Fun with custom factions!

[The Black Baron]

I've created a "Europe" world map for singleplayer, just to toy around with some of the settings, including the new "make your own factions" feature.

Having fun with it, and I'll do a more serious take on the factions soon, as these were done in a whim.
Dutch:
http://steamcommunity.com/sharedfiles/filedetails/?id=452607485
English:
http://steamcommunity.com/sharedfiles/filedetails/?id=452607509
Spanish:
http://steamcommunity.com/sharedfiles/filedetails/?id=452607529
Portugese:
http://steamcommunity.com/sharedfiles/filedetails/?id=452607559
French:
http://steamcommunity.com/sharedfiles/filedetails/?id=452607582
Danish:
http://steamcommunity.com/sharedfiles/filedetails/?id=452607622

Map of Europe, with the Dutch / English and Spanish / Portugese close to each other.
http://steamcommunity.com/sharedfiles/filedetails/?id=452607640

However, it seems that on the region map the icon colour for things like towns, towers, and ships are the colour of the default faction (for example, these Dutch icons should be orange, not Valiant red).
http://steamcommunity.com/sharedfiles/filedetails/?id=452607664

This looks like a bug.

Anyway, still having fun with the new feature. Can't wait to see some unique custom servers up and running, maybe set in Europe, or the Caribbean? :D

[Matthias]

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[The Black Baron]

Originally posted by Matthias:

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Did it say that on the images? I might have set them to public.

Changed it to public.

[The Black Baron]

Originally posted by Jager:

However, it seems that on the region map the icon colour for things like towns, towers, and ships are the colour of the default faction (for example, these Dutch icons should be orange, not Valiant red).
http://steamcommunity.com/sharedfiles/filedetails/?id=452607664

This looks like a bug.

Anyway, still having fun with the new feature. Can't wait to see some unique custom servers up and running, maybe set in Europe, or the Caribbean? :D

Nevermind. After quitting and loading in the world again the icons are also updated to show the proper colours.

[Matthias]

going to add new sail art too? very easy to make. maybe taken from historical heraldry as we cant have multicoloured emblems....3 lions for england (though doesnt Denmark also have 3 lions?), french fleur di lis, etc

//edit could make some of the national flags using sail art + sail colour

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Had me some fun aswell (couldn't resist on doing this theme):

http://steamcommunity.com/sharedfiles/filedetails/?id=453048676
http://steamcommunity.com/sharedfiles/filedetails/?id=453048687
http://steamcommunity.com/sharedfiles/filedetails/?id=453048722
http://steamcommunity.com/sharedfiles/filedetails/?id=453048752
http://steamcommunity.com/sharedfiles/filedetails/?id=453048768
http://steamcommunity.com/sharedfiles/filedetails/?id=453048792

Also, guess who the pirates are...

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Btw the stats are a bit buggy when you shift through the factions in the faction creation window. The bars seem to show the right stats, but the values do not.

If you could change the Pirate faction through this window aswell it would become a bit easier, though you can do it manually by editing the .config file. Simply create a new custom faction by making a new world and make the first faction look how you want the pirates to look and when done copy the data from the first faction (fac1) of this new config file to the other config file over the pirates (fac0) data. Only copy and paste the symbol, color, pennant, hull, sail and name data. You can also add a name (faction name) and info (faction description) line to the pirate faction just like with the other factions.

[ArenMook]

The color of units on the minimap is determined by the primary color (the bigger square).

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Originally posted by ArenMook:

The color of units on the minimap is determined by the primary color (the bigger square).

Yes, I figured that one out already as I wanted to make the blue a bit brighter as it looked almost like black on the minimap.

The custom factions is a really nice addition to the game Aren.

Would it be an idea to be able to make a map where you the pirates have their own staring region and all other regions are neutral. That way you can battle for these regions with players on both sides.

Btw I made my custom faction and symbols available for download:

http://steamcommunity.com/app/326410/discussions/2/618463446161608055/

[Matthias]

careful with that Rokh, Roddenbury is pretty hot and hitting people who use his franchise materials without permission...seen it in a couple of sandbox games I won't mention.

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Originally posted by Matthias:

careful with that Rokh, Roddenbury is pretty hot and hitting people who use his franchise materials without permission...seen it in a couple of sandbox games I won't mention.

That'd be weird as the insignia's are freely available from many sources and I simply changed them so they work in Windward. All the faction descriptions are from wiki websites. Also Windward is currently a pretty low profile game so I won't expect much problems here.

Btw Paramount owns the film rights and CBS the series rights, so I don't think the Roddenberry's are coming after me (though it would be cool as I could thank them for their awesome legacy and then remove the stuff out of respect).

[Steelfin]

Is there a bug with changing the reputation for the last two factions? They don't seem to save for me when I change them to 0 & 50, then move back and forth between factions in the faction creator.

[ArenMook]

Yup. I fixed it on my end, thanks for pointing it out!