Vaevictis_Music Posted April 1, 2005 Report Share Posted April 1, 2005 [img center]http://www.borishansen.dk/sauron7.jpg[/img center]As of today, it's offical. 0 A.D. has merged with its sister project, The Last Alliance. While the reasoning behind this is very complex, 0 A.D. Project Leader Jason Bishop summed it up nicely: "It just felt right."The two large teams will now form one huge team dedicated to making one single game, which mixes the historical realism of 0 A.D. with the Tolkien-esque fantasy of The Last Alliance.What will this mean for the game? First of all, it will allow you to play out extremely cool hypothetical scenarios, such as "how would the Hobbits have fared against the Roman empire", or "what if Hannibal had had access to oliphaunts instead of elephants?"Secondly, with one huge team working on the game's assets, production will speed up, but of course, a lot of the existing work needs to be redone, too. We've optimistically pushed the public beta back to early 2008.The name of this new game is still under discussion, but among the best name suggestions so far are:- "Mordor A.D."- "Rise of War: Total Sauron"- "Romans and Ringwraiths"- or simply "0 A.D.", but with a ring-shaped 0.Look for a poll where you can help decide the title, and check back soon for more news and screenshots.Also, a few more details can be found on the TLA Website. 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Centurion_13 Posted April 1, 2005 Report Share Posted April 1, 2005 we all feel this is for the good of the community and hope to see support from the community.Although I personaly do not agree with with it I will go along for a while and I wish I had more prior knowledge of itEDIT: I changed my mind, hate this idea Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
TrashA Posted April 1, 2005 Report Share Posted April 1, 2005 i dont really like it eather. i love history games, but fantasy rts i can buy in any store and play. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
b.w.keough Posted April 1, 2005 Report Share Posted April 1, 2005 ooh ooh! I get to draw bigger and uglier oliphants now!nice one guys. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Gunthahaha Posted April 1, 2005 Report Share Posted April 1, 2005 2008?! It is right????I think the original title is already good Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Argalius Posted April 1, 2005 Report Share Posted April 1, 2005 Could anybody look up the date for me? My watch is broken. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Centurion_13 Posted April 1, 2005 Report Share Posted April 1, 2005 Saturday april 2nd Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Argalius Posted April 1, 2005 Report Share Posted April 1, 2005 I have to disagree on that one, I fixed my watch and it says April 1st... hmm ... wait a minute! April 1st?! Oh yeah it's the 2nd in Autstralia Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Centurion_13 Posted April 1, 2005 Report Share Posted April 1, 2005 3:38am... I really need to go to bed soon Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Elpea Posted April 1, 2005 Report Share Posted April 1, 2005 Cheezy likes pie! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Vingauld Posted April 1, 2005 Report Share Posted April 1, 2005 I totaly disagree with this merging, but hey, i`m just a community member i wont have no influence. I don`t really like the lord of the rings genre anymore, it has been overused, i got fed up with it. Anyway I really liked the whole setting and civs from 0ad so that`s why i am active in the 0ad community and not the other one. I was really looking forward to the release of 0ad no matter how long it would take, i am fed op with playing AOM al the time i just hate those mythic beasts, but now there will be surreal thingies in 0ad to, IT SUCKSOK THIS WAS NOT FUNNYwell maybe just a littleMod Note: I took the liberty of combining all your three posts. In the futrue refrain from double posting, let alone triple posting. Just use the Edit button ~ Randy Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
av_nefardec Posted April 1, 2005 Report Share Posted April 1, 2005 i love history games, but fantasy rts i can buy in any store and play.Yeah, they don't develop historical games, it's a shame... the 0ad community and not the other one.Here at WFG, we call "the other one" "The Last Alliance". But now there is no other one, so what does it matter?! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Quacker Posted April 2, 2005 Report Share Posted April 2, 2005 Y'know, whatever draws the team closer. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Vingauld Posted April 2, 2005 Report Share Posted April 2, 2005 I can`t find the edit buton!?!?!?!? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Argalius Posted April 2, 2005 Report Share Posted April 2, 2005 There isn't one here, you could go to the 'secret' fora by a backdoor though Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Gunthahaha Posted April 2, 2005 Report Share Posted April 2, 2005 I disagree too.. At the beginning, 0ad was an historical and realistic project, and I don't want it to change. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
DarkAngelBGE Posted April 2, 2005 Report Share Posted April 2, 2005 Those people who haven't known us for long..have a look at your watches. What day was yesterday? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Centurion_13 Posted April 2, 2005 Report Share Posted April 2, 2005 april the 2nd (well for me anyway) Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
RiderOfEternity Posted April 2, 2005 Report Share Posted April 2, 2005 lol I can't believe you all believed that Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
DarkAngelBGE Posted April 2, 2005 Report Share Posted April 2, 2005 As of today, it's offical. 0 A.D. has merged with its sister project, The Last Alliance. While the reasoning behind this is very complex, 0 A.D. Project Leader Jason Bishop summed it up nicely: "It just felt right."I think we would never make such a MAJOR decision upon "feeling right" for it. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Wijitmaker Posted April 2, 2005 Report Share Posted April 2, 2005 Just wanted to make this clear. It was indeed an April Fools joke. TLA and 0 A.D. will not be merging.You can all breathe a big sigh of relief. Everybody now!*sigh*There, now we all feel better. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Sukkit Posted April 3, 2005 Report Share Posted April 3, 2005 I think we would never make such a MAJOR decision upon "feeling right" for it. We had some problems to make up believable reasons for the merge Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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