Expanding over the concept art of devs revealed in the recent aoe documentary:
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Not a massive fan of this. I like the way it works right now. It’s been that way since 1999 and I see no reason to change it now. That said, there should be a Balkan set that the Byzantines and Bulgarians share.
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You mean balkan set?
@Apocalypso4826 Along with new civs Georgians and Armenians, I know you want it, please stop repeating the same thing over and over again and again everywhere. Say something new.
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This is only about the third or fourth time I’ve said it. And really, it’s nothing compared to the number of complaints about the Romans. My suggestion is relevant and fresh every time I mention it, unlike those posts.
Yes, that’s what I thought I said. My bad.
Nah it’s much more than that:
https://forums.ageofempires.com/search?q=caucasus%20%40Apocalypso4826
https://forums.ageofempires.com/search?q=georgian%20%40Apocalypso4826
https://forums.ageofempires.com/search?q=armenian%20%40Apocalypso4826
https://forums.ageofempires.com/search?q=byzantine%20%40Apocalypso4826
https://forums.ageofempires.com/search?q=caucasian%20%40Apocalypso4826
and many times over your youtube channel too.
Well nope it is not fresh anymore.
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The reason I keep mentioning it is because it keeps being relevant. I tend to spread the mentions out, though. Please get off my back out that. You should complain about the dozens and dozens of carbon copy posts about Rome.
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This got already too specific. The only ones I really want are the christian orthodox and christian ethiopian.
I still don’t agree with giving Southern European civs the cardinal. Every catholic nation had cardinals; they simply are clergymen with a rank high enough to elect the Pope, for example (though outside of the scope of AOE2) the Cardinal de Richelieu was Louis XIII of France’s most important minister.
If anything, the Franks should be the second-in-line just after the Italians to get cardinals, as the Pope once was in Avignon and France is the 2nd country that had the most Popes (16), behind Italy (266).
Make the inquisitor instead of the cardinal (same model), that replaces spanish monks when the Spanish research their inquisition UT.
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I like the idea of more monk variety and more appropriate monasteries in some cases (e.g. East Asian monasteries other than Japanese shouldn’t have a torii), but this feels a bit too granular, somehow.
Some things are strange here. I think that’s an official Ethiopian monastery, but why is it at a different angle from everything else? Does the Slavic monastery have a little garden? Why have they used the old HD Mediterranean monastery? Why is the mesoamerican monastery made of fudge?
The Inca one looks great. Is that official at all, or just a really good fanmade sprite?
It’s a cut model of an alternative wonder that they had, that can still be found in the scenario editor. The cross church part is at an angle.
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Clearly a nod to the American origin of chocolate. Since the Mayas considered chocolate to be “[Food] of the gods,” it only makes sense that they would honor their gods by constructing temples entirely of fudge.
The Inca one is made using parts of the Inca wonder. Once you’ve seen that it looks overly derivative.
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Typical for a placeholder until the buildings artist can make a proper model. Until we see the final version, I’ll consider that as a placeholder.
I wonder if this idea got out-right canned or if the devs are waiting to release it with expansion 23; twilight of the toltecs
Signed, sealed, delivered (pre-ordered). Just have to wait for 2035 now.
The Berber one is a reskinned West European church, of all things, is there a reason for that?
Anyway, some of those very civ specific designs will stand out as odd if the other buildings are not reworked…
I like how you selectively want things but reject the rest.
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Yes I made it just as a placeholder.
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I may be a stickler for accuracy, but I’m also a purist. I don’t want the game that I grew up playing to be changed too much.