Template talk:Faction

Nice idea, have changed and moved the M2 Faction list template so it sits at bottom of faction pages and can make room for this. Could you think of a more general description for the image though? It might also work nicely with Doctor's pages that use the unit-info picture as an illustration, like Brutii (RTW Faction) -Makanyane 02:39, 15 October 2007 (CDT)

erm, apologies I fiddled! Took out the symbol section as it still had the {{if... statement bit in for the image, which means you can have that or miss it out if image isn't available. Also separated religion and culture and put religion as an {{if... as it is only relevant to M2TW and *cough* certain mods! Will put note about this in wiki forum as it would be useful to know if people want different categories before we add it to 30 plus pages!-Makanyane 13:54, 15 October 2007 (CDT)

yeah thanks, i was just about the remove the religion thing, i forgot it wasn't in Rome (well, BI maybe? cant really remember). Other things i was thinking of including were unique units or starting cities.. but then that information is perhaps placed in the article itself (and in many cases already is)--Spiff 15:58, 15 October 2007 (CDT)

Religion is in vanilla BI but the factions aren't locked to a particular religion, most have a distinct tendency but Romans for instance are about 50/50 Pagan/Christian so I'm not sure its a good idea to try and explain that in one box. The *cough* was because I modded End of Days so it is locked to faction :) . M2 actually might have some complications on that front too, I think one faction gets an option to change at some stage, and in Britannia Kingdoms religion gets used as a percentage cultural effect. Might need a bit more looking at to see if we're describing it accurately, but if its left in as optional field it won't hurt.

Unique units; yeah they tend to be described on the page - and that might take too much space in template, I'm not sure what the max number a faction can get is? Starting cities, or at least capital would be an idea, or would trying to screen shot a bit of map / radar map work for that? Playable/unlockable/unplayable was the other bit I was wondering about, probably ignoring the can you mod it in issue which tends to confuse things.-Makanyane 01:08, 16 October 2007 (CDT)

I just remembered about this today.. I dont see the harm in implementing this to at least the M2TW factions for the time being - those pages seem to get a lot of views and i dont really like the way the current faction icons just float by themselves. --Spiff 12:54, 6 March 2008 (CST)