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The current treasures in the game doesn't need to be brought back to a dropsite no.

Yes, we'll have to see exactly what the final result will be, but the idea is to include both more (non-game related) history info and a proper in-game manual

Yeah, I understood Michael's idea to be dependent on the wonder. The "tech" would just be to determine which effect the wonder would have.

For any later version of 3DS Max Collada (.dae) support should be built in iirc. I don't have Max installed so I don't know the exact menu commands etc, but look for Collada/.dae in the export.About the requirements: For buildings you can go higher than that, especially for rarer buildings. Generally speaking I think the things to be cautious about are: gradual transparency, how detailed animated objects are, and to a lesser degree model resolution/texture resolution. And of course, units/buildings/objects which there will be fewer of on the screen at the same time/are big enough to take up a lot of the screen can be more detailed.

It's not in the game folder, see http://trac.wildfiregames.com/wiki/GameDataPaths for where to find it.

No worries, the more information the better, so there's no reason to scold people for not doing it earlier

Statistics are already collected for technical information (and opt-in, so only those who agree to submit the information have their information submitted), so it should just be to add more things you want to track to include more information.

You do have one, otherwise the game would not run However you might not have a dedicated graphics card but rather one that is integrated with the motherboard, that doesn't mean it isn't there/doesn't support 3D though

To some extent you've already begun your application process since you're already creating things, so I don't think this thread will get a lot of replies (just keep up working on things and if you keep having a good attitude towards constructive criticism of your work and the quality is high you will be asked to join in a more official capacity later ). Thank you for posting this thread though to make it more official. As a general comment: It's generally not a good idea to include everything you've ever done when you're applying for something, but rather just the very best things you have done. It doesn't matter much in this case since we know you and have seen some of these before and know that they don't necessarily show what you can do right now, but if someone would just see these things without any previous information he or she might even doubt it's the same person who has created them all. Some of them are ok, some of them are good, some of them are great, and some of them are bad. If you just show the great ones (and maybe one good one if it shows you've got other skills than the great one shows) you will give people a much better impression of your skills. (Especially since it's easier to remember bad stuff than good stuff, so even one bad image might make you think the good ones are not as good as they actually are.)

C was for configure unless I'm incredibly mistaken But I guess this is one more "vote" to change it to something else =)

It already does that to some extent, and we hope to make the detection better (and eventually set just the settings a player's graphics card can handle) as the development moves along. You will definitely always need a graphics card with 3D capabilities though

I think he meant that he wanted to be an official team member (and if he keeps up like this that seems like a good idea ), but thanks for keeping the credits up to date

Imho we should do things the above way (one CC always buildable, town phase technology unlocks unlimited), but if nothing else we need a building limit technology to do this, so someone needs to implement that. I talked about it in IRC with quantumstate and Mythos_Ruler once, but they didn't seem to care too much either way either of them. It would be nice to have someone else give their opinion

Sure, try recording a couple of sentences. Just remember that you need a pretty good microphone for the quality of the files to be good enough to be possible to be used in the game (another reason to just record a few to test at first, and then we can see if they are good enough to be used in the game ).

What's the source for wooden/other textures? It's important that we are allowed to use them and distribute them under CC-BY-SA.

Ok, I thought you were just using Facebook as an example since I can't recall anyone mentioning just using one social media provider Either way, that's not going to happen, if we do something like this we're definitely going to make it possible to use whichever you want (unless it's too obscure, then it depends on how easy it is to add of course ).

(Actually one can make money with it, as long as it's also available for free and to be reused by others =) ) As for how much you can do with it: It depends on how much time and effort you are willing to put into it A lot of things can be accomplished just with XML files, and if you are willing to learn/know JavaScript you can do a lot more (and if you know/learn C++ you can do just about anything if you have enough time ).

A suggestion for exactly how to do something is one thing, wanting to change the entire way something is done this late in development is another. It's simply not an option in more or less all cases. But, and this is the main reason someone might mention that "you can do it yourself": unlike most games where you're forced to have things the way the developers decided in this case it is actually possible to change things to be the way you like them

My argument was not specifically against you, but rather against the money point, so perhaps I shouldn't have quoted you. If we include something I think we should include something generic, not "just Facebook" or "just Twitter" etc, but some generic solution that allows you to interact with more than one social network. I don't know how much is possible to do with the different APIs though, and perhaps the best solution is to have an optional online 0 A.D. profile on servers of our control from which you can e.g. post the results of your latest game or whatever you want. That should be a lot easier to implement and would lower the risk that people would be annoyed at seeing "social media in the game". Also, I don't know about the different licences for the different APIs, but it could be problematic to include anything using them in an open source game, so it would be a way to avoid any possible such issues as well.

If that's the argument, well, then we shouldn't work on the game because it's something that someone might want to write about on a news site or in a news paper or something, and then they might get some money from advertising. And we certainly shouldn't be working on a game (especially not over the internet as that increases the value of the service ISPs offer) because that might make someone buy a new computer and then a hardware manufacturer might benefit from it. I really don't see how whether or not FB might make some minuscule amount of money from a few advertisements should influence our decisions in any way. Especially since we would get something in return in the form of the advertisement the game would get.(I'm not saying there can't be other reasons why to think about if/how/why, just that I fail to see how money should affect our decisions in any kind of way.)

Note that this is only relevant in Atlas: Alt-click (or drag to select multiple parts, not relevant in this case I guess, but I just want to take the opportunity to spread knowledge ) to select and thereby also display the selection, though it's not the exact same as for the full building in-game so I can't say whether it would be accurate or not, still, could be worth a try If you turn on the "Simulation test" in Atlas but still have the select and move tool selected you should be able to test it, but again, it's not doing the exact same thing so if it is the selection display I'm not sure how relevant it will be.

I'd say you're pretty effective with it So yeah, I don't think there's any reason to complicate things with "call to arms" etc as that would only make raiding even more effective =) The current way is fine imho (I might not personally be too fond of the fact that you can raid at all, but that's another thing =) ), since you can raid, but your units can defend themselves. If they had to go to a special building to get their arms, then you would be more or less forced to raid in the early game as anything else would leave you at a great disadvantage.

Have you tried with the other parts of the gardens?

Call it haze/blowing sand/etc if you like, but I still think it can be realistic (just did a google image search and in a very unscientific estimation I'd say there are about as many desert images with fog as say forests or mountains, not a big point either way, just that it can happen), so it's probably better to have some distance fog on all maps as a unifying element if nothing else

Two things: One, the Imperial Campaign is not cut. It's something we can not guarantee that we will be able to include in part one, but we would very much like to have some kind of campaign and a story-based is most likely too time-consuming. Still, it depends on people creating it as with everything else. Two, part one is just the beginning As long as there are people who are willing to work on the game there will be a future for it (Especially since it's open source, so even if all current contributors would disappear it could still be worked on by someone else. And no, I'm not saying we will disappear. Just that even that would not have to mean the end of the game.) And while we have to decide later exactly how we will structure things after part one (will we do multiple smaller releases or work as we have now and go through a lot of Alphas/Betas and only then release a bigger new release), story-based campaigns/triggers/etc will most definitely be one of the top priorities then