I Just saw your latest preview.
I can see that you've made an impressive work on the research and modeling for the settlements, BUT I think some (by some i mean not a lot) of the information are outdated. In the past decades we have uncovered (especially in france) more and more sophisticated buildings (or trace of them).
I'm not that fluid in english, so I will try to keep it short.
The more we search, the more advanced piece of architecture we find. I'm talking about temples (on of the most recent discoveries since we thought they only practiced in nature), bath, ''manor'' ( I don't know the exact word, but I'm talking about a very large lord residence), >>3rd floor buildings.
We also found out that most city building weren't rough and dull but vibrant of color, artwork, colorful hangings (full of it since they liked to dye things), iron sculptures and iron low relief.

Only the the past decade have we been able to find this, thanks to the huge leaps in electronic instruments (laser...). And, as the year past, the instruments improve, and we are able to detect more finesse and more traces of buildings. The archeologist unanimously said that this is exponential, and that in a few years, we will find bigger, finer pieces of architecture.
Thanks to aerial lasers we also found out many traces of paved roads and wooden roads in the settlements itself. As well as large columns for some buildings...

I am a bit disappointed (but still cheered by your efforts) that most of these weren't featured (at least not in the pictures) in the settlements. Now don't get me wrong, I'm not writing that what you did is wrong and inaccurate. The amount of research is impressive, and many if not most buildings are perfectly accurate. Except cities weren't solely composed of those rough (if not a bit archaic) buildings and also had what I have mentioned above. If you ask, I can send you to a few links, including some archeological reviews that adress the matter and say exactly what I'm saying.

That being said you guys are awesome. If anything I would like to propose my help. Right now I don't think I could do anything (apart from some archeological advice) but I'm taking an in depth C programming formation (pretty big formation) next semester, so I may give you an extra hand in programming if you need so.

Keep up the cool work, guys, looking forward to your answers.



Thanks =D

PS: This is a duplicate from a post I made on total war center. I'm not sure one which forums it should go as I don't know which one is the official one. I also thought it would be interesting to make an actual thread.