Team SANCTA Logo?

[General_W]

Team SANCTA Logo Poll

This poll is to officially approve (or not) Viva_C's proposed team logo.​

We will also need to collect some Leader names (it doesn't matter what actual leader we end up playing with) – but once we have a Logo and Leader name, it'll be easier to settle on a name and some adjectives, I think.


Here's what we're voting on:

Main Logo:

Standalone Triangle/Head:

Letter Head Varient.

(Note: these may have to be tinkered with a bit – like the spelling of "triple" – but we need to settle on the basic look of our logo)
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This is a public poll and it will only be open for 48 hours.
EDIT: oops, apparently I forgot to hit the "public" option. Oh well, it's only a quick poll anyway!

 

[Viva_Chingon]

I worked on it a little...it's tweaked in anticipation of Willem, but it can be made a blue, white, yellow or any color for that matter.

 

[General_W]

Yes! That's awesome.

Can we maybe also see this one on that dark-grey slate kind of background?

I think this new one is perfect as a letterhead / Official Seal type version.
But I think it might be cool to have one that's a bit darker as the actual "Logo."
You know - with just the Abbreviation "SANCTA" like in the original, rather than spelled out in a circle.
Stick with the orange mask & letters and new triangle on the head though!

 

[Viva_Chingon]

Another way:

 

[civplayah]

May I ask, what is the program that you guys use to create this? Paint?

 

[General_W]

WOW!

I love it.
Course... now you've got me greedy... is it possible to make a different backdrop for each era?

ie - this new one for the Industrial Era, maybe a the slate looking one for the Ancient Era, a parchment looking one for the Classical era, a glass & brass looking one for the Renaissance Era, etc.

What do you think?

The eras are:
Ancient
Classical
Medieval
Renaissance
Industrial
Modern

 

[Theoden]

I second civplayah's question - how on earth can you create something like that 'in a hurry'? Teach us your secrets.

And I very much like General_W's idea of era-specific artwork.

 

[Viva_Chingon]

@GW, It is possible to change the background to whatever image you wish.

@Others, I use Photoshop to do image editing and Illustrator for vector graphics. These products are made by Adobe and make creating/editing images very simple once you understand the basics of how they work. Google offers much more information regarding those and free programs with similar features.

Glad you guys like. As always, input is welcome.

 

[Kylearan]

Hi,

that's not awesome, it's super awesome!!!

-Kylearan

 

[General_W]

Just to get your creative juices flowing, I spent a little time poking around in my iStock photo account for some background ideas.
To use any of these, we'd actually have to spend money... so think of them as just ideas rather than actual suggestions.

If we really fell in love with one of these, you could probably talk me into spending $1 for the small version


Ideas:

Ancient

Classical

Medieval

* Or the grey slate original(which may actually be my favorite)
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Renaissance

Industrial

* I like the orange industrial one Viva_C proposed.​

Modern

 

[Viva_Chingon]

Ancient Idea is kind of a cave drawing...

 

[General_W]

Right on!! I totally love it.

Does everyone else like this idea of having a slowly evolving logo around a similar theme as we progress through the game?

I'm totally psyched about it

 

[Viva_Chingon]

I was even thinking, given that we might come up with new ideas as we go, the overall theme might even change along the way (ditch the hood, pick up a girlie and maybe a lion or a shield...make the theme match the era, anyway).

All sorts of possibilities...

 

[civplayah]

Yeah, I love this idea!

 

[1889]

The evolving logo is so great. Now how can we show it off? In past PBEM games I wrote historys of my civ to post in the turn tracker and would very much like to do somthing like that for this game. What are the rules about posting in the general forum?

 

[Viva_Chingon]

How can we show it off...good question.

I was thinking about this today...I hope to post an example soon, but essentially our letter head can be a panorama of a landscape and, as we build and whatnot, we can display things there that we want the other teams to see...obviously we wouldn't show the pyramids being build brick by brick, but we would show the pyramids after we completed them (for instance).

As to rules in the general forum, I don't see why we can't make a "SANCTA ANNOUNCEMENTS" thread. Again, I will work on a concept for the graphic letter-head/banner and report back...

 

[Viva_Chingon]

This is an example detailing the above post. For example (if we were to waste our time on the pyramids):

We could also put up pictures of our most baddest units or how many joules we have...whatever. If used as an information tool to show what we want when we want...it might be powerful.

As to broadcasting things to other civs...soon as we get writing I don't see anything wrong with saying it's just like those pop-ups which tell you who the richest or most cultured is...the game is already insinuating that someone is traveling around everywhere and talking to and seeing everything. He likely would have picked up our chronicles to bring on his trip, right?

 

[Whomp]

Awesome pics! I love the idea of making them based on the era.

I have no problem with giving the other teams info that they can garner ingame but obviously we don't want to give them anything spoilerish unless it's disinformation which I think with our diplomatic corps could be very valuable.