Today's screenshot is much later in production. You could almost say this was stage two in AOM's production. By this time, most of Stage one's main features were gone or replaced. You can start to see features from the final version here and there(Like the pharaoh,the palm trees, or the terrain). There are things here that didn't make it. The market was one of them. The market was one of the most worked on buildings in Age Of Mythology. All in all there have five known market variations(one is available in the Btb modpack but never seen in screenshots). This version is just another axed idea. The town center is looked much like the one we have now, except it's buildings are shaped differently. The TC was supposed to have odd green bushes(possibly still from the beginnings of Stage One). The bushes were taken out when the building was revised for the main reason: realism. Notice the two statues on the bottom right? These statues were the original monuments. The sitting pharaoh statue was completely gone, but the other one had it's base changed and retextured to what is now known as the monument to warriors. Our final observation comes to the sea turtle and the boats. The sea turtle was planned to be a giant myth unit much like the boats. However it was scaled down for the same reason as other sea units. The boats shown here are placeholder triremes. They were used due to the fact ES has not designed suitable boats for The Egyptian Civilization. Originally sea units were to be as big as in real life. This would cause problems if the player wanted large ocean battles and it would give the player a hard time to navigate across narrow rivers. Come back here daily for a new entry, as I will be posting them all week.
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