Revival of the FLAGS! - Page 2

OS84 · August 16, 2002, 13:24

So many questions, signa..

We will see. I dont think FIRAXIS would do us the favour, to make a patch. We need some proffesionals, and there are a lot of them to find here! I will try to find some of them, for this project.
I think, it will be OUR great CIV3 project.

Mahdimael · August 16, 2002, 13:53

A simple way to do it would be to have the flag from the same era as the leader head

OS84 · August 16, 2002, 15:19

Here, a little example what it should look like. What do you think? I hope its the right format

Schee · August 16, 2002, 17:40

An imposed flag, like in Signa's list, would be a bad idea in my opinion :

I don't want to have the modern French Republican flag when my government is monarchy, but I wouldn't have a Royalist flag when my government is Republic...

So there should be a flag for each government ?
Impossible, as many nations never had Communism, Republic, etc...

So I think that you should be able to choose your flag when you start the game and not to change it later.

Nikolai · August 16, 2002, 17:51

Not a bad idea.

But I think we still should have the option to make our own, and maybe also alter the rules to have several flags in a way or another.

OS84 · August 17, 2002, 02:28

Yesterday i took a look into the Civilization-graphicsfolder. Even with my minimal knowlege you can add flags... but so far, only for the specific culturel cities

(ya know what i mean: American culture, European culture and so on..) and not for each Civ.
This is the main problem here: add flags, where no basis is. I need someonewho have experience in changing rules, the txt.files and someone to alter the graphics.
I think, it just need a flageditor. This is complex work.
Cheers!

TexasPride · August 17, 2002, 16:24

I think that we should still appeal to Firaxis for this. Like OS84 said this is all very complex work. While it wouldn't be hard to find someone who could handle the graphics it would be extremely difficult to find someone who understands programming and all the technical stuff needed to do this ourselves (esp. without personnaly knoweldge of how the game was made in the first place). I still like haveing different flags for different govs for different civs idea. I also am all for the custom falg desighning thing.

Wernazuma III · September 3, 2002, 16:15

Browse through the Civilizations pages of my ExtraPack project (see below in my signature) and you'll find some good flags for the various civilizations.

Hagbart · September 3, 2002, 16:44

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Originally posted by Nikolai
But for the Vikings: don't use a flag with a cross on it! After all, they weren't christians.

Yes they were. Not in the beginning of the Viking age but in the middle of it ca. 1000 the Danish king Harald made inscriptions, runes, in the Jelling stone (in southern Denmark) which says something like:
"Harald king, made this memory of his father Gorm and his mother Thyra. Harald who won (conquered) all Denmark and Norway and Christed the Danes."

In reality another century pasted before the majority of the Danes were christian.

Sorry for my bad English translation.

Palaiologos · September 3, 2002, 17:08

Splendid idea!

I would really like to see the flag carried by the armies changed to the proposed national flag.

As for the Greeks:
i)Macedonian flag for Ancient times.
ii)Imperial(Byzantine) flag for Medieval times.
iii)Greek Royal flag(with the monarchy's emblem in the middle) for the industrial times.
iv)Republican Greek flag for Modern times.

Imagine the invisible Greek Armies charging forward, Imperial banners flying.

Simply put, splendid idea.

Gangerolf · September 3, 2002, 18:15

double post

Gangerolf · September 3, 2002, 18:16

I suggest that each civ use its earliest flag, and that the flags don't change due to era or government. just to make things simple

Level · September 4, 2002, 00:18

Here is the Iroquois league flag

m_m_x · September 4, 2002, 03:21

i like the idea of flags!
great idea!

Galvatron · September 4, 2002, 05:11

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Originally posted by OS84
Here, a little example what it should look like. What do you think? I hope its the right format

Wohoo looks like we have another graphically gifted person among us. Would it be possible to get you to work a nice little flag-patch for the community

?

I always was a fan of the nationalflags in Civ II and would be more than glad to see them in III again.

Wernazuma III · September 4, 2002, 14:30

Here's a persian flag from the end of the 19th century:

Ribannah · September 4, 2002, 14:50

I think this is a great idea, especially if we use animated flags.

Gangerolf · September 5, 2002, 08:14

wernazuma, where did you get that viking flag? never seen it before

Gangerolf · September 5, 2002, 08:32

the phoenician flag, isn't that the flag of libanon?
i guess it's the best option if the phoenicians never used flags or if their original flag is lost though

Tiberius · September 5, 2002, 08:37

Galvatron · September 6, 2002, 08:57

Quote:

Originally posted by Ribannah
I think this is a great idea, especially if we use animated flags.

Ribannah and her never-ending quest to implement the iroquois flag wherever it's possible

dunk · September 6, 2002, 11:00

How aobut a flag workshop where you can design your own in the game and the game will animate it and put it over your towns?

Hagbart · September 6, 2002, 12:32

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Originally posted by dunk
How aobut a flag workshop where you can design your own in the game and the game will animate it and put it over your towns?

Nice idea dunk! You make that.

Wernazuma III · September 6, 2002, 12:40

I've found my flags mainly at http://flagspot.net
The Viking flag is actually no historical one, but I liked it for its scandinavian cross.

Gangerolf · September 8, 2002, 15:31

bump

Hagbart · September 8, 2002, 15:49

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Originally posted by Gangerolf
bump

Only 26 posts to a custom avatar Gangerolf!

Gangerolf · September 8, 2002, 16:00

you're pretty close yourself, hagbart

Wernazuma, use the raven flag for the vikings! It hasn't got a cross though

Wernazuma III · September 8, 2002, 17:23

I know it's more historical, but I really think the cross is some symbolic remnant of the common cultural heritage of the Scandinavian, thus I like to have it in.

Gangerolf · September 8, 2002, 17:41

yea, i see what you mean.
but do you know where the flag comes from?
what if it's the flag of the uruguayan prawn farmers' association or something even more bizarre

dunk · September 9, 2002, 09:43

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Originally posted by Hagbart

Nice idea dunk! You make that.

Um, no.

I'm seeing people complaining about havnig to use the French tri-color if in monarchy. Well, this would shut them up and we can have flags.