Topic: Tribe emblems

I currently do some work on tribe emblems. While babarian and atlantean emblerms are available in 32px and 150px, the empire emblem is only available in 32px. See f.e. atlenatean 32px and atlantean 150px. So i begun with the empire:

Old	new 32px	new 150px

Another idea is to get away from the worrier sign and put something in there which is related to the specific tribe. Typical for the empire tribe is the marmor colummn, or the donkey (Pictures are not ready for usage):

If we choose the donkey or the marble colummn, i need some help with a blender experienced person to get an image for theses signs which comes from the images used in game. I tried to look into blender, and used the blender files from widelands-media, but it's very hard to dive in.

What do you think about that?

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Alternately, you can think up some text in a fictitious language. For comparison, many people recognize that S.P.Q.R. is a reference to the roman empire, but since it's latin, most people have no clue what it means.

Therefore, we'd technically have a "foreign to everyone" acronym for a motto, presumably in latin (fake latin?) or some other language that isn't really used these days. Some latin ideas, going by google translate:

V.P. (Victoriam Populi; Victory for the people)
V.C.D.I. (Victoriae contentione districti de imperio; Victory for the empire)
H.G.T. (Hastas galeae terra; spears, helmets, and land)
P.D. (Posset disciplina; might through training)

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GunChleoc wrote:

I like the donkey idea

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Individual shield shapes would also make them more distinguishable, so I like that you changed that.

Yes, this is intended.

We should not have writing in these, because it would be hard to localize.

I think the relevant strings are self explaining and havn't to be localized. Except for languages that do not use the latain characters (f.e. japanese/arabic/russian/...) Something i did not thought about...

Alternately, you can think up some text in a fictitious language. For comparison, many people recognize that S.P.Q.R. is a reference to the roman empire,

Yes, i thought also on S.P.Q.R. A fictitious abbreviation would be like a sign. But i am unsure because of the character localization. If we look from the otherside (if this emblem would be made by a user from a different land) to such an sign, we see maybe something like

مونيخ

and we couldn't do anything with such sign.

I was thinking, the Barbarians could have a crossed axe and thatch reed,

They allready have a crossed ax

and the Atlanteans could have a fire emblem for Satul.

Who, or what is Satul? I thought more on Spider/Crystal/Diamond/Corn

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GunChleoc wrote:

I like the donkey idea

Hmm... I guess that this is not the best idea.

In my country (Poland) donkey is a symbol of stupidity. Do you want to make Empire silly? If yes- go for donkey

I guess that in other countries donkeys are that symbol too.

For me Empire is directly connected to the Roman Empire and they had one well known symbol- eagle

http://nasznowyjork.org/uploads/3/1/9/9/3199739/1376955232.jpg

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einstein13 wrote:

In my country (Poland) donkey is a symbol of stupidity. Do you want to make Empire silly?

The donkey has more symbolic than stupidity or stubborn. Its also known as a working animal, resistant and sustained. I think we shoudn't work on the game with such a severity. A bit humor gives him a little bit fun In the end the player makes the tribe a good work, not the emblems.

The emblems are also currently not used in the game... but i hope somwhen we will see it there

In general i want to display the things which are typical for the tribe to help to join it to the tribe.

Current state:

The donkeys do not satisfy....

A previous rework to the babarians emblem:

old	new 32px	new 150px

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