ShadowOfHassen

I'm not getting the error... Maybe they fixed it.

@Norse_Harold is right. Inflammable is one of the places where English breaks its own rules. https://www.merriam-webster.com/grammar/flammable-or-inflammable They're more like "guidelines" anyway...

I don't know if trac can do something similar, but GitHub has the ability to autogenerate release notes by looking at what PRs were merged.

I'll can do it. I can write it like a blog post, so laymen can easily read it. Just let me know when we're close to feature freeze and I'll start. (Or if you want it done now, I can do it now too...) Someone just need to tell me where I put the text.

Thanks, @AIEND for the feedback. It's really hard to find good resources on the Han dynasty, so its good to find someone who has studied this. It would be great if could go through all our written articles (found Here: https://github.com/TheShadowOfHassen/0-ad-history-encyclopedia-mod/tree/main/0-ad-history-mod-package/simulation/templates/structures/han and Here: https://github.com/TheShadowOfHassen/0-ad-history-encyclopedia-mod/tree/main/0-ad-history-mod-package/simulation/templates/units/han If we messed up, please let us know, and I and @Vantha will correct them. Also, we haven't completely finished with the civilization, so if you want to help us write you are more than welcome. One thing is, I especially want to know if there were any problems with the Han Female Citizens. It was really hard to find sources for that article. I had originally wanted to quote this source https://zh.wikisource.org/wiki/女誡 but there were no translations available and while I consulted a version ran through Google Translate that translation doesn't cut the standards I have for inclusion in the encyclopedia, and without an expert on the language I wasn't going to make changes.

Yeah, there wouldn't be external links, but internal links should be easy. The links as basically really tiny buttons that go with the text.

I want to see a match of the best 0 A.D. online players where a randomly trained unit becomes a cheat. Also for Steamboat Willie, there'd have to be his song too...

That would be a fun monster. But, personally, I'd prefer to command a happy whistling mouse. Then a murderous woman cursed by the gods.

In my mind, the encyclopedia articles are supposed to. A. Enlighten the player on the unit/building, and (B) Illuminate the unit's use. (Give some hint on what the unit/ building is supposed to do.) If there isn't anything specifically fascinating about the unit, you write something generic like what was does with walls, treasures or storehouses. Yes, you can at the moment write articles about more interesting things and put them in the unit descriptions, but eventually, all of that should probably be turned into extra linked information. For example, you have a short paragraph on the Han sword Calvary and have links off to the swords and the horse breeding.

How about a naval unit? I found this obscure character: https://en.wikisource.org/wiki/Steamboat_Willie

I think there are a lot of names that are short and meaningless. Take Half Life, for example, those words aren't anywhere in the game other than the title. I think 0 A.D. is fine and makes just as much since as Age of Empires for a game.

We decided that this text really doesn't have a place with any of the units, but because @Vantha put the work in, we decided to add it in an unused file in the base part of the encyclopedia repository. However, I recently had an idea, once the article is tidied up a bit, what if it was used as a sort of promotional trailer? If someone read it aloud and someone else gave it clips of the game, it might be an interesting thing to show off what the game looks like.

This sounds weird, but what if its collection of meat rate is halved for all units costing half the amount of meat? It's an interesting trade-off. Can we also think of another use of the Zebu? Because it seems really silly to have it in

Whether eating cow or not was OK in Hinduism aside, this probably should be changed. The Zebu was used as a beat of burden, not for eating. According to my research, both the milk and the meat of the Zebu were terrible.

I'm fine with that. But the attribution and distinction of CC BY-SA 4.0 is useful so any of those remixes (if they're factually incorrect) don't look bad on 0 A.D.

I just came across this post: It says that all the art for 0 A.D. is CC BY-SA 3.0 and the code/data is GPL 2.0 Technically, the way I'm reading it, the encyclopedia would fall under GPL 2.0. I'm not an expert on licenses, but I think the GPL is not the best license to use for the encyclopedia. We could also license the encyclopedia under CC BY-SA, except it would be better probably to run with 4.0 (because of the additional protections and the fact that it makes you state changes to the work) Alternatively, I think, to be certain that no other game is going to take the encyclopedia for themselves (and not do the research themselves) it might be better to place it under the CC BY-NC-SA 4.0. However, I'm open to the C BY-SA Here are the links to: CC BY-SA https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/ CC BY-NC-SA 4.0 https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-sa/4.0/

Han female citizen: https://github.com/TheShadowOfHassen/0-ad-history-encyclopedia-mod/pull/94

I agree that 0 A.D. shouldn't kill itself (they do need to keep the servers online), however, if some of the money was invested in the game so that it's good enough to post on steam, we could get a large enough player base that fundraisers might be easier. Besides with inflation (which I think is happening everywhere) 0 A.D.'s only loosing money. I'll look forward to seeing the yearly report.

If 0 A.D. has excess funds, why not? It would be good to have illustrations for the encyclopedia, (maybe even get the Open source person who does Pepper and Carrot?) Contracting some programmers also wouldn't hurt, anything. Slightly off-topic, but how much funds does 0 A.D. have exactly?

I appreciate that. I'm not a fan of AI anything. (That is AI large models, not conventional AI) Still, the art does look pretty good.

Did you make the portaits yourself?

You could. Of course, if the new encyclopedia is written, it can always be a separate text.

I don't even have a guess. Did you try looking up their Chinese name?

I want to just point out that unlike how ChatGPT says, Brasidas died around the 400 B.C. He did not live anywhere close to the year 0 A.D. Also, I think the LLM is hallucinating costs for units. It also spends 150 wood when you only say 100. You'd have to get a pretty good LLM to have it not do that with 0 A.D. However, I do like the idea of having customizable AI, probably not for the skirmish because having Athens's always do the same strategy could make the game repetitive, however having AI in campaign act like the actual generals during history would be cool if it would play well also.

Not GIMP?!? Joking aside, how can you have the buttons and everything look exactly like 0 A.D's UI?