ShadowOfHassen

So I'm working on animals and there's a flaming pig. I feel like theirs a historical refrence there. What is it? Also what are peoples thoughts about easter eggs? Does anyone want a suspific joke or reference put in the encylopedia? It doesn't have to be funny It could be remembering someone who did a lot for 0 A.D.

So I have done the trees and I figured to make a matching pair encyclopedia entries need to be done for both stone and metal(ore?) I can go into the general basics of why stone and metal were important and in general how they were mined, but I'm wondering if anyone else has any ideas. Also, I'd like to know what is ore/ metal? Is it a specific metal, or is it metal in general? And is supposed to be valuable metal like gold or useful metal like iron?

PRs for more animals: https://github.com/TheShadowOfHassen/0-ad-history-encyclopedia-mod/pull/13 And palisades and outposts: https://github.com/TheShadowOfHassen/0-ad-history-encyclopedia-mod/pull/14

Agreed.

We do need It's an autumn berry, so I wanted to add the bit. Also, in line imaging formatting (like itallics and stuff) paragraphs indentation, justification and comments for translators are things we're going to need. You mean to say if I open tickets in the bug tracker, people would work on them? I have 0 knowledge of any the programming stuff so I'd be no help.

If people want to get rid of other theaters, it's fine (just Sparta should be the first to lose it.) Actually if it was an Athens only building it could become a bit more useful than an eye candy building to get more area. Like maybe play wars?

PR for the theaters! https://github.com/TheShadowOfHassen/0-ad-history-encyclopedia-mod/pull/12 I didn't go into a lot of details about the competitions that were held in Athens and others because later they didn't do it later. If someone wants me to add it I can.

It's a good idea, it'd be a lot of metal but If there's a cool historical mercenary,

I'm researching the theater for the encyclopedia right now and the Macedonians did as well. I'm just sure that Sparta who threw away everything fancy wouldn't have some place to watch plays.

Did that fix it?

I made the berries a template. So that's done. I'll leave the grapes how they are at the moment. Is there any other changes in that PR that need done?

I'm not necessary saying about modesty because like-- the fanatics, however @sarcoma's reply wasn't really constructive.

So I think this is a very touchy subject. I like to think we should be historically accurate, but then again I would be pretty annoyed and probably stop playing if some of the women went around topless even if there is a historical precedent and in some cultures it is conceivable that it was not taboo (I remember seeing that some African tribes even now women go topless.) @vajei , which civs do you think are bad? I think Mauryan and the non ptolmy Egyptians have it.(Sorry I don't remeber the name) I'm going to pick on the Mauryans for a moment because I have some thoughts about this. First, do we have proof that Mauryan women wore than and not something more modest? I mean, there are sources to say Spartan women only wore skirts, and we didn't do that. I find it difficult to believe that statistically Mauryan women wore that everywhere. However, gatherers are more believable than the champions because-- armor? You'd think they would try at least some. (Of course someone could say that the Mauryan were not an armor like civilization, and I'd say perhaps, but still unless they were bezerkers one would think they'd try at least a padded something. Also, I'd love to see the sources of the Mauryan female champions, partly because I'm not buying their outfit and partly because I want to know more about them.

OK, and I assume I can put a berry template in the same place as the fruit default template? I think I can figure everything else out.

It's been a while, and I forgot to say the (hopefully) final version of the mod is working for a26 and a27.

Why does Sparta has a theater? Sparta is set after the lycurgan reforms and unless I'm missing some historical evidence they wouldn't have theaters. I think the theater should be removed and to compensate the Spartans special barracks should get another upgrade. I know this could be getting in part of gameplay discussion, but I'm more wondering about the history part.

Umm what does this mean? That I should make a template and inherit stuff from that? I don't know how to do that. Or where you put it. If you tell me where and how I can do it, but you could also create your own PR. It's a smart idea though. @hyperion I have no idea what you said there. Also, I could reference Shezmu or other ditties related to wine. But I see your point. Baccus was pretty big with wine. However, sort of rewriting the article to talk about the religious significance of wine, but if you have any ideas... I'll write articles for structures even if they aren't in the skirmish part of the game, because I'm sure those buildings would be useful when it comes to campaigns.

Also, could anyone please tell me in Sparta's units, what's a Range a Stoa a tower_bolt, and gerosia? And why they aren't in the game? Or walls there are no walls in the game, but they're in the files, why? Also, what do I say about the theater because Sparta would not have a theater. Actually, could we remove Sparta's theater? They wouldn't have one.

So this isn't a cheat unit but more of an Easter egg civ. What if you had a civ of the republic from Plato's republic? You'd have to either put a cheat code in at the main screen or (and I like this idea better) once the game has campaigns, add a small campaign about them after you finish all the Hellenistic campaigns on hard. (Also It'll be kind of fun writing encyclopedia entries for cheat units.)

If it's a 0 A.D. sort of RTS I'd say Empire at War. You can get it cheap on steam and It's amazing.

So now I have a PR for the fruit and all the 0 A.D. treasures. https://github.com/TheShadowOfHassen/0-ad-history-encyclopedia-mod/pull/11 https://github.com/TheShadowOfHassen/0-ad-history-encyclopedia-mod/pull/10 It'd be great if someone from the dev team could look over the treasures and make certain I conveyed what the treasures are supposed to be. @wowgetoffyourcellphone you were a developer for a while, could you look at the treasure, or could you tell me who to ask?

Vantha's done some incredible work on a PR for seige engines. People can check it out if just to read the cool stuff. Also, I have the first of many animal PRs. I decided to split them up so that if other people want to do some they can. No history is required.

I heard in a podcast that ChatGPT could be used to find quotes, which is why I mentioned it. I will try Private GPT but I don't know how well it'd work because the only e ancient texts I can get is anything on project gutenburg.

I made another (hopefully) last version, it needs to be approved.

However, if Chat gpt can look for obscure quotes in ancient text's that'd be cool because It'd be cool to have a quote from ancient texts for each animal in 0 A.D.'s encyclopedia, but I don't have time to read 100+ ancient works right now.