Sundiata

@Genava55 Sure, modern day artists will inevitably give it their own twist, and the more frightening sounds are definitely more suited for battle. But think about the variety of styles that are played on modern day instruments. Considering the variety of sounds the instrument can produce, I think there may have been an array of playing styles, depending on region and the context it's being played in. They probably had just as much a ritual use as a military one (speculation). Have you seen this one?

Does the carnyx unit already have a dedicated sound? That terrifying trumpet like stuff is really awesome! Would add a lot of character (of course the amount of times they blow the carnyx should be limited because it could get quite distracting as well, although I suspect that was the whole point of it, alongside sending out coded commands and stuff)

Yep, since that nutjob killed a bunch of innocent people half way around the world, youtube disabled the "upload date" filter on all content. Because... Reasons... But It should be back now... Works again for me at least.

Welcome to the forum, 1) Ask nicely, don't bark commands at people in the forum 2) If you're the same bubblebut from the lobby, stop with the incessant profanities. It's in poor taste and It's against terms of service and terms of use, and can be followed by action.

There's no clause for fair use... Can't even filter videos by their upload date anymore... Apparently because of the New Zealand shooting. An absolutely horrific attack, no question about that, but what the New Zealand terror attacks have to do with me searching for the most recent uploads of 0AD content is beyond me... The views on "non-trending" channels are plummeting because people simply can't find the most recent content on the subjects that interest them. Anyway, there's a clear example of how the new internet environment is affecting 0AD, be it indirectly.

A dark day indeed... https://gizmodo.com/a-dark-day-copyright-law-that-threatens-the-internet-a-1833570802

Well, then they should... FORK it over... Get it??

Indeed... But Alpha 24 isn't around the corner, is it? My fingers are still crossed for both the multithreading and and the graphics patch. I'm a hopeful kind of guy (and hope gets everything done, right? right? ok, I'll take a seat until I learn how to code graphics engines and multithread pathfinders and other complicated stuff like that. Perhaps in a few decades or so) Perhaps @aeonios is taking his name a little too serious Maybe @Kuba386 needs to take a little time off from his kingly duties and finish the patch

Add Kuba's multithreading and we have a transformational experience for most players!

Ooooooooh, beautiful....

Nice... For Kush at least, I can provide the following names of some of the most important cities during 0AD's timeframe (archaeological sites containing the excavated remains of one or more of the following: City/Royal Palace/Amun Temple/Royal Necropolis), followed by the historical name, where known: Napata (Npt/Napita) Meroë (Medewi/Birawe) Naqa (Tolkte/twjlkt) Kawa (Gematon/Gempaten) Tabo (Pnubs) Sanam Dangeil Basa Sedeinga Sonijat (Tergedus) Muweis Karanog (Premnis/Pedeme) Dakka (Pselchis/Pselqet) Hamadab Amara East

Both of those guys... Good lord... Maybe we should just have a separate lobby for all the nutters.

I just want to make some on-topic clarifications again because the discussion is indeed veering of into something different. As I said, this is just a small part of the rant in question and he must have repeated those statements and variations of it several times over. The previous time I saw him ranting it lasted even longer and went into sexist, Islamophobic and again anti-African territory, with no action taken whatsoever (and I tried notifying moderators several times then as well). I notified user1 several times in the lobby and even informed, right then and there in the lobby that I will make a post about this in the forum as I was unhappy about the course of events leading up to the mute of pesem, not because some BS threshold had been exceeded, but because he started personally attacking another lobby member. The misunderstanding is a difference in what is deemed acceptable conduct in the lobby, as pesem has clearly been at it for a while, and rather than clarifying whatever action was supposedly being taken, the moderator in question took the time to give me an illogical and dismissive response instead. I could have just laughed this whole thing off. I still want to. And if it was one on one, I probably would have done just that. But in a public lobby where African kids or kids of African descent may well be reading along (let alone everyone else), for god knows how long, is honestly horrifying to me. Even kids can read between the lines... This isn't about politics or freedom of speech or moderators having to babysit manchildren. As a child I've had to physically defend myself against violent and unprovoked attacks by people espousing such rhetoric. I've faced dogs, rocks, sticks, fists, feet, spit and more, by people screaming those kind of things at me, and I'm not someone who ever picked a fight or looked for trouble. I'm also not the only person with such experiences. So excuse me if I'm a little sensitive about this. There are still people loosing their lives and their minds because of this rhetoric. pesem and his kind bring up some really bad memories for me, and others as well. It kills me that kids still have to face this nonsense today. It also kills me to have to explain where this rhetoric leads to. They're not just "words". That kind of rhetoric is a weapon.

The terms of use are clear. User1's "responses" were insultingly dismissive. I would have never made an issue out of this if Pesem was simply muted or banned for his overt extremism, but he wasn't! He was eventually muted because he simply insulted someone else (not race related). The message was loud and clear. Insulting Africans for soulless satan monkeys is fine. Insulting non-Africans is not. THAT'S my problem... I don't care if moderators receive flack for banning people simply because they wanted to play a multiplayer game with some friends on the same network and I don't care if moderators receive flack for banning or muting people for mild swearwords. There's a lot of edge cases that are dealt with ruthlessly, but hardcore racism, bigotry and sexism.... Nah, that's fine... That's what's shocking to me, and that's the reason I made this post. After asking around a bit, Pesem seems to be a regular, and his behaviour is well known to other players. The previous time I saw him spewing bigoted and sexist rants, there was no disciplinary action whatsoever either. Hence the question: how long has this been going on? This is not an edge case, and as I said earlier, I feel embarrassed and disappointed that this needs to be pointed out. Where I'm from, Hate Speech and Defamation are criminal offenses...

Yeah, the psychotic rant was one thing... But the idea that African satanic monkey talk was deemed appropriate lobby chat had me like: Who knows, a moderator might have decided to shadow ban me because I was annoying him with my desire to be addressed as a human being, so I sort of understand what you mean. With great power comes great responsibility, and not every moderator might be ready for that.

I've had this sort of thing a number of times before, but I really can't be bothered to report it. It's not worth it and it's really not much of a problem, normally. But this guy... Jeez... We now have downloads from almost every African country. Imagine opening the MP lobby for the first time, only to find Pesem's ranting... Oh, and he hates muslims too, but I guess that was a given...

Sorry to be a snitch/not sorry, but there is a limit to things. I ignore this type of unprovoked bigotry and racism in the vast majority of cases. But it's a bit different if it's deemed acceptable for a regular visitor of the Multiplayer Lobby to use the crowded lobby to espouse overt religious extremism, spamming out any normal discussion people might be having, and then out of the blue turns it into a heavy racial rant as well. Read pesem's messages. There's a limit... I want to clarify very clearly that this is only a small part of a much larger rant that went on for a while. It wasn't provoked either. He just joined the lobby and started ranting about how only Jesus can save us. I guess he saw me online, and decided to go all anti-African... What kind of Christianity is that? I had one previous encounter with him, the time before last, when he was ranting even longer about Jesus, and that women in tight dresses were the devil trying to tempt us and blablabla... I asked him if he always does that in the lobby and the ranting became even worse. @Hannibal_Barca eventually muted him this time because he launched personal attacks. But here's my second problem. I originally asked if there were moderators online and @user1 responded. I asked him to ban the account based on the considerable rant he could read for himself, but he just ignored me and left again. The racist ranting continued unabated, and I notified user1 again, and told him that kids play this game. His astonishing answer was that you needed to be at least 13 years old to play, and promptly left again, further ignoring me. The racist ranting continued. So what is he saying? 13 year olds aren't kids? Hardcore racism is perfectly fine in the lobby? I should stop bothering him? How long has this nonsense been going on? Kids play this game... Africans play this game... Other non-supremacists play this game... I don't know if Pesem is a schizophrenic mad man or if he's just a super troll. I honestly don't care. This behaviour should never be tolerated, and I feel embarrassed to have to make a post about this. I'm disappointed that such behaviour is deemed acceptable, and expect this to end. Religious extremism, racism and sexism have no place in a multiplayer lobby where people get banned/muted for way less. I have to deal with Christian extremist neighbours in real life, and faced more racism (actual violence) than anyone should have to in their life. I'm going to throw one hell of a tantrum if I have to tolerate it in the lobby as well. I go there to relax. Not to find out that in fact, I'm a soulless monkey created by satan.

Something like this? The smallest acacia variant, 36 tris: Small Acacia bush.dae I tried adding some thorns with mixed results:

I'd just like to add that this discussion is good illustration of why it's difficult to move forward on gameplay decisions. Dancing is an exploit, plain and simple. But there are some experienced players who have a vested interest in maintaining this exploit because it allows them to win vs noobs and/or people who refuse to stoop to dancing an individual unit to win a battle. Such cases should be clearly identified and tackled. Dancing on the frontline of a battle is just dumb, and if it allows the dancer to win the battle, it's hella frustrating to everyone that can't be bothered to go into first person Billy Eliot mode to win. This is basically the inverted of something I've suggested several times myself (I suggested ranged units randomly selecting 1 out of the 10 nearest units, spreading fire across the group being attacked, not just the nearest individual): The only caveat I can see with nani's suggestion is how would you focus fire on a specific unit, like an elephant storming towards your CC? I don't think you'd have that problem if you follow my original suggestion, which is the most natural, organic, logical and intuitive solution (don't know if it's feasible from a programming side though) I repeat my suggestion: When a group of ranged units attacks another group, the ranged units each individually and randomly select 1 out the 10 nearest enemy units in range to fire on. This would cause groups of ranged units to fire across a front, not an individual. Dancing would be rendered ineffective and ranged combat would start looking a lot more natural. Perhaps "focus fire" could be a tech to research, to help sniping heroes? Secondly, directional defence should be a thing. So that units carrying a shield would become less vulnerable when attacked from the front, and far more vulnerable when flanked or attacked from the back. Currently a unit's attack has a direction, no? How come the defence stats can't be applied differently to a direction (front, back, left, right)? Also, the poll is misleading, as option 2 and option 3 are basically the same option and option 1, 2, 3 are more similar to each other, while people are allowed to vote on more than one option at a time... Skewed results.

I've always wanted a heart shaped red "love" button, and a blue thumbs up "like" button, to add some necessary nuance (being able to properly react to LordGood's posts) CC0:

Absolutely! If you're patient enough with me, I'll get all the acacia stuff (and hopefully other things as well) ready before the next alpha... The Baobabs and papyrus look marvelous, by the way!

Let's pretend we're coming out of the rainy season (the grasses have already dried up, but there's still enough water deep in the ground to keep the trees green) But yeah, I could still play around with colors and brightness a bit.. I was actually thinking of making dry season variants, with fewer leaves and a more brownish color.

Ah yes, soon! I keep obsessing about the acacia, lol... Modeling trees is hard... I'll be sending more huts and stuff very soon! At least I just finished the first new Acacia variant, I think... I read something about keeping it under 800 tris, so I kept it at 784 ... The other variants will be simpler/smaller and have less tris. This is just the mother acacia.