Mythos_Ruler

For Imperial Romans, this will be the elite Swordsman rank (plus front to back crest on helmet). Advanced will have segmentata, but no manacles, greaves, or crest. Basic will wear chainmail and a bronze version of the Gallic helmet.

That's all fine and dandy what Strabo and Caesar and the ancients said. But what does modern scholarship say?

Another good video from Sergui:

I could envision giving the Horse Archer reduced hitpoints and/or armor to balance. Basically, a very good harasser, but pretty much melts under the lightest heat.

The Achaemenids were quite settled by the time of Cyrus.

I could see sharks attacking fishing boats, but they wouldn't use a leaping technique like what they do to catch seals. lol

I was thinking of giving the Achaemenids a Scythian Horse Archer as a Champion unit. Maybe give them War Elephants too, but perhaps with a train limit (say, 10 or something). That reminds me, I need to change the civ naming schema. (pers->achae, rome->romerep, so we can have other Persian and Roman civs later).

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=G9QUg_nwvN8

This might actually be realistic size! Though, 2 size variations, male and female, would be nice.

SVN version needs to be manually updated.

I think laptops would have better resale value, but maybe I'm wrong. Laptops are harder to upgrade after all. Desktops are easier to resell piecemeal (you can part it out if you need to). I'm pretty sure that laptop I linked to would perform just about every single thing you wanted it to do, besides clean your bathroom for you. For a desktop, do you just need the tower, or do you need a monitor, keyboard, etc. too? If you just want to buy the tower, then you can get a super nice one for $1200, definitely. EDIT: http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16883103853

Lion: Are you insisting on a desktop? Laptops are quite powerful nowadays. I am currently developing and playing 0 A.D. on a new laptop I bought this past Summer. I couldn't be happier (except it isn't 1080p, only 900p, but that's okay). This is what I bought for $740: http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16834314004 Intel Core i5 3230M(2.60GHz)6GB Memory 750GB HDDNVIDIA GeForce GT 730M1600 x 900Windows 8This right here would KNOCK YOUR SOCKS OFF (but it's $1600): http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=34-152-444&cm_sp=Cat_GamingNotebooks-_-YTVideo-_-YT83-220-464 Intel Core i7 4700HQ(2.40GHz)16GB Memory 750GB HDD 128GB SSDNVIDIA GeForce GTX 765M1920 x 1080Windows 8How much denarii do you have to spend? Also, Windows 8.1 is an excellent operating system. They've re-implemented the start button (which was my main complaint) and I've gotten used to the start screen (though the old Windows 7 start menu is still better).

Also make sure 0 A.D. is allowed in your firewall.

They'd look really good with some normal maps.

"Pros polemon!" is one which means "To war!"

They only use the same actor for now as a placeholder. Eventually the Seleucid cataphract will get its own actor and textures and props.

Crocodiles (and Hippopotamuses) are a must-have for Egyptian and African maps. I wish we would have gotten those in for A15. Oh well, A16 it is!

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I definitely think we should have a summary screen. I'm personally just wanting the presentation to be top notch and relevant to what happened to the game. It should actually summarize what happened (as well as give the myriad of stats some people enjoy). I really like Lion's initial idea and then my addendum to it to have the game assess the player's strategy and break it down, perhaps in percentages, what each player was trying to accomplish. So, e.g., a 'Strategy' tab: Player Faction Rush Boom Turtle .... Mythos_Ruler Macedonians 20% 35% 10% .... 100%And each category would weigh the stats differently. For instance, "Turtle" category would weigh number of wall segments and defense towers, while "Rush" heavily weighs the severity of attacks within the first 10 minutes. We'd just need to decide on a number of categories and come up with the stats each one would weigh.

I think we could leave the "sword clang" sounds to the individual units. But for a "battle loop" we could have the general "cheering and grunting" and vocal cacophony.

Yeah, looks like the Seleucids should have the Military Settlement idea instead of the Ptolemies. And then the Seleucid heroes can have the ability to found new Civic Centers. With the Military Settlements (MS), they can expand quickly, but since MSs are weaker than CCs, they are more vulnerable to attack, making the periphery of the Seleucid Empire weak, but the core strong. Ptolemies, maybe just go with 2 barracks, one for "home grown" Greek and Egyptian troops, and one for Mercenary troops (call this a "Mercenary Camp", which is super cheap to build because it is a bunch of tents, but the units are somewhat expensive).

Nice reference for the Juggernaut, Lion!

structures/egypt_mill is pointing to simulation/templates/template_structure_economic_mill.xml, which was renamed some time ago in the SVN version to template_structure_economic_storehouse.