The Faction Culture Discussions

[Rahwana]

Since we've work on the BI engine limitations, and planned to add bigger map area and more factions as the time progressed, currently, Cute Wolf and I discussed about some factions to be put in a larger cultures (bacause subcultures and cultures are blurred in this timeframe, namely we have 2 interesting discussion topics)

1) Pajajaran kingdom, shoud they got different culture or the same culture with Javanese factions? while they are rather unique in terms of cultural archievement, linguistically, and perhaps economically, they are no different than ancient Javanese, and only some little language differences exist in that time. CW designed Jawi culture to take up the "hun" culture slot.

2) Current research on south sumateran / sriwijayan culture factions show a rather contrary result with previous researches, it was true that they have several deviation that "Melayu" culture had, but they are actually called themself "Melayu", albeit with "dalam, or tua" title. So we decided to include them in extended Melayu cultures. CW designed melayu culture to take up the "eastern" culture slot.

and as an info European factions will took "roman" culture slot, and we will implement a "reform" by "marian reform-ish" trigger, namely when Europeans got their hands into one of the important town, and upgrade them to major cities (important cities got "italy" hidden resources)

[Cute Wolf]

And dont worry bout the structures, i allready planned to copy most of m2tw middle eastren const cards, and "barbarian" and "eastern" buildings in rtw seems pretty close when it comes to large or huge cities, the big problem is only one, we need to somehow integrate masjid in the city battle, but maybe simple port from m2 will work.

[Nyz]

I think RTW Eastern temples closely resembles Majapahit's Pura, Candi, temples and Wringin lawang, while Melaka and Palembang Masjid, even Masjid Agung Demak resembles Chinese architecture, can we borrow from Wundai at Ran no Jidai?

[G. Septimus]

I think RTW Eastern temples closely resembles Majapahit's Pura, Candi, temples and Wringin lawang, while Melaka and Palembang Masjid, even Masjid Agung Demak resembles Chinese architecture, can we borrow from Wundai at Ran no Jidai?

Vanilla Carthie Standard Buildings look like moaques

[Cute Wolf]

@ intifadanyz : perhaps, but it will be unfunny to have your "masjid" have buddha sculpture... and I think personally, the M2TW Masjid are better, the Demak dynasty and palembang did build their masjid resembles chinese architectures because they are descendant of Chinese muslims... but the Aceh and Malaka? I think not....

@GSS : what buildings? (thinking of the Awesome temple of Baal)

[Nyz]

Nop... not funny. that's true. Here the pic of traditional Masjid in Melaka.

Masjid Tangkera Melaka: The oldest

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Masjid Kampung Kling

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Masjid Kampung Hulu

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Masjid Kampung Umbai (Green structure, the peach one is Makam Sultan Ali)

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Masjid that have been built later in Malaya have Mughal, Iran, Turki and Arab architecture.... For Masjid Agung Baiturrahman in Acheh, that mosque have been built later to replace the one that destroyed in Acheh-Holland war... the former mosque has Malay-Cham traditional architecture...


Hmm...Awesome Eastern temple do resemble Prambanan temple....