Please redesign Chronos' Forge graphic

I do like the colors when you click it. But it's True. It's like time has been frozen out there...

my guess is who ever did the original building work is no longer around.. agree though at the very least they could have matched the building color, looks very out of place on color pallet alone.

Here's the original:

I lightened two more:

Version 1:

Version 2:

It's hard to tell if either of the two are better, but i feel like the version 2 matches Ikariam's theme better.

It's hard to compare in isolation so here's a warehouse:

+What color comes to mind first when you think of "magical fog"?

-Purple?

+Okay, so what "building" color does "magical fog" purple look best with?

-Grey?

+So we build the building on these colors.

Such a dialogue probably took place at the IH3 meeting.

Next to other buildings it looks "cursed for playing with time".

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I lightened two more:

Version 1:

Version 2:

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these three are the same.

I’m holding a minute silence right now in support of this improvement so far. They’ve read the dislike for grey, lack of colour etc and made change

I mean, they've listened to the player base plenty when it met their vision. Everyone complained about upgrades feeling too weak, so they 5x'd them.

Glad to hear they listen, I’ve got hundreds more complaints to lodge

Anyways I didn’t advocate for unit upgrade changes or the +1 to +5 ‘improvement’ - I haven’t been playing, I’ve been graveyarding my accounts for a combat operation that’s basically ruined. Just like my last one from a game bug yippieeeee

It's not ruined. You just have to actually upgrade your units now.

Everyone had the same 3/3 upgrades and forge. You could just look at ikalogs and see for yourself who has ability and who doesn’t

Now it’s primarily just who had more upgrades. A perfect aspect of fairness just swept away and life goes on. We’ve had this discussion, we both have our different opinions. I like this thing that we have, let’s keep doing it. The battle of wills - keyboard edition

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Lighting has not been applied. Notice the shadows of the Workshop and the Temple. The Forge needs to be lit from the same side so it is lighter on the left and casts a shadow to the right.

Perhaps the lack of a shadow is a detail that tells us that the building is "disconnected from time". Doomed to live day and night same.

But I agree with you, it still looks like it "doesn't belong there" next to the other buildings.

Is there anyone who says "I can design better"?

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Everyone had the same 3/3 upgrades and forge. You could just look at ikalogs and see for yourself who has ability and who doesn’t

Now it’s primarily just who had more upgrades. A perfect aspect of fairness just swept away and life goes on. We’ve had this discussion, we both have our different opinions. I like this thing that we have, let’s keep doing it. The battle of wills - keyboard edition

And I'll say again, no, it isn't. It's only a problem if you are severely under upgraded compared to your opponent. And if you are? You're actively making a choice to be.

Someone attacking someone who had 200m points while they had 2m points, before upgrades, was still at a huge disadvantage anyways.

The most bizarre thing about this is that if you're an actual fighter and not a builder, this is a huge advantage for you because builders aren't generally hyper upgrading their troops.