funny but awsome trait

[Teleklos Archelaou]

Short descriptions are only visible when you get an announcement that more than one building has been built. They are very clearly *announcements* and not just short descriptions. You only see them then also - when you click on buildings and look at their descriptions, those are the regular/full/normal/long descriptions. Those are strictly historical descriptions (along with explanations about how they help you in the game).

So, since the short descriptions do serve as announcements, we have turned them all (and still are in the process of it) into something closer to that format. An advisor (depending upon your faction it changes a little to be appropriate) gives you the message. All short descriptions have at their start this basic information: "We have constructed a -blank- in this province."

At that point, more information is then added - and yes, a good deal of humor is thrown in, *but* it's (almost) always got something in it of reality. If it is a Macedonian one, stereotypes of other Hellenes might be used, or something from Athenaeaus or Dio Chrysostom or Pausanias or something provides the core of a historical fact or stereotype or something like that. On my desktop here is a new Mak one that hasn't gone in yet: "Metalleia have been constructed throughout this province. Our lands have not always had gold easily available to them. Duris the historian says that Philippos, the father of Megas Alexandros, possessed a golden cup weighing fifty drachms, and that he always took it to bed with him and placed it at his head. Though this was lost on Alexandros, who had his servants encase food in gold, which was then thrown off as they ate the meal, with the slaves enjoying the profits. Times change." I believe that comes from a little nugget of information Athenaeus provides. Some are certainly not very PC, but I'm sorry to say that neither were many of the societies we are dealing with here. A little has been thrown in from a recent book "The Invention of Racism in Classical Antiquity" too.

Again, you only see those short descriptions in the announcement of multiple buildings being constructed - they aren't are regular descriptions.

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Just saw the "useless" comment. Well, that's your opinion mate. We think the basic format of them "X has been constructed, my king/etc." is exactly right and is even more correct than the vanilla game - given the way those short descriptions are used in the game. I take it you don't "role play" much with those generals of yours either, eh?