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Is the Kulturrat a government organization? Or a trade assocation, i.e. a special interest group?

I could probably extend the scenario XML to contain a "Triggers" element with some JSON in it. Any objections?

"Expected"? By whom?

Looks more like a script than triggers stored in the map itself.

Yeah, I don't see a years work in that at all. The main thing I would need to get started is some way of storing the trigger definitions in the scenario file and some way to load them into the simulation. I'll see if anything along those lines already exists...

Kimball, could you write a paragraph or two about what you understand by triggers? I can't really follow these estimates saying it will add years of development, but maybe you're all talking about something different than I am.

I've set up the attached save game so it happens about 5 seconds in. Based on this revision: https://github.com/0...8215be396e657c9 recursion-error.0adsave.zip

Clearly, they aren't. Are those statistics online, by any chance?

Looks slick! This is possibly a Linux Chromium idiosyncrasy, but the video thingy overlaps screenshots in my browser: Also, I think the download button would be a much more natural fit between the search bar and the video thingy, but that is just a personal preference.

Thanks. Not really - court rulings are shaped to a large degree by precedent, not just the original letter of the law. The fact that not many cases have been prosecuted is also worth taking into consideration.

Like others, I would like to see some sources on this (I personally do not count anti-fascists as a reliable source, to be honest), but I think your post at least demonstrates there is a division. We can certainly choose to respond to the division with posturing and grandstanding, and I doubt there would be legal ramifications from that, but the issue is there and someone has to make a judgement on how to deal with it.

Hi. You can get a top-level view of what is going on by following the Trac timeline: http://trac.wildfiregames.com/timeline

That may be. But said distribution venues do.

To be honest, it's not the law that I am most concerned about, it's things like download sites and magazines (as Jeru said, distribution venues). They will readily exclude a game just on the suspicion that there could be a conflict, if not with the law, then with public opinion (read: branding). One of the Wolfenstein games was pulled, not by the authorities, but by the publisher, because a tiny inconspicious swastika slipped through: http://kotaku.com/5365155/swastika-gets-wolfenstein-pulled-from-german-shelves

Are you trying to provoke someone by spamming that image? I don't think you have much success

Well, that is the problem. I think you all are mixing in feelings and perhaps politics into what should not have anything to with either. If we were making a WWII game, and included Nazi symbolism, the game would be banned outright in Germany. In that case, it ought to be unproblematic to say: "Okay, so we make a minor option or build flag so Germans can play it too - no big deal." Apparently, because we use the Hindu swastiska in 0 A.D. instead of the Nazi one, people get all riled up and call "cultural imperialism!" etc. - why? It's a simple matter of making the game accessible to more people, not some kind of ultimate battle over freedom of speech.

Sure, so is the ban on boobies. I think we should heed Jeru's call to keep the discussion civil and abstain from reducing it to mere name-calling. If we can contemplate making a patch, why can't we contemplate making a simple, non-intrusive option to toggle it off? Is it just to make a point?

Sorry, I don't know what that means.

I have no reason to think he does. In response to FeXoR's original post about Germans and Jews, he wrote:

Does German law apply to English websites? By the way, that image has a prominent legal disclaimer:

With all due respect, why call it ignorance when it obviously has nothing to do with ignorance? Do you honestly think that either of us are more familiar with Germany's history than Germans are themselves?

Also, how does German legislation really affect British museums?

So FeXoR, who I believe lives in Germany, is lying when he says there is an issue? I don't really mind how the decision is made but it seems silly to do it on an uninformed basis.

Not to belabor the point, but you also risk losing distribution venues over including swastikas. Perhaps not as many as over topless women, but as an Israeli, you'll agree that there are a lot of irrational feelings over that symbol. Saying "there is no issue" / "these are not the droids you are looking for" is a bit too easy, IMO.