A Plea for More Realistic Deserts

[Centurio Nixalsverdrus]

Hey ye heros of antiquity (EB-team),

I have a plea. I don't know if I will play EBII. But a serious, and I mean a really serious reason to do so for me would be if you would be so kind and finally implement realistic deserts.

The ones in RTW and thus sadly EBI are really bad. They only consist of dunes, and dunes that are grossly oversized in my opinion. In reality, only a minority of the deserts around the globe consist of dunes. Once upon a time back in school I learned the different kinds of deserts. There is sand (yes, but not so much as one would think), rock, and scree (I hope that's the right word).

Could you be so nice?

Thank you in advance.

[geala]

...I don't know if I will play EBII. ...

You are yoking, aren't you?

[MarcusAureliusAntoninus]

Deserts are made by the ground textures and the terrain files. Deserts got a bit better after EBv1.0. I do agree with you about them being repetative and having too many dunes. I don't know if this can be altered greatly. They will most likely be some version of the deserts from M2TW.

[Belisarius II]

I agree, there should be more rock and shrubbery in the deserts. The M2TW deserts are better, but still way to much sand and dunes. Wouldn't the team be able to modify those terrain files?

[Moros]

Well I must say you're right really. I think I'll keep an eye on it. :)

[Centurio Nixalsverdrus]

Wow, that's great news indeed!

I have brought the GREAT EB nice trees already, now I will bring HIM nice deserts. Ah,...

[Ibrahim]

not exactly; arabia isn't covered in shrubbery in the literal sense; the flora tends to be herbs, some grasses, and small bushes. and the floor isn't typically rock, its more a gravely sand mix, especially to the east.

there are however parts of western arabia that are covered in rocks as some of you envision; they're called 7arraat; they the remains of old dorment volcanoes (they have erupted several times in the last 2000 years).

a 7arrah (at least I sssume so, from the rocks):

http://www.photoforum.ru/f/photo/000/036/36344_84.jpg

some parts are even suptropical; this is so on jabal-3umaan and parts of 3aseer (in oman and SW saudi arabi/NW yemen) respectively. here is a valley near jabal 3uman:



these are from 3aseer, around Abha (warning: will violently smash stereotypes regarding the arabian peninsula):

Spoiler Alert, click show to read: 

and this website, which has 'asir and the rest of arabia:

http://plantdiversityofsaudiarabia.i...Topography.htm (its mostly Saudi arabia, but it has it all)

tihaamah (on the west coast, ahead of Hijaaz) is a marshy place, with plenty of sand dunes, a few scatered oases, and bad to sail near.

[Alsatia]

Wow... that's a lot of green on a typically (I thought) dry continent.