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Better Building Icons

This mod replaces the building icons with brand-new ones that are much easier to distinguish from each other.

- All the building icons are colour-coded, allowing you to see at a glance what's being constructed and roughly what the effects of that building are:

Red = Martial. Troops, ships and the like.
Blue = Economic. Things that add trade routes, increase taxes and improve general slave output.
Purple = Civic. Buildings that mainly affect loyalty and other similar values.
Green = Food. Buildings that make or store it, including food-specific slave output.
Darker green = Tribal. Buildings you want to knock down... :-P
Yellow = Great Wonder. Not visible in the build menu but comes up on the map.

Most of the buildings have two main effects. Those ones have two colours divided diagonally.

The colours are intended to match I:R's interface aesthetic.

- Most of the buildings have new, totally original icon designs. This is so you can tell them apart even better. A few retain the old ones, either because they were pretty good to begin with or because there isn't really a way to improve on them.

Even the old building icons still have the colours though.

Should be fully compatible with everything. Unless buildings get changed it's timeless too. Might need to change the building colours if the effects are changed.

Doesn't change checksum.