As far as I know they haven’t explained why. My bet is just that they thought it fit better with Sobek becuase of the Petsuchos myth unit and Crocodilopolis upgrade. But like I said, why not change Nephtys to Serqet then? I’m glad they didn’t. I just wished they let they let the petsuchos represent Sobek, maybe more explicitly by giving it’s upgrade an Icon depicting Sobek or something like that, would have made it impossible to add him to a 4th God pack. But plenty other gods have techs refering to other Egyptian dieties, which makes it awkward to add them too.
That’s why I keep stressing on that there is plenty of gods to choose from. I don’t want any overlaps, I want more different Egyptian Gods.
i disagree here. i think Sobek was the right call and fits much better with the petsuchos - whoever made this and agreed to this decision clearly had too few impact on the rest of the game cause otherwise we would have more such cool and better fitting changes.
they just never should have made hathor as an optional portrait and name in brackets to give that compromise. we all know compromises might be good in relationships but not in games. either go x route or z route. at least thats my opinion about that topic.
hathor in the original was like many others not really fitting to the myth unit especially when there are clearly better more fitting opitions. unfortuantely they didn’t went through with it for other gods and civs - which in my opinioin they should have done!
i am relative certain tho that hathor will come back as a new uniuqe goddess with a better fitting myth unit and godpower. (even the godpower didn’t fit her at all in the original but old devs didn’t thought things through very well aswell so no surprise even they did a great job with many things they did many of these unnecessary unfittingly weird decisions in such cases).
the question is more what new hathor GP and myth unit will be if she is a minor goddess.