As far as I'm concerned you're a team member if:

a) You consider yourself committed to working on the Clash project in the future, and

b) you've posted artwork, or a few pages of text worth of work on a game model, or done coding for the project.

If so you're welcome to append your information below in the format for the rest of the entries on the the Clash Team Page.

Dominic and Kull try and update the page every week or so as needed.

Thanks,

IT Manager

Clash Tasks: Web Editor & Diplomacy Model

Martin Carlsen

Computer Systems Engineering student, University of Southern Denmark. Main interest: Software Engineering.

Programmer, University of Southern Denmark. Task: Building visual tools and back-end infrastructure for multi-lingual natural language processing systems. (The longer the job description, the lower the pay )

Jacob Bernstein

Occupation: Student

Clash Goal: The best damn diplomacy possible

Josh Burns

Occupation: College student

Clash tasks: multiplayer programming

Paul Crocker

Geographic Information Systems (GIS)/ Remote Sensing Analyst

Name: Feher Zsolt

Education: College degree for computer programing. 1988, Budapest.

Occupation: Computer programmer, OS installer, PC troubleshooter and builder. (So all the dirty work)

Clash: Modification, macro language, play.

My favorite movie is: surprise surprise!!! Blade Runner

We could still use comments and critisms on as many of the game models as you can force yourself to look at. Some of you already have looked at several from your comments. Please check out the Guide to Current Status thread to see where all the models are hiding. Your thoughts are Important, and may keep us from Blowing It Badly in one area or other .

Thanks for the new Responses in this thread!

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Paul:

Graphics! That would be Great . That and interfaces are the areas we're Really dragging in...

Blade Runner:

Occupation: Student

Hobbies: The study of historical and technological progress, military history, chess, computer strategy games, reading, and hiking.

Favorite Computer Games: Civilization 2; X-Com:UFO Defense; Warlords 3: Darklords Rising; Sim-City; and Seven Cities of Gold (An ancient new world exploration game)

Clash Goal: A game that at least attempts to accurately model the complex interactions between technology, military, economics, environment, and society that have defined human history.

Name: Adam Maturin
Age: 21
Occupation: Full time student, enrolled for Computer-aided Drafting

Hobbies: Study history in my spare time, mainly Greek, Egyptian,and Roman history but some medieval stuff too. Play music, computer strategy games, chess and weightlifting.

Clash: I'll be doing the Disease/Natural disaster model and helping out anywhere else I can.

Occupation: Student, Computer Animation and/or Storyboard designing prob

Clash Goals: Designing great tech model, taken over characters/dynasty model and will prob do some graphics later on.

E-mail: tenchi01@netzero.net

I'm almost a transportation engineer (in march 2000 we can get rid of the "almost"). I've been a sid meier's civ fan for about a decade and I'm so tired of the silly things in it that I felt like my dreams being fulfiled when I knew about the Clash project.

My main goal is to make Clash a game with the most realistic features, making it able to handle and model the real complexity of a civilization. I'll pursue this objective mainly through discussion and critic of current models. I just hope the rest of you are willing to listen and don't scare too much when reading my posts...

I also think I can add a missing ingredient which is a closer view of southamerican civs (aztec, mayean, inca) and dictatorship governments (since this has been a common form of govt in this region) because I live in southamerica.

Darren McGuicken

Occupation: MSc Student, QUB

Clash tasks: Diplomacy Model Coder; dabbling with the Interface; whatever else needs done...

Email: dmcguicken@bigfoot.com

Occupation: Student

Clash Task: User docs Editor

Anyway, I am very new (well I think I am). But I'll add this anyway.

Daniel Knowles
College certificate in multimedia; including webdesign, interface design., photoshop and many other multimedia programs.

Occupation: Web and graphic designer

name: Leejay Lockhart

occupation: student don't know what i really want to become

email: korn469@mindless.com

clash task: keeping the game fun and balanced and at least providing an outside prospective on the ideas you guys have (especially on the military model)

My info is
Roman Brunecky
B.A. Biochemistry
Occupation: Chemist

Name: known in the real world by the name Andy, but you can call me LOGO

interests: history (mostly 20th centurey), keeping up to date with world wide polotics, looking at how technology effects society, dumbed down socialogy, reading great Science fiction like Auther C. Clark and Isaac Asminov, military technology, tracking the computer industry

Clash Goal: Work hard to make the game everything I hope it will be

Clash task: give my input on the game for cosideration, help in anyway I can

BEng, Liverpool (1976); MSc Brunel (1980's)

Current job: Computer Consultant, Technical Architect for Cap Gemini (UK)

Interests, in no particular order: operating systems, compilers, graphics, AI, software engineering, sport, books, networks, art, beer, war games

Current Job: Systems Integrator at AST-A.

Interests: Creating AI's, writing short stories, playing computer games, reading sci/fi or fantasy.

Name: Adam Maturin
Age: 21
Occupation: Full time student, enrolled for Computer-aided Drafting

Hobbies: Study history in my spare time, mainly Greek, Egyptian,and Roman history but some medieval stuff too. Play music, computer strategy games, chess and weightlifting.

Clash: Disease and disaster models and helping out anywhere else I can.

I hope to see Clash develop into a completely customizable game with lots of detail, options and extreme realism, while never sacrificing playability.

Thank you, Mark, to give me a chance to learn a lot while playing at making such a game.

Here are my info:

Laurent Nal
MS in Computer Science, from U. Aix-Marseille II Luminy, 1991

Occupation: PhD on Algorithms for Game Theory since 3 years (I need some ideas !)and making (e-)business for my small IT firm everywhere I can (but specially in Poland)

Clash Goals: Coding of Economical model

An official welcome to the Clash project!

And I Will get you that production function specification soon ... I've just had too much real life recently!

Right, I'm Reno Diamond, a UK student and official dogsbody to the world in general (aren't we all, sometimes). I'm studying Economics, Psychology, Discrete Maths and Chemistry.

In short, that means that I can work out the most cost-effective way of saying something, work out exactly how to say it for maximum effect, plan out the possible reactions to what I say using graph theory and then watch it do the unexpected and blow up in my face.

I contacted Mark last night and now, here I am, shooting my mouth of about every issue in sight. Don'tcha just hate the way new people act like they own the place? Youth of today, grumble, grumble, grumble.

My background is that I love Civ. And I love Alpha Centauri. That said, I think there's a lot of ways that they could have been improved. And most of my gripes/suggestions have already been thought of here, so someone at least must be working on the same wavelength.

Unlike you, some of us (especially me) have not taken psychology, and are sometimes not very diplomatic. I apologise in advance for anything I may say that seems insulting, I am just trying to discuss the models and answer questions clearly.

A word of advice from someone who used to be a newbie: Don't try to do everything at once. Each model has an enormous history that anyome making suggestions has to be familiar with. If you try to do something in each model, you will either make uninformed comments or die from reading too much material.

I think I welcomed you to the project in another thread, but welcome here too!

Richard: