Thank you all! The tentacles didn't scale well, so they had to be nixed
If the text color could be changed it would certainly make it a lot easier to create a distinctive feel for each nation... Wonder how hard that would be to implement, considering that apparently all text in the game is on the same background. But the guys are busy with dom3 so better not to bother 'em.
Ulm and Ermor are like that mostly for stylistic reasons... If you've got a thematic idea for either of them that involves colors outside the white-grey-black range please share! Also Machaka and T'ien C'hi, both require a strong thematic element to make them distinctive, IMO. I guess the color levels can be fiddled with a bit, but if someone has a great thematic idea for either of them that's not so obstructive, let me know!
I figured that Man is grass and Pan is foliage or trees, mostly for the colors. (Man=dark green, Pan=light green) I couldn't get actual leaves or trees to work since they need pretty sharp contours to be recognizable... Mebbe I'll try again once inspiration strikes.
The redder border for Abysia is such an obvious improvement that I'm miffed I didn't think about it myself
Definitely to be implemented. The C'tis borders, well... I kinda wanted a desolate desert feeling for it, going the Egypt/pyramid route. I wouldn't want the guis to be too loaded with clashing themes, so. The lizard head is so cute, why do you hate it
More to the point, Ermor has the skull and I think it would cause some problems to have two similar insignia. Not that a lizard skull is anywhere near a human but still.
The suggestions for the tweaks in color levels I'll look at later on... I won't mind if you'll post altered versions, to save me the trouble, either.
After all, the goal is to create thematic, distinctive guis and emblems for each nation that are also usable. The cosmetic mods also differ from the gameplay ones in that the pics don't need to be the same for each player in MP, thus there's really no reason to preserve version integrity. Not that I ever saw an MP using a cosmetic mod, but still
