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Community => Council Room => Topic started by: Buster's Uncle on June 17, 2025, 02:21:01 AM

Title: Civilization 7
Post by: Buster's Uncle on June 17, 2025, 02:21:01 AM

You know, we totally blew our window of opportunity to even try to draw any traffic off the latest version, what with the site not being up and all at the time, and little traction as our efforts when BE and then Civ6 came out gained, I probably would have bothered with a dedicated subforum with a 7 theme and logo if AC2 had been up at the time.  -Probably tried to find a volunteer to post the odd news article and generated a few 7 avatars and smilies myself, a pretty pro forma effort.

And it's really too late for all that, which is unlikely to have been worth much even under ideal conditions.


-But it bothers me to not even try, and that's where you come in.  I hereby call a meeting of The Commitee of Everyone Who Cares Enough to Even Post About It. 

Just a folder is next to zero effort, maybe 30 seconds for me in the Admin panel.  A nice logo would take me a couple hours if I was satisfied with the first draft, and a decent, if perfunctory, theme maybe as little as two days, the logo carrying most of the water on that looking good.

None of that is a big deal - I'm suddenly quite manic again, and a project would be fine to have.  If the theme comes out any good, that makes me happy.  -But it feels like I don't want to touch any of it with ten minutes of my worst enemy's time w/o a co-conspirator who'd commit to posting a few C7 news articles a week for a while and post to back my plays when I generated avatars and such goodies.  One guy posting content isn't nothing, but at least two having conversations is an order of magnitude better for making a folder live and look worth joining in.

-Thoughts?

Title: Re: Civilization 7
Post by: Buster's Uncle on June 17, 2025, 02:21:59 PM

-Incidentally, I took pity on Apolyton and made them a basic 7 folder back in March, knowing it wouldn't do much good -and it hasn't- if that helps make sense of how I contradict myself above.  It just seems wrong to not even try.

Title: Re: Civilization 7
Post by: Buster's Uncle on June 25, 2025, 12:18:01 AM

Am I onto anything here?

Title: Re: Civilization 7
Post by: Buster's Uncle on June 25, 2025, 12:59:33 AM

How about this?

Title: Re: Civilization 7
Post by: Buster's Uncle on June 25, 2025, 02:38:01 AM

The letters on that last are sorta fat from the outline I put in for contrast to the landscape background.  Try this:

Title: Re: Civilization 7
Post by: Buster's Uncle on June 25, 2025, 02:39:48 AM

The "C" just isn't an order of magnitude as good-n-iconic as Atlas on the last one.  But that's what we've got to work with...

Title: Re: Civilization 7
Post by: Buster's Uncle on June 25, 2025, 05:08:47 PM

I think I might be onto something with the ivory background and the border resized from actual Firaxis art - but maybe I really, really need to figure out what font they were using in that same art, and use that for the whole thing.

Title: Re: Civilization 7
Post by: Geo on June 25, 2025, 05:11:39 PM

I actually haven't bought CiVII, so can't really comment on the suitability of those banner proposals.

Title: Re: Civilization 7
Post by: Buster's Uncle on June 25, 2025, 05:25:52 PM

The main criterion is whether it looks good and you can read it at a casual glance - nailing the style would be gravy, witness the CivII theme banner.

Title: Re: Civilization 7
Post by: Buster's Uncle on June 25, 2025, 06:05:02 PM

...And I'm not entirely sure I'm not overthinking it after the very first try w/ landscape background, save that I didn't need to leave the space between words...