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This thread is a barrel full of gunpowder.

Sorry, no. People are not the limiting factor. There are lots more people in developing countries than there used to be, and a lot of them have no access to modern medicine, fresh water and all the nutrients they need. A lot of newborns die of disease, children go blind because of vitamin A deficiency etc. I would rather sort all of that out before adding a few more billion people into this earth in one go. As for the last question, I would choose C, then B, then A. As long as I have access to the outside world, I can get some kind of help for my problems, like calling the coast guard or buying more weapons against the evil Polish people, or learning how to treat myself for any injuries or illnesses. Both scenarios A and B entail total isolation which is dangerous. A is particularly dangerous because my existence depends more on machines that could break or supplies that could run out, and then I could freeze to death very easily.

Maybe there's enough standing room, but consider all the arable land and fresh water needed to support the world. Is there enough of that in total? How is that distributed? Food for thought.

Definitely an option. Doesn't have to be a closed beta in our case, though. Anyone will be able to download it outside Desura anyway.

So we're still talking up to >5 million people. And horses. I could never command them effectively. I have no guarantees they have an existing organization or that they even know each other. And it would call an awful lot of attention if they all popped out of nowhere in a single day. I would rather get fewer units but each would have superpowers or something. Edit: Suicide? What if I wanted them back again later?

A and B are similar premises - A certain amount of slaves mindlessly obeying your every order. A is too many people for the earth to support. We would all run out of room, food, water etc. B is tempting. They come with presumably better armor. But I'm not sure what "70 cores" are. I hope it's a typo for "70 scores", meaning 70*20 = 1400, which is many orders of magnitude less than A. But if it's just the core of their body or some other trick then I'll pass. C sounds like a very lucrative business opportunity. So I will go with C.

Hi Vlad! Your English is excellent. I don't know almost anything about programming but I just wanted to say welcome.

We tried to have a contest about a year ago for another thing, for sounds that would supposedly enter the game, and there were very few submissions. Also, we would like some control on the message the video would convey, so it really represents the development team. That is hard to do without close collaboration.

Thanks for the kind words!

In Israel it is considered a big deal to have a second foreign language after English.

Third foreign language? What are the first two?

Welcome, Chris!

It's that time of year again. For those unfamiliar with the event, each year ModDB hosts a Mod of the Year award, based on votes from players. After the launch of IndieDB this past summer, they've decided to host an independent event for indie games to give them extra exposure. This time IndieDB has collaborated with notable gaming websites such as Joystiq, DIYGamer, Rock, Paper, Shotgun, Indie Games: The Weblog and more. This is great news for 0 A.D. and other great indies that are featured on IndieDB. It shows that the indie game community is increasingly coming together to celebrate the diversity and talent that goes into these games. But we don't want to settle for a nice celebration of creativity. We want to win! Last year we took third place. Let's see how we can do with a year of releases under our belts! Please vote for us! (Thanks, Kimball!)

Hi Mitch! Welcome to our cozy corner of the internet.

As my first suggestion, I would like us to use Pureon's short videos and some of the screenshots (available on ModDB and the new website we haven't launched yet) on create a short trailer mostly based on the points raised in this document, made for the 0 A.D. Facebook page:

Hi everybody, As you may know, I have been thinking about creating 0 A.D. trailer(s) and other videos for a long time. It could really help get more people interested, particularly outside of the Linux gaming community. (They are great but we should shoot for even more fans, and from other communities too). As the video editor spec says: 0 A.D. fan and mapmaker extraordinaire Pureon has kindly donated the following short videos: http://dl.dropbox.com/u/12396438/trailer-v...eltcoastpan.avi http://dl.dropbox.com/u/12396438/trailer-vids/coastalpan.avi http://dl.dropbox.com/u/12396438/trailer-v...coastalzoom.avi http://dl.dropbox.com/u/12396438/trailer-v...orsewalkbog.avi http://dl.dropbox.com/u/12396438/trailer-v...asisboatpan.avi http://dl.dropbox.com/u/12396438/trailer-vids/oasispan.avi http://dl.dropbox.com/u/12396438/trailer-v...ipspanwater.avi Would be great to have more clips, or to make more maps available for recording shots from (I'm looking at you, Mythos_Ruler! ) Also, I have head-hunted arthur01022 (the guy behind the UbuntuAds YouTube channel; application thread here) to create cool videos for 0 A.D. Anyone else who wants to help Arthur out is also invited. Sound & music people like kinetik, markandersonaudio and others are also invited to contribute in their fields of expertise. Most existing tracks are available here. Let's get this ball rolling.

Hi Andras! Welcome. That would be awesome. I have tried to get in touch with some group in Israel to no avail.

By your own admission, you insulted team members (I have no idea what you said but I will take your word for it). I don't know what you consider "noise" but we don't respond well to insults. Maybe we're special. That's how our community works, though. Please abide by the rules from now on and everything should be fine.

Same in Hebrew. (But Hebrew has many different words for harvesting different plants, for example).

I want a new trailer. We won't have one by Tuesday. I will probably just go over some of the maps on Alpha 2 and show the biomes. Would be nice to show shiny water, but there is already a specific video for that.

Works on my netbook on Ubuntu without shadows at a few fps. Will use that for my demonstration unless my Mom gets a computer with better performance on Sunday. Thanks for your help, everybody.

Whoa!

Yeah but I can't even reach the button to disable it

Original laptop mentioned in post: http://pastebin.com/svnri2aY Netbook: http://pastebin.com/am1JexdZ