Illiad, Odyssey, Aeneid Mod

Would an [b][i]accurate[/b][/i] mythological mod be fun to play?

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Xen said:
why are you using posiedon as a unit; it seems rather stupid to have a God as a unit that can be destroyed.
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Neptune/Posidon..posedon.. um the big blue guy will be used as a God unit. 0 transport, radar, 3 moves, doesn't sink, offense flag on, 100 A/D, 255/0/10 B/R/RG. Hidden nationality. Unit of the gods civ. At permanent war with all other civs.
 
You can find greek cities here

If you want a complete pack with era-specific cities, it shouldn't be a problem...
 
that seems incredibly stuopid; why would the gods be at war with thier people?

there are cases in legend where the gods take action; but this is better epitmized as a tech, not a unit of a god.
 
Xen said:
that seems incredibly stuopid; why would the gods be at war with thier people?

there are cases in legend where the gods take action; but this is better epitmized as a tech, not a unit of a god.
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Xen, firstly you, and everyone else, is entitled to an opinion. This after is a forum. That is why threads are posted here. :)

Secondly, there was no other way to display Psiedon. The mod is loosly based on myth, and a god of the seas fits well here.

Thirdly, there will be tech tree changes to incorporate the worship of gods, atleast I hope there are.

That said, do you have any ideas what should be done to the mod to make it more appealing to the masses? This is but one instance of unit use. How can one possible create a mod true to the illiad? It is 24 volumes long! It takes a semester to do a basic study of the work, let alone create a comprehensive mod on it.

Also this project is barely a week old. Things will change. Units/tech/resources .. nothing set in stone :mischief:

I hope we can get more input from you, you did say you were a Greek history/myth buff in a prior post didn't you? :)

Off-topic .. I agree with your sig 100% :goodjob:
 
haha good point! maybe i will use him as a volcano replacement. im thinking of converting the volcano graphics to look exactly like coastal graphics. then the eruption animation will be the whirlpool and the pollution will look like.......i dunno yet (this is only a very beta idea) maybe little whirlpools???? :lol: probably not but just an idea...... also, units wouldnt be able to cross these sqaures but of course that can be achieved anyway..........
 
@Ocedus; the Illiad is 24 volums long, but each volum is looslly anagous to a moder books "chapters"; a good translation of the Illiad (read a literal translation as opposed to the over poetic fruity non-sense of the enlightnement era translations) can be read in a day of thourough reading, or around a week of casual reading (literal translations are the way to go, for we must remember that Homers epic is merelly a poem to us; to his audience, it was told in every day terms, and so to get the true impact of the story, it needs to be translated into everyday terms for our language)

that said, i see little to no reason to have the gods running about in the scenario anymore then it woudl make sense to have a jesus unit runnign about in the middle ages, to represent christianity...
 
its a little different than that. as in the Illiad, Gods take sides and more visibly (to the casual observer) interfere in the lives of Men. like i said though he may drop his "unit" status and become a new "disaster" in the Odyssey scenario or may take on a new form each scenario. like Ocedius has said before, this mod is still in beta form.
 
Xen said:
@Ocedus; the Illiad is 24 volums long, but each volum is looslly anagous to a moder books "chapters"; a good translation of the Illiad (read a literal translation as opposed to the over poetic fruity non-sense of the enlightnement era translations) can be read in a day of thourough reading, or around a week of casual reading (literal translations are the way to go, for we must remember that Homers epic is merelly a poem to us; to his audience, it was told in every day terms, and so to get the true impact of the story, it needs to be translated into everyday terms for our language)

that said, i see little to no reason to have the gods running about in the scenario anymore then it woudl make sense to have a jesus unit runnign about in the middle ages, to represent christianity...
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Xen, go away!! :D J/K. Yes I do have a copy of that blasted book, and its the more-or-less fruity translation and not the abridged read-it-like-the-newspaper version. I took it as an elective a couple of years back.

Also, things are still evolving. There is no way in hell anyone can make a mod that represents the Illiad acurately. Thats why it will be a fantasy mod with the creator(s) deciding on the extent of divine intervention.
 
ocedius said:
Xen, go away!! J/K. Yes I do have a copy of that blasted book, and its the more-or-less fruity translation and not the abridged read-it-like-the-newspaper version. I took it as an elective a couple of years back.

Also, things are still evolving. There is no way in hell anyone can make a mod that represents the Illiad acurately. Thats why it will be a fantasy mod with the creator(s) deciding on the extent of divine intervention.
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right.

ps- Xen, PLEASE stay!
 
I think it would be easier to work on the Illiad than on the Odyssey and Aeneid. The Illiad concentrates on the final years of the Trojan war, which could be reinacted in civilisation, but the Odyssey and Aeneid concentrate on mainly one person on a quest reliant on events and certain things to happen, which would be quite hard to do in civilisation.
 
maybe so. i was considering that but lets finish the Illiad first and then decide what we are going to do about the Odyssey and Aeneid. I may drop the Odyssey and make the Aeneid into two parts: the Carthage adventure and the colonization of Italy.
 
We now have enough city graphics, due to Skam0073, RedAlert and some others.

If you want a specific map, I agree to do it. I could work with varwnos who knows Greece better than I. Give me a picture of the area you want and you get a first map within a few hours ;)
 
Maisse's maps of the area are great + he already has some made. So i think that he could be the better choise, unless you want a map that would be based on my already made Greece map, made bigger so as to have a part of coastal asia minor. But in that case i warn you that it will be quite big, since the map as it is is 150*196. Ofcourse it doesnt have to be very bigger than that if you do not wan all of the western areas of it.
 
the region i want is greece and turkey and a little bit north. the southern most point i would want would be something like the sinai peninsula. main things i need are greece and turkey. where are these city graphics i am hearing about?
 
For city graphics, check the library. It's complete !
http://forums.civfanatics.com/showthread.php?t=100866

I made a greek pack with 5 different greeck city graphics, ready to play !
http://forums.civfanatics.com/showthread.php?t=100773

My maps are here but I don't think there's something good for this scenario. I'll make a new one. I understood the north and south limits of what you want. But what about east and west ? I think it would be nice to include Lebanon, Palestine and Israel on the east side. On the west side, do you stop after Greece or do you want some parts of Italy ? Odysseus was sensed to go to Djerba and Sicily, so it would be nice to include it.

I think
 
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