The best progress bars are the once which say under them things like "maintaining the trees". Then you know that real progress is being made.,(reply>), Reticulating splines,(reply>), @Doomse Nice to hear they continued the trend - both my examples were from Anno 1404. (I'm old.) :D,(reply>), If you want a great example for such progress bar messages, take a look at ANNO 2070 (when a save is being loaded). Those are extremely funny,(reply>), terraria has:<br><br>-placing rocks in the dirt<br>-placing dirt in the rocks<br>-spicing up walls<br><br>best thing is it's kinda what's really doing when generating the world,(reply>), Bonus points if they're not too serious, like "predicting the weather", "putting make-up on the witch", and so on. ;D