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    @Sundiata First of all thank you for all your research. You encouraged us all with your energy and dedication for the Kushites. Without you the Kushites would would have maybe not ended up in 0 A.D., especially not that fast. Great work. To the community: The second thing I would like to see is a separate article in the 0 A.D. blog. What I would like to read in the blog post is a simple introduction to the Kushites for somebody not familiar with it. The blog post should not be longer than a page. In addition, the blog post should advertise the Kushite fraction and the upcoming 0 A.D. version a little bit. Third, the Kushites will be in the main game, but what tasks are still open? Are the Kushites translated into different languages? Are there art assets still missing? Is the testing done? Are there any other topics which need some work? Fourth, in which direction will the Kushite civilization be improved? Will there be campaigns and tutorials? I personally would love to play some historical key events in a campaign. I see campaigns as an interactive walk through of history (in the case of 0 A.D.). Fifth, are there any plans to bring the Kushites into the Aristeia bronze age mod? Or any other mod which plays before or after the 0 A.D. time frame? --- @Sundiata Do you plan to bring any other African civilization into 0 A.D. or a 0 A.D. mod? --- @Sundiata You mentioned you want to put the forum posts you wrote into a PDF. However, keep in mind PDF's are great for printing, okay for reading on a desktop, but not that great on ebook reader and other devices. Maybe consider using Markdown and Pandoc. Pandoc is a great tool to convert files into a variety of different formats, that would make it accessible for more people. Maybe you even want to consider putting your documents into a wikibook. Wikibooks is a project related to Wikipedia which is a platform for free textbooks (see: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikibooks).
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    @Sundiata Just write it in a text editor and then post it ;-)
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    Just to get an update. The Kushites will be part of the next 0 A.D. version 23 release?
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    Are the technical game mechanics (triggers etc.) already supported by the underling Pyrogenesis engine and 0 A.D.? Is the goal of this project simply to show case the capabilities of the engine and to make a nice campaign or do you still have to implement a larger portion of triggers and other game mechanics as well?
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    @Sundiata It is indeed surprising to see heavy armored African cavalry. This type of cavalry is what we are used to see in images of middle age knights. However, in contrast of those, a good portion of the pictures you posted show that African heavy cavalry has more than one spear. I assume those were used as javelins. My questions are: Where those actually used as javelins? And if they throw their javelins to kill enemies how did they attack or use them during the fight? From what distance did they use those javelins? What did they do after they run out of javelins? Maybe you know of some text passages which answer some of the questions. Maybe even regarding the ancient Kushites.
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    @stanislas69 I am not sure if I understood your references: Hannibal -> Vox Populi 0adMods -> ?? DE -> Delenda Est Could you please clarify what you mean by 0adMods?
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    Does anybody know how many mods are implementing the Kushites right now?
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    @Nescio I agree with you that mods deserve a much wider public. This could be done by making it easier to install mods into the game. For example, by having mod manager which can download and install mods with a single click. However, I disagree with you about including all those civilizations into the main mod. Mods are a good way extend the main game or introduce completely new ideas. The [Pony Ascendant](http://www.moddb.com/mods/0-ad-ponies-ascendant) mod by LoordGood is a good example for such a mod.
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    @wowgetoffyourcellphone so you continue to work on the Delenta Est mod?
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    @Sundiata what kind of book to you want to write? Do you want to write it in an open source style or as a printed book? @wowgetoffyourcellphone to which mod will you contribute your camel model?
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    @stanislas69 I like the dagger in the video @Sundiata The video stanislas posted talks about the city of Karma and the Kushite culture around dead. They show a couple of mummies they found. Did you look into the burial rituals of the Kushites? These often reveal some additional insight into a culture.
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    @Sundiata I understand that you do not want to have exactly that storyboard in the game. However, another artists could take your art and create a nice animated storyboard as @wowgetoffyourcellphone pointed out. No, this is where you are wrong. Whatever you create is your intellectual property unless you as creator explicitly grant permission to me, the community or everybody to use it. A tool you can use to achieve this are the creative commons licenses. However, there are more license out there you can use. The Creative Commons licenses where written by several lawyers, one of which is Lawrence Lessig.
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    @Sundiata I like that short storyboard. Maybe we can have later a campaign for the Kushites or a small tutorial in which the player will get introduced to the Kushites with a storyboard like this. However, even though you published it here. We cannot use this comic stripe anywhere else, because of licensing issues. Their are two main issues. The text is your intellectual property and you did not grant explicit permission to use it under e.g. a Creative Commons license. Secondly, the images in your storyboard are not licensed. But in the case of the images, it is unclear how much work did you used from storyboard, for example human actors, buildings and background images, compared to how much is your own creation. If the majority of the actors, buildings and background images are your own drawings/creation then you would be able to grant permission under a Creative Commons license.
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    @stanislas69 thank you.
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    @stanislas69 Those questions:
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    1) The weakness of the Kushites is the naval battle on the sea (ocean). 2) African Bushman vs. Nuba Hunter -> Nuba Hunter. One javelin throwing unit is enough. The Kushites have already many long distance units. 3) It would be nice to have a tribe house or something where player can train the mercenaries. 4) Kushite Icons and models would make the Kushites more kushite ;-) Therefor, please add them. @Sundiata what is your opinion?
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    @sphyrth You should not have any copyright and license issues for your video since almost all art assets in 0 A.D. are licensed under creative commons or similar free and open source licenses. However, @Hannibal_Barca please pay attention to the licenses and ask the authors of the assets in your mod to indicate the license. One more if you play it
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    @DarcReaver half a year is nothing for developers, keep that in mind. 0 A.D. produces approx. two releases per year. Which is very fast development speed.
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    @Hannibal_Barca You don't have a repository for your mod files? You just keep them in one folder on your computer? I like the name. I did not know that you have an Apedemak group. You are free to call them Kushite War Elephants. Nice. You misunderstood my idea or better @Sundiata's idea, being able to recruite Bejas mercs. Have a look at his document and look for Beja: https://github.com/Jeeppler/kushites_mod/raw/master/docs/build/specification.pdf
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    @niektb or any other person involved in Terra Magna, can I get an answer to my technical questions?
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    @Sundiata maybe because he does not want to duplicate the effort. @niektb in this case I would be interested in helping you to create the mod. I assume all your code is in this GitHub repository: https://github.com/0ADMods/terra_magna and you commit into the repo. Is my assumption correct? Do you use branches and pull request for contributions? Are you developing the game based on a release or the upcoming version in SVN?
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    @niektb Do you want to ship Terra Magna without the Kushites since the Vox Populi mod implements them or do you want to implement them as well?
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    @wowgetoffyourcellphone never explained why it is such a huge issue for him. I did not understand the exact reason. If this is just a technical problem maybe somebody could help him. We might never know. However, abandoning a mod for such an issue seems a little bit over the top. I was actually looking forward to playing the mod.
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    @WhiteTreePaladin why not creating a mod which disables/removes all the maps you don't like?
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    Just to get one thing clear at the very beginning. 0 A.D. is a free and open source game. Which means it is all about choices. The choices you, I and all of us have. The list of choices starts with you can play 0 A.D. or you don't. This is what you can do with any game regardless if it is free or not. However, free and open source means you can participate and contribute to 0 A.D. There are many ways to contribute. But it also means if you are as unhappy as @DarcReaver then make a non-hostile fork. Find a new team and name for your project to work on your vision of the game. However, people also have to realize that there is a difference between the game engine Pyrogensis and the visible game. Pyrogensis is the part of 0 A.D. which several developers actually contribute to. The engine is responsible for very basic things like rendering object, loading a unit definition from a file, the engine is responsible for calculating the path a unit will take the engine is also responsible to provide a mechanism to play online (multiplayer). This is the part most people are actually happy about. 0 A.D. is basically a mod running on top of Pyrogenesis. However, people are downloading normally both when they download 0 A.D. What the online community really complains about is the balance changes to the 0 A.D., the mod running on top of Pyrogenesis. But they could create a mod which incorporates all there wishes, there is no need to have two versions of Pyrogenesis. Regarding the other complains. Finding a common ground between some of the visions and ideas of people is impossible. But people can create mods, which incorporates there vision or there idea on how the game should be. 0 A.D. can be modified. For me it is okay to have many different balance mods. Then I can choose the one I like the most. However, sometimes I like one mod for several reasons and don't like other aspects of the same mod. Then again another mod focuses on different aspects. I love to have several mods. Mods which try new things or implement things differently. All mods have one thing in common, at the end of the day, I as a player have choices and this is important too me. The main concern of @wowgetoffyourcellphone was that he has to invest time and efforts in adapting to the changes made to the 0 A.D. mod, because he bases his mod on the 0 A.D. mod and not directly on the engine. The question for me is should the Pyrogenesis engine and the 0 A.D. mod be more decoupled? And should there be a discussion about changes to the 0 A.D. mod, especially if they could break dependent mods?
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