Mattastic
Warlord
One of the things I loved most about the original Civilization was upgrading your palace, even though I never got to do enough of it and I frequently ended up making them lopsided. I remember I really looked forward to the upgraded version of this when Civ2 came out ... and it didn't. And the Civ3 version was rubbish and now by Civ4 we still don't seem to have that. In fact, even the palace model that we do have looks laughably cheap.
Well, I've been doing some thinking about it, and I wanted some thoughts...
First off, if someone's already been doing this, let me know now so I can shut up quickyl.
At the moment, my idea is pretty simple: that the palace model automatically changes when you hit a particular score. The architectural style of the palace would be based on your choice of civilization.
(In theory, you could make the choice each turn that you upgrade in, but there are a few problems there: first all, it will replace the existing model, not add to it; also, the only thing differentiating the styles of some civilizations is the textures, so if you were able to choose freely you'd need a set of textures for each architectural style per civilization. With the number of styles I have reckoned for, that would incrase the number of required textures from 24 to 168!)
In my basic outline calls for seven architectural styles: African, Ancient European, European (castles), Greco-Roman, Mezo-American, Middle Eastern and Oriental. In very broad terms, these just about cover all the current civs. Here's the list of what goes with who:
A lot of what would identify them as unique would be textures (as said above). For instance, Egypt is labelled as Greco-Roman, but all it borrows are the collumns, basic shape and so forth; the textures would show it as limestone with colourful pillars. Russia is down as Middle Eastern, but that's mostly just for the domes, and it might look something more like the Kremlin.
Does this sound okay, or a bit of a waste of time?
Well, I've been doing some thinking about it, and I wanted some thoughts...
First off, if someone's already been doing this, let me know now so I can shut up quickyl.
At the moment, my idea is pretty simple: that the palace model automatically changes when you hit a particular score. The architectural style of the palace would be based on your choice of civilization.
(In theory, you could make the choice each turn that you upgrade in, but there are a few problems there: first all, it will replace the existing model, not add to it; also, the only thing differentiating the styles of some civilizations is the textures, so if you were able to choose freely you'd need a set of textures for each architectural style per civilization. With the number of styles I have reckoned for, that would incrase the number of required textures from 24 to 168!)
In my basic outline calls for seven architectural styles: African, Ancient European, European (castles), Greco-Roman, Mezo-American, Middle Eastern and Oriental. In very broad terms, these just about cover all the current civs. Here's the list of what goes with who:
Spoiler :
A lot of what would identify them as unique would be textures (as said above). For instance, Egypt is labelled as Greco-Roman, but all it borrows are the collumns, basic shape and so forth; the textures would show it as limestone with colourful pillars. Russia is down as Middle Eastern, but that's mostly just for the domes, and it might look something more like the Kremlin.
Does this sound okay, or a bit of a waste of time?
