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The new patch seems to have left CoA horribly ugly and unable to deal with having 3 colors. We still have stuff like purple on dark blue or red on red etc. The randomly generated all look horrible, please fix it. Or use some modders work because the vanilla game shouldn't have such bad CoA.
 

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Not a Tech Support issue, so moved to main forum.
 

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In real life, coats of arms often *were* horribly ugly. Tradition often trumped over aesthetics. As long as the generated coats of arms follow the basic rules of heraldry (no metal on metal, for example) I'm okay with it. Take this awfully designed one as an example:

Coat_of_arms_of_Ko%C5%A1ice.png


Ugly, but correct.
 

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Actually, I quite like that shield. :blush:

He's right, though -- the new coats of arms are inconsistent, strangely-colored and some of them are skewered. Also, no arms for Wessex? Really? :sad:
 

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If you'd like to complain about something, I'd suggest ranting about how Constantinople's COA is the Turkish Crescent Moon, despite the game ending on the date the Turks took the city.

Unless that decidedly Islamic symbol has historic ties to the city that I'm not aware of?
 

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If you'd like to complain about something, I'd suggest ranting about how Constantinople's COA is the Turkish Crescent Moon, despite the game ending on the date the Turks took the city.

Unless that decidedly Islamic symbol has historic ties to the city that I'm not aware of?

Actually, I'm pretty sure it does, and that that's where the Ottomans took it from in the first place. I'm not certain, I'd have to look it up but IIRC it was Constantinople's first.
 

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The crescent moon is a pre-Islamic pagan symbol that was incorporated into Islam and has been used on many Islamic flags before and after the Ottoman Empire. It was also used to a lesser extent by the Byzantines as well though so it being Constantinoples COA is justified if a little confusing.
 

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Back to the original topic: I hope the devs get the CoA generator to actually output something nice looking, and not black-on-black monstrosities (actually, the only way I could tell it wasn't a "black shields" bug was the fact that there was a bit of red sprinkled onto it and that others looked comparatively normal).
 

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The new patch seems to have left CoA horribly ugly and unable to deal with having 3 colors. We still have stuff like purple on dark blue or red on red etc. The randomly generated all look horrible, please fix it. Or use some modders work because the vanilla game shouldn't have such bad CoA.

You talking about the pixelated, distorted COAs?
Yeah, I've been having that issue too.
 

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There even worse if you have the Dynasty arms DLCs. You get these nice looking eagles, lions, and quarterings for the d'Hautevilles and Hapsburgs, but then the Dukes of Saxony have this pink and green monstrosity.
The randomly generated coat of arms would have a chance of looking reasonable, though, except for some reason they're always in salmon-pink, dark violet, black, and three shades of light blue. The shapes are good, but the colours need work.
 

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Even in DLC Rurikovich's CoA is the 20th century stylization of a falling falcon that was found in personal CoAs of some Rurikovich family members.
I think it should be closer to this:

Coat_of_Arms_of_Staraya_Ladoga_%28Leningrad_oblast%29.gif
 

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Even in DLC Rurikovich's CoA is the 20th century stylization of a falling falcon that was found in personal CoAs of some Rurikovich family members.
I think it should be closer to this:

Coat_of_Arms_of_Staraya_Ladoga_%28Leningrad_oblast%29.gif
I think even Yaroslav used a stylized symbol and its connection with a falling falcon was far from clear. Could you please cite your sources?
 

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The crescent moon is a pre-Islamic pagan symbol that was incorporated into Islam and has been used on many Islamic flags before and after the Ottoman Empire. It was also used to a lesser extent by the Byzantines as well though so it being Constantinoples COA is justified if a little confusing.

No, it has not been incorporated into Islam officially as Islam has no symbol. The Ottomans took it directly from the Byzantines. Islamic states unfortunately didn't have a COA, so I suggest
using flags if its possible, because its more historically accurate. For example, the flags of the Fatimids was green like the pre revolution Libyan flag.