And the White Tower, an infamous dungeon!I suppose the castle is the Motte and the Bailey is the wall-enclosed set of buildings. Hopefully it looks more integrated when in the same Quarter, which I'm supposing is not the case in the above image.
Will be a little weird to have a Dungeon and a Donjon in the same city.
It looks from the image on the civ guide as if the "celebration" animation for completion of the White Tower is a flight of crows circling around. How darkly appropriate.
The famous ravens of the tower!It looks from the image on the civ guide as if the "celebration" animation for completion of the White Tower is a flight of crows circling around. How darkly appropriate.
I believe those should be Ravens - the "Tower Ravens" are quite famous and well cared for by the guards.It looks from the image on the civ guide as if the "celebration" animation for completion of the White Tower is a flight of crows circling around. How darkly appropriate.
Funnily enough, I think we've seen "Mongolia" so far, and I think "Normandy" is more recognizable to the average person.
Fair. I do wish they (and "Mississippian" and "Abbasid") were written in plural, though, as has been the case with similar names in previous games, like the Ottomans in VI or the Huns in V.
A kinda magistrate?Presumably these buildings, mixed with the Greek UBs here.
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Re: Swiss Flag
So, I modded a Hospital building into Civ VI a while ago and the issue is very familiar to me. As already mentioned, using a Red Cross icon is at the very least unethical. A Rod of Asclepius icon doesn't really stand out from far, it's more or less just a vertical line unless you a) use a high-res texture for the flag and b) are zoomed in to the max. The Caduceus is more recognizable from afar due to the wings, but is technically the wrong symbol and the game already does use it correctly for commerce.
In the end, I also settled on the solution Firaxis found (or stole from me, if I'm feeling full of myself): an inverted red cross, i.e. the Swiss flag.
HOWEVER: There was one additional issue I had. Color. My Hospital building provides a mix of science and unit healing. I themed the building blue-ish through its glass facade. A frequent alternative to using the red cross is a green cross. Unfortunately, red fit the HP-related bonus better. Green is the color of food and growth. But what's that? There is no more health or housing in VII. As seen with the Bath, health-themed buildings now seem to grant their bonuses to growth directly in the form of a Food yield. So green would be perfect!
tl;dr: use a green cross instead
Inconsistency is something that bothers me in this kind of naming situation, Civ 7 is using at least 3 types of patterns, country name (classical use of Greece, Rome, Egypt, Aksum, etc), people or period names (Shawnee, Khmer, Mississipian, Abbasid, etc) and compound names (a mixture of the 2 above giving Maurya India, Han China, etc). Obviously not all civs have the option of using the name of a country, but it is preferable to the others. "Norman" strangely deviates from the pattern by not going with Normandy, but on the other hand it is more obvious that it also encompasses Norman England and perhaps Norman Sicily as well.
I suspect the compound names aren't actually in the game. Chola is still just Chola on the site, and Maurya, Han, and Ming have all been referred as just that in the past. IIRC when Maurya showed up in the livestream they didn't have India attached too. Modern Age Japan was also just called "Meiji" in the Switch trailer, so I suspect the compounds have just been added for marketing purposes to increase familiarity a little.
Horse = Mongols
I'd much rather them ditch the first one and just name them for the people like past civ games: Greeks, Romans, Egyptians, Aksumites etc.
Isn't it already known that you just have to play the game as Amina to unlock them?
Boring but also possibly a little out of the player's control depending on spawn...
