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There is a rule against unauthorized duplicate accounts. It's difficult to enforce without "the village" helping moderators enforce it. Moderators tend to only enforce it when there is misconduct done by the user behind those accounts, as in this case. If someone attacked you on the street, then retreated and put on a disguise, you would be looking for the person behind the disguise too, wouldn't you? They're not banned yet. They're being monitored. Help us identify Geriatrix's next new names please. You want him to follow the rules, too, right? Please read this article. You can translate it with Google Translate by copy/pasting the URL into the source text entry box and clicking on the link that appears in the destination text box. The French phrase "mort aux cons" translates to "death to idiots". It originated in WWII and was associated with statements like there weren't enough bullets to kill all of the idiots. We don't allow players to use names associated with top leadership of National Socialism forces during WWII, and we don't allow them to use names associated with top leadership of Communist forces during WWII. There is historic documentation of genocide committed by both sides. Similarly, the lobby terms of use don't allow players to make statements that imply violence. I'm glad that you're speaking up MarcusAurelius. It's good to get communication flowing so that we can correct misunderstandings. The goal is not to escalate. The goal is to get a permanent correction of the misconduct. You can help with it. You can talk to your friend and ask him to comply with the rules.

@Vantha I will check it out!

For anyone interested, I just opened a differential revision submitting the core pieces of code for encyclopedia page: https://code.wildfiregames.com/D5319

Calling all 2D artists ( @wackyserious, @Lion.Kanzen et al.)! We are looking for more German shield textures, for a special project@real_tabasco_sauce and I are working on for the game! Reference Era: Cimbrian War to Teutoburg Forest, so 2nd c. BC - 1st c. AD. Need to EXCLUDE references from later periods, such as the Goths/Great Migration Period/Late Roman Empire. These are the "barbarian" versions of the Germans, prior to Romanization. We will reuse the Gauls/Britons/Celts shield models, so we only need the front design textures, unless we find references to uniquely "German" shield shapes.

Spying and determining who is behind a smurf account is the only effective means of enforcing a ban, should it be necessary. He wasn't stopping his defamation, insults, arbitrary banning of users from his games, demands for other hosts to arbitrarily ban users from their games, etc., until he realized that he was close to being banned. Deescalation and reintegration would be great, I would like to see Geriatrix / Cedric_O do that. I think that the only reason he's been quiet is because he is this close to being banned for his behavior. The next move is not to ignore him and lose track of his suspected unauthorized duplicate accounts.

Besides, previously reporting geriatrix accounts for calling people spys, and then spying on him seems slightly hypocritical

Mod updated(0.5.0) Added description to the first post.

On another note, I came across a series of articles that I wrote some time ago, but never actually added to the encyclopedia (mostly because their topcis were not directly related to 0 A.D.). I decided to at least put them up on a PR for a review before I forget about them again. Here are the first two (about arrowheads): https://github.com/indoptogopt/GUI-page-for-0ads-encyclopedia/pull/1

I never noticed these guys before on Lion's Den.

Possibly. @real_tabasco_sauce and I are on the case.

As far as i am aware none of those accounts did hate on anyone, so why are those smurf accounts banned ? This looks like escalating the situation.

No, he doesn't care about peace. You can't just dish out hate non-stop to every single player and expect to be left in peace. In any case: a smurf account is a smurf account, end of story.

Good work, guys. Peter_Nubia used the challenge/response technique of authentication, and leopard shared the updates about recently used suspected unauthorized duplicate accounts of Geriatrix / Cedric_O. Cedric_O, please stop using unauthorized duplicate accounts. I consider you to be a member of the community. Though certain accounts of yours have been banned for specific reasons such as pejoratives or inciting violence in the names, or bypassing a punishment, you're not banned from the game. You are accepted as long as you decide to get along. Please just get along with the other users.

Welcome @whiteebony82! In regards to the encyclopedia GUI page, it is in stage of finalization already, so the necessary UI elements have already been created. And for doing that all by myself, I'm pretty happy with result. However, the design is not set into stone. And in fact, I'd appreciate if you could take a look at it, test it out and tell me what you think could be improved. We could also meet on platform of your choice to talk about the details. Feel free to PM me!

Very interesting portfolio! What area of the game are looking to improve? Any specific ideas in mind? I'm okay at making mockups, but no good at coding them. I think the UI of the game could use a ton of work and improvement and modernizing.