Wal-Mart Great Wonder

Nate1976

Nate1976

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Another wonder from my upcoming Cut-N-Paste Mod, Wal-Mart. Available with Refridgeration, Puts a shopping center in every city on the same continent, +50% Tax revenue, and 1 culture point per turn, for 710 shields.
Hope you like it! Comes with civilopedia pics, wondersplash, buildings large and small. attached shot is the wondersplash.

Credit to Bjornlo for buildings large and small. His stuff is so cool.
Enjoy!
 

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Good one.
Is it me or the people look flat ?
 
yea, maybe. Thanks for the idea, Palantir30.

@Supa
Yes, the picture was distorted a little when I made the picture square. I'll fix it tomorow-can't today.

@odintheking
Yep. If you can't read the 2nd and 3rd sentance, I'll let you beleive that.
 
It should destroy all marketplaces in the town and make 2 people unhappy (the employees). ;-)

Anyway, nice stuff.
 
I'm going to add this to my epic game mod just so I can burn the city that builds it to the ground and piss on the ashes. :evil:
 
You guys have problems.
This isn't a Wal-Mart bashing thread. do that in off-topic.
This is to rate MY WORK, not Wal-Mart's work.
 
Your work is well done, as is normally the case. I would suggest slightly less saturation in your next image. This one looks slightly overblown (to use a photgraphic term).

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I should also add that I like that you're taking a new look at an old wonder and giving your spin on it.

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To the rest of you: Wallmart is quite evil, but lots of wonders are. So what?
 
Thank you, Bjornlo and Ares de Borg. First good news I've heard all day.

@Bjornlo, could you define "less saturation"? What could I do to fix the problem, while using paint?
 
Nate1976 said:
Thank you, Bjornlo and Ares de Borg. First good news I've heard all day.

@Bjornlo, could you define "less saturation"? What could I do to fix the problem, while using paint?
Click to expand...

Paint is a problem. I don't think it can do this. Perhaps either buy Photoshop (big bucks), Paintshop Pro (less $$$) or download GIMP (free but a wee bit of a cludge).

Here is a side by side example of what I mean by saturation:
saturation7rq.jpg

The OLD image is over saturated, the NEW image is not.

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If you are using paint, how are you setting the palette?
 
There was a request for a McDonalds resource icon a while ago, but I don't think it was ever made (maybe just some golden arches on a pole would work), maybe it would fit in with this theme.
 
@Bjornlo
Oh, I see the difference now. Ok.

@Pounder
McDonalds resource...? Ok, what would that do? -1 food?
That is one that I would bash. At least make it BK.

Oh, and to Bjornlo..I really don't set the palletes..I just dont' use straight white, white is the last color on the default 256-color bmp pallette. Then, I use Lexmark phot editor to save as a .pcx into the correct file path.
 
At the very least, I think that this one needs to come with some kind of pollution (big box stores contribute to urban sprawl and anti-labour policies ruin the health of your citizens)

Interesting concept though, although you might consider an alternative splash: perhaps a photograph of an enormous monolithic wal-mart outlet eclipsing the sun.
 
Well, you can mod in polution, and I probably will before Nates Cut-n-Paste mod is released.
And about the wondersplash, I don't make them, I just use whatever comes up in google that'll look good.
 
i disagree that the original picture was oversaturated. oversaturation is kitsch.
appropriate.

and i agree that it should make citizens unhappy, if not also destroy the marketplace. walmart's effects also contribute to urban sprawl, etc., as stated by others. i can't see why walmart would be considered a wonder, by the way.
 
@frankthe butler

urban sprawl
n.
The unplanned, uncontrolled spreading of urban development into areas adjoining the edge of a city.

Please, tell me h ow wal-mart does this? If anything, it is the opposite. IT takes alot of planning to figure out where to put each supercenter so that they aren't too close together, too far apart. If they're to close together, they draw people from one to the other. If they're too far apart, people decide to go to a closer one, like a food lion or anything.
Wal-Mart deserves to be a wonder just like Smith's Trading Company does. Do you know how many stores there are in this world? Wal-Mart started just like it, Sam Walter opened the first one in Ohio. He was just like the billions of other stores. But his stores aren't how.going from one store to a global supercenter, with a website, is a miracle in itself. Don't gripe unless you can do it.

@ El Justo
Your right. There's so many ancient "wonders", but so few modern "wonders". That's why I made this, and that's why I have the CN Tower, Itaipu Dam, and others in Nates Cut-N-Paste mod, and still adding.

@ All who actually helped to the thread
Thank you.
 
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