Also, for the sake of keeping things together (this has been suggested numerious times elsewhere):
British Manors
Change name to Cottages (the quintessential British cottage was far more commonly built than expensive, elite Manors)
Cottages is what the majority of the population were living in
A settlement wouldn’t be exclusively full of Manor houses!
A new model to coincide with name change is full justified - it’s a Unique Building, has different stats and resource cost!
Model could be a very simple wooden frame cottage that evolves to a brick cottage. A little hedge/fence at the front of the building further helps differentiate from Houses.
The Terraced House HC shipment tech could change the Cottages to Victorian red brick town houses along with name change (Victorian Terrace / Victorian House / Victorian Residence - anything really, though probably not best to refer to it as a town house if we have them all dotted around in a jungle )
if there was an interesting enough idea, I would
I thought SirBarnzy1’s proposal for the feitoria TC getting a unique look was a cool idea that also made sense gameplay-wise because the building does have a unique function.
The only other unique town center I can think of would be the Ottoman one. But I think we all wish for a total Ottoman architecture overhaul…
Forts:
You know those weird house-castle monstrosities? Supposedly the defensive apex of European fortification - they are (and have always been) awful looking.
I’d love to see these Devs add a bit of love to these - bringing proper looking forts. I mean the Age itself is (rather Euro-centrically) called the Fortress Age, after all!
An old RTS game, American Conquest portrayed it well with the forts (unique appearence for each civ):
Basically bastion walls and HQ/garrison buildings inside (within current footprint unless they wanted to be bigger). Regional (Med/West Euro, etc) styles would be nice - just anything but these medieval houses!
Also on a similar subject, wooden stockade forts were even more common and often were the first fortications to secure the area before the stone/brick fort. We have a campaign building model - the Stockade - it would be great if they were in the game same how, even as a replacement shipment for the Outposts (could act as a Castle style building in terms of strength).
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