Well, time to defend myself.
Okay, I played some as the Sakuya civ and as this civ, with the other in the game, and... they're pretty rough. The Newspaper Delivery UU doesn't work right, allowing every other civ in the game to build it and Great Prophets, and their names all display, like, "Bunbunmaru Herald (Newspaper Delivery) (Tengu Newspaper Delivery)" or something close to that.
It's a fact that the Newspaper Delivery doesn't work right, I know that, but I can't do anything until someone comes up with an idea to replace religious units of only 1 civilization. The quick answer would be changing the UU to something else, it isn't that hard, but I'd prefer trying to fix the GP instead of going the easy way. About the names, they are based in worldwide newspapers, not some random name i might have thought of.
Their ability is strictly better than Montezuma's, but Montezuma may have been underpowered, so I'll hold off on saying if it's balanced. I'm not that sure if it feels... Aya-ey.
Aya-ey? The Tengu live in youkai "mountain", and some can fly, so it's obvious they'd have less trouble moving through hills. I can't think of anything "Aya-eyish" that isn't a simple culture bonus or great artist bonus which for me (and for the record, I don't make the mods for subscribers or anything, I make it for my gameplay experience and upload them just because) it's boring.
I DO know that making the leap from newspapers to faith doesn't make a whole lot of sense, especially as a Touhou civ, when there's probably going to be other Touhou leaders dealing with faith as actual faith, like Shikieki or Toyastomi or Kanako or Byakuren, so their Newspaper Delivery UU doesn't make sense.
It's about spreading something. The objective of a newspaper is getting people to read it (sometimes even more than providing valuable information), so spreading it like faith, people giving more credit to Aya's newspaper than a belief, I don't find it wrong at all.
It also doesn't seem necessary, as I have never seen a Great Prophet fail to convert a city's religion with one spread attempt (even if it's a size-48 Rabanastre with 47 followers of my state religion), so a "stronger, less uses" Prophet just seems like a downgrade.
I agree on that one, I focused on numeric values more than how it really plays, I might change it later, but the moving bonus can give it a reason to have less uses.
The dialogue and DOM screen have a LOT of typos and weird sentence construction. I feel like you're missing a lot of commas.
I'm not a native English speaker so I'm not surprised, if you could help in that area I'd be grateful.
The DOM screen speech also doesn't fit the pattern of the others, and it doesn't really tell the player about the civ they are going to play, and the way it's written like half a conversation is just... awkward.
Like I said, the priority of this mod was my personal entertainment. I never even thought of comparing it to other civs, and I had it almost ready before I realized there was someone other than Graan uploading Touhou mods. The DOM speech is changeable though. "Awkward", that's like, your opinion man.
And why doesn't Aya have a semi-abstracted symbol like the other civs?
Because honestly, I don't have a single clue about how to do it
And with your city names, you obviously tried to go with naming the cities after tengu-relevant locations, but that doesn't really work. It's repetitive to have a good proportion of your cities named "Tengu Something", makes it harder to remember which is which when you get a pop-up message, and it just doesn't look right.
First, that's like, your opinion man. I honestly don't like something that might be unknown (imagine someone doesn't know Prypyart, or however it's writen) so I decided to give them simple names like those, as always, for me to enjoy.
In my mods and in Graan's Scarlet Estate mod
I never intended that my mods live up to Graan's or yours.
, cities are named on a theme: The Estate cities start with a couple of spell cards and Voile, then they're named after stars and red things, so there's the cities of "Carnelian" and "Aldeberan" instead of something like "Scarlet Ballroom" and "Scarlet Garden". The Fairy Alliance cities are each named by a Team 9 member or generic fairy. The Palace of Earth Spirits' cities are all named after atomic disaster sites or other radiation-related locations. You could have Aya name cities after famous journalists, or species of corvid, or something like that, and there'd be more variety and make it easier to come up with.
Perfectly valid opinion, I might consider it, but I don't really share it.
I don't wanna sound like I'm just busting your balls or anything, like I just care about pointing out flaws. I do think the mod is worth working on, but I think it does need work.
I'm sure you have the best of intentions (or at least I hope so) and I appreciate suggestions, but no way I'm going to change EVERYTHING just because there is something wrong with text or someone didn't like the city naming. I'll do my best to fix everything I consider important. Pointing flaws is easy, fixing them is quite the contrary, so I'd appreciate help in this thing. Just bear in mind that you make your mods for your reasons (that might be anything, I don't know) and I make my mods for my reasons.
I'm sorry if I sounded witty or aggressive in any response, It isn't my intention to condemn you for pointing out flaws and giving opinions about my work.
by not making it appear (at least for me).
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