Turning off the banner at the start of each turn?

[Venereus]

OK, guys. I uploaded the mod to the mod hub that removes it. It's called Banner Removement Mod

Cheers.

Thanks, can I kiss you now?

 

[DaveGold]

Perhaps they have the banner because the next turn button doesn't move you to the next turn. It completes the moves from this turn instead and can prompt you for more orders. This could make the message useful, since otherwise you don't know which turn you're on after you've hit next turn.

 

[Adam7Eight]

Thanks, can I kiss you now?

Only if it's wet and sloppy.

 

[Tylerryan79]

Just remeber if your into achievements you can't get any when using a mod, besides the one for using a mod.

 

[dorn]

Perhaps they have the banner because the next turn button doesn't move you to the next turn. It completes the moves from this turn instead and can prompt you for more orders. This could make the message useful, since otherwise you don't know which turn you're on after you've hit next turn.

I bet that's why it doesn't show up for some people every turn too.

 

[Abegweit]

Because it's cultural and offends no one.

Should we also stop using the word 'Saturday' because it comes from Sabbath?

No.

I see no need to rename a naming convention that works perfectly fine. So what if the majority of people in the world aren't Christian? I'm not I don't see anything wrong with it, and I don't understand why anyone else does. It's part of a cultural heritage and changing a few letters around is destructive of the collective memory of the past and achieves nothing.

Now if you want to propose a new dating system which uses a different '0' and is somehow better/easier to use/more intuitive, then I'll listen to you.

Saturday comes from Saturn. All the days of the week come from pagan Gods.

Sun's Day
Moon's Day
Mars' Day
Woden's Day
Thor's Day
Venus' Day
Saturn's Day

(Tuesday and Friday come from Old English variations of the respective names)

I think we should clearly change the names so as not to antagonize everyone on the planet who is not a pagan.

 

[Charybdis]

I DEMAND A CHANGE TO USING THE ERISIAN CALENDAR

RAH RAH RAH LONG LIVE DISCORDIA

 

[PieceOfMind]

If there was no 0 AD, then what was the year before 1AD? Was it 0 BC or 1 BC?

If it's 1 BC, then for no reason other than obsessing over ordinal numbers you make the arithmetic of finding the difference between dates more difficult than it needs to be. The difference in years between 5 AD and 5 BC would be 9 years.

Sorry for the off-topic rant.

 

[MadRat]

Stardate 51640.1 - Rome founded.



Rat

 

[Zechnophobe]

After a while I didn't see the banner.

But 0 AD irritates me for a different reason. It shows the developers are still in the stone age with regard year numbering. BC and AD are specific to the culture of a single religion, a religion that is not followed by more than half the world. So why did they not make the change to the internationally accepted BCE and CE (Before Common Era and Common Era)?

In a game that emphasizes, among other things, social policies and culture, I'd say that was a serious cultural faux pas. Minus several thousand culture points for BC/AD, and minus a few beakers for the zero.

I disagree quite a lot. BCE and CE are pretty reprehensibly stricken with the vile disease of political correctness. The time frames that "BC" and "AD" stand for stay the same right? We just rebrand them not to offend anyone? I think that's just wrong.

Especially given that the two moniker's are devoid of any meeting. Before the Common Era could refer to any period in time before now. And 'the common era' has no real meaning either. It'd be like labelling things N for "Now" and B for "Before".

That given, I wouldn't mind changing to different real calenders. Heck, a toggle for that would be sorta spiffy. I just really dislike BCE and CE.

 

[jagdtigerciv]

After a while I didn't see the banner.

But 0 AD irritates me for a different reason. It shows the developers are still in the stone age with regard year numbering. BC and AD are specific to the culture of a single religion, a religion that is not followed by more than half the world. So why did they not make the change to the internationally accepted BCE and CE (Before Common Era and Common Era)?

In a game that emphasizes, among other things, social policies and culture, I'd say that was a serious cultural faux pas. Minus several thousand culture points for BC/AD, and minus a few beakers for the zero.

Hah, really ... here? I hate this argument. It's always annoyed me. BC/AD is fine. It's not religious, not anymore and hasn't been for a while. BCE and CE is just as religious as BC/AD because, minus a few misplaced politically correct words thrown in, they're both identical.

 

[TLF]

Once you get used to the banner they will start selling it as add space to the highest bidder. Ha!

 

[TLF]

Originally Posted by stormerne View Post
After a while I didn't see the banner.

But 0 AD irritates me for a different reason. It shows the developers are still in the stone age with regard year numbering. BC and AD are specific to the culture of a single religion, a religion that is not followed by more than half the world. So why did they not make the change to the internationally accepted BCE and CE (Before Common Era and Common Era)?

In a game that emphasizes, among other things, social policies and culture, I'd say that was a serious cultural faux pas. Minus several thousand culture points for BC/AD, and minus a few beakers for the zero.

Hah, really ... here? I hate this argument. It's always annoyed me. BC/AD is fine. It's not religious, not anymore and hasn't been for a while. BCE and CE is just as religious as BC/AD because, minus a few misplaced politically correct words thrown in, they're both identical.

The question would then become, which dating system to use?

There is no agreed upon standard. Each civilization has their own.
The Jewish Calendar is different from the Chinese Calender, etc.

All dating is arbitrary.

The real problem is just that so many western liberals hate their culture to the point that they are constantly at war with it.

The game was designed by Westerners. It uses Western conventions.

If the Chinese or Arabs design a game they will no doubt use their local conventions.

What's the big deal?

Do us a favor and stop trying to politicize everything.

 

[dannythefool]

If there was no 0 AD, then what was the year before 1AD? Was it 0 BC or 1 BC?

1 BC.

Read more about it at http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/0_(year)

 

[King of Spades]

I'm gonna go out on a lim here, but I actually like the banner....

 

[Venereus]

Could anyone confirm if it's in fact the autosave saying hello?

 

[shadowplay]

Could anyone confirm if it's in fact the autosave saying hello?

Just did a litle test - I have my auto-save set to every 2 turns, and the banner just came up on two consecutive turns, so I think I can rule-out it being tied to the auto-save.

 

[Venereus]

Just did a litle test - I have my auto-save set to every 2 turns, and the banner just came up on two consecutive turns, so I think I can rule-out it being tied to the auto-save.

Ok, thanks. It's just a gratuitous annoyance then.

 

[Adam7Eight]

Could anyone confirm if it's in fact the autosave saying hello?

It has nothing to do with autosave.

 

[keweedsmo]

I rarely notice it...