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Nice diagrams Side note: I still wish we could create roads as I've said before. Just to make our towns and cities look better.

They also gather around the edges of the map at times. My guess is there might be some trees or other resources beyond the SOD and they try to reach it. Either that or they just love getting in a group and swinging axes near the map edge

At the guy leaning against the wall... way to keep your villagers busy.

For now just use "Hathi Ghar"; literally elephant house.

Here is neat time table/chart. Hope it helps.

Actually the content is pretty much guaranteed. 0 AD has 7 detailed factions with detailed tech tress in the works along with complete profiles of each faction that include a range of units and buildings. Not to mention the awesome gameplay that can keep one entertained for hours at end. On top of that there are the confirmed but not yet implemented features that will augment the gameplay experience. The game continunes to evolve and improve, thats why its in alpha. Don't worry the content will get there but like Erik and many others have said, the focus is about having a finished product first. Analogy: One cannot have the best car body and best interior design and expect it drive well if the engine is missing. A bit stretched but I hope you get the point. )

We've discussed new civs before and one of them happened! Lets hope the others appear too. (Han Chinese and Lusitanians Iberian-Celts come to mind.)

I like the idea of shirts. I'd totally buy some As for the CDs, I think they're a bit too much but ideal for many Internet users who lack a good connection and are unable to download the game. Perhaps after the game is done, we could do a "swag store" of sorts with all kinds of awesome official merchandise (shirts, ancient style helmets , cool posters) for fans if there is a significant demand. Many FOSS guys do that.

That would give them too much of an advantage over the others I thing. But cool nonetheless; we should so do it! (But is there any historical reference suggesting the Mauryans used them? It wouldn't be cool to just copy from the Mahabharata.) Also, the priests shouldn't be able to attack (after all they aren't the warrior class and aren't trained in that way). It would give the Mauryans healers a significant over the others.

Updated map... yeah its huge. I'll make a plain non colored vectorized version if anybody else would like to make it look much more authentic.

As sankrant.chaubey pointed out, Kautilya would have been a great choice (another name for Chanakya of the Mauryan faction) but the Mauryans wont be ready by Alpha 11.

Dronacharya came ages before the Mauryans. Or are you referring to the just a generic title? Another side note: the Mauryans (Ashoka) had a neat formation with 5 cavalry around an elephant with 6 infantry around each cavalry. Source: documentary.

Will Carthage get there special gate structure, the homah?

I was gonna create a wiki page for it but when I looked at all the other profiles, my mind changed quickly. I don't have either significant knowledge of units or buildings let alone the ability to write a neat and detailed outline However, I've created the page

There is already a topic dedicated to alpha 11 name suggestions. As for your suggestion, its probably going to be witheld until the faction is released, and alpha 11 wont have the Mauryans

By all means use Prakrit. My point was if there is no Prakrit, then the next language in line would be Sanskrit (as Prakrit originated from there).

Perhaps extra civs can bed added as mods. For now the focus would be to finish the game

@Sankrant, Prakrit comes from Sanskrit and more closely related to Sanskrit than Hindi because its a "middle" Indo-Aryan language, while Hindi is a "new" Indo Aryan language that evolved after Mogul/Persian elelments were added (Urdu). Think of it as a sandwich with Sanskrit being the bread, Prakrit being the meat, and Hindi being the last bread. I'd rather keep the Mogul influences out because they haven't come to India yet (in the time frame of 500BCE and 1CE). Don't take my word for, I'm not a linguist; I just did research

Dude I love that video! I saw it a few months back when I was doing some research. I find it funny how they just mock the problems, really takes your mind off of them. Watch their about the Zeitgeists vs Paul on the economy

I think the logical thing to do would be to borrow from other similar civilizations. The Guptas come to mind.

General Kenobi, shown superior use of the force of Blender, you have.

You forgot the opening parentheses for the rect dimensions Out of curiosity, would you happen to use Unity3D?

When writing a post, near the bottom right is "more reply options". Click on that and on the detailed post page, there is an "attach files" button. Just attach the files and then once they are uploaded, click add to post (if you want to give a preview).

Don't worry, the goal is to get the map to be like something from Cartographers Guild.

That should so be a cheat. I don't endorse nuclear warfare 99% of the time but something like that in the completed game would be epic Not to mention many ancient texts speaking of such weapons (if you believe in/know of the ancient astronomer theory, you know what I mean)