merijn_v1
Black Belt
For the Tower of London you also could give them the Dungeon art (but bigger) and find another art for the Dungeon. (if their is a good one) If not, I agree with the 2nd picture of jessiecat.
I did suggest the Tower of London to replace Scotland Yard. It's very old ( over 900 years old) and historically very important. Used as the Royal prison with many famous people imprisoned and executed there and where the Crown Jewels were stored. Here's a picture and possible art for the building. (2nd. from left in strip).
Hm. That building is already used for Palais des Papes, I think.
And anyway if it will be a national wonder, we shouldn't use so many polygons. So I'll look for another tower graphics.
Yeah, Palace doesn't look like one. But I couldn't find anything better to replace the ridiculous default "asian palace".
We also need a replacement for Summer Palace, as it has too many polygons for a National Wonder (which will be built by a lot of civs).
You don't like the other two?
I think that the colony feature isn't nearly as complicated as it should be.
First, I think there should be many more places to colonize. For example, the only colony in the Caribbean is Cuba, with no mention to Hispaniola, Jamaica, the Bahamas, or any other significant colonies. Also what about places like Patagonia, Pampas, Yucatan, Llanos, Peru?? That's just South America. There are lots of other missing places.
I know that this would mean way too many colonial projects, but what about a different approach to them? The hammers required to make them could be reduced, and the UHV's for those Western European Civs could be changed to building 7 or 8 colonial projects, maybe 8 for Spain, if we want to get even more accurate.
Maybe as another "kind" of colonial project we could have the Aztec and Inca conquests.. They would require more hammers and provide more benefits. this could be added to to Spain's already very easy UHV requirements:
1. Unite Iberia through conquest or vassalage, and allow no religions other Catholicism
2. Build 8 colonial projects (OR have more colonial projects than any other civ)
3. Conquer the Aztec, Inca
Also, what about revolutions for the colonies??? If a civilization becomes too unstable, revolutions could take place in their colonies, which would make them lose their colony, and prevent any other civ from building that colony.
(off topic, but since we have Magellan's voyage, why not Columbus's?)
Any thoughts??
Ok, is there some way that I can work towards their inclusion?
Wow. You're more resourceful than most requesting people that I have seen, MV.
However - on your suggestion to lower the hammer requirement for colonies... don't you think they would then provide a little too much in comparison for the hammers they cost? If their costs are to be lowered, I think 4 resources (at most 5) per colony is good enough.
All in all, I support including the Inca and Aztec conquests. You also can't build the empire where to sun never sets with just 3 colonies.