Haida Gwaii Mod (This round of beta closed)

Foodstamp · #1 January 16th, 2007, 08:01 PM

How about a whale in a magical water sphere? At the very least it would be an interesting looking unit

XiahouDun · #2 January 16th, 2007, 08:38 PM

Like a hamster ball?

Foodstamp · #3 January 16th, 2007, 08:44 PM

Yup, a gi-normous hamster ball.

HoneyBadger · #4 January 16th, 2007, 10:30 PM

That's a possibility, and get rid of some misc slots, but I'm looking into the possibility of a province which would allow both land only and water only beings to travel across it. Then maybe a special map that uses such a province as Haida's starting province. How does that sound?

HoneyBadger · #5 January 16th, 2007, 10:30 PM

How about a gi-normous hamster god...er no, nevermind.

XiahouDun · #6 January 18th, 2007, 03:18 PM

How about a magic Killer Whale that loses its fins and gains short stubby legs on land, like the mer people of Oceana?

Foodstamp · #7 January 18th, 2007, 03:25 PM

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XiahouDun said:
How about a magic Killer Whale that loses its fins and gains short stubby legs on land, like the mer people of Oceana?

That's probably the way it will be implemented if I include a 3rd pretender. A shapeshifting killer whale with a land form and a water form. Although the air whales in "The Maxx" were pretty wicked

danm · #8 January 19th, 2007, 01:14 AM

A good (and thematic) solution for the whale Pretender is to set it up as a shapeshifter (like dragons) with a weak human form on land, and SC whale form in the water. The animal/people distinction is very blurry in Haida myths, and most animals show up in human form fairly regularly.

If you can force the transform based on location, it'd be cool -- if not, having the human form amphibious, and the whale water-only should work fine.

I'd also suggest using the Grey Whale, as that is more culturally appropriate (though a grey spermwhale definatly will LOOK more "SCish")

HoneyBadger · #9 January 19th, 2007, 02:33 AM

I considered other whales, including the grey whale and the Narwhal, but as the Moby might show up in other nations as a SC, I'd rather it be an "iconic" figure, which the distinctive spermwhale definitely is. Besides, I like the name "Moby" and it's nice to slip a Melville reference into Dom3.
I'll probably use your shapeshifter idea though, danm, thank you.

PDF · #10 January 22nd, 2007, 07:02 AM

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HoneyBadger said:
That's a possibility, and get rid of some misc slots, but I'm looking into the possibility of a province which would allow both land only and water only beings to travel across it. Then maybe a special map that uses such a province as Haida's starting province. How does that sound?

I don't think it's possible, a province is either land or water.