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Elvano proposed on IRC that we should use a more-rock palette for all bricks, stones and walls for the city. We used a good rock palette for the cliff on the loosen island map, should we use the same for the city?

If so, where?

I'm personally against using it for wall, as we don't use brick-walls but painted walls. Though, we can use it for pavement and for the town wall tileset that hal is developing. What do you think?

Raw rocks and manufactured rocks are not the same, thus they shouldn't have the same color. I think we should keep it like that. The cliffs have a nice pallet, but that doesn't mean the city walls need to have the same pallet.

In addition, having different pallets makes the game more lively, so let's not change the walls' colors.

Alige wrote:Raw rocks and manufactured rocks are not the same, thus they shouldn't have the same color. I think we should keep it like that. The cliffs have a nice pallet, but that doesn't mean the city walls need to have the same pallet.

I agree completely with this stament, be keep in mind that only in really big buildings rocks were completely manufactured, if not partially build on or carved of a rock

Alige wrote: In addition, having different pallets makes the game more lively, so let's not change the walls' colors.

I was kinda opting for more diversity of house materials, of which stone was just the next logical choice, and thus no replacement.
Other house materials could be matal (some parts only), wood and even rags (not everone is rich).
Mainly, I was tired of looking on the yellowish color when I proposed a more greyish approche. I like the tileset, but the color reminds me to the desert themes I' sure we've all played for too long.

I will try another color this weekend, and maybe doing some dark sea tiles for real sea place... Because the sea is too dark imo for the city and even for the loosen island. alt25

The sea palette should be redone, but Len (water's tileset author) didn't use a limited palette for his work, unlike hal or me for other tilesets and palette such as that rock one.
So it will be a bit more difficult to change this palette, but it's still doable, we just need a good color theme.