Belisarivs
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Actually, construction of new building often costs less than repairing of ruin.
I also dislike swordsmen or archers being able to cut through walls.
Bunch of archers could destroy Gate in AoK pretty quickly.
However, we can understand it as if they climbed it and opened it, but for simplification they just destroy it by arrows or melee weapons.
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Yes. Whole Total War series are cursed by inaccuracy.
See Rome: Total Realism mods and so. Also MTW2 needs some Realism mod terribly. Until then I don't find it worth playing.
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I knew about Lions in Greece, but didn't know about bears in Atlas. Would be interesting indeed.
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Although I didn't have problem with recognizing teams, come Carthaginian white pikemen could have more red colour as these are harder to recognize.
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Although I like your idea, it simply doesn't fit here. You are attempting to make Settlers from this game.
Please understand, its emphasis lies in military so much, that they put immense amount of work into research of military of that age. I've never seen such accuracy in commercial projects. Even RTW sucks compared to 0AD of it comes to realism of units composition.
Its planned to be AoK style military RTS. Player will not bother with selecting mares and stallions and breeding them when enemy is upon him.
While it would be cool to have larger horses for heavy cavalry and mares for light, representing fact, that stallion is stronger to carry armour and armed rider while mares were cheaper and perhaps faster, it isn't hood idea to put in too much micromanagement into game.
Especially for multiplayer when victory depends on quickness, strong economy and cunning tactics and such micromanagement would draw too much attention.
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Numidians rock.
Do horses of Hispanian horsemen with bronze helmets wear chain mails or it is just their colour? Is there any artwork or depiction of this unit?
That is their name? Thank you.
Cool work indeed.
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Will it be available for Linux?
I think, that writing it in Qt4 would be cool as it should be fairly easy to port it to WinDOS, Linux and MAC.
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Just curious, but since you don't plan opensourcing and so there is little chance that 0AD will be part of any Linux distribution, do you plan to make own repository of packages for mostly used distros so when new version is available, users can update it via package manager?
Or you plan to make just single installer/archive?
If some repository is planned, will it also contain mods which could update same way? I think, that thiswould be really appreciated.
There are many Linux users and they would be certainly delighted.
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It is indeed nice, but I don't get it if it comes to that aura. What isthe reason for it? Won't player loose resources jus because he didn't spot that workers are comming out of aura?
Why not keep it as in AoK where longer distance meant lower effectivity, not absolute loss of resources.
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I think, that those smaller elephants have too long tusks.
Who is fighting who?
With Persians it is clear. But those red? I can see there carthaginian elephants, gallic warriors as well as greek style phalanx.
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the viruses is not windows of microsofts fault, it's those idiots fault who make them solely for windows, I hate those ******
Actually, those viruses are solely Microsofts fault. Viruses abuse errors in Windows. And there are many due to fatal errors in design. They failed to effectively separate admin and normal user.
In Windows it is impossible to not to be logged in as admin and install important software. Vista introduces this finally (something what is in Linux and other UNIXes for ages) and many programs have problems with it as Microsoft learned creators of such programs to do their work wrong way.
These fatal design errors force users to be logged in as Admins and therefore all they do, they do it with high privileges. Including running viruses.
In Linux (and others) you cannot log in as root. You can swith to root just for time needed for necessary operation. Any virus attempting to break your system would have to pass through this secured system.
Yes, virus can erase your user data (which you can delete accidentally, anyway), but it still won't be able to cause any harm to your system. When you use more accounts and secure access rights, you are pretty much secure from any virus.
But quite recently more and more viruses are coming out for mac and linux too, sadly
Really? Could you send me link for download? I' gladly help with betatest
I've seen some viruses for Linux. Looked basically as:
!#/bin/sh
rm -rf ~
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Good work.
If I may suggest, use png instead jpg for this type of pictures. Higher quality and smaller size is assured
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But video records of people looting in supermarkets and elsewhere confirm it.
Keep in mind that it was just local disaster. US government could deal with it.
But what if whole world was hit? And it doesn't necessarily must be hurricane.
What about Black death and its followers like H5N1, or poor harvest leading to famine?
Yes, every state keeps reserves, but still.
Would really be men able to deal with it? Wouldn't society collapse?
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I think, that quite common answer is google?
Well, that is how I got there.
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Without knowledge of low level programmers write terrible pieces of code. They simply don't know how things work and this ends in errors which are hard to understand and fix.
It is fairly easy to write a code. But writing code without memory leaks and security problems relies heavily on knowledge of how PC really works.
I don't like C# much, as it is bound to MS which I don't really like as it poses severe threat to global IT market and personal secret.
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I have no doubt that, even should "Mother Nature" turn against us, most of us in developed countries should weather on without much problem.
Disaster in New Orleans proved you wrong. In two days whole society collapsed. Only few would survive such disaster in global size.
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Economical growth doesn't necessarily mean decline of ecosystem.
I believe, that there is possibility of economical growth and improvement of ecosystem.
Compare pot communist states. Lower level of economical development and quality of ecosystem than in western Europe.
I'm from Czech Republic, so I know what I'm talking about. Together with economical growth also our nature slowly recovers from impact done by communist government.
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Woooooooow
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Hi.
When reading about ethnic Germans on Wiki (great site when you have loooooot of time) I have found an image which quite surprised me.
http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/comm...s-by-County.jpg
I didn't know that there is so much Germans in USA. I knew, that there were many, but it really surprised me.
Percentage of black people or Mexicans isn't surprising for me, but Area inhabited by people of German origin certainly is.
I'm also surprised by small region inhabited by people of English ancestry. Perhaps people declaring their origin as Americans can be counted as English mainly (as the only real Americans are IMHO Indians).
What do you think about it? I've never been to America and don't know how things are going there much and any comment will be therefore appreciated.
Thank you.
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Yes. It does. Bu why do they have black helmets?
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Caesar, 0AD may start with 6 factions, but WFG declared its great modability and lack of hardcoded limits.
Therefore civ cap is last thing I expect in 0AD.
About politicians. I'm not against it at all. However let's think about one thing. FHG (and other such games) are based on possibility to change history. If you were, for example, fan of Byzantines (well, I am, but that doesn't matter for now
) wouldn't you do the best to win at Mantzinkert? I would. But this would break politician system, as (not only) Komneni would, possibly, not rule.Insisting on historically accurate political line would for byzantine player mean, that he would be conquered in 1453.
But this is problematic thing. Because vistory in Mantzinkert could also mean different course of development of Byzantine military and society.
And about availability of units? Personally I don't like periods much. Each civ had significant changes in different time. And you can't cover them all well. Also shortening one period means extending another one.
Therefore I'd prefer to make units availabe according date.
Simply, unit will be available for example between years 1071 - 1220.
This is infulenced by my hope, that WFG will implement Total War style to 0AD Part2 (at least). Therefore I speak about years more that it is appropriate for normal RTS (like AoK).
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Very nice article.
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Six factions? But we discussed far more factions and didn't cover all by far.
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I agree with you.
In my plans was something about 1000-1500.
But Abadu, who was active pretty much in research and did great research convinced me t extend date to 500 AD.
He is Brazilian and therefore his focus on Portuguese (Suevi) in that Dark Age era.
My idea was to not use time divided to periods but to use unit appearance according date instead.
I want to avoid what happened to Empire Earth, though. Do you find unit rosters inaccurate?
Actually, units didn't change so much in middle ages. There was significant shift from infantry to cavalry and back, but that was due to decreased quality of training and equipment in dark ages when cavalry started to dominate because there wasn't infantry trained properly enough to face it. If we throw away some specific differences, whole Western Europe used same model of warfare and +- same units.
XIX Century Mod Idea
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Napoleonic wars were in 18th century, weren't they.
Any mod is cool. However it is hard to maintain interest, focus and motivation.
Although discussion about "For Honour and Glory" mod was fruitful, it died on lack of interest of community.
XIX mod (although interesting one) will face same threat and may meet same end.