pokiehl
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And to that I say, fine, let's make an exception for Rome, because it deserves it. Make a Roman alternate leader that replaces the Roman uniques with Byzantine uniques. Just still call it "Rome" so the game maintains its interesting, heritage-oriented perspective on civilization rather than rotely listing off empires from a textbook. I don't think Byzantium fans care if it is called "Byzantium" or "Rome" as long as the civ feels like Byzantium.
This is so much more convoluted than just giving the Byzantines their own civ. I can't even imagine how it would be implemented and not confuse players. "Here's this alternate leader for Rome! Except the unit, district, city names, and icon are all different because of...reasons."
The fact is the classical Rome focus of the Rome civ immediately jumps out as anachronistic and out of place to players when mixed with a Byzantine leader. If a separate civ bothers anyone that much it's simple to edit the text to say Rome instead of Byzantium.
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