Anno Domini Classic: discussion thread part 3 (warning: lots of images on page one)

[Plotinus]

@ Plotinus: I couldn't leave out Plotinus. Hi Plotinus
How long have you been a moderator?

Oh, a bit of a while, I think nearly a year. Good to see you back!

 

[Blue Monkey]

New Asoka is much better. I'll leave off looking for images, unless you want to give him some sort of "crown" in a multi-era version.

Immediate problems with the Indian cities: there's an obvious Egyptian obelisk, and these are meant to be pre-Mughal, so the minaret and Taj Mahal style domes should go as well. Please give me 'till the weekend to show the kind of architecture that's needed. I've already got previous questions from R8XFT to answer, and I already should be out the door to another day of meat puppetdom.

 

[Rob (R8XFT)]

I could certainly work on some alternative celtic cities. (Oh and are you referring to the fourth era of the european culture group or the celtic culture group?)

Great! I was referring to the fourth era of the celtic culture group; I feel that the generic Firaxis "medieval euro" set will do for the fourth era of the european culture group.

@Blue Monkey: I'm glad Asoka's okay - I've rendered it and completed it now. With RedAlert doing the cities, we're sure to have superb ones done - don't forget that I'm using placeholders at the moment.

 

[Tank_Guy#3]

Do you have any civ's that start out in the Arabian Penninsula? Such as, say, the Sabaens (Kingdom of Saba'a?)? If so, I refer again to EB for assistance. I captured a Sabaen city awhile back and one of the buildings was a great dam, built in about the 7th or 8th century BC. 25 foot thick walls and allowed irrigation for 25,000 acres that would otherwise have been worthless desert.

I believe it was called the Marib Dam. Pretty awesome feat of engineering.

 

[Rob (R8XFT)]

Do you have any civ's that start out in the Arabian Penninsula? Such as, say, the Sabaens (Kingdom of Saba'a?)? If so, I refer again to EB for assistance. I captured a Sabaen city awhile back and one of the buildings was a great dam, built in about the 7th or 8th century BC. 25 foot thick walls and allowed irrigation for 25,000 acres that would otherwise have been worthless desert.

I believe it was called the Marib Dam. Pretty awesome feat of engineering.

We have Nabataea instead of Saba - though Saba was in the first incarnation. There's 31 civs now and I really want to crack on with the other aspects of the mod rather than swapping civs about. I've done plenty of that I can assure you ....though Saba is pretty cool.

 

[Tank_Guy#3]

Nabataea works. Civ specific wonders? I know, now I'm getting picky.

Also, are any of the screenshots I took actually worthwhile? Or should I leave the "photography" to the experts?

 

[Rob (R8XFT)]

Nabataea works. Civ specific wonders? I know, now I'm getting picky.

Walls of Petra for starters .

Also, are any of the screenshots I took actually worthwhile? Or should I leave the "photography" to the experts?

What you did was really very much appreciated, but if I'm being completely honest, I'm not sure if I'll be able to use much of it. Seriously, thanks, and sorry if I can't do what your effort deserved. Good pictures for reference though!

 

[Tank_Guy#3]

Originally Posted by Tank_Guy#3
Also, are any of the screenshots I took actually worthwhile? Or should I leave the "photography" to the experts?

What you did was really very much appreciated, but if I'm being completely honest, I'm not sure if I'll be able to use much of it. Seriously, thanks, and sorry if I can't do what your effort deserved. Good pictures for reference though!

Out of pure curiosity, why not being able to use some of it? Similar buildings already existing, no real need for some of the buildings, etc?

I won't mad or upset (that actually takes quite a bit of effort to do), I just have a general interest in whether or not my "good ideas" are really that.

 

[Rob (R8XFT)]

The ideas were good - e.g. the Celtic soap maker will be in there somewhere - I'm not able to actually convert the images you sent into pictures (which would be the most useful to me), but use them as reference - which is good in itself.

In other news, I'm thinking of using a couple of basic qin/asian units as flavour for the Huns....any thoughts?

 

[Tank_Guy#3]

Even with the Baktrian faction they are pretty heavily Greek, though you do get an occasional Indian unit.

I could try Saka, but I don't think I'd have luck there. Maybe check out some of the buildings from either of the AoE (have AoE, AoE2 + Expansion, AoM + Titans Expansion) games or maybe Shogun Total War (which I don't have).

 

[Stormrage]

What qin/asian units for the Huns? I can`t think of any..

 

[RedAlert]

So how does this look? (I know, I'm pretty rusty )

Also, would you be in need of any alternative eras for your middle eastern cities? I just found a set I made over a year ago:

Oh, a bit of a while, I think nearly a year. Good to see you back!

My (belated) congratulations to you, sir!

 

[Stormrage]

I like those celtic cities! Particulary the central building. I`d like to live there

 

[Keroro]

I'm no expert on celtic cities, but I like those Eastern ones. I hope they'll be released sometime.

 

[Partizanac]

Eastern cities are great!
As for the Celtics, I say put the No4 to the No3 and give the No4 more of those little houses.

 

[Tank_Guy#3]

What qin/asian units for the Huns? I can`t think of any..

Well, technically speaking the Huns were believed to be from central Asia, most believe Mongolia.

As for buildings that the Huns might have, I would think that it would be easily moveable, similar to Mongolian type buildings. Because, as you know, they were a nomadic people, and they had very few permanent settlements (of their own, iirc).

Perhaps a tent city or yurt city for the smaller city sizes, and then a slowly increasing number of regular buildings (like other factions have) as the city gets into the bigger sizes, to show that the settlements are becoming more permanent.

Were I not Civ3 creation backwards, I would make them up for you. Perhaps the yurts from AoE 2? I will collect some screenies. That's what I'm good at

I can run through Empire Earth, RoN, the Age of... Series, and maybe some others to get some ideas for more Asiatic architecture.

 

[Rob (R8XFT)]

So how does this look? (I know, I'm pretty rusty )

Excellent! They're now "in" as era one for the Celts.

Also, would you be in need of any alternative eras for your middle eastern cities?

I do .

I just found a set I made over a year ago:

They look really good. I've put them in as era two for this culture group, moving the old era two to era one. If you get an opportunity, then please consider doing an era one that's similar, but less advanced and a more advanced era three and four; but this isn't the priority - Indian cities are.

Perhaps a tent city or yurt city for the smaller city sizes, and then a slowly increasing number of regular buildings (like other factions have) as the city gets into the bigger sizes, to show that the settlements are becoming more permanent.

Unfortunately, they will have to tag on with the European civ culture group - there's only five groups and they're all in use. Nice idea though...

Perhaps the yurts from AoE 2? I will collect some screenies.

Thanks, but I have AOE2 myself, so I can collect any screenies I need from that game.

 

[Rob (R8XFT)]

Cities update

Now that the era one cities that RedAlert did for the Celtic culture group are in, I think that all eras are fine there.

How about this for Europe?

Having integrated the other cities RedAlert posted for the Middle-East culture group - plus some other amendments and a couple of eras taken from the new MEM mod - possibly this culture group is also now ok?

As I'm also happy with the Mediterranean city set (except maybe the roofs in eras two and three - but this is a very minor concern) - if the above city sets are also alright, it would just leave the Indian culture group to do.

 

[Yoda Power]

RedAlert - Welcome back. Those new middle eastern cities are really excellent.

 

[Stormrage]

I like the European sets!