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  2. Release Candidates for Alpha 20

    in Announcements / News

    Posted · Edited by Itms
    Update for the current status

    Hello everyone,

    This is a short announcement, to tell you that the release candidate packages for Windows, Unix, and OSX, along with the mods for ja, zh and zh_TW languages, are ready, and were uploaded to https://releases.wildfiregames.com/rc/. You can download them and check everything works as expected!

    Please note: this is a release candidate and might not be the final version. It would be safer for you to uninstall it and reinstall the release version when A20 is out.

    Thanks in advance for testing and for reporting any issues :)

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  14. Inscription on main menu graphic

    in Art Development

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    46 minutes ago, Danny said:

    I'm less comfortable with "[was] apparently clever".

    Well this is obviously a big liberty I took, but it sounds better than "[was] looking like intelligence". :P

    46 minutes ago, Danny said:

    But I think the most likely must be to tie γνωμῃ back to λογων somehow.

    Grammatically that would be possible but I can't find a meaningful translation with this hypothesis. Maybe we're missing more words ;)

     

    50 minutes ago, Danny said:

    But can we agree that the inscription makes no sense on a Spartan pillar, and that we can fairly easily find or create a better one to grace the front page of this game?  I might start browsing sources for actual Spartan inscriptions.

    That's right. But the problem is rather that we have to find an artist able to replace that inscription. The one who created this background is long gone, and I don't think we have any WIP version with a pillar without inscription. Anyhow, I don't think anyone will be really bothered by that. I personally am a huge fan of Ancient Greek inscriptions and I love translating them, but in nearly three years of opening 0 A.D. daily it never occured to me to take a look at the meaning of this phrase :)

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  15. Inscription on main menu graphic

    in Art Development

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    I just tried to translate this and couldn't manage to do anything either... I think the original sentence was cut at the wrong place :(

    Εικος is the neutral form of εικως, which is a perfect participle of a defective verb. For this verb, the perfect has the value of a present, and it means "looking like" or "suitable". If it's the former it would call the dative, which would explain "γνωμῃ" and would mean "looking like intelligence", "looking like spirit". I would translate the whole thing as "clever" or "smart", but it's a nominative and there is no neutral nominative substantive in the sentence.

    "λογων ενεκα Εφεσιων και των αλλων Ιωνων" should be "because of the words of Ephesians and other Ionians", I think placing "ενεκα" inside was done on purpose, to stress the fact that Ephesians themselves made speeches.

    There is nothing that explains that "Ποντικον στρατον" is an accusative, but it does mean "an army from the Pontus".

    So my guess would be that we lost a couple of words. I have a suggestion, if we just add "Το συλλεγειν" at the beginning, we have our neutral nominative and the infinitive calls the accusative. The sentence then suddenly makes sense and becomes "The fact of raising an army from the Pontus, based on reports from Ephesians and other Ionians, [was] apparently clever". Of course this is just speculation :)

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  21. Somewhat Experienced

    in Applications and Contributions

    Posted

    Hi aeonios and welcome!

    feneur already answered about how to start contributing, so that's less work for me. :P

    It would be awesome to have you working on graphics: currently there is nobody really working on that. We're absolutely interested in any proposal you can make (the things you listed above sound really promizing)! Chatting on IRC really is the easiest way to get in touch with us developers, and we can answer questions you can have about the codebase.

    Thanks for your interest!

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  22. Finishing the Seleucid Faction ideas

    in Gameplay Discussion

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    It's really not that no one bothers, but nobody in the team is a "faction improver" anymore. So we only work on this when there is a big breaking issue, else it just distracts us from very important programming stuff. But when we have more time we will finish this faction and polish the others, and we will try to pick the good elements in the overhaul/balance/new content mods like Delenda Est, in the topics like this one, etc.

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