近日又有若干玩家提及游戏内的宫殿建模不符合中国传统而更偏向日式，这实际上是一个有意识的决定而非无心之举，对此开发商解释如下：

The palaces are indeed more Japanese inspired than Chinese. The reason being that the palace needs to be a visually impressive building, that fits into a small space. If we made a more realistic style Chinese palace, it'd either have to occupy the whole city, or the cities would have to be much better. The latter isn't really an option, as then the map would have to be bigger, the soldiers would have further walk, and thus the game would run slower. And even if we could find space for huge low rise palaces, they would still look less impressive than a tower from pretty much any view apart from standing at ground level in the courtyard.

译文：
宫殿的建模确实受日式（建筑）的影响甚于中式（建筑）。其缘由是我们想把宫殿做成一种看上去很有震撼力同时占地面积又小的建筑。如果我们把宫殿做的和现实中的中国宫殿一样，那么就会要么把整个城市都占了，要么就逼我们不得不把城市做得更大。后者并不可行，因为那会导致地图变得更大，行军时间更长，游戏节奏更慢/更加卡顿。即使我们确实可以给低层宫殿建筑群腾出空间，那种宫殿还是会比可以在除了天井里之外的几乎任何角度都清晰可见的高塔看起来更逊一些。

个人补充：
游戏不是历史教程，历史真实性是要服从于游戏性和技术可行性的限制的。