Twitter discussion

**bobbin** · 10-01-2009, 13:17

He's trying to make new fonts by the looks of it, "the quick brown fox jumps over the lazy dog" is there because that sentence has all the letters of the alphabet in it.

**-Almogaver-** · 10-01-2009, 16:12

interesting...

**Phalanx300** · 10-01-2009, 17:05

Finished the model of an sweboz spearman unit. -Tux

Seems like there's a lot of focus on the Germanic and Dacian units lately.

**Mister V** · 10-01-2009, 18:15

Originally Posted by bobbin

He's trying to make new fonts by the looks of it, "the quick brown fox jumps over the lazy dog" is there because that sentence has all the letters of the alphabet in it.

No way, the quick brown fox must be a new unit. After release I'm sure we'll see whining threads about how "the QBRs are way overpowered!!1" and then someone will bring up evidence to support their claim that lazy dogs are, in fact, not as lazy as they seem.

Seriously, though, even though I don't use Twitter, this thread reassures me that there is constant progress. I'm prepared to wait as long as necessary, but it's always good to see the progress bar going forward, even if it's by 1 pixel.

**-Praetor-** · 10-01-2009, 19:31

Perhaps we are a bit guilty of not revealing enough visal material to you guys. The work is going on inside the internal forums, and each day, many different areas of the mod progress a bit further towards completion. One day a new unit gets skinned and incorporated into the build, various strategy map settlements get done, and some textwork or the history for one of the new factions gets written. All that in one single day. In the next one, some animations get worked out, a CTD gets fixed and an artist makes a model for a battlemap unit. And that is only a fraction of what's done each day.

But most of the work doesn't get previewed, because it isn't very exciting for gamers to discuss archaeological finds in Tylis, or the development of language and phonetics around the Elbe region, isn't it?

So, please don't think that because we don't say anyrthing the work isn't getting done. Perhaps we're too busy working on the mod that we don't have time to give you a preview!

Just stay tunned. Some day, your patience will be rewarded with a preview or something more.

**Phalanx300** · 10-01-2009, 19:43

But on Proto-Germanic, I've read that it has been reconstructed using modern Germanic Languages and going back. Do you guys get you information about it somewhere or do you reconstruct the language yourselfs?

**-Praetor-** · 10-01-2009, 20:13

Originally Posted by Phalanx300

But on Proto-Germanic, I've read that it has been reconstructed using modern Germanic Languages and going back. Do you guys get you information about it somewhere or do you reconstruct the language yourselfs?

I will let knowledgeable team members answer about this.

Says who? That would be most interesting to read... Not to perhaps everyone, of course, but to some, myself included. Every now and then I waste hours clicking related articles links on Wikipedia's linguistic articles.

Let me rephrase:

Originally Posted by -Praetor-

(...)because it isn't very exciting for most gamers (...)

Seriously, most of that kind of stuff is debated internally. We would better like to show you accorded postures, not debate that is essentially subject to modification by the adoption of a new posture, or the revealment of new information on the matter.

**DaciaJC** · 10-01-2009, 22:08

Finished the eastern camps for the strat map. -Tux about 2 hours ago from web

**-Praetor-** · 10-05-2009, 14:26

You should really keep a close eye on Twitter. It's the best window you have towards the work of the EB team.

**The General** · 10-01-2009, 20:04

Originally Posted by -Praetor-

Perhaps we are a bit guilty of not revealing enough visal material to you guys. The work is going on inside the internal forums, and each day, many different areas of the mod progress a bit further towards completion. One day a new unit gets skinned and incorporated into the build, various strategy map settlements get done, and some textwork or the history for one of the new factions gets written. All that in one single day. In the next one, some animations get worked out, a CTD gets fixed and an artist makes a model for a battlemap unit. And that is only a fraction of what's done each day.

*Eyes widen open*

So... much... done... awesome!

Originally Posted by -Praetor-

But most of the work doesn't get previewed, because it isn't very exciting for gamers to discuss archaeological finds in Tylis, or the development of language and phonetics around the Elbe region, isn't it?

Says who? That would be most interesting to read... Not to perhaps everyone, of course, but to some, myself included. Every now and then I waste hours clicking related articles links on Wikipedia's linguistic articles.