Minas Tirith: City or Castle

[ccllnply]

I was just thinking, seeing as we can't get custom settlements, will Minas Tirith be a castle or city? A castle will give the layered walls, which would give it a better look on the battlefield but a city will mean that it will have a bigger population and have buildings such as the House of Healing just like in the real thing

[CtrlAltDe1337]

Castle for sure.

[ubersoldat42]

Castle for sure.

helms deep is more of a castle coz they dont use it for trading and living..they just use it for wars
bu minas tirith is more of a citylike castle made for both trading and fighting...
but yeah i think its more of a castle...

[Code_Knight]

helms deep is more of a castle coz they dont use it for trading and living..they just use it for wars
bu minas tirith is more of a citylike castle made for both trading and fighting...
but yeah i think its more of a castle...

Helms deep is going to be a castle


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[Linkinsander]

Agreed
can you not change it that it looks like a castle but works like a settlement??

[Code_Knight]

castle that can function as a city, which will make it very sought after.....I'm already getting excited.

[Linkinsander]

Oh and just to clear this up (cuz i didnt understand yet)
You can't make custom cities as we know but can you make custom buildngs for in a city??

[E-Man]

I believe so, you are right Linkinsander. We can't edit buildings/settlements in the battle field, but we can on the campaign map.

And I also know that we can reskin the walls and bulidngs right? I mean we should definetly have a white stone reskin for the gondorian cities ie minas tirith, osgiliath etc

[Lunes]

You can re-texture buildings. So its not really making new ones. Personally I think it should be a castle, but have the normal sort of income rates of a city and growth rates... though not being able to change taxes might hurt.

[Code_Knight]

You can re-texture buildings. So its not really making new ones. Personally I think it should be a castle, but have the normal sort of income rates of a city and growth rates... though not being able to change taxes might hurt.

agreed

[Eleril]

Tolkien refers to Minas Tirith as the City of Gondor or just the City.But it is a very strong castle as well.So a castle that functions as a city sounds good to me.

[CtrlAltDe1337]

Tolkien refers to Minas Tirith as the City of Gondor or just the City.But it is a very strong castle as well.So a castle that functions as a city sounds good to me.

Osgiliath was Gondor's capital (big city), Minas Tirith was one of the fortresses (before the orcs invaded).

[Varjon]

Btw can you make so that if Gondor captures Minas Morgul, Minas Tirith turns back to Minas Anor and Minas Morgul turns back to Minas Ithil. And it would also be good that if Gondor captures Minas Morgul it would turn back to white stone. And yet one idea: if these both are able to make happen, could you also at then build some sort of building to osgiliath which would make it's population grow and you could build there buildings.

[Glorfindel]

VARJON---> this lad is always coming up with ideas, isn't he?

[Linkinsander]

VARJON---> this lad is always coming up with ideas, isn't he?

Yeah I was thinking the same thing
+rep for you Varjon"

[Mithrandir]

Btw can you make so that if Gondor captures Minas Morgul, Minas Tirith turns back to Minas Anor and Minas Morgul turns back to Minas Ithil. And it would also be good that if Gondor captures Minas Morgul it would turn back to white stone. And yet one idea: if these both are able to make happen, could you also at then build some sort of building to osgiliath which would make it's population grow and you could build there buildings.

If Gondor captures Minas Morgul and builds bigger walls than the already existant, they turn white. Dunno if it's possibe to do in another way. Changing the names of settlements when they're captured by different facions is possible, we know that. As for Osgiliath, Blacknight_1990 already came up with the idea of restoring ruins with an expensive and time consuming building.
I like the "Minas-Tirith-becomes-Minas-Anor-idea"

[Dex]

If Gondor captures Minas Morgul and builds bigger walls than the already existant, they turn white. Dunno if it's possibe to do in another way. Changing the names of settlements when they're captured by different facions is possible, we know that. As for Osgiliath, Blacknight_1990 already came up with the idea of restoring ruins with an expensive and time consuming building.
I like the "Minas-Tirith-becomes-Minas-Anor-idea"

I can think of two ways it could be done:

1) Use the City-Castle conversion to restore or corrupt the city, which I think is doable without losing the city-castle game mechanic.

2) If it's possible to force a town to downgrade (the sack ability, iirc), that could be done on capture. You would left with a ruined city and forced to rebuild.

[Code_Knight]

ok so does anyone disagree that it shouldn't be a castle that can function as a city?

[The Big Red 1]

Nope.

[Iustinianos]

Btw can you make so that if Gondor captures Minas Morgul, Minas Tirith turns back to Minas Anor and Minas Morgul turns back to Minas Ithil. And it would also be good that if Gondor captures Minas Morgul it would turn back to white stone. And yet one idea: if these both are able to make happen, could you also at then build some sort of building to osgiliath which would make it's population grow and you could build there buildings.

Sounds like an excellent idea. Would make the game a lot more realistic.

I agree with Minas Morgul changing names but why would Minas Tirith change to Minas Anor?

Because before Minas Ithil was taken and transformed to Minas Morgul the name of Minas Tirith was Minas Anor. So Minas Ithil-Minas Anor and Minas Morgul-Minas Tirith.

Meanings:
Minas Tirith: Tower of Guard.(Under Gondor's Command since 2002 Third Age.)
Minas Morgul: Tower of Black Magic.(under the Witch-King's command, since 2002 Third Age.)

Minas Anor: Tower of the Setting Sun. (from 3320 Second Age to 2002 Third Age)
Minas Ithil: Tower of the Moon. (Same as above I believe.)

Why did they change it?

Since Minas Morgul was under Mordor's command the name: Tower of Guard seemed more fitting I guess. Minas Tirith was guarding Gondor against the evils of Mordor.