No silly theming. An alternative portrayal of a god in the their appearance, posing, background or clothing. Please do more of this AOM 
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Different strokes for different folks. Not every alternate image needs to appeal to everyone equally. I don’t care for some of the ones they’ve had so far, some I really like. That’s just how it’s going to be.
Might be off-topic but honestly I would have preferred the devs to focus more on bug fixes and QoL feature updates (I recently made a post on these aspects on custom games). I mean the god portrait is just a picture to display, which feels cheap because it is kinda easy to make, especially with the help of AI.
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I agree. I mean it is good that they have things that make the community want to log in and keeps the game feeling lively. But I do feel like they are neglecting bugs. It feel like there is less acknowledgement of the bugs being reported on the forum these days.
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I think they are super busy with the DLC, probably after that they will fix them.
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Its prob not the same person/group doing artwork than the person doing bug testing and solving. Cant shut down a whole function because another one is lacking. You would be having 2 lacking systems instead of a good one and a meh one.
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hi!
- yes, i agree! i think THATS how the alternate portraits should be done for the most part at least! of course the others are funny or cute but there should be way more frequently to let those be optionally. But since we get so rarely alternate portraits (which should at best change the ingame statues aswell!) they should prioritize more serious adaptions like this one. I really think this alternate version should have been for Fuxi all along - don’t know why (and would like to know why they choose tsukuyomi first. Again: Fuxi seriously needs it. But i of course appreciate that they even try it and have work-space and time to do this! Makes me happy. (Wonder if alterante female versions will be more “sexy” aswell or if they let “modern audience” influence them and only make males less covered and more “sexy”.
- yes, of course there are more important things!!! but -
- as @Cajocu01 said: there are different departments responsible for different things. Bug, performance, gameplay and visuals/ rewards are different departments. (i also assume the departments are different sizes)
- as someone said: with AI its quick quick to do and shouldn’t be a problem at all (which guys like me with my thread - @kjohnhayes know which one i mean - proofed quite well) i know these are done my artist and i don’t know how much they have to do but AI can be an option just saying and even no AI shouldn’t an image take a month for a skilled and payed artist.
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I hope so, although some of the bugs existed since release or after the chinese DLC.
This is a good point. Perhaps it is also great to have alternative in-game unit models/skins, such as the prometheans (the new model looks a bit weird to me), or to be able to shrink the size of the myth units. This can be done by either the devs or mods.
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The DLC is going to be a pretty big update. Bugfixes now might actually cause more problems down the line if they’re incompatible with the DLC, so any real bug fixing is probably not going to happen until after that releases in order to avoid duplicating work or creating new problems.
Not to mention that running one of these community events is probably minimal coding work once you have a template established, so it’s not like this is taking any real time away from anything.
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