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Well, it's up to all the people who know it's free to make it known that you can get the game for free

Well, why buy something one can get for free?

Well, according to Wikipedia it's the name of a valley in Germany, which had its name changed when they had some language reforms in Germany. The thing is though that the scientific name Homo neanderthalensis was given before that reform, and scientific names can't be changed after the fact according to the info I saw. But sure, the valley is nowadays spelled Neandertal.

Got curious and took a quick look around the internet, seems like it's mainly a matter of personal choice (Though the 'th' version seems more common than the 't' version, 1.8 million results in a Google search, compared to about 397 000 for the Neandertal spelling. I know that doesn't prove anything, but it does at least indicate that it's more often spelled that way. )

Well, as I've said time and time again, I'm sure we would like to have a date more than most of you The truth is that unlike a corporation where one knows before-hand how much time will be available for a project every week we don't know. Some weeks there's a lot of time for the project, other weeks there's a lot of other things taking up all the time, like school, other hobbies, work, etc. And also, while there is a moral obligation for the team members to participate and do as much as they can to further the project there's no way to force anyone to do anything The only thing we can do to make individual team members work as much as possible on the project is to try and make them have as much fun as possible and try and make contributing as easy as possible. About whether or not 0 A.D. will be released: I sure hope so, and will do what I can to make it possible, but I can't guarantee anything. Hopefully not too far into the future, but as we want to release a good game and not just something that's barely playable I think it will still be some years into the future. Feel free to suggest ways for us to make it happen sooner, but I'm afraid there isn't much to do. Unless you would hire a bunch of experienced programmers to work on the game or something

Hmm, I'm 100% sure you can't fly a real helicopter, but about an in-game helicopter I don't know about Well, we won't have flying units in 0 A.D. as far as I know, but on the other hand I guess it shouldn't be too hard to implement. I guess it depends on how good simulation you're looking for though, it should be possible to just offset the model from the ground to make it appear like it's flying. Anything more fancy than that and I think you'd need to be able to program to get it to work.

I recently found this site http://academicearth.org which houses a lot of free video lectures by a lot of good professors (the little I've seen so far is good in any case, and they're from universities like Yale, MIT and Berkely so they should be "fairly good" ). Among the courses they have on the site is one called "Introduction to Ancient Greek History", I've only had time to view the introduction so far but I thought it was good enough to share with everyone here, so please take a look if you're into ancient greek history: http://academicearth.org/courses/introduct...t-greek-history (Why would you be here unless you'd be interested in history one may ask =) But sure, I'm not going to say that anyone has to leave in case they're not. I mean I hope one will be able to enjoy playing 0 A.D. even without being into history )

Indeed, and that's what's said in the first post, there seems like a lot of people have posted in this thread without reading the previous posts

As the title says, you have only one week left to enter in the contest, so hurry up if you want to have a chance to win the prize (a subscription to Ancient Warfare is rewarded to the top two entries). If you want to have some inspiration to get your inner warrior going, Joshua (aka Shogun_144 on the forums) has posted two short but interesting articles about the languages you will have to use in the contest: Celts: Gaulish Celtic Hellenes: Attic Greek To read more about the contest go to the Get in the game contest page. In other news we've recently got two new artists who have been turning out new buildings in a rate I haven't seen before We will show some of that later this spring so stay tuned. Also, for those who are interested in getting more/other updates than what we provide on this site there's always our Moddb profile. Be warned that it might contain spoilers though, so if you want to get a sense of exploring an unknown world when you first play 0 A.D. I suggest you'll wait until after the release to visit our Moddb profile

0 A.D. will be more RTS than RTT, though we hope to add some more RTT elements in that we want to add some more value to formations and so, in general it's far more RTS than RTT though. (As a personal side note I find RTS easier to micro-manage than RTT, but that might be more due to me being used to RTS game play than RTT )

Ah, ok Then I understand that much at least

Alfheim? I'm not sure what/where that is, nor how you'd get the impression that we'd create such a map, so please explain it so you may end my ignorance

The best way to get an idea for what we're looking for is to listen to the musical samples we already have up on the website. They might not be final, but they're far better indications of what we're looking for than any words I might say The tracks can be found at: http://www.wildfiregames.com/0ad/page.php?p=1495

Please show some patience and don't post/email three times about the same thing. I've replied in your other thread. Consider this one closed.

Well, there's no reason for us to list the positions which aren't open, right? If you show us something more suitable to 0 A.D. than the music on your MySpace page I'll make sure our head of music will listen to it.

I actually think we have a dragon around from a halloween image some years ago, so it would be possible to do I guess =) I, and a lot of others I'm sure, won't allow it to be part of ordinary game-play though Speaking of dragons I suggest that you try the campaign Dragon Cult for Rise and Fall (can be found at: http://raf.heavengames.com/downloads/showfile.php?fileid=54 ). There are some glitches in one of the scenarios and so, but the last scenario is truly worth that, it is epic I'd say.

For a game like Civilization it's a good thing, but for 0 A.D. with more focus on the warfare part I'd think that many resources would be a bad thing. I mean, in an RTS where you have to react to things in real-time things need to be a bit simpler than in a turnbased game like Civilization where you've got time to think carefully about every choice you make.

We make it known when we need people, the same is true for scenario designers, so as long as you keep your eyes open you'll not miss it

I agree with plumo, if we've had any problem it has been how to implement all our ideas with the resources we have

Well, actually not really. While we don't exactly make our staff forums public etc we have, at least in my opinion, been fairly open about the progress. If you mean that we haven't specified any specific details about what percent is finished etc, that's more due to it being difficult to measure. It's not like we know what bugs will appear etc, in that case we'd not let them happen in the first place

?I'm not sure what you mean by that

Wildfire Games is pleased to announce its first community contest, ‘Get In The Game!’ It is truly a delightful experience hearing your warriors cry as they charge into battle, and it will require many unique voices to properly achieve this effect. Several battle cries will be chosen and mixed to represent different sized groups of soldiers, selected based on quality and accuracy. To gather the necessary sound assets, we've decided to employ the help of our community in our ‘Get In The Game’ contest, giving you the chance you have your very own voice in 0 A.D.! The contest will be going on between February 28th and March 21st. Please click through to the Get in the Game contest page to read more about the contest and how you enter.

Just saw a thing and thought of this thread, it's a far less serious take on the smoking/quit smoking issue, but I'll post the link: http://cyanatrendland.com/2009/02/26/how-i...by-jay-shuster/ (beware, the website design is a bit "screamy", but the images in the article are just fun, and perhaps a bit thoughtful too...)

Welcome to our forums. Hope you'll enjoy following the process and eventually playing the game. Took a quick look at your website, it seems you've got a lot of interesting stuff on there, will sure come back to it and take a closer look.

Thinking about a likely release date for 0 A.D. I don't think a game that's released at the end of this year is a "threat" I mean those who're interested in RTS gaming in general are likely to be eager to try something new while a lot of people who're interested in modding will probably enjoy 0 A.D.s flexibility (note that I don't know enough about SC2 to know if it's easy to mod or not ).