Hub for new civilisation concepts

Age of Empires II: DE II - Discussion
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I was currently looking for some civilisation concepts to be inspired for my first modding project.
But when looking at this forum I saw that it is really hard to find the threads.

As I always have the opinion: If something you wanna like to have isn’t there: DIY!

But first I want to ask how to set this up. I would first divide the civs in continental regions and then sort them alphabetically. Then I would add some Emojis to signalize what kind of content is already included in that Thread - I currently have 4:

:paintbrush: - The thread contains artwork
:open_book: - The thread contains historic background
:horse_racing: - The thread contains scenario/campaign ideas
:gear: - The thread contains civ design
:exclamation: - The political motive or historic accuracy is questioned, read with reasonable doubt

As additional information I will link the creator of the civ concept and the timeframe of the civ.

The local differencation I want to use:

Europe
Fertile Crescent ^
Asia
Africa
Oceania
North America
South America

Out of timeframe (600-1600)

^ Fertile crescent refers to the region from the anatol to the Indus. All other names I found for this look kinda “political incorrect” to me. The region was for the most part a melting pot of a lot of different kinda separated regions like europe, east asia, africa, the steppe lands in central asia and ofc the arab peninsula. I’m looking for a better name, so if you have one please tell me.

Please give me any kind of feedback right now before I start trying to collect all the civ Ideas we already had.

I would like this topic to be pinned somewhere when it’s done, but I can understand that not anybody can just claim “pin this here!” just because it hits his personal preference what should be pinned and what not.
My explanation why I would like this to be pinned is cause civ concepts are something for eternity, they only get “old” once someone put them in the game. They are a great source of inspiration for all modders. So this thread could possibly be pinned in the modding department (?).

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If it is for modding, then it should be moved to the modding section in my opinion.

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I think it’s most interesting for modders, but I was always intersted in interesting civ designs even before I decided to start modding myself.
So I open the thread here and if the feedback is: It’s only for modders I’m fine if it’s moved there then.

You see this Thread:

Is one with the most posts in the forum, if not even the most. So I think there are a lot of people interested in civ design concepts.

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Your history emoji should be :open_book: or one of the other book icons. I think you and @DynasticPlanet5 might be a good match for this.

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You cant edit the first post to link all the concepts so would this have any use?

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You mean once it is pinned?
I could make a new thread and make the description in the first and the linking + hub in the second post.

The next question I have is what to do with threads that contain multiple civ concepts and “overlapping” civ concept threads about the same civ?
For the multiple civ concept threads I would probably make also a sub category “Multi-Civ concepts”, but if the individual civ designs proposed meet some kind of elaboration (which is subjective ofc, for transparency I would only link those which meet at least 50% of the positive emojis described above) I will also link them individually in the right places.
The overlapping concepts I currently have no other Idea but to link only the “main” thread of each individual autor.

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Could make it a wiki to edit later, but you might need regular status to do that.

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Shouldn’t that work? I’m confused, what is the problem?

Edit: otherwise if I link a thread in mine it will automatically have a backlink in the footer. If you speak about that. So there is no need to edit other peoples first post.