Well at this point I’m just saying things and hope it wouldn’t happen again in the future, or something
No, they fill the 4-by-4 square, so you can’t scale them up without introducing other, arguably worse, problems. Plus changing building graphics doesn’t affect attachment positions (fire, snow, garrison flags).
That person is me, because I haven’t seen the images of castles and units when I choose, I want to see what everyone thinks, But there was no such option in the options you provided, so I chose an option that I thought no one would choose, or the least people would choose. Now I have chosen again what I think of myself.
You don’t have to vote to see other peoples votes.
Thank you. I just realized this today…
Agreed. It’s almost like they took inspiration from Clash of Clans for upgraded looks lmao
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You can adjust the anchor points so it wouldn’t be too visible. Depends on the original images, sometimes it works
Plus changing building graphics doesn’t affect attachment positions (fire, snow, garrison flags).
Yeah that’s true
Why isn’t there a mod already?
I just want all these Purism people to shut up.
You could lower the anchor point to avoid problems at the bottom of the graphics, but they’d still be too wide.
Maybe all the people who know how to make mods also like the new skins?
Order of the Dragon had already been clowned on for doing “the same but with gold details”, I don’t understand why they thought this was a good idea.
When I say proportion, I mean, for example, the size of the door or windows.
e.g. The front gate of the new Chinese castle is shorter than a person, imagine if they want to get inside, they will need to lower their head. And some windows have size of a mouse hole, making the castle like a toy house.
I imagine to make a mod to fix it, I will need to outport all of sprites (including all frame of the destruction animation) and edit each image, to make the gate bigger, for who knows how many images?
Maybe there is other way to do but idk. There is a reason we see many buliding mods for HD, but few for DE. The difficulty of modding have been raised.
(I miss the mod that changes the Japanese castle’s front stairs into a proper gate)
That being said, I can live with those new castles, but just think they can be improved, so I leaving my feedback as user,
Then kind of get told “Just fix the product yourself”, that is just… weird.
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The issue is models are based on wildly different castles or fortifications while still having to fit on the same 4x4 area. Making doors and windows the same size would ruin the look of the castle, or at best would make it look like only vaguely taking some architectural style as you’d expect in Disneyland.
Cossacks has doors large enough for units as they do exit the building when created, and doors are often 2-3 stories high relative to the building.
Scale is also an issue for wonders, you could pile up the smaller ones (Goths) several times inside the larger ones (Franks) without difficulty, still they are all 5x5.
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Yes, for comparison, look at the good old britons castle, which based on a gate house of a real castle and mixed with main keep. Nothing else.
Some newer castles… they having everything, walls, towers, keep. Which make it crowded and overcomplicated already.
But that’s still fine, as long as it’s believable when units standing next to the building. That why I think the size of doors/gates matter.
I do think Barracks is good example for “Building that have wall surrounding the main part” when it comes to scaling.
Look at that freaking mini Roman colosseum lol. I know it’s reused model, but still..
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A weird choice (built in the 70s AD) while there already was the Arch of Constantine (around 320 AD)
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I really wish they went wish something more recent for the AoE2 Romans, since they claim those represent latter Romans than RoR would. Reusing the arch could clash with Huns’ wonder though.
Precisely. The Romans built, the Huns plundered.
if you want “all” regular skins (some skins are not identical as previous patch but they look similar)
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Pretty sure this is one of those give it a few weeks and you’ll get used to it issues… aka a non-issue.
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Great! Thank you a lot! 
Edit: I’ve just subscribed to the (heavy) mod and while the elite UU thumbnails haven’t been reverted, it’s for me clearly a plus compared to a week ago, so again, thank you a lot!