CityView Leaderhead Backgrounds

Tholish

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Kind of a micro idea:

In Civ IV every leaderhead has a background art reflecting the origin of the leader you are talking to. If you are talking to Hatshepsut, there are pyramids in the background art for example. What about if instead, there were more complex code behind this to make a background based on the current capitol of that leader. Thus you would see the buildings that are actually in Hatshepsut's capitol currently, which may or may not include pyramids.
 
Tholish said:
Kind of a micro idea:

In Civ IV every leaderhead has a background art reflecting the origin of the leader you are talking to. If you are talking to Hatshepsut, there are pyramids in the background art for example. What about if instead, there were more complex code behind this to make a background based on the current capitol of that leader. Thus you would see the buildings that are actually in Hatshepsut's capitol currently, which may or may not include pyramids.
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I think that would be very cool.
 
hey guys i have a idea

can we have more backgrounds?

like being at home or at the park like that kind

and effects like in elouai you know those falling hearts stars

they look so cool

what do you guys think???
 
Yeah, +1 for the idea in the OP, although the current system allows for backgrounds to be distinctively of the civilization of a given leader. And it would be kinda difficult to generate decent backgrounds on such a basis, I would've thought. And they may lack much variety from one civ to the next, given that heaps of civs won't have a wonder in their capitals. But it's quite a good idea, nonetheless.
 
Camikaze said:
Yeah, +1 for the idea in the OP, although the current system allows for backgrounds to be distinctively of the civilization of a given leader. And it would be kinda difficult to generate decent backgrounds on such a basis, I would've thought. And they may lack much variety from one civ to the next, given that heaps of civs won't have a wonder in their capitals. But it's quite a good idea, nonetheless.
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How about the background for the leader simply pointing at the city view of their capital ?
 
That's pretty much identical for all leaders, though, unless you're referring to Civ 2 city view, which, from vague memory, was more individualistic and customisable.
 
Camikaze said:
That's pretty much identical for all leaders, though, unless you're referring to Civ 2 city view, which, from vague memory, was more individualistic and customisable.
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It would seem to me it will only be identical if all leaders build the same stuff in their capitals. (Talking to a leader being a way of seeing what they've actually got built in their capital at the moment might be kind of cool.)
 
I guess there would be some variation in that, you're right, but you wouldn't get the distinctive backgrounds of various civilizations that you do now.
 
Maybe even if there were a few (say, 5) different backgrounds per civ... that would at least mix it up a little... the one you get could either be random or based on their opinion of you. If they like you, you get to meet in a garden. If they think you're scum you can meet in a dungeon looking room.
 
Camikaze said:
I guess there would be some variation in that, you're right, but you wouldn't get the distinctive backgrounds of various civilizations that you do now.
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Would that not fall out of different city styles in the main map, though ? Which has been a solved problem since Civ 2.
 
I suppose, although there are still only a few basic styles (European, Greco-Roman, Middle-Eastern, Asian, African and American, I think), so if you were playing with 10 European civs, they would all be pretty much the same background. I mean, that system works well enough for a far off view, but as a central background in the diplomacy screen, the variety offered isn't great enough for my liking.
 
Bring back the palace, and place the leader in front of that with different clothes depending on various civic choices and tech advancement.
 
It could be reasonably difficult designing, say, Qin, to be dressed in a business suit if China's civics were to be top tier. It would seem to go against the whole historical leaders thing. Historical leaders need historical clothes.
 
Camikaze said:
It could be reasonably difficult designing, say, Qin, to be dressed in a business suit if China's civics were to be top tier. It would seem to go against the whole historical leaders thing. Historical leaders need historical clothes.
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So allowing 6000 year-old leaders to change clothes every 1500 years is not historically correct? Anyway civ3 did it, and I miss it.
 
toft said:
So allowing 6000 year-old leaders to change clothes every 1500 years is not historically correct?
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You know what I mean. Having Roosevelt as a leader throughout the course of the game is acceptable for the game, but dressing him in nothing but a loin cloth for the first few thousand years makes void this attempt to use historical leaders.
 
Camikaze said:
You know what I mean. Having Roosevelt as a leader throughout the course of the game is acceptable for the game, but dressing him in nothing but a loin cloth for the first few thousand years makes void this attempt to use historical leaders.
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I dont agree with you. The leaders that has been chosen are just there to entertain and Firaxis chose those that the public (on an average) relates to each civilization the most.

I can put it in another way - you dont think its more annoying to see roosevelt in suit and a tie, in a victorian style building in 4000 bc?

I couldnt find an image of some leaderheads through time, but heres the military advisors:
MilitaryAdvisor_original.jpg
 
That's fine and looks good for generic people, and would be good for military advisors, for example, but Roosevelt is an actual historical identity, rather than a random character within the game. Roosevelt did not wear different and more archaic clothing. That is beyond the bounds of altering appearances to go with the time scale.
 
Camikaze said:
That's fine and looks good for generic people, and would be good for military advisors, for example, but Roosevelt is an actual historical identity, rather than a random character within the game. Roosevelt did not wear different and more archaic clothing. That is beyond the bounds of altering appearances to go with the time scale.
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lets agree to disagree...
 
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