To be fair to mikee, I don't think a suggestion would be sufficiant. There currently exists one set of buildings for japanese style shops. Until such time as there is another set, it is not possible to prefer them to the ones mikee has done. When there's only one candidate.....
I happen to quite like mikee's shops, I think they fit in very well with the other buildings he has done.
im not saying i dont like them, they look nice, but they just dont look like shops. and its not just mikee's, scorn shops dont look much like shops, just big buildings.
i think the shops should stick out a little, and not just look like a normal building (think toy's r us) how do you normally tell a shop from a house? possible a sign on the roof? might work for scorn, but not in japan...
Aaron wrote:i think the shops should stick out a little, and not just look like a normal building (think toy's r us)
Indeed, because the middle ages were well known for the proliferation of warehouse-like megastores built with large plastic (that was invented almost a millenium before most historical evidence previously suggested) giraffes (that were only found in a continent that was thousands of miles away and mostly unexplored) above a sign which used a letter that didn't exist to spell a name which was known to all due to a nationwide town crier advertising campaign.
This was, of course, due to the overwhelming demand for cheap electronic toys and badly made dolls in the centuries following the collapse of the roman empire.....
In the middleages and before shops looked not terribly dissimilar from the surrounding architecture. Each area of the world basically had a diffrent theme... this is being unfortunatly lost with the moderization/standarization of the world...