Fire Giant
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Nice FAQ, Argalius
That should definately sort out some confusion about modding in 0 A.D. Still, I'd like to add something: This is how we think it will likely be - we cannot promise anything, and if technical or gameplay specifications require to change anything from this list, it might not be in the final version the same way it's described here... 
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Since 0 A.D. is a historically based real time strategy game, I guess you won't be seing anything like magicians in it - since there is no proven evidence of any magician, wizard or witch and their abilities. We try to keep quite near to real history, as long as gameplay doesn't require otherwise.
For fantasy stuff, you'll likely have to wait for TLA
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Ykkrosh's work is legendary.
Wrong, Ykkrosh himself is legendary... he always amazes me with his ideas since he always does what you pretty much won't expect anyone to do
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You know what is cool, if infantry could swim in small rivers, it could be after and if they are too long in the water they will drown
It would also be cool if you could hunt birds and dig tunnels into the ground in order to flood areas of the map
- what I'm trying to say is, that everything is theoretically possible, but sometimes it would cause a crazy amount of programming time to achieve only a little feature 
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You should be using PNG instead.
Don't tell that someone who has got a 56k connection - he'll get some strange feeling that he want's to hurt you
A PNG has at least 1 MB in that resolution, that makes about two or three minutes 56k downloading ... not that cheap... I'm as well sitting safely on my broadband connection and when I design websites, I always have to remind me that probably not everyone has a connection like me and I need to watch my filesizes... -
I have Win XP Professional and Debian 3.0 on my PC, and Win XP Pro and Debian 3.0 with the newest KDE on my laptop - and I'm fully satisfied, since everything works fine with Linux (even WLAN, ACPI and the unusual display resolution)
Required some days of handwork and kernel compiling, but it works just fine now -
Plus if you tack the Byzantine Empire onto the Romans its getting aweful close to 2000 years
Close ? The Byzantine Empire ended in 1435 A.D., and the foundation of Rome is set to 753 B.C. (that's what the legend says), or historically to the 8th century B.C. - that's about 2188 years...
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One day you Hellenphiles shall awaken to the light of Rome and see the true glory of the Empire!
Historically: On 22nd June 168 B.C., where Greece lost the battle of Pydna, at the bottom of Mount Olympus to four Roman legions (Rome only lost 200 men in this, battle BTW, but Greece lost nearly all of its Phalanx - likely more than 20 000 men).
And regarding Romans copying "everything": I can't remember having seen the fighting style of the roman army anywhere before... they did copy things, but the combined them in a way that made them superior - so, they improved things.
Also, I can't remember Greece having an empire that lasted 1,200 years and covered all Europe
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Hmm, sounds interesting. Though I do not like the idea of portraiting the Romans as evil, brutal, plundering and supressing imperialists who only want to make the inhabitants of the provinces slaves, which is unfortunatly used pretty often in such movies about rebellions against Rome.
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- Roma victor !
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But RAR is much more effective at compressing files, so I do choose RAR whenever possible. Besides, RAR can preserve NTFS file permissions, and ZIP can't
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Hmm, the only problem I can think about regarding BitTorrent is privacy... if somehow the file hash is being leaked, everybody could download it, no ? That might be quite a kind of problem... either we have to be very careful selecting our testers, or we have to find another solution to restrict the users who may download the file.
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Nice pet
No, seriously, I'd have imagined the Elephant to be much larger and carrying this kind of "box" where the warriors stand in - was that uncommon for Indian War Elephants ? (I might have missed something there).
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Stuart always keeps thinking about how to use things for the game
I'm wondering wheter he's also thinking "oh, that box is a good inspiration for a skybox" if he walks over the street and sees someone taking a big box from a car -
Could you use PHP ?
PHP is a server-side language that is being parsed by a webserver. I think it's absolutely unusable for any 0 A.D.-game-related things except from websites. People have been using PHP for linux scripts, though, but I don't believe it'd work well with a game.
And due to the big differences between PHP and JS, no, they won't be compliant, so you won't be able to write any 0 A.D. script in PHP.
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Hmm, they are all a little too "famous". You know, it sounds a little extreme self-confident to call your laptop "Athena"
For now, I've used "Aglaia", because that's a less well-known name from Greek mythology.
Aglaea (Algaia)The youngest of the Charites, Aglaea ("splendor, brilliant, shining one") was Hephaestus' wife and Asclepius' daughter in Greek mythology.
With Charopus, she was the mother of Nireus.
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Well, this is just a little idea that hit me some hours ago.
Yesterday, I got my new notebook (a Samsung P35), and I thought that this one should be a little more personalized than my past PCs (which were always called "p4-malte", "pentium-2" or "pc_malte"). So I need a name for my laptop. And I thought that a nice ancient greek or latin name would fit quite well, making the combination of modern high tech and my historical interest.
When I searched Google for such names, I got mostly crappy sites that only offer modern baby names... So, as we have lots of ancient experts in this forum, I thought it might be an idea to ask over here if anyone got some ideas for me.
The name should sound nice, be a female name (this laptop is such a great machine that it only deserves to be female
), and should not contain any special characters that I'm not allowed to use for a computer name. Oh, and it'd be cool to know the meaning of the name as well.So please help me with your creativity, I can't think of any suitable name from the top of my head...
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History (my second major), and Sciences, particulary Maths (first major) and Biology
But I like nearly every subject, only Chemistry just got kicked from my timetable, as I always had crappy lessons/teachers there and don't like the subject too much. -
Huh, pretty many homeschoolers in here... I couldn't imagine being homeschooled, and I also don't want to imagine it. Nothing against you guys - I think you're pretty great people - but I would never want to miss meeting the other people and all the stuff going on at school. Seven years of time at the same school can make you feel somewhat connected to the place and the people - and it's still two more years to go for me
Well, I guess I do not have any kind of role model - after all, from my family, it could be only my parents, and from all people, it'd probably be some great people of the modern ages - like Bill Gates and Linus Torvalds (the archenemies, but they are both great people
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I hereby reach 500 Posts
Well, and almost 200 of them have been written within the last two weeks - I was quite kind of inactive before... also, I do not post into "spam" topics often, so hence the "low" number of posts -
Maybe my problem is a 'Monitor Profile' once it had an error when I first opened the program saying my monitor profile could not be found or was corrupt. Does anyone know what that means?
Well, I'd say that's the problem. I already experienced such a problem as well, though it wasn't that drastic for me (only some blue-colors where made pink). I solved it by setting the color profile to something like "Windows default colors", don't know the exact name. The problem seems to occur with TFTs mostly, BTW. Also had the same thing on my mother's TFT.
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France lost from Greece!
Wohooo, that was a great match... it's a pity that I missed the only goal (went down into the cellar to fetch something to drink, and when I came back up, it was 1:0 for Greece...) - I guess Greece is quite the underdog, but they might even reach the finals. Though they most likely have to play agains Czech, and these are quite good.
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Hmm, not the best solution, but quite an easy one that may work:
Open any folder, click "Extras" -> "Folder Settings" (or something like this, I've got a German Windows), then the "View"-tab and deselect the option "Reopen recent folder windows on logon" (should be the last one in the list, but will probably be labeled something other, again, I don't know due to my windows being German).
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Quite colorful, long and a big font --> there's room for improvements
Oh, and @jackie: Just click "My Controls" on top of any page and then select "Edit signature" on the left. You can make a signature text for yourself then
4 Months Guys, 4 Months ... :d
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Yepp, they got started on the 3d engine right after AoE was out (though only with a very small team of one or two programmers)... so you may as well add two years