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Morgan
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Why is Athena the game icon?

Tue Jan 30, 2018 12:41 am

Why is the desktop icon of Wars of Succession a statue of Athena? I thought it might be a particularly significant statue in some relevant place, but I found that it is the one made by Leonidas Drosis outside of the modern Academy of Athens.

Is this a placeholder, or am I again missing something historically obvious? :confused:

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Re: Why is Athena the game icon?

Tue Jan 30, 2018 1:12 am

Athena is the default icon for AGE engine (Athena being the name of the AI). WSS just doesn't have a special icon like most AGEOD games, so it uses the default :)

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Re: Why is Athena the game icon?

Tue Jan 30, 2018 3:56 am

Oh, that explains it. Thank you for the reply. I've never seen the default icon before.

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Re: Why is Athena the game icon?

Tue Jan 30, 2018 8:33 am

Here is a suitable icon if you want to use it. Looks like it was damaged or failed to make it during the build process.
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Re: Why is Athena the game icon?

Tue Jan 30, 2018 10:50 am

The icon (a crown) is in the executable.

If you go to the game folder, you may create a shortcut of it and paste to your desktop.

Phillipe posted an alternative with the head of Eugen of Savoy in Matrix forum.

Probably I will post another too :pouet:

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Re: Why is Athena the game icon?

Tue Jan 30, 2018 7:49 pm

The link to the Matrix forum with the Eugene icon:

http://www.matrixgames.com/forums/tm.asp?m=4427983


Many of the personalities in the game lend themselves to becoming desktop icons.

There are at least half a dozen colorful possibilities.

I settled on Eugene because I had to draw the line somewhere and I'm partial to exorbitant wigs.

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Re: Why is Athena the game icon?

Wed Jan 31, 2018 9:15 am

Great and nice job. Thanks :hat:

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