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Coming 1. May 2019.

Lukasz pls make some people moderators. You can't be here all the time, and we need people to keep the spam bots out when you're not here

Apple is very strict and it takes time to release it

Siemka, przedstawiam wam scenariusz z 1600 roku. Pracowałem nad nim ok.4 miesiące z przerwami,a jak miałem skończyć,to musiałem coś poprawiać.Mam nadzieję, że nie ma żadnych błędów w granicach.Czytałem nawet wikipedie po angielsku hehe ;D.Jeżeli są błędy w granicach państw,walnijcie screenshota i według granic prowincji w grze narysujcie poprawne kontury. Hi, this is scenario from 1600. I worked on it for four months with breaks. I hope you'll like it :) Elo,stworzyłem już update,który dodaje przywódców do scenariusza 😉 link do polskiej wersji scenariusza: http://www.mediafire.com/file/drm4xbrkak4tzab/1600+(polski).zip Dodałem również parę nowych państw,oraz usunąłem niektóre państwa.Również niektóre państwa otrzymały upgrade: Prusowie >>>> Prusy Książęce Kartli-Kakheti>>>>>Kartlia i Kachetia itd. Miłego grania 😄 Hi, I've already created an update to the scenario, which contains small patches within the limits and adds leaders. Enjoy the game 😄 1600 (english).zip

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This scenario takes place in 304 BC. It is now in a finished phase but ill be adding updates as often as I can. The map goes from the Iberian Peninsula to China. Not all is historically accurate but I tried my best make sure it is. Also some areas like germania is purposely left unoccupied. Also i recommend this scenario is played in 50% speed Download Link: https://drive.google.com/drive/folders/1RxwAdU0FkwLIUs-_Hu9IgJof8ejfedkf?usp=sharing Updates: 4/20:More Civilizations in, Iberian Peninsula, Central Asia, and India. Map has been extended to China. Mauryan Empire has events now. 4/21: North Africa is remade making Carthage Weaker. More Civilizations in West Africa. Mauryan Empire events have been improved. The Qin event has been fixed. To do list(for now): Finish China(70%)-not done with events) Pyrrhic War(70%) Punic Wars(0%)

Time of Civilizations-Topic ToC is a great scenario that is being developed by JPM. In one single stage will be the whole History of Human Civilization. From the dawn of civilization through empires that rise and fall, to today and the tomorrow. Next Features Many Events, Historical ones, even diferent paths for some special nations. New Civilizations. A new system made by events, where you can change your nation every 100 Years if you want. A new system aganist Overexpansion but without limiting you to play. Progress Working in the Demo, based on Mesopotamia, where you will see Hordes and how Empires are created and fall. This means that we will have new Civilizations inside the Game. MESOPOTAMIA EDITION (Without Events) OUT In this Small Scenario, you can play in 1500BCE in the Middle East. From the Hittites to Egypt. There is a HRE, "Mesopotamia" where you can try to be the Emperor of the Entire Middle East. Also it has some minor Nations which could be very hard to play. But well, you decide with who you are going to play. 😁 ToC-Mesopotamia Edition without Events by JPM.zip

Deleting posts that talks about REAL you? uncool

So What Is 11:59? 11:59 is a total overhaul mod that focuses on historical accuracy as well as gameplay. Basically everything has been changed or altered, save for the core game mechanics or unmoddable pieces of the game. The feature list includes a brand new Decisions mechanic, (this will popup if your country has decisions scripted for it), a DEFCON mechanic (which is still work-in-progress), map changes, such as the 38th parallel in Korea (pictured below), West Berlin; canals, such as the Kiel Canal, the Panama Canal, and the Suez Canal. A brand new interface has been implemented. The soundtrack has been completely redone, and the list of tracks expanded to 52. There are now ~100 events, some of which are events that influence the AI's decisions (these events only popup for the AI, never the player) to ensure that it stays somewhat historical within the supported scenario: The Bear And The Eagle. Even more features such as custom province pictures for certain cities, the United Nations, and states and regions are also mentioned below. Furthermore, the soundtrack has been completely redone, with 53 new songs. The interface has also been completely redone, so has the states (regions in the base game). Nothing has been spared. (Download by viewing our ModDB profile). 11:59 also features a realistic world map: Colourized Event Images: A Completely Redone Interface: Detailed Demographic Maps: Detailed Administrative Divisions, complete with ~120 new provinces, and 1.309 new states: New Terrain Pictures are also planned: More features are evidently planned for the next release, 0.9b: The Sun Finally Set, with new decolonisation mechanics: The Future:

Plus Government List Christian: Empire, Kingdom, Duchy, County Islamic : Caliphate, Sultanate,Emirate Japan : shogunate, Daimyo Tibet : monastic Fedual Truks: Ottoman, Turks I will update that after 2 week. If you have ideas please tell me

(Note: I know there is no detail, but that's because i don't want to make spoilers, but mostly because i don't have a lot to show you just yet.) Age of Civilizations is a game that focuses on grand strategy, politics and other government driven elements. Łukasz Jakowski however, included something in the game that is rare in other grand strategy games. Customization. Customizing civilizations, leaders, maps, Whole scenarios, events in these scenarios, etc, etc... This, i think is a very good thing. The only bad thing about this, is that the game focuses more on the custom creative aspect than the realistic grand strategy one. This mod is going to be an overhaul for both these things. Unfortunately, a mod with the same goals named Addon+ is being created right now. My mod is still in a Debug alpha phase, and i can't release it in a state like this. This mod will include the following list of things: Scenarios: The Great War (World War I) With historical events, leaders and custom civilizations, starting in 1st of January, 1913. Overhauling the World War II Scenario in the following ways: Adding historical events with descisions avalible. Setting an other start time for the Scenario for better readiness. Giving More corresponding bonuses to leaders given by their personality. Scenario "Die Folge" (The effects) happening right after the first world war, (Yes, believe it or not, lots of stuff happened after the first world war) containing a variety of events. Scenario "A Modern Mona Lisa" Containing the events of mostly Hitler taking control over germany. If you want to play as a country, that is falling apart at the moment, this is for you. A Cold War Scenario is also being made, but i'm not promising anything for this one. Backgrounds: Including a large variety of backgrounds, from a realistic one with every little mountain on earth, to a low resolution one for computers that can't handle the mod that good. Government, ideologies: From the leftist Communism the the Extreme right Fascism there are an estimate of ~15 ideologies being made right now including governments that are only avalible on 1 country in real life, or none anymore such as Patriotism (Hungary) Democratic Republic, Deposit Monarchy, so on and so forth. Planning on creating an election system for democratic countries just like in Hearts of Iron IV. Languages: Yes, every Scenario, Custom Leader, Loading screen and such will be translated into other languages. Leaders: Of course, if we make scenarios, we need to make sure, that we have good leaders for each scenario. From a Revolutionary Gavrillo Princip to Tsar Nicolas the I., there will be as much leaders as possible. Thank you for reading! Current Status: Finished with version 0.0.0.7 on 10th of April 2019 -David

I always knew my mother was hiding something xD

Well... I am working

843,888(later) _______________________________________ 926 -------------------------------------------------- -------------------------------------------------- ------------------------------------------- 962 -------------------------------------------------- -------------------------------------------------- ------------------------------------------- 1018 -------------------------------------------------- ------------------------------------- 1054 -------------------------------------------------- ------------------------------------- 1081 -------------------------------------------------- ------------------------------------- 1143 -------------------------------------------------- ------------------------------------- 1180 _____________________________________________________ 1206 _____________________________________________________ 1261 _____________________________________________________ 1299 _____________________________________________________ 1337 _____________________________________________________ 1368 _____________________________________________________ 1402 _____________________________________________________ 1429 __________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________ 03/28 New:1429, Fix development, event bug in 1054,update formable_civs 04/01 Fix some bugs,add 926,and more Installation (scenario) C : \ Program Files (x86) \ Steam \ steamapps \ common \ Age of Civilizations II \ map \ Earth \scenarios (Civilizations_editor) C : \ Program Files (x86) \ Steam \ steamapps \ common \ Age of Civilizations II \ game \ civilizations_editor (formable_civs) (Not Essential.please backup your formable_civs ) C : \ Program Files (x86) \ Steam \ steamapps \ common \ Age of Civilizations II\ map \ Earth \ formable_civs Andriod https://drive.google.com/file/d/1G3yV16NLsSZPnIIAS0e14I8ux8qAEoib/view?usp=drivesdk Civilization_editor https://drive.google.com/open?id=1gIX5QLs5ii1jjtiRuBdyyrmwDP5lsdA3 formable_civs.zip scenarios.zip

Imagine, if you will, a time before Lukasz added the Victorian Era scenario to the game. I was an avid fan of the game even in this time, and because I wanted a Victorian Era scenario, I created my own. I dubbed the scenario the Victorian Age, and it was wildly innacurate. However, even so, when the official Victorian Era scenario came out, I was disappointed to find it was rather lackluster. It disappointed me for a number of reasons, so I decided to upgrade my Victorian Age scenario. It's been months in the working, but I feel now that it is ready to be released to the public. ==What does it change?== My Victorian Era scenario adds a wide variety of changes in the map - new states are added to West Africa, India, North America, and some parts of Europe, as you will see by the screenshots provided. Furthermore, it adds a wide variety of historical events that can build a dynamic alternate history. ==Screenshots== A full map of the world: Europe: North America: South America: Northern Africa: Western Africa: Southern Africa: Asia: India: Australasia: ==What problems might I encounter?== Unfortunately, some of the events are rather buggy. They may fire at the wrong time or with the wrong triggers. However, it should not greatly impact the overall playing experience. Also, it does not fix the issue of leaders being present in the wrong time period. Thus, Abraham Lincoln is still president of the U.S. in 1836. ==Download== Before you download, be warned! The "civilizations_editor" and "leaders" folders will contain a white file simply named "Age of Civilizations." REMOVE THIS FILE FROM THE FOLDER BEFORE DOWNLOADING. If you do not, it will replace all the data you have built up through playing the game with all of my data. You have been warned. Download link: https://drive.google.com/open?id=16mXgp5HBIgUbQGA4yAuXt5OrB5QF1r0N I hope you enjoy my custom 1836 Victorian Age scenario.

Ya reviví >:V

Because I used google translation, this English sentence is likely to be wrong. (Japanese→english) New wonders (v1.3) Contents of update: Eiffel Tower Big Ben Brandenburg Gate Colosseum Gobekli Tepe added: Japan tokyo National Diet Building (国会議事堂) North Korea Pyongyang Juche tower (주체사상탑) South Korea Seoul Namdaemun (남대문) United States New York Statue of Liberty Russia Moscow Saint Basil's cathedral (Храм Василия Блаженного) China Beijing Tiananmen (天安门) Turkey Cappadocia Fairy Chimneys (Peri bacası) Turkey Denizli Pamukkale Saudi Arabia Mecca Kaaba (كعبة‎ ) France Paris Eiffel Tower (Tour Eiffel) United Kingdom London Big Ben Germany Berlin Brandenburg Gate (Brandenburger Tor) Italy Rome Colosseum (Colosseo) Turkey Gobekli Tepe (Göbekli Tepe) Download: wonders1.3.zip

Hola, así que he estado trabajando en un scemario llamado 1815 en el que se ha trabajado desde la mendicidad de los chats en los que se puede encontrar el original al final de mi artículo. Usaré este juego para ampliar mi mismo escenario con la ayuda de las comunidades españolas. En la sección de español de mi escenario. http://www.ageofcivilizationsgame.com/topic/580-1815/?tab=comments#comment-16032

Ah lo que vengo Hay Un Mensaje que creo krauser (muy buena gente) Escribio un mensaje para que lukasz lo lea y se de cuenta que el foro y el juego están muy mal, necesitan varias cosas. Todos los que lean este post Copien el mensaje de abajo y lo publican en el perfil de lukasz LA ultima parte del mensaje Es Un mensaje que yo quería dar (quiero mi duke) El que lea esto puede editar la última parte y por ejemplo escribir, quiero aliens en AoC, y remplazas Mì nombre con tu nombre ojala me haya explicado Saludos! Estimado Łukasz Jakowski : Me comunico formalmente ante usted para poder presentar varios aspectos los cuales se deberían tomar en consideración para la mejoría y estabilidad del foro de Ageof Civilization 2. En primer lugar me gustaría informarle sobre el gran contenido spam que esta creciendo en el foro, esto esta hartando a las diferentes comunidades presentes. El spam, nos esta afectando a todos, ya que satura el foro de contenido indeseable, a demás de que prácticamente bloquea el acceso de diferentes secciones que normalmente están muy activas. En segundo lugar, la falta de administradores se esta haciendo notar demasiado y consigo problemas, la nula participación de administradores en el foro no solo a permitido que el contenido spam crezca cada día, sino, que también a los usuarios que solo se dedican a insultar a los demás y molestando cada día a todos. En tercer lugar, toda la comunidad de Age of Civilization le agradecería si sacara actualizaciones con la cual se puedan corregir muchos de los bugs presentes en el videojuego y también, si es posible poder agregar nuevo contenido como por ejemplo, un sistema de Cruzadas y de Yihad, con las cuales tanto las civilizaciones cristianas y musulmanas puedan participar, también se le agradecería si pudieraagregar un sistema de religiones, que sea similar al sistema de gobierno, donde casa civilización además de tener su tipo de gobierno, tengo también su religión y que el jugador pueda cambiarla durante el juego. También se le agradecería si pudiera agregar un sistema de votaciones para las democracias y republicas, y que dependiendo del partido ganador pueda generar ciertos cambios en la civilización, no se pide algo complejo, sino que algo sencillo con la cual ayudaría a diferenciar a las republicas de las monarquías. El sistema de lideres es algo que la comunidad también se queja ya que los lideres son inmortales y nunca van variando, como sugerencia para que se corrija esto podría ser que los lideres puedan vivir hasta cierto año y que cuando muera, el juego te de la opción de poner otro líder en su lugar, ya sea crear uno nuevo, con un sistema de creación de imagen de líder o seleccionar uno ya existente en el juego. Y por ultimo pero no menos importante, varios de los usuarios del foro, se han preguntado como funciona el sistema de rangos, y piensan que está mal y que no siempre funciona, por ejemplo, yo he posteado mucho y tengo muchos like pero sigo siendo conde, si pudiera subirme el rango, aunque sea a archiduque, se lo agradecería. En espera de su respuesta, les saluda atentamente. SUDAMXX Escritor - @krauser3ful

Pls add Travertines of Pamukkale(In Turkey) Cappadocia fairy chimneys(In Turkey)

WHAAAAAAAAAT!?!?!?

Poor Europeans.in my case...South America fuck yeah!

Haha Europeans. Murica fuck yeah

Hello, Lukasz: My main account, Vis Tacitus, has been effectively banned without a stated reason or warning. I can no longer register accounts nor post Forum messages, and all of my forum posts including the main 11:59: A Cold War thread have been purged from the forums involuntarily without prior review. I would like my account's privileges and posts to be reinstated. - Vis, from an auxiliary account.

Nice :)

👑 A Song of Ice and Fire / Game of Thrones Mod👑 Finally, after many hours of edition, I'm glad to present you the ASOIAF / GoT mod for Age of Civilizations II! This mod comes with a map with civilizations based on A Song of Ice and Fire book series by George R. R. Martin, which have been adapted in the critically acclaimed Game of Thrones TV series. Its main features are: A full map of the canon known world, including Westeros and Essos, and bits of Sothoryos and Ulthos. Contains 509 land provinces (604 including the ocean ones). More than 50 playable civilizations. Play as one of the Great Houses, command a Dothraki khalasar or rule one of the mysterious nations in the far east. Some of the main characters of the series appear as leaders of their respective civilizations. Terrains and population of the provinces have been defined as realistically as possible. For the moment, only one scenario has been created for the ASOIAF map. It corresponds to the beginning of both books and TV series, so you don't have to worry about spoilers. However, more scenarios are planned for the future. You can also create new scenarios with civilizations and leaders that come with the mod but are not still playable in the only scenario. Pictures A quasi-full map of the mod's map. Will Lord Tywin conquer Westeros? Terrains follow the canon map's geography. Some of the playable civilizations. The flags try to follow the canon lore, although they are prone to the ingame's editor limitations. Download link http://www.mediafire.com/file/7ax4z437qrqf2ax/AoC-ASOIAF-Mod.rar/file Installation instructions: Copy "game" and "map" folders into your game directory. In your game directory, go into "map" folder and open "Age of Civilizations.json". Add an extra folder and call it "ASOIAF". You can see how to edit it in step 11 of this thread: Hope you enjoy it! Comments and new scenarios are welcome!

Ideologies+ or Governaments+ is a mod that adds new ideologies to the game and adds new flags to all the nations Ideologies Socialism Constitual-Monarchy Dictactorship Nationalist Islamist Federation Christian democracy Theocracy Anarchism Social Democracy Liberalism Conservatism Duchy Grand Duchy Principality Grand Principality Tsardom Flags Questions and Answers Q:Does this mod copy another idelogies mod? A:No Q:Where can i download it? A:Currently is in Closed Pre-Alpha but in future might be a download Q:Does Coping comments get reported/deleted? A:I will do becuse i dint copy any another mod News: 4/23/2019 - Added Grand Duchy, Grand Principality and Tsardom 3/28/2019 - Added Duchy and Principality 3/11/2019 - Added Anarchism, Social Democracy, Liberalism and Conservatism 3/2/2019 - Added Chirstian democracy and Theocracy 3/2/2019 - Added Constitual Monarchy, Dictatorship and Nationalist 2/7/2019 - Removed Empire and Kingdom Ideology 2/4/2019 - Added Empire and Kingdom Ideology 2/4/2019 - Released Ideologies+ to the public

Eso era lo que se esperaba xD Youtubers famosos? yo personalmente pienso que los canales de youtube realmente no hubieran cambiado nada Naahhh los pibes de ahora quieren jugar boludeces,de hecho ese juego es famoso porque los youtubers influyen en Niños manipulables y les meten ese juego que,si te pones a pensar,no tiene nada de profundidad.Ademas no hay tantos niños-adolescentes que se interesen por la Alta Estrategia Tranca no te perdiste casi nada Si vas a hacer la gran Shiite antes metete al Discord para que no se pierda el contacto xD

Eres grande tincho xD

I has nearly been 2 months since you said that aoc2 works on iOS, could you please at least give us a release DATE. Not soon, not later, an actual day, month and year.

Added new overlays for the flag editor. All files throw in a folder flags_editor If you have any ideas for new overlays, please send them in comments upd1: added 40 colonial flags overlays.rar

Esta bandera esta muy bella, no apoyo tus ideas, pero esta bandera es hermosa! felicitaciones!

Here is my scene of 1700, it may be that it is not so correct on the subject of borders On the tribal countries, if they are not well placed, they are put to fill so that it is not only colonizable land. Here is the Scenario: 1700.rar Some pics:

Nombre De Mi País: ArchiDukado Comunista De SUDAMXX el nombre más lógico del mundo Ideología Política: Comunista Capital Y Zona de la nación: creo que soy el único peruano jeje xD Lima Bandera: En el discord publique una bandera, Usa esa Foto del Líder: pongan la foto de mao y cambian su cara con mi foto xD, ok no, la Verdad nunca lo he pensado..... Eso nos encargamos después xD

CHAPTER 1 - INTRODUCTION 1933, Germany's population was divided, on one side you had the communists, led by Ernst Thalmann, of the KPD (Kommunistische Partei Deutschlands) On the other, you had the fascists, led by Adolf Hitler, of the NSDAP (Nationalsozialistische Deutsche Arbeiterpartei) The elections were to take place in the 5th of march, 1933, Hitler had threatened multiple times that if the communists won, civil war would've surely ensued, he not only had a huge support from the german population, but also a strong army to oppose Ernst. THE ELECTIONS These were the results of the elections, with KPD winning, and NSDAP being in the second place, of course, even though the communist party had won, Adolf Hitler and his followers weren't happy, and wouldn't just accept their loss.. "The elections were clearly rigged agaisnt us!" A quote taken from a speech by Hitler, in Dresden, 1933, a few weeks after the results were revealed. And after many years of peace, Germany was in war once again, in 12th of march of 1933, this time it was a civil war, the communist side was receiving support (Equipment, volunteers) from the Soviet Union, while the fascist side was receiving support from the italians, it was a battle to see who would set their influence over Germany, at first it was a battle between communism and fascism, but then eventually turned into a battle between the capitalist powers and the communists, with Adolf Hitler recieving equipment from both the United Kingdom and France. (German soldier fighting for the communists, photo taken at unknown date.) (Russian troops preparing to aid their german comrades, 7th of may, 1933.) After a few months of fighting, Berlin was seized, and Hitler was found in one of his bunkers and executed, along with his officials (The exact room where Hitler was found.) Without a leader, the fascists slowly started to lose, untill there were only few territories still under their control, many of these encircled, getting constantly bombarded by planes and artillery, and with no access to basic supplies such as food and water, these troops started to surrender, untill there were none left. The war officially endend in 8th of january, 1934, the communists now were in power of Germany, and finally put an end to Hitler's plan, but not without a cost, Germany was in ruins, the war brought massive destruction to its cities and fields, and many men had died, could Ernst make Germany rise once again, or is it doomed to fail? In the next chapter we will be finally diving in the game, and we'll see the path that Germany will take.

By now mod include 3 cities (tiraspol Alula Hadibu) Please quote your cities you wanna see in the game ) UPD:First Little version: cities 0.0.1.rar List:Tiraspol - Moldow Aula - Somailia Hadibu - Yemen Ceuta - Spain Masasi - Tanzania

Dilo en arabe

Lukasz can you add the possibilty of changing leaders during the game? (ex. election)

Download 1 : https://mega.nz/#!10dgiIQI!4x55knQrO3uegNixZ-Wpyk_P-NqAVHgM1g-w7hDkWmA Download 2 : Fortnite Map.7z Enjoy Have fun Fortnite Map.7z

can you make a version that works with android?

where should I place it?

jjajajaj eso sono como final de una batalla en una serie o pelicula xD

Cuando shiite reacciona ah tu post, la cosa va bien. @Ramiro007 @krauser3ful @Lucas L

Estimado Łukasz Jakowski : Me comunico formalmente ante usted para poder presentar varios aspectos los cuales se deberían tomar en consideración para la mejoría y estabilidad del foro de Age Of Civilization 2. En primer lugar me gustaría informarle sobre el gran contenido spam que esta creciendo en el foro, esto esta hartando a las diferentes comunidades presentes. El spam, nos esta afectando a todos, ya que satura el foro de contenido indeseable, a demás de que prácticamente bloquea el acceso de diferentes secciones que normalmente están muy activas. En segundo lugar, la falta de administradores se esta haciendo notar demasiado y consigo problemas, la nula participación de administradores en el foro no solo a permitido que el contenido spam crezca cada día, sino, que también a los usuarios que solo se dedican a insultar a los demás y molestando cada día a todos. En tercer lugar, toda la comunidad de Age of Civilization le agradecería si sacara actualizaciones con la cual se puedan corregir muchos de los bugs presentes en el videojuego y también, si es posible poder agregar nuevo contenido como por ejemplo, un sistema de Cruzadas y de Yihad, con las cuales tanto las civilizaciones cristianas y musulmanas puedan participar, también se le agradecería si pudieraagregar un sistema de religiones, que sea similar al sistema de gobierno, donde casa civilización además de tener su tipo de gobierno, tengo también su religión y que el jugador pueda cambiarla durante el juego. También se le agradecería si pudiera agregar un sistema de votaciones para las democracias y republicas, y que dependiendo del partido ganador pueda generar ciertos cambios en la civilización, no se pide algo complejo, sino que algo sencillo con la cual ayudaría a diferenciar a las republicas de las monarquías. El sistema de lideres es algo que la comunidad también se queja ya que los lideres son inmortales y nunca van variando, como sugerencia para que se corrija esto podría ser que los lideres puedan vivir hasta cierto año y que cuando muera, el juego te de la opción de poner otro líder en su lugar, ya sea crear uno nuevo, con un sistema de creación de imagen de líder o seleccionar uno ya existente en el juego. Y por ultimo pero no menos importante, varios de los usuarios del foro, se han preguntado como funciona el sistema de rangos, y piensan que está mal y que no siempre funciona, por ejemplo, yo he posteado mucho y tengo muchos like pero sigo siendo conde, si pudiera subirme el rango, aunque sea a archiduque, se lo agradecería. En espera de su respuesta, les saluda atentamente. SUDAMXX Escritor - @krauser3ful In Spanish

Why the heck is not my dear fu*king Catalonia there?! I will demand you! I will hit you with a calçot while dancing sardanes and singing els segadors! XD

Trata De Invertir En La Provincia, Y Construir Granjas, universidades, Talleres, Tambien no Reclutes muchas tropas rapido, que pasen varios turnos, Saludos! :)

Lukasz needs to make moderators. The simple fact is he is one guy and can't be up 24/7 to patrol the forums