As for the 'wacky civs' thing: I can see your point, and I have in fact been working on an 1800's London Map (like my Manhattan map) to take advantage of the SP units in a future mod which will use the tech tree from this mod with minor modifications.
Something sorta like a victorian era version of the Super Civ scenario?
I'm sorry I got kinda testy... I've spent a significant part of today (when not spending time with my family) working on a certain king unit for the Final Fantasy mod that I started over a year ago, only to, after spending hours getting the animations done, only to keep finding one more piddly thing that needed fixing, so I had to go and edit every single animation over again... It takes almost 5 minutes for Poser to open a typical unit file on my computer.
...and this is on top of having someone run into the tree in front of our house at 4AM this morning. Thankfully, he wasn't hurt bad and he barely missed our vehicles in the driveway, but still....
I may yet get around to working on the "Portal Flash" version of the mirror, but it will take a while... In order for it to be used as a unit, you need a proper unit pallette, convert it into a storyboard somehow, and (if you don't want it looking like crap in-game) some way to make it so that it doesn't have transparent pixels on the mirror body in the final version... I have the ways and means to make all that happen, but the problem is finding a time slot in my unit making schedule.
Also, I do agree that the Lost Worlds has had some side benefits: I never heard of the Barsoom chronicles until it came out (I read
Tarzan of the Apes in school, and never particularly felt any overriding desire to read any more of Burroughs works), and like I said, it was thanks to this scenario that I was able to get the reference/joke in Eric Flint/Ryk E. Spoor's book
Boundary... I.e. they named the Mars Lander
John Carter and the crew dubbed the rover
Thoat (and one of said crew made a comment about how he'd rather ride
Dejah Thoris, which 99.9% of the male population probably agreed with).