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WIP After losing all my pc files by accident I had to start sculpting The Great Bronze Athena from scratch. This is how it looks so far:

Note to self: Next time, check history before modelling a building. Also RTFM. mausoleum.zip

This looks great, but I would scale it down significantly to about 1/3 the current footprint (and scale the doors up accordingly). Yes these structures were incredibly large, but we all have to think about the scale of the game world and scale related to other established structures. As was said, this should definitely go into the game. I could imagine a capture the Wonder game type where a random Wonder of the World is placed at the center of the map and must be captured by the players to win.

Anyway, yours is a great start, having it in the public folder would be nice, with some modifications: move the door to the short side, the one facing the chariot nine columns on the short sides, eleven on the long sides, for a total of 36 (instead of eight on each, for a total of 28) remove those round golden things from the columns correct the capitals of the corner columns the pyramid on top had 24 steps, the platform with the chariot had a 4:5 ratio (perhaps 6 m × 7.5 m) make the chariot marble, add Artemisia, holding the reins Basically like this, minus the five levels of sculpture: https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/5/5e/Mausoleum_at_Halicarnassus_at_the_Bodrum_Museum_of_Underwater_Archaeology.jpg (I don't know how much work that'll be, I guess it's more than it sounds.) PS Could you remove “c-u-m” from the forum chat filter? It messes up those Latin quotations. Also “a-s-s” (a wild donkey).

Fair enough.

The Athena Varvakeion is great, a c. 1 m faithful Roman marble from the 3rd C AD, but it is a copy of the Athena Parthenos, not of the Athena Promachos. As for coins, they tend to depict the goddess, not necessarily a specific statue. So I don't know which one you're working on, and I don't really care, any Athena statue would be great to have, but it's best to be clear from an early stage, to avoid future confusion, hence my earlier post.

Thank you. I've collected many references including Pausanias description and images of ancient coins. At the end all this references only provide a vague understanding of how the statue looked. So I decided to use Athena Varvakeion proportions as reference for sculpting the statue, with a nike in the right hand as suggested in many coins, and an erected spear resting on her shoulder between she and the shield so the tip and the crest of the helmet could both be seen from far away. Bronze, of course, will be the main material of the statue once finished.

Just to be clear, there were three famous statues of Athena on the Athenian Acropolis, all of them by Phidias: the Athena Promachos, a colossol bronze statue, outside, of which the tip of the spear and the crest of the helmet could be seen from Cape Sounion, according to Pausanias (1.28.2) the Lemnian Athena, a statue gifted by Lemnos, his most beautiful work (ibidem) the Athena Parthenos, a c. 12 m high gold-and-ivory cult statue inside the cella/naos of the Parthenon (the Nashville and Ontario versions are reconstructions of this) Shortly afterwards Phidias also made the gold-and-ivory Statue of Zeus at Olympia, one of the Seven Wonders of the World.

As a Macedonian Wonder it isn't appropiate. It would be great to have all Seven Wonders of the World in 0 A.D., though.

This one is different though. Anyway if people feel like using my reconstitution, they are free to do so using the mod above. I might try to do another one considering your sources in the future, but as I said, the goal was to do the mace wonder, and that building isn't elligible anyway.

Can you suggest a specific and a generic name for the wonder?

Not it is not as it is not an official WFG communication. Currently the official sources are trac.wildfiregames.com, code.wildfiregames.com and the outdated page here : https://trac.wildfiregames.com/wiki/Alpha24

We still need someone to work on D11 ( single player campaigns) and resume the work of @wraitii Maybe that could be implemtned there. i guess a lot of peiple would love to have some campaigns.

Hey your map looks quite unique and nice. Reminds me of Atlantis from AoM. Great work !

Looking good, nice one!

Wonderful art.

Oh, I started working on this one back when this thread came up, but I didn't finish it because I started working on higher priority things. I reused several assets from Pureon's awesome persian buildings. It needs the human-headed-winged-bulls in the back gate and eyecandy everywhere. I'll upload the blendfile if someone wants to finish it.

They're not good enough. I went and played my first rated game today, expecting to play vs a more or less even skilled opponent, and instead I got a game that was completely rigged in his favor. He set starting resources to very low on butana steppe and then rushed me repeatedly (which I actually fought off without much trouble) after my build got screwed up from the complete lack of expected starting resources. At every point in the game I was either behind in population or behind in resources, or both, and even though by the end of the game I managed to steadily pass him in population my resource starvation was apparent as I was unable to fight off his rams and repeated attacks and also unable to resupply my pop effectively. He had upgrades which I couldn't afford, and had it been actually fair I'm pretty sure I would have wiped the floor with him. Why is this sort of crap even permissible? Games should be won on skill, not by dirty tricks that people come up with to snare unsuspecting players with an unfavorable situation they didn't count on at game start. IMO all rated games should be locked at low starting resources and 300 pop. There are certainly other issues with rated games, but this one is easy to fix and very, very stupid because it not only allows but even perhaps encourages unscrupulous players to engage in unsportsmanlike behavior. That's really irritating, to say the least. also, the replay, just because: commands.txt