[Video Editor Job]

personally, I would stick with more "RTS" camera angles. The game doesn't look so good at more cinematic camera angles. :/

Agree with ya there ... keep the camera at a good distance, showing off huge arrays of buildings and massive land fights ... that's more suitable for a strategy game like 0 AD

[Game serious lag.]

The game engine is being optimized with every alpha update. It's a known issue that once there are many players/buildings the game lags, but expect the performance to be enhanced in future releases.

(btw tone down your use of 'lag', you use it way too often in the wrong ways)

[Splashscreen loops on Ubuntu 11.10]

I'm not sure if the main menu is scrolling (too hard to tell), but the background image certainly is. The sound is restarting over and over, getting a little bit ahead each time.

Only the background image moves, it's supposed to look cool

[Opt-in for Ads]

I appreciate the idea, but I have to say no. Ads, in any shape or form, just feels so cheap.

Totally agree. Rather get the money by generous people making donations. This is an open source game, not an ad-supported game.

[New Release: 0 A.D. Alpha 8 Haxāmaniš]

Yay! Gotta brush-up on my skills so qBot doesn't embarrass me

[AI API changes]

Nice, looking forward to these changes

[What Does It Take to Run a Videogame-Company?]

Sorry for interrupting, but for question 2 I recommend you to ask people of the Battle for Wesnoth project ...

Another good option is the Alien Arena dev, 'Irritant' ... that game has been around since 2004 and is already in version 7.

[Empire Earth for free]

Nice, downloading

[64-bit machine]

The game can't compile as 64-bit on Windows currently - it'll take quite a bit of effort to set that up (particularly recompiling all the third-party libraries we use), and the difference in performance is likely to be negligible, so it doesn't seem worthwhile.

(We do support 64-bit builds on Linux, so the game itself should be portable, but it's more of a pain to set up on Windows.)

I'm currently running 0 A.D. on 64 bit Windows, and I get a slight bit of lag. Perhaps a 64 bit build might be worth it

[Windows vs Linux]

I run the Alpha VII on Windows with a bit of lag (single player mode). I have a NviDia GeForce GT320. I assume that it would run slightly worse on Linux, but then again I've only ever run Linux through a virtual machine, so ...