Revival of the FLAGS!

[HAND]

Yea good idea...Firaxis really should add flag editor in a patch or PTW! Also, it would be good to have the option to add flags to leaders and armies. There should be a possibility to build flags or banners in your territory or uncolonized terrain where you are staking a claim on and also acts an observation outpost(probably to be used in PTW). The scenarios would benefit alot on this added atmosphere.

[Sabre2th]

great idea

[Caliban]

hm... I don't want to see the German flag for the industrial age.

Nice idea though, and looks quite easy to be realized...

[Inverse Icarus]

Originally posted by Caliban
hm... I don't want to see the German flag for the industrial age.

Nice idea though, and looks quite easy to be realized...

/me sighs about people that want to forget history

anyway, they probably wouldnt have age-specific flags, because what would nations like babylon do? use Iraq's?

it'd be nice to have a custom flag for MP.

[rob.derosa]

Re: Thats the stuff

Originally posted by OS84
A lot of great ideas here! FIRAXIS should seriously take a look on this forum.
Especially dunks idea is great, with the american flag. There are very new possibilties, which would make Civ3 even more better.
What do you think of that. The appearing of the flag changes, when you alter youre government. For example, if you have communism as youre government, the flag changes it appearance - you get a little soviet-symbol in youre flag. Just imagen, the United States have instead their 50 stars (thanks for the information, dunk! ) the hammer and sickle-symbol.

Maybe the civilization change the appearance of their flag in every epoch. For example our Vikings. In ancient times they have the raven-flag, in modern times the Danish flag (or the Norwegian, whatever.. )
Have a great day!
Lets get more good ideas for this forum, guys!

Hehe, nice flag, I got a better version of the communist America flag, please note that I didnot design this, it was an ad for Red Alert 2.

Enjoy, sorry about the size!

[Nikolai]

This flag idea is great!
I agree to the use of government spesific ones. But for the Vikings: don't use a flag with a cross on it! After all, they weren't christians.

[OS84]

Re.:rob.derosa and caliban

This flag is definitely better than mine, rob.derosa!
I just made this flag in a few seconds in Photopshop.. and so does it looks..
And to Caliban: what do you think, the german flag should look like, in the industrial age?
I found the flag for the old German Empire, it gots the colours black, white and red. Sadly the colours of the NPD.
But i think, IF there will be flags included, the player should coustomize them for the game as he wants. Maybe in the menue when you starts, after you choose your rivals and youre nation. Just a work of a few clicks, hopefully!
There should be a flageditor included anyway. There were just too much flags in human history, than FIRAXIS could think of them all.

[TexasPride]

Great Ideas (all of them)

Now all we have to do is get the idea communicated effectively to Firaxis.

BTW-If anyone finds a way plz post it to a forum as well as this thread so everyone can have thier requests made. (maybe firaxis shoulda sent out a survey for ideas for PTW)

(Why must we change the german industrial flag-It is history and we cant change it-it was a very wise man who once said that without knowledge of histrory we are doomed to repeat it!)

[JtheJackal]

PTW is almost done, they are not going to put in anything that they haven't already started working on

[Nikolai]

What about a cute little patchie, then?

[OS84]

Would be the best, nikolai. Anyone got experience with patches, MODS..?

[Sonic]

No, I don't think flags would be good because of the following reasons:
1.Not all civs had flags (Iroquis for example)
2.Even those who had ussually changed flags during the time (for example, for Germany, maybe we should use third reich flag. Or maybe west germany. Or maybe east germany. For USA< number of stars changed over a time. And for Russians maybe we should use Soviet Union flag)

[OS84]

Well Sonic, i think that the Iroquis used some kind of sign, as nearly every civilizaton does.
Maybe a flacon or a hand-print - this is a case for the flageditor or youre fantasy.
To youre second point... hm, i dont agree every civilization should get a "special" flags, orginally used in history. For example Germany - it would be wrong to give them bascially the flag of the Third Reich for the game. In Civilization3, you get the "chance", to live youre own history.
Why there should be a Nazi-Germany? There could be a Nazi-England too, just no fix rules for the game.
In fact, Germany was not the land which invented Facism, it brought it "only" to a cruel perfection. Anyway, Facism can happen everywhere - look at France, Belgium, Italy today.
To make it short, it would take a lot of personal freedome in the game, too give the Civs "special" flags.

[TexasPride]

Yea they could do it in a patch...........

but only if we drive up the wall tryin' to get them to do it.

[Signa]

What each civ's flags should be...

Rome => Modern Italian Flag? Some Legionairy Eagle?
Greece => Modern Greek or Macedonian Flag?
Germany => Pre-WWI Flag? Swatika? Modern Flag?
China => Taiwan or mainland China's Flag?
Japan => Rising Sun (w/ or w/o beams?)
India => Modern Indian Flag?
Aztecs => Modern Mexican Flag? Something ???
Iroquois => A Tree? ???
Egypt => Modern Egyptian Flag?
Babylon => Modern Iraqi Flag? (Non-Saddam Version?)
Russia => Old Romonov, USSR, or Modern Flag?
America => Stars & Stripes (or maybe Stars & Bars)
France => Modern French Flag (Vertical R, W, & B)
Persia => Modern Iran Flag?
Zulus => This one I'm truely lost upon...
England => Union Jack? White Background-Red Cross?

Spain => Modern Spanish Flag
Viking => Raven Flag? Danish Flag? Scadavanian Flag?
Mongolia => Modern Mongolian Flag?
Carthagians => Modern Tunisian Flag? ???
Celtic => Humm... Irish or Welsh Flag? ???
Korean => Modern South Korean Flag?
Arabs => Pure Green Flag? Saudi Arabian Flag?
Ottomans => Old Ottoman Flag? Modern Turkish Flag?