Stan` Posted April 1, 2022 Report Share Posted April 1, 2022 Dear community, as you know, Alpha 26 is nigh. We've all seen the topic for determining its name and the speculations on what happens after this release. Today we want to announce to you that a decision has been made regarding the future of 0 A.D. Due to the lack of letters in the alphabet following this release, we've decided that Alpha 26 will be the last release of 0 A.D. We thank you for your support and wish you all the best! Kind regards, Wildfire Games 3 2 10 1 4 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Stan` Posted April 1, 2022 Author Report Share Posted April 1, 2022 Happy April's fool day! 1 2 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Lorenz11 Posted April 1, 2022 Report Share Posted April 1, 2022 will 0ad be an finish developed gmae after this alpha? and maybe be on steam? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Player of 0AD Posted April 1, 2022 Report Share Posted April 1, 2022 19 minutes ago, Stan` said: we've decided that Alpha 26 will be the last release of 0 A.D. At last! Very happy about this ; ) Too bad that today is first april xD 1 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
smiley Posted April 1, 2022 Report Share Posted April 1, 2022 33 minutes ago, Player of 0AD said: Too bad that today is first april xD You joke, but I see no more letters. It was always a countdown to get to beta and restart back at A. 2 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Yekaterina Posted April 1, 2022 Report Share Posted April 1, 2022 (edited) 1 hour ago, Stan` said: Alpha 26 will be the last release of 0 A.D. That is very sad to hear, as there is still much potential in the development of this game and many features to be improved on. New features perhaps could be implemented in the form of mods on top of vanilla 0AD, such as Delenda Est and Hyrule Conquest. Then 0AD can become a game like Minecraft. Edited April 1, 2022 by Yekaterina Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Yekaterina Posted April 1, 2022 Report Share Posted April 1, 2022 1 hour ago, Stan` said: Due to the lack of letters in the alphabet This excuse is inadquate, becuase ISO basic Latin alphabet is not the only alphabet in the world; there is no reason to discriminate against other alphabet systems and ignore them. Even the extended Latin alphabet has not been used! Consider adding accents to letters, é ú ó á Ö, Ü, then there is Turkish ç, Ğ, Ş and many to choose from in Vietnamese. Please consider using those, then move onto Greek and Cyrillic, after which you have Persian, Arabic, Hebrew, Korean, Japanese ... Almost every language in the world except Chinese has some form of alphabet system. After you exhaust all of these, you can switch to Chinese characters, which opens up a limitless number of alphas and possible names. 2 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Old Roman Posted April 1, 2022 Report Share Posted April 1, 2022 This is why I hate this particular day more than any other 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Yekaterina Posted April 1, 2022 Report Share Posted April 1, 2022 2 hours ago, m7600 said: some people that responded to this thread still don't get it. I still don't understand. I would not expect the Project Leader Stan to joke about discontinuing alphas, and I do not understand what is special about 1st of April, especially when today is a Friday and not a Tuesday (Tuesday Boy maths paradox). 1 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Gurken Khan Posted April 1, 2022 Report Share Posted April 1, 2022 @Sevda Quote April Fools' Day or April Fool's Day is an annual custom on 1 April consisting of practical jokes and hoaxes. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/April_Fools'_Day It's considered even funnier when 'authorities' like project leaders or serious media do it. TIL the first April Fools on TV was by the BBC: 1 1 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
sarcoma Posted April 1, 2022 Report Share Posted April 1, 2022 Though, to be fair, some people that responded to this thread still don't get it. This is not a thing in many countries. It's equally shocking that you expect the whole world to understand this. 2 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Yekaterina Posted April 1, 2022 Report Share Posted April 1, 2022 Thank you @Gurken Khan, now I understand that Stan is pranking me, although I was unaware of the April Fools tradition beforehands. The Spagetti harvesting video was utterly confusing without this prior knowledge. On a serious note: what will happen after A27? Will the game always remain in alpha or will we switch to betas? 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
PrincipalityOfZeon Posted April 1, 2022 Report Share Posted April 1, 2022 re: directy above, 0ad rollsover to 1ad and a27 becomse b0 1 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
nani Posted April 1, 2022 Report Share Posted April 1, 2022 (edited) We should make a ticket for this letter overflow bug Edited April 1, 2022 by nani 1 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Trinketos Posted April 1, 2022 Report Share Posted April 1, 2022 6 hours ago, m7600 said: Shhh! Don't spoil the fun! Though, to be fair, some people that responded to this thread still don't get it. That's because in some countries it's in December 28, like mine xd 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Gurken Khan Posted April 1, 2022 Report Share Posted April 1, 2022 6 minutes ago, m7600 said: It's not a thing in my country. I'm not from the USA. It's even more shocking that you assume that people from other countries don't know what April Fools is. Don't know what the US got to do with anything. Doesn't have an entry for April 1st traditions and @Stan`s from France, if I'm not mistaken. 6 minutes ago, m7600 said: A lot of you people seem to be unfamiliar with, for example, Blizzard Entertainment's (a company which became famous for its RTS games) tradition of Aprils Fools posts. Shame on you. Yeah, shame on everyone not following some rando corp's posts. 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
real_tabasco_sauce Posted April 1, 2022 Report Share Posted April 1, 2022 (edited) yes @Sevda there are many videos that go live on April one that are hilarious. Here is one: Also, in 2020, FINA (the international swimming federation) announced changes to the rules of breaststroke on April 1, which was shocking to many swimmers XD. https://swimswam.com/fina-votes-for-dramatic-post-olympic-changes-to-breaststroke-underwaters/ Edited April 1, 2022 by real_tabasco_sauce Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Gurken Khan Posted April 1, 2022 Report Share Posted April 1, 2022 13 minutes ago, m7600 said: has it occurred to you that, perhaps, since 0AD is an RTS game, maybe, just maybe, Stan's post was a wink to that? Actually, no. I perceived it more in a tradition known to me, which is ~European. So it wasn't hard to get for me, but obviously a lot, if not even the majority of ppl are not accustomed to this tradition. Even knowing that some gaming co.s made April 1st posts, Blizzard's still some rando corp for me. 17 minutes ago, m7600 said: It was a joke. You obviously didn't get it. Right. Didn't get the clues. If there were any. For all I knew it could've been some eurocentric duckhead posting. 19 minutes ago, m7600 said: You must be really fun at parties. Thx, yeah. I'm quite entertaining in personal contact. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
badosu Posted April 1, 2022 Report Share Posted April 1, 2022 lmao the drama It was a good joke tho xD 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Gurken Khan Posted April 1, 2022 Report Share Posted April 1, 2022 28 minutes ago, m7600 said: I'm not from Europe. Maybe you should assume less about random strangers on the Internet? Just a suggestion. From what I remember from the forums my guess actually wouldn't have placed you in Europe. 29 minutes ago, m7600 said: I'm sure you are, your personal contact must be just as entertaining as catching crab lice or a venereal disease. Spoiler Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Gurken Khan Posted April 1, 2022 Report Share Posted April 1, 2022 39 minutes ago, m7600 said: So how could I possibly be a eurocentric duckhead (your words) if I'm not from Europe? Heritage, self-perceived (warped) identity... Like for example I read about a country south of Mexico* where the ladies try to be as pale as possible and only speak English, hoping to be 'mistaken' as US-Americans... Anyway, I think it's one of the beautiful things about this forum that ppl from all around the world and of all kinds of walks of live get to communicate and broaden their perspective of the world... * Spoiler Among my many weak fields of knowledge, geography very much is one. I could get together the 16 states of my home country, with their respective capitals I'd already be struggling. And yeah, sorry, I can't get this middle, south and Latin America thing straight, let alone the respective countries... 1 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Gurken Khan Posted April 2, 2022 Report Share Posted April 2, 2022 21 minutes ago, m7600 said: I'm from Sigil. I bet you don't know where Sigil is. Beirut/NYC? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Trinketos Posted April 2, 2022 Report Share Posted April 2, 2022 Porque siempre que comento algún chiste en algún lado termina creando una discusión Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Lion.Kanzen Posted April 10, 2022 Report Share Posted April 10, 2022 On 01/04/2022 at 5:41 AM, Stan` said: Happy April's fool day! Is a traditional at this point. On 01/04/2022 at 9:59 PM, Trinketos said: Porque siempre que comento algún chiste en algún lado termina creando una discusión Que paso? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
leopard Posted April 11, 2022 Report Share Posted April 11, 2022 On 01/04/2022 at 5:10 PM, Stan` said: Due to the lack of letters in the alphabet following this release This part was not convincing. 1 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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