City styles

After much bemoaning from myself.... the Dev's confirmed, yes we will be able to choose from a large selection of styles.

Ooooow how exciting

I want a tree city. Or a canyon city built on a giant hammock.

I want an industrial type city, buring coal and stuff for warms with old clay smoke stacks and everything.  I want it be dirty and grungy.  Alternativly something like iron town from Pricess mononoke (the cool smoke horison is I think key)

I also want a cloud city.  It might be connected to the ground by beanstalk or something like that, something that can be climbed with maybe a few buildings at the bottom, but mostly up in the clouds.  Could possibly have floating platforms or way-gates connecting planes

I also want a floating city (like built out on water).  Really there isn't much to say.  Like the lake city from the hobbit or that town in pokemon ruby/saphire/emerald.   I just want a floating city or landmass that looks cool somewhere

I want a large fortress city, with thick towering walls.  minith tirith (lord the rings) style. 

I want a bear city.   Like the kind full of bears and in a cave

What I'd like is to apply textures or "styles" onto other models.

So that you can take those black-rock cities of Mordor and put red lining, red roofs and white/grey "regular" masonry on it - Imagine the "evil" architechture of Mordor with the "goodness" of 'human' castles.

Such customization on a built-in level is a bit much to ask, though.

You know, I realized that we may have a problem with the classic necropolis/undead city.   I mean ghost towns with zombies were made a classic in games like HoMM and AoW.  They are enjoyed by most players I think, bone dragons always being cool.  But with life and death being the same, the style might be missed?

Not really, a necropolis and a metropolis have the same difference as a swamp and a desert. One has an abundance and the other has none.

I disagree.  I mean sure, the buildings might be similar (especially considering the grand architech might be the same), but there should be more thematic difference then the presense of people.  I mean an undead city should look worn and dead, where a lively city would have festivities and signs of general upkeep.   An undead city might have magnificant mossoleums (I may have butchered that spelling) and graveyards, where a lively city might have ramparts and parks.  Ok, they might look similar, but they should still be a different 'theme'. 

Sort of. Just because a city becomes "undead" does not mean that the inhabitants will start building graveyards instead of houses.

It really depends on what you mean by "necropolis". Is it just a dead city with no one around to maintain it or a city full of corpses and or zombies?

Good point. Certainly the classical Egyptian notion of a necropolis was closer to a "gated community" that excluded the embodied (living) than it was to a zombies-at-home sort of scene.

Well, I called it necropolis because that is what it is called in HoMM.   In AoW it is just called 'undead city'.  In theory anything would work.