Some help with a faction set

[Sigma]

Those bases would be improved by more shading in the back half - a little tedious, but not difficult, to do subtly.

Hmmm how would I go about doing that?

[Buster's Uncle]

You'll need to get rid of the background.  Select all but one third on the right.  Darken 10% (not more and maybe as little a 5%).  Pull the right edge of the box left about 1/6 of the way. Darken 10%.  Repeat four more times - see if that looks shaded enough to your eye.  Same with the other three bases.

[JarlWolf]

And you can easily get rid of the background by doing colour select on the purple.

[Sigma]

Yeah; that's gonna be annoying though since I need to do it on the main base layer and on the over-defenses layer. However I only really need to do it to the size 4 base, since the gradient is imperceptible on the other three.

But yeah it does look a lot better.

[Sigma]

Added the shading to the size 4 bases. Can I get away with just doing that, or should I do the same for the size 3 bases? The shading is almost imperceptible on them.

[Kilkakon]

Good on ya for base scaling. The SMAC ones do a bit of both scaling and adding/taking bits, I do the same.

Keep up the good work! I like the Apollo one a lot.

[Buster's Uncle]

I would do all the bases.  It's a pain, but it'll just look more real andright in the game.

[Sigma]

Man I cannot figure out a logo for this faction. Any suggestions? I was creating something that was like a whale wearing a crown with a line drawn across its neck to show that it has been severed-- thus identifying the faction the "body" of the leviathan, but it looks really dumb.

[Buster's Uncle]

Tell us the concept for the faction.  I've probably just not been paying attention, but...

[Sigma]

It's a people's movement. Pro-Democracy, Anti-Police state, Penalty to Free Market due to unrestrained capitalism channeling wealth away from the majority. The name Leviathan Body refers to Thomas Hobbes' Leviathan, which was a book about statecraft where he posits that autocracy is the most perfect form of governance, as only a powerful monarch can exercise the control needed to restrain mankind's base and chaotic instincts. This faction rejects that notion, cutting the head from the Leviathan and ruling from the bottom up. Faction bonuses include +Growth and -Police. It's essentially what you'd get if movements like Occupy Wall Street became full fledged political movements.

The leader is called the Proctor, and ideally has no authority of his own, but is merely an elected representative from the teeming masses of the Leviathan. The base model that I used is Kowloon Walled City, known for being one of the densest and most lawless populated urban areas in the world before it was demolished.

Members of the Leviathan identify themselves as part of a huge army of like-minded individuals, hence why I originally used a decapitated whale for their symbol. They aren't squeemish about violence (they get +15% Offense) and aren't big fans of authority. The faction color is a dark green.

How's that sound?

[Buster's Uncle]

That sounds great.  It's a pretty basic concept/ideology, and not quite where any faction I'm aware of is coming from - these guys would natural allies of the UN and the Drones, I think.

I'll try to think of something along those lines.

[Sigma]

That sounds great.  It's a pretty basic concept/ideology, and not quite where any faction I'm aware of is coming from - these guys would natural allies of the UN and the Drones, I think.

I'll try to think of something along those lines.

Definitely friendly to the Drones as well as to the Data Angels, and to an extent to the UN. In this faction pack they're pitted potentially against the Colonial Authority, who are designed to have a preference towards Police State politics.

[JarlWolf]

They'd also probably be friends of the Comrades as well, given that the Comrades follow Communitarian Communist ideal, which is all about equal rank and community values in a revolutionary mindset.

My suggestion for their icon is maybe a fist strangling a serpent with a crown, or just the serpent being strangled. You could also do an angry styled fist too.

I could make something like that if you wish.

[Sigma]

It's funny that you mention that because I did find this image while I was searching for material. I'll see how well it reduces.

[JarlWolf]

That's kind of hilarious, because one of my factions, The Sons of Oceanus, is a faction based on the pursuit of happiness and luxury, or essentially "The 1% Faction."
The leader and her prime citizens have themselves cloned and the clones form up the majority of the population and they slave away so that their original masters live like gods.


And their symbol, them being aqautic (among other reasons) is an octopus.