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  4. Civilization Proposal: Arabs/ Rashidun Caliphate/ Umayyads

    in 1,000 A.D.

    Posted

    36 minutes ago, Lion.Kanzen said:

    No, because we haven't enough sources to fill a cohorent faction, nor heroes, nor wonders... May be Petra or  Palmyra or Saba... But Arabs with that name is like suggest Pre Columbian culture in a single faction. Unless you help to provide us many visual material.

    Petra and the Nabataeans are probably better suited for the vanilla or for Delenda Est.

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  6. ===[TASK]=== 0 A.D Ships Update.

    in Eyecandy, custom projects and misc.

    Posted

    1 hour ago, stanislas69 said:

    While this is a great idea in theory, the more we complexify models the more we restrict people from playing the game.

    My 9 years old laptop has a Intel GMA HD integrated graphics and I can play games on it like Anno 2070, StarCraft II, Warhammer 40,000: Dawn of War II and Supreme Commander 2. A laptop lifespan is generally around 5 years in Europe and 10 years in Latin America. Even in Bolivia, one of the poorest country of Latin America, I rarely seen too old computers. In the administration of a small bolivian town, the oldest computers I seen are a few Pentium 4 all-in-one desktops that were already struggling to perform their basic task. I am pretty sure than the last users of Windows XP (less than 10% in the world) will probably switch to another OS in the next 5 years and even Windows 7 needs higher hardware requirements than 0 A.D currently.

    I totally agree with the idea to keep the game as a very accessible one but I think there is room for a moderate graphical improvement.

  7. Civilization Proposal: Arabs/ Rashidun Caliphate/ Umayyads

    in 1,000 A.D.

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    51 minutes ago, Sundiata said:

    It made sense in vanilla for the Gauls because of a lack political cohesion, and the Iberians because of a lack of references.

    It made sense also because the Gauls share the same archeological culture, the same language and had a very connected network of settlements sharing the same evolution during a long time period. The same for the Iberians. Regional specificities are minor and not temporally constant, in contrary to the Greeks.

    2 hours ago, soshanko said:

    yeah logic should be applied. But there is a difference if the dynasties are totally different as ethnicity . I think most of the Arabs are almost from the same ethnicity. like kahtani and ismailiah.  these two sub linage is also reative frome very beginning of them. but for the Chinese these dynasties are almost totally different. as the jins were almost the people of the korea or north china. I would say China have many different faction on its area. But the Arabs are only two linage as I mentioned before and they are relative from very early period. So all different clans and kingdoms of Arabs can be presented as a Single nation. sorry for the edit. Thanks. 

    It means an ethnic centered mod which is problematic for the Germanic factions where the North-West Germanic languages didn't splitted before the third century AD and the West Germanic languages didn't splitted before the sixth century AD. Moreover their ethnicities are well mixed and shared together by huge confederacy system that appeared during their history like the Suebi/Suevi, the Marcomanni, the Alemanni and the Franks. Plus the Merovingian and the Carolingian dynasties are new levels of complexities from an ethnological perspective.

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  8. Civilization Proposal: Arabs/ Rashidun Caliphate/ Umayyads

    in 1,000 A.D.

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    7 minutes ago, soshanko said:

    I am talking about an combined effort to make the Arabian faction. So if the kingdom of Sheba, ghassanids, lakhmids, yemenise, ghatafan, kuraish and many more could be combined to represent the Arabian faction, that can be a true approach to the Arabian faction. And also I think the game has kept religion out of the main focus mainly the religions of this date. So it might be good if the Arabian faction cover the entirety of the Arabian peninsula. just this is the point. The book called seeratun-nabi-ibn-hashim or books like this that talks about the pre-Islamic time period can be a good resource for a greater research. thanks. 

    The problem is that this logic should be applied to others factions as well. For example, the Jin dynasty, the Sui dynasty and the Tang dynasty in one faction for the Chineses.

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  11. NoMaDiC CiViLiZaTiOnS

    in Delenda Est

    Posted

    29 minutes ago, Jofursloft said:

    But how can enemy units kill him? I don't think archers have the precision and the range to do it, but maybe I'm wrong

    I personnally think it is better to have a dependancy with a horseman. It is easier. You kill simply the horseman to get ride of the falcon. 

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  12. NoMaDiC CiViLiZaTiOnS

    in Delenda Est

    Posted

    An attacking eagle or falcon is maybe a bit exagerated, I don't think there is any account of this. But a scout unit, either a lonely bird or a horseman with a following bird, with huge vision and hunting bonus, it is justified from historical accounts.

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  13. ===[TASK]=== Iberian Unit Props Update

    in Official tasks

    Posted · Edited by Genava55

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    need more info for this leader

    Diodorus Siculus XXV: The king of the Orissi/Oretani, however, came to the aid of the beleaguered city, and by a feigned offer of friendship and alliance succeeded in routing Hamilcar. In the course of his flight Hamilcar contrived to save the lives of his sons and his friends by turning aside on another road; overtaken by the king, he plunged on horseback into a large river and perished in the flood under his steed, but his sons Hannibal and Hasdrubal made their way safely to Acra Leucê.

    Strabo, geography 3.3.2: Of those who dwell above the aforesaid mountains, the Oretani are the most southern, extending in part as far as the sea-coast on this side the Pillars. Next these towards the north are the Carpetani, then the Vettones and Vaccæi, through whose [country] the Douro flows as it passes Acontia, a city of the Vaccæi. The Gallicians are the last, and inhabit for the most part a mountainous country: on this account they were the most difficult to subdue, and furnished his surname to the conqueror of the Lusitanians; in fact, at the present day the greater part of the Lusitanians are beginning to call themselves Gallicians. The finest cities of Oretania are Castulo and Oria.

    For the other infos, it should come maybe from Cornelius Nepos and Appian, Iberike. But they are hard to find in english online. Moreover the st*pid guy that wrote the wikipedia page didn't put the original references.

    Edit: like always, the Roman historiography is full of legends, moral judgments and distortions of the truth for political reasons. It is hard to know which version of the Oretani's king is true.

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  14. ===[TASK]=== Iberian Unit Props Update

    in Official tasks

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    @Lion.Kanzen I forgot to mention that the main issue for the moment about the current Iberian faction is that it is mostly based on the iberian culture but two of the heroes of the faction are not iberian... Caros is a Celtiberian chieftain leading the coalition during the second war, Viriato is Viriathus a famous Lusitanian war leader... Maybe Orison and Korbis are good candidates for the Iberians. Korbis is a king that won a duel against Orsua to rule the city of Ibis (not located today). Orison is a Oretani king that tried to resist against Carthage.

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  17. ===[TASK]=== Iberian Unit Props Update

    in Official tasks

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    The main issue is still the same, the current Iberian faction is mostly Iberians (speaking a non-indo-european language) with no contribution from Celtiberians (speaking a indo-european language). I know they are two tribal culture and that it is difficult to distinguish them but it is something that should be addressed in a short future. I see three possibilities:

    1. The current Iberians will stay 100% Iberians and will be the only faction of the Iberian peninsula.
    2. The current Iberians will stay 100% Iberians but a new faction will be added for another Iron Age culture of the Iberian peninsula.
    3. The current Iberians will include others cultures but it should be done in a smart way and clearly stated to not confuse people and to not making this faction a patch-work of very different cultures. Tribal and Iron Age cultures doesn't mean primitive and all "same-@#$%" cultures you can throw in the same box.

     

  22. Civilization Proposal: Arabs/ Rashidun Caliphate/ Umayyads

    in 1,000 A.D.

    Posted

    1 hour ago, Lion.Kanzen said:

    metalic or solid shield (matte finish)?

    Probably the leather. You can have very nice colors by working on leather.

    https://www.bonhams.com/auctions/22816/lot/97/

    1 hour ago, Lion.Kanzen said:

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    Nice work, well done. If you want to use it for the faction's symbol, maybe we should add an islamic motif? There are some interesting writting in the coins of this period:

    https://www.davidmus.dk/en/collections/islamic/dynasties/umayyads

  23. Frozen development

    in Game Development & Technical Discussion

    Posted

    6 hours ago, Sundiata said:

    Beware though, as I used to have a 2011 macbook pro that wasn't able to run alpha 21 anymore. Another guy with a mac (2011 or 2012, can't remember), had the same problem, asked on the forum, and was told his machine was just too old... (can't remember the specifics) 

    It is an issue if he still have a old version of the OS. It is a common problem, old mac didn't have regular updates for the OS and if he didn't do it himself the update, it become tougher after time because the Apple Store didn't let you download a new version of the OS. 

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