Yeah, no problem. Any thoughts on what the flag should be? I've cleaned up all the leaderheads so I can look at the Richese one too.
Thanks. Their symbol is supposed to be the Lamp of Knowledge. Or since they are the hammer civ in the game, something related to the hammer symbol, I don't know. Whatever you like, since you're doing it.
And, hey, if you can make better leaderheads as well, that would be excellent. Two leaders: Ilban (old) and the daughter Helena (thirties?).
Have you thought about other additional factions yet? A couple that I thought might be interesting:
1) Spacing Guild: We had them as a faction a long time ago, but it would be interesting to get them in as a playable faction again. I was thinking you could maybe make them similar to the Kuriotates in FFH2 where they can only have a small number of super cities that are space ports. You perhaps look at tying their income into the Homeworld transport mechanic and some abilities relating to Heighliners in orbit such as bombardment.
Interesting. What version did you have them in?
2) The Iduali (Waterstealers): It could be interesting to develop a more aggressive Fremen style faction built around stealing water. Not sure how this would work exactly - water bonuses for being at war?
Funny that you mention the Iduali now considering that yesterday I decided to name the barbarians "Jacurutu" and their leader "Iduali"
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I might change my mind again. Or simply improve on the barbs? They´re pretty much a non entity after the early game. What I mean is that I tie the stealing of water with the barbs.
The hard thing with additional factions is coming up with clearly distinct gameplay concepts that are distinct from the existing ones.
Let me tell you, the hard thing is to make them distinct and balanced, just distinct enough is doable. Civ IV is quite flexible for modding.
There's many angles to go into. For example, flanking and paradropping, BTS mechanics, are still not being used. I want to use such for the next civ and I also have this crazy idea about warp gates (warping stacks to most plots) but I have to try and confirm some things first. There's other ideas.
I want to create House Moritani, the Honored Matres, the Smugglers faction and maybe the Fenring faction. Too much stuff.