This week, it's happened 3 times. So instead of making a new thread for every cheater, I'll just post them here Feel free to add your own rule-breakers ! - Remember to add the commands.txt so the mods can analyze it -> can't find it? guide: https://trac.wildfiregames.com/wiki/GameDataPaths - Screenshots of chat might also help -> press [F2] instead of [print screen]

Hello! I am sorry about the situation here. As far as I understand, the report was followed by action, but the report itself was not properly acknowledged. I just sent a PM to user1, telling him to answer here to clarify the misunderstanding. pesem's messages are definitely unacceptable and unwelcome on the lobby, and they are indeed covered by the Terms of Use. So let's not spiral down, and as far as possible let's not involve politics here. Let's just solve the misunderstanding that happened between Sundiata's report and user1's answers to it.

I have to totally agree: These rants are unacceptable.

Hello! Im fine, just having trouble with electric power we only have acces 1 hour per day barely 1:30h and spent from saturday struggling with the decease of my grandfather wich became a nightmare whitout power, not even 1 funeral service wanted to work because lack of water and electric power but everything is done now. And now the internet is worst than before. May took a few days or weeks hopefully to have a stable internet again.