Aeros

*raises hand* I think having a "Clan Ranking" system would be cool as well. Along with normal user-rankings, we could have a page that averages the rank of all the members in a clan to make a "clan rank". You'll have to register your name as part of a clan.

Ah I just remembered! Theres another thing call Uharc - which is a really extreme compressor, I'll have to test that with your 7-Zip thing sometime down the road Also, we could increase security by making the Decompressor (for Uharc, you don't need the program to decompress) be seperate from the download, and only give the decompressor to people we want to play the alpha/beta/game.

The default will probably have elevation, but you can quickly make a flat map in about 2 seconds by clicking New, and selecting Blank from the list.

I could do without a computer But I can't live without music.

Yes!, that's exactly my bag of chips. But Akya is right, theres beautiful girls in any country you look in.

to add to the list of protection methods We should have some sort of CD Key with the game, which we'll give out to only people who we want to test the game. I'm not sure if we'll cary through with this to the final game, but it is a good idea since we'll need a way to identify the users of the game, and thus ban people's CD Keys online because they are idiots and cheat or do stuff like that. Also it'll give us a number of how many people are playing the game

Ah, I haven't actually shown any Editor Technical concepts to the public yet, I just remembered. Meh, you guys want some new material from us, right? Here's a taste of what you can expect. I can't emphasize enough that things are so massivly subject to change that you shouldn't trust what you see in that concept at all - it's just an idea of "what we're aiming for". Oh, and this was made 6 months ago for those of you wondering. This is one of the 30 (and counting) concepts that are part of the Scenario Editor Document - which is 17,000 words long (900 paragraphs - 51 pages at size 9 font in Word), which is part of the Technical Design Document, which is something like 250,000 words Yeah, there's alot of written work here.

We've barely had any plans concerning our multiplayer service since we want to concentrate more on having a game first You can't have a multiplayer service without a game. But, do you have anything in particular in mind that you're looking for? (By the way, let all the other Deacons know I have something in store for them concerning this game )

yeah, Bittorent would be a huge source for downloads on public release, especially for modemers, that way they won't clog the main servers or mirrors. The alpha most likely can be distributed to our VIPs (alpha testers) with no problem, the beta which'll have alot more people will need mirrors and some help from bittorent. For those of you who don't know, bittorent is a program that uses users (people downloading the same file) as the download source for other users - it's like making a mini p2p network just for the file being downloaded, so while you download it you'll be uploading it to other people. Someone said using your old computer for bandwith - yeah that's what bittorent does, just that it's you computer and another 150 who're also downloading the same file at the same time as you, and thus uploading to you.

Nah, the 0AD will most likely be like the "0AD Editor" It's a class of it's own, I don't think it should be compared to another game's editor. However, if you're familiar with AoK or AoM's editor, or Empire Earth's editor, then you'll be fine.

Oh don't get me started about that National Geographic

alright alright, I confess, Inuit babes are the hottest.

Ireland. Period.

Great, Zeusthor Lol, people on the team, or friends of people on the team'll probably be able to hook us up with some bandwith (about time we start using that trout I say)

Alphas and Betas will largely be distributed through bittorent. With luck we might be able to get a mirror server for downloads as well.

Well, we won't be using our server, that's for sure we'll need all our bandwith just for distributing the game to our own team. We might buy a temporary mirror, but most likely the majority of downloads will be at places like filefront, fileplanet, etc. Oh, and bittorrent will be another big one too.

I must've been reading something else then, Zeusthor

Well, we didn't think of it either until someone suggested it in a meeting we ran some tests and it's 6 times faster than Lua or Python, and we definatly want a faster script language since ultimatly it'll result in faster loading times and more units on the map. Demos? Not sure what you mean by that, but later on we'll probably have some stuff on the site that talks about modding and gives examples on how to do things.

No, it just so happens that it's used mostly for online stuff (make sure you're not confusing javascript with java, they're completely different things), though it's perfectly suitable for other things. We chose javascript because we believe that more people will be familiar with it, and most importantly it's a much more effecient and quicker (to process) language than Lua or Python, which were our other choices.

in 0AD, yes If you're familiar with Javascript, scripting AI won't be a problem for you.

They don't? Awesome, now I don't have to post spam to raise my post count so that people think I'm cool

Half of everyone one suburban california has a pool. Like me, though it's 30 years old, like the house. Anyway, I'm going to King Tut's house on the 4rth of july.

If your sister's cat and my cat were to do battle, my cat would defeat your sister's cat.

For the first time, I 100% agree with you, Int

What do yu0 think of that, Eh? When my cat is sleeping like a lump, it gets into all these crazy positions. Sometimes it's imposible to tell which leg is comming from where. Like in the picture. The foot comming out of the ear is actually going around it's head, and the one under it, it has it's left hind foot that's under the foot that's comming out of the ear It's like that puzzle with the stair cases that you can't tell if they're going up or down.