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    I don't know how many people I speak for when I ask this but...who really gives a damn if a bald eagle or a kookoobura is singing on the maps? And I thought I cared about details too much....
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    Default Re: Here's an exceedingly random question!

    Quote Originally Posted by Anastasios Garamantos
    I don't know how many people I speak for when I ask this but...who really gives a damn if a bald eagle or a kookoobura is singing on the maps? And I thought I cared about details too much....
    I don't know how many people I speak for when I ask this but ... who really gives a damn if its unhistorical for a) barbarians to throw heads b) women to screech on the battlefield c) dogs to appear as units d) flaming pigs to appear as units e) the egyptian faction to appear as 3000 BC Egyptians d) any of the above? And I thought I cared about details too much....

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    Well, Foot for one. And frankly, it fits perfectly within a mod such as EB; despite the fact that the bird songs will never have their own proper accents and stuff.

    Anyhow: you A.G. (please forgive me for abreviating your name) apparently never noticed this; hence you couldn't care. Thread creator on the other hand has this type of thing for a hobby, so he does. Given the fact that many copies of many lookup guides such as "What bird did that?" are sold; I imagine there must be a niche for mods that try to get at least their bird species right...
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    Honesty, I was never even aware that there were singing birds on the map. I remember the vultures from MTW...but that's really it.
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    Quote Originally Posted by Anastasios Garamantos
    Honesty, I was never even aware that there were singing birds on the map. I remember the vultures from MTW...but that's really it.
    there are bird songs and i applause to the effort!

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    I never realize before that they're bird sound before in game, had to turn the music volume way down just to hear it over the wind noise. But by experimenting around it does sound like a wren call is on when ever your over land in the startegy map. and I think wrens are only found in the Americas.
    So I would ask if you're going to go ahead and replace the file are there really any good canidates of birds common to all of europe, N Africa, Near East, Middle East, and central asia? Since this sound will be heard every where on the strategy map.


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    I didn't realize they were everywhere on the map....I thought they were only over delta regions and along especially fertile rivers, but maybe that's more of swamp or marsh sounds i.e. birds and crickets, or locusts, or whatever that thing is.
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    Well I can definitly hear them in the following places I randomly clicked; Saka starting region, Himulaya Kush, Indus Delta, Persia, Crimea, Greece, South Arabia, Germania, Nile Delta. So while I don't know it's everywhere I assumed from my selection and no negative results that you can hear them ever where. Note is some places the wind (I noticed this in bactria) will nearly cover the sound of the calls so it might be easier to hear the sound in swampy terrain.


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    Well Mithradates..., if you could give the EB team the audio files or the location of such audio files, I think that would be great.

    I am no bird expert, but I think it would be a very good addition.

    Take note, most likely this will not be done with urgency.

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    I think this is a great idea personally.
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    Quote Originally Posted by NeoSpartan
    Well Mithradates..., if you could give the EB team the audio files or the location of such audio files, I think that would be great.

    I am no bird expert, but I think it would be a very good addition.

    Take note, most likely this will not be done with urgency.
    I shall begin the work then! I know it's not urgent, but perhaps I can test methods in game to make it work properly in the interem, thus saving you a LOT of time.

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    Quote Originally Posted by Sir Edward
    But by experimenting around it does sound like a wren call is on when ever your over land in the startegy map. and I think wrens are only found in the Americas.
    Because I know there are wrens in Europe, I looked this one up. Wrens are a north American family of birds, of which there is only 1 old world species- in America it's called the winter wren, but not surprisingly just the wren in Britain.

    I should probably go to bed.

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    Quote Originally Posted by Sir Edward
    I never realize before that they're bird sound before in game, had to turn the music volume way down just to hear it over the wind noise. But by experimenting around it does sound like a wren call is on when ever your over land in the startegy map. and I think wrens are only found in the Americas.
    So I would ask if you're going to go ahead and replace the file are there really any good canidates of birds common to all of europe, N Africa, Near East, Middle East, and central asia? Since this sound will be heard every where on the strategy map.
    Off the top of my head:

    Horned Lark (steppes, mostly)
    Peregrine Falcon
    Common Raven
    Bluethroat
    European Robin


    I'm not that familiar with birds of Eurasia, but it shouldn't be too hard to research. I actually have a field guide to birds of Europe floating around somewhere...and it shouldn't be hard to find one for the middle east or North africa.

    NB: I've seen the bird songs in the files...somewhere. Should be a simple matter of replacing them with accurate species. Hardest part would be finding the recordings and choosing species, really.

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    Simple, all you have to do is issue a call for bird volunteers around the DC area available for recording auditions! Just like the Greek voicemod, easy-peasy!

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    You're all barking mad

    Now watch this.

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