i like how humans across the world/history mostly converged on a similar aesthetic for when they got super rich and wanted to make the most bangin house. Super big, airy, full of shiny and smell-good things and weird animals. I wonder if there's a platonic ideal of palace.
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Shit if I had that kinda cash I wouldn't want to live in a house that's so big I don't use all the rooms
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probably whatever's most dissimilar to however the poor live at the time/place
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I've always preferred a clean modernist look myself. Less cluttered, less stressful.
But with many, many, well-organized books.
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You can discern a similar confluence of what a high level account looks like across games. Inheritances and nation building could be called "AristocracyCraft" in that particular end game. Build orders get optimized, meta changes and players compete to sharpen the games.
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I guess you are not factoring people who were immensely rich but never showed it so you can't recognize it.
My theory is this. Houses are made by power, not by money. People with power need to show it by marking territory. Rich people just mimic them.
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I think there's something to that line of thought. I'm not big on platonism though. Platonic realism would say there's a very real and truer "form" of palace that we all (re)discover.
I prefer an evolutionary approach. Maybe it's actually closer to memetic.
