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MishFTW

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  1. Jesus... :o

    What's the over/under on how long it would take for the game to crash with a model of that detail? 0.4 ms?

    Haha... love that reaction.

    I must have been sending you guys some massive buildings, I've been building them to the scale of the human model~

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    One of the shortcomings of SkecthUp is the scaling of exported models. Really drives me crazy. I used to think it only happened to me.

  2. During the Latin exam today, there was a question regarding Cato and Carthage and then I started thinking and long story short: perhaps give the Romans the ability to deposit salt on fields which either leads to random death of one of the field owner's units or the death of one of the units harvesting the field to create a starvation effect. Ideally I would like sieges in which a walled settlement starves and all units within the walls just die.

  3. Have you installed anything on the system that might have modified the OpenAL framework? Someone had a similar problem here and the solution was to replace the framework from another source. I'd make a backup first, just in case, but it surely doesn't seem like a 0 A.D. issue.

    I have installed Awesomium SDK and just updated to Unity 4, but I hardly think that should mess with OpenAL. The game compiled a week ago ( on Dec 9). I opened the OpenAL.framework directory from my /Library and its there, with the date modified as the December 9 (the day I last compiled). I even opened the executable but in Terminal I get this:


    iMac:~ Geek$ /Library/Frameworks/OpenAL.framework/Versions/A/OpenAL ; exit;
    Launch of "OpenAL" failed: the PowerPC architecture is no longer supported.
    logout
    [Process completed]

  4. Josh I'm looking at your model in SketchUp and i like it. However the windows might be problamatic. In monochrome mode, one can see that should the camera point at the window, the interior wall would not be rendered. Perhaps make the wall double faced (offset the interior wall by making a rectangle underneath and using the offset tool [i believe its shortcut key is F]). Also I think its logical (although no historical evidence to back it up) that small buildings such as a mill would not have stone roofs but rather cheap wooden ones or even flat roofs.

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  5. Strict interpretation vs loose interpretation of history... sounds very familiar to me (I just finished the section about John Marshall in US History).

    Historical accuracy has been a great part of the game. While some argue taking the swastika out is ruining that, I say not really. The Mauryans in fact had other symbols as well. On the other hand, some are suggesting it is offensive to include such a symbol. However, by including the symbol and the reasoning and motives behind them, we can educate the ignorant (for lack of a better word) people. They can learn the original meaning of the symbol and if they don't like it being in the game, nobody is stopping them from removing it (its open source...).

    I honestly don't care and it being included in the game and it shouldn't be a big deal to divide the community over such a small issue.

    As for the naked units, I suppose its history. But then again, if 0 A.D. pursues a PEGI rating, that might have consequences later (such as being bumped up to PEGI 18).

    Really guys, there are much cooler and important things to 0 A.D. For example, see the completed alpha 12 tickets :D

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  6. Sadly (or gladly because war has led to so much innovation) much of human history has been bloody murder and slaughter of fellow humans; thus, this is a game of ancient warfare... If people want to get offended then they can. Or perhaps they can choose to learn more and for lack of a better word, be less ignorant on the matter. I really view this game as a tool for education in a fun way and this can be part of the educational experience. There aren't any legal issues (as zoot pointed out), and if somebody is offended, then they don't have to play the game. Simple as that :)

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