Regional unit skins?

[TommoChocolate]

@Skadidesu

Someone did the math and it turned out that what he said was pretty wrong.

I did a back-of-the-envelope calculation in this thread:

Regional unit skins

Also, he claimed it would take “half a terabyte” (although he admitted he couldn’t remember exactly). My computer tells me the total file size of the graphics of all generic non-siege land units is almost exactly 1 GB, including both standard and enhanced graphics. There were 35 civs when DE was released, so it would have required an extra 34 GB. I admit this is an underestimate, because on release the game used a less compressed graphics format – but even so, it would be nowhere near half a te…

I estimated 1GB per region for both standard and enhanced graphics, which is not much by today’s standards. For just standard graphics, I’d guess it’s about 200MB per region (since enhanced graphics are about 4 times the size of standard ones).

@Skadidesu

Also it was assuming that every single civ would get completely unique sprites, not regional ones!

Yes, not only did Cysion give completely the wrong answer, but it’s the answer to the wrong question.

@bigbossbro08

Just delete x2/x4 size sprites already. That’s taking most of the space

I’m confused – these are an optional download. You can already uninstall the enhanced graphics pack if you don’t want to use it. (Also I didn’t know there were 4x graphics – thought that was only AoE1DE.)