Kyr, I said "new" because it's a new one for me. I used a column with the statue on the top (which was included into the
Ares terrain pack), but then switched to your new... Well, you see, I called it "new" again.
I like it a lot, the only one thing I should notice about -
Sandris was absolutely correct when suggested to make eagle brighter. I'll show you an example:
take
Ares terrain, which very good and used by many people. Make an island consisting of hills only. Place your VP marker among hills.
Result: you see, the white column is almost completely hidden behind the hill, so column's brightness doesn't work here. And the eagle color is close (harmonically, yeah) to the terrain color. So the eagle doesn't "stand out" of terrain and easily noticed. That's why I said the suggestion from
Sandris was truly helpful, and, you know, the suggestion from him
always valuable - he made a lot of units, but these units not useful only (there were a lot of useful units before), but he made them with a new level of beauty, that's why you'll see them in any completed mod/scenario. The rest about VP - I mean, idea and realization - absolutely fantastic and I use this VP with great pleasure, but it'd be
slightly improved and then become a perfect one.
And looking at this VP, I had a thought you could make a set of VP markers for different eras - the more you made, the more will be used.
About cities. I see you miss my comments, but still I prefer you intermediate style. I'll tell you why - look at this
pic. These were
cities, built around the centerpieces and filled with secondary buildings. They were truly cool. And your new sets are very close to your previous sets series - you rotated old set ~160 degrees, you made a frontal view instead of side view, you added new textures which are much better than you used previously (and this is the key to what makes people happy about your new sets), but cities remain as rectangles (which real cities never been) with exaggerated centerpieces (compare secondary house and statue sizes on this
pic). So the only improvement here is a texture, but not a planning. And that's the thing which disappoints me - you stepped forward (and shown us a new horizon of city sets making), then backward (rejected the "new era") and changed small things only instead of big progression. And
Stico headed the way of your "step forward" - and this made him a hero, and in your eyes too. The main reason of rejecting that intermediate set plan was an absence of the centerpiece for the size 1 - I remember your phrase "If I could model a statue..." Now you can.
And about an impression from people. When you started to improvise with the new Greek set I reminded you about, all people said it's a great improvement (only
Ares was unhappy, but he was temporary unhappy with your new style too). And when you switched to your current style, a lot of people said they don't like it. Why it didn't affect you - I don't know, but how it was. Time goes by and people forget your truly beautiful sets, but I still remember and miss them a lot. And I'm very sorry about rejected golden age of city sets making - we converted into monarchy from the chiefdom to get +12gpt, and this is instead of the Golden Age and +1200gpt.
Joking. 
