*Put his tiki mask, and starts dancing the invocation dance*
Kyrbi0 were are thou?!
I have been watching. : P
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This has been sitting on my desktop for almost a month now, taunting me... I am just sitting down & belting it out.
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First I wanna lay a big THANK YOU on
@MatiS for popping out a Jungle Troll building (& a Town Hall no less); something this site is
sorely lacking in, let me tell you. I've been waffling for a while on how I personally think Jungle Troll buildings should go, but I rather favor the approach taken here (Primitive Logs/Leather --> Ancient Stone). I also kinda like the creative rewrap of the Orc Build animation; might have to steal that for the rest of my Troll structures. : )
I must admit, however, that I feel this could definitely use some more adjustments
(and I'm well aware that saying that a month after it's upload means I very well may be ignored). Looking at it by itself, I'm most enjoying the 1st stage (might even use that by itself somewhere...), though I kinda feel the stone additions are a tad... abrupt (important, but how to pull them off better is the question?). But the asymmetry is there, the logs & leather are there, tiki masks are there...
T2 is where I start to really get 'eh'. The transition from 95% wood/5% stone to perhaps 15% wood/85% stone is incredibly jarring. All the cool bits from the original are lost & replaced with a sort of... Stone orb? The log chimney is kept (attached... somehow?), and then some drapes put over one side.
I love the 'ziggurat' feel, with the stairs & all that, but I'm again not sure if it was pulled off in the most ideal fashion.
T3 went from "er" to "wai-WHU". The wood/stone ratio isn't much changed, and that's good in this case. And it's definitely a fascinatingly unique piece of architecture. But we're approaching
Misha's Naga Citadel-status in terms of extravagant, crazy T3's. How... Wha... Why... Is that a stream of water, or magic? And that darn chimney is still there somehow, puffing away! : P
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I suppose by itself is one thing. However, knowing that when asked, I offered you
this piece of WIP work as something to go off of... Well, I can see where the inspiration came from, but I must say that I would love to see a V2 that attempted to hew a little more closely to that image (granted, even
that guy didn't get the right wood/stone mix either; it goes T1 -> T2 ok, but then T2 -> T3 is similarly jarring & abrupt; I have some thoughts on it but...). Let me know!