Cultures 0AD

[Ephestion]

The use of the current cultures is not as broad or intersting as the following:

Keltoi - Reports from Heroditus describing the most western of Europeans.

Syth - The ancient civilisation of the Sythians to the North of the Black Sea

Galiatae - The people of the Rhine who settled along the Danube and Anatolia. (Gauls)

Egypitoi - The people of Egypt and their most famous city Alexandria.

Hellenes - Greeks no more to be said.

Italiotes - The Greek Coloniists of the Italic Peninsula ie Spartacus, Archimedes, Plato and Dyonisus King of Sicily etc

Romaioi. - The filthy Romans (yes im biased)

Persia. - King of Kings, The mightiest empire of the world Persia

Carthage - No intro needed

Kush - Afircan Empire stretching across Arabia to Persia.

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Post 0 AD:

Byzantines

Lombards

Hun

Hispania

Gaulia

Persians

Arabs

[Mythos_Ruler]

The problem is balancing 10+ unique civs. We went with a low civilization count in order to make each civ as unique as possible. We also chose the 6 most important civs in the Mediterannean world at that time (500BC - 1BC).

[Caesar]

I suppose one must consider whether it is better to have more civs, but some sharing building sets and maybe even units, or to have a low number of civs with each being unique. I would go with the latter.

Although RTW managed to get in a fair number of civs, each being unique except that a few share some units.

BTW, welcome

Edited September 22, 2005 by Caesar89