greenknight32

It installed in Mint with no problems.

I just installed Mint 17 on my new computer (going to dual-boot, but the Win 7 disc hasn't arrived yet). It can install from Ubuntu repos - so it should install those debs too, shouldn't it? Got alpha 15 installed already, and it runs great. Would be nice to update it, and I don't really want to get into compiling it.

Since each player has the same ability to build towers, I don't see it as a big problem. But I agree that going straight from weak outposts in village phase to very strong towers in town phase is too much of a jump. It would make sense to either have weaker towers in town phase (simpler) or have weaker towers that can be upgraded ( which would add more complexity).

You should be rushing to town phase, too. Somebody gets there ahead of you, it means you've been outplayed. By the time your opponent can build civ centers, you should have some troops out there to stop them building too close to you. Maybe build outposts.

Spamming lots of forums with the same post. Not cool.

I'm in the US, Washington State, not far from Mount St. Helens - Portland, Oregon is the nearest major city. GMT - 8. Greenknight was a chess room handle, originally. I'm an organic gardener, and I like to use my knights aggressively, so I came up with that. My avatar is a medieval illustration of the Green Knight from the Arthurian legend "Sir Gawain and the Green Knight".

This is the April Fools joke that just keeps on giving.

Puppy is slow to boot up, but it loads completely into RAM (if you have enough RAM) so it's very fast once it's running under those conditions. It's designed to be very easy to use, even for Linux noobs - Arch is for more advanced Linux users. I still haven't managed to get alpha 15 to run on Precise Puppy, but alpha 11 ran extremely well.

Yes, very nicely done. Would probably be popular, actually.

Got a response on the Puppy forum, said it was easier to download the packages manually than add a repo to the Puppy Package Manager, gave me links to them here: http://www.murga-linux.com/puppy/viewtopic.php?t=92659 Won't help you if you're on Slacko, though; don't know if that script to make it run as root will work, either. Anyway, in Precise Puppy I got alpha 11, the newest version compiled for Ubuntu Precise, to work perfectly. Not really harder than using PPM, the Petget download manager automatically sends it to PPM, it's all pretty automatic. 2 packages to install - 0ad and a very large 0ad data package. I then tried alpha 15, compiled for the next version of Ubuntu. Ran out of room in my save file, though (running from a CD this time, with save file on a flash drive). 1 GB wasn't big enough, so I added another half gig - haven't had time to download it again yet, so I still don't know if that will work. So that's what you need to get it going in Precise Puppy. If you want to do it in Slacko, I'd suggest asking for help on the Puppy forum (if you can't figure it out between you and Romulus).

Like I said above, I did get it to work in Precise Puppy, but it was an old 0ad version on the Ubuntu repos that were available. It says in the 0ad install instructions than newer versions are in the Ubuntu Backports repo, and the Puppy help does have instructions on how to add a repo - I'm just too thick to understand them. There were a lot of dependencies to install, but you just have to click "examine dependencies" in the Puppy Package Manager and it will get them. There was one it couldn't download automatically, but it led me to where I could get it. Then I had to run that script I linked in the earlier post, to get 0ad to run in root. I had to start it from the console the first time - just type "0ad" - but not all that hard to get it working. Just need to figure out adding a repo so I can update it. Somebody on the Puppy forum can probably explain it. In Slacko Puppy, none of the repos offered had 0ad - same deal, just need to add the right repo. I have a feeling it's not that complicated, just that the instructions suck.

Yeah - I did an install on Puppy Linux, a version that can use the Ubuntu repositories. I was mostly concerned about seeing that it worked, didn't notice for a while that it was alpha 9. A lot of features were missing... I must have gone to the wrong repo, surely they've got a newer version than that!

Ah, yes; patches to speed the game up are ones we all look forward to.

Fighting spammers is a never-ending battle, sad to say.

ArchPup is now called Alpha OS, I found out. Don't like it much, pacman (the Arch package manager, which it uses instead of Puppy's) is a command-line app. You have to know the name of the program you want so you can tell it to search for it. Much less convenient than in Puppy, where you look under the category you want and it lists what's available. Anyway, all that came up was 0ad Alpha 14...better than Alpha 9, I guess.

Well, I tried, but I couldn't get a complete download from Portable Games for Linux. The version Puppy Package Manager got from an Ubuntu repo, I finally got working - turned out to be Alpha 9. It had installed before, just wouldn't run - it refused to run as root, didn't have permissions to run it as a limited user. Regular catch-22. A fix for this was posted on the Puppy forums recently: http://www.murga-linux.com/puppy/viewtopic.php?search_id=1962441041&t=92036 I don't know if it would let me install 0ad as a limited user. In Puppy, you normally run as root - it's designed for a live CD, changes aren't written to the file system but to a separate save file, which you can delete if anything goes wrong. Maybe I should try ArchPup - the Arch repos apparently have Alpha 15, that's where Portable Games for Linux got it from.

Puppy is built from the binaries of other Linux distros, there are Puppies based on different distros. They can install packages from their parent's distro, as well as from the Puppy repository. I don't think there is a Slackware 5.5, but there is a Slacko Puppy 5.5 based on Slackware - is that what you meant? This an HD install of Puppy? It's mainly intended for use on portable media (CD, DVD, USB stick) but HD installs can be done. I tried a similar project - attempted to install 0ad in Precise Puppy (which is Ubuntu-based) on a USB stick, from the Ubuntu repository (there wasn't a Puppy package). Didn't work, haven't got around to trying again. I did check the Puppy forums, there are people running 0ad on Puppy. In one post there, I found another alternative for getting the game - it's available from Portable Games for Linux. According to users on that forum thread, packages from there work fine in Puppy. They do have Alpha 15 there, too - I checked. I just haven't gotten around to trying it yet. So, if you were trying to install a package, that's another one you could try. If you're compiling from source - what Sander said.

I don't believe that's entirely accurate. The site SHINTO CULT OF ANCESTORS sums it up pretty well: Ancestor worship (veneration is probably a better word for it than worship, really) is the basis for the Shinto religion, I don't think even the Emperor could have wiped it out with a decree. However, according to Ancestor Worship In Japan , most Japanese men polled in 1981 said they're not believers in any religion, so it may be dying out.

Very true, ancestor worship is at the heart of religious practice throughout China, and in Japan, as well. Also, I should have made it clear that Buddhism didn't replace any of this, but was added to it.

If you don't want to spend a lot of money, shop eBay for one. Lots of mid-range cards available cheap, many never been used - people get computers and immediately upgrade the graphics, sell the card that came in it stock. If you're not looking for high-end gaming capabilities, tons of bargains there. Just did a quick search for that GTS250 Romulus mentioned, you could get one for $25 - $30. I go with ATI cards, myself - more good deals on them, and they work well enough. I agree that any card with that much power should have a fan.

Prior to Buddhism, China had Taoism and Confucianism, and Chinese folk religion involving the worship of various local deities has never died out. None of the Chinese religions are exclusive, they overlap, and people follow practices from any or all of them. http://www.patheos.com/Library/Chinese-Religion.html The Mongols practiced a form of Shamanism, and their chief deity was the Blue Sky. They made no attempt to impose their religion on those they conquered, in China or elsewhere, nor were they exclusive in their worship. Marco Polo recorded a conversation with Khublai Khan where he said, basically, that he honored and prayed to the gods of all 4 major religions so that whichever was greater in heaven would help him. http://afe.easia.columbia.edu/mongols/history/history7.htm

Considering how widely Vikings traveled, I imagine the design of these forts was partly inspired by the Celtic forts - adapted and no doubt improved by the Danes.

The Council of Modders - was that a deleted chapter from Lord of the Rings? Seriously, I agree with niektb - there is a mod forum already.

Yes, I was drastically simplifying - my point was that the warriors were free men.

In the case of the Vikings, they weren't bound to a lord - they had a democratic system, their leaders were elected. They fought for plunder.