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Merry Christmas to you as Well, Lion.Kanzen! Nice render, but do you perhaps have a more top-down render? That would better fit as main menu background.

Do you have some specifications of your PC?

Nice ideas! I'm thinking of the following: Every viking warrior (citizen-soldiers only) who destroys / assists in destroying a building (not units in order to prevent turtles) receives a certain amount of 'loot' (resources) in their inventory, which they can drop at a longboat, a mobile dropsite. A technology could be to improve the amount of loot received. About the exact abilities / skills a unit has: we should discuss that in the next stage of this proposal (but I think it's best to keep the regulars/citizen-soldiers swift, not to strong and with abilities like mentioned above. The champion soldiers should be stronger, but without special abilities to keep the game balanced)

Thanks for the links, though I fear it's historical accuracy is not real high.

Thanks to blender I decided to let the emblem as it is now. Let's move up to the next step: unique technologies and (team) bonuses. We should think what we should make researchable and what already owned at start. I have some ideas myself. We should do something with boats e.g. improved speed. We should do something as well with their raiding tactics e.g. additional damage to buildings etc.

Normally XP, but after upgrading the route you could choose the resources you wanted.

Trade caravans in RoN travelled between cities, but in RoN you manage a whole empire. In 0 A.D. you manage a city, so in my opinion I wouldn't fit in the game's style. But it would be an idea to implement trade routes like in AoE3.

Well, we should try and Get it greenlit! If we're going to release the game to SteamOS, then we should implement controller support as well. I'm not sure if that 'll work.

Actually, the black around the the 0 A.D. logo is not true black, there is already a texture used.

Are you a co-funder or a cofounder? (Which is a huge difference, I'll tell ya)

A work in progress: Added everything, except the metal center piece, used Lion.kanzen's pattern. And in-game:

Well, in-game it didn't look really well: I think it's because it doesn't really fit. The shield looks very new, though it should be a bit weary (I should add some kind of 3D / material effect) Edit: But I think the shield mostly needs a decent border. Edit: It definitely looks better, though I'm going to add a different border:

I fancy if we could re-use some of their art!

Some photoshopping brought me this: How would it fit as an emblem? P.S. Is anybody able to clone / does someone has a self-made clone of this one? (I'm not sure if it's allowed to use this, as it is from a webshop.)

Sounds good. I'll copy it.

I would like to move on to the emblem, if there are no other comments: I think it's best suited to use a viking shield as emblem. Personally I do prefer the colors red and black, and a swirl. A symbol painted on the shield could be an option.

I tried to add a darker border to Millenium in order to create more contrast:

I feel you're right. I'll change it. Edit: I've changed it. Check it out.

Isn't that stated in the second phrase?

"At its peak (around 200 B.C.), the massive Celtic Empire spanned from Spain to Romania and Northern Italy to Scotland; although it wasn't a true empire because the Celtic people were not united by any form of government, but only in language and various social aspects. Their lack of any cohesion was probably the largest contributing factor to their ultimate submission to Rome by 100 A.D. The other contributing factors were their lack of armor and their inability to counter the mighty legions and siege weapons of Rome." (Celt civ 0 A.D.) "The Romans controlled one of the largest empires of the ancient world, stretching at its peak from southern Scotland to the Sahara Desert, and containing between 60 million and 80 million inhabitants, one quarter of the Earth's population at that time. Rome also remained one of the strongest nations on earth for almost 800 years. The Romans were the supreme builders of the ancient world, excelled at siege warfare and had an exquisite infantry and navy.", (Roman civ 0 A.D.) These are some sample descriptions from already existing civs. As you can see, they are structured in the following way: - about the controlled / inhabited countries and according dates. - about the people. - about their skills. Applying this layout to the Vikings, it would be like this: The Vikings were of old inhabitants of the Scandinavian Peninsula. During the early Middle Ages their regions expanded to Russia, England, Iceland and Greenland. They even discovered the New World before Columbus did. Though feared for their fighting skills, they were also skilled traders and sailors. At the end of the so called Viking Age, which lasted from 793 AD to 1066 AD, their raids on the mainland faded, nonetheless they have left their mark on Europian history. rev 1: The Vikings of old were a north Germanic people who hailed from Scandinavia. During the early Middle Ages their regions expanded to Russia, England, Iceland and Greenland. They traveled to as far as Asia to the New World nearly 500 years before Columbus. Though feared for their fighting skills, they were also skilled traders and sailors. By the end of the Viking Age, which lasted from 793-1066 AD, their raids on the mainland faded, nonetheless they have left their mark on European culture and history. Does anyone has comment / additions / enhancements (also linguistic)?

Try to download the package manually and install it that way. (I'm sorry, I never used pacman or Arch)

Well, I won't hold you back in terms of contributing. In fact everyone is allowed to join the team, if he wants to. You just have to contact NoMolester (the mod leader) and he will take care of the rest.

Well, I'm part of the development team. But in a while I will release some signatures so everyone is able to distinguish the team members.

Nice pictures BTW. But I think it is better to use them in a context instead of just posting them. Let's first start with the emblem and a brief history and after that we'll discuss the units / buildings. In that context I would like to see these pictures.

Those names are possible, but Viking is the most well-known name I suppose? It's pretty clear what we think when we hear that word.