Apologies if this has been suggested and/or actually made before. I did a search and couldn't find anything.

This is an idea that I don't have the skillz to do myself, and would be happy for anyone else to have a go.


Sports Mod

The Sports Mod borrows the basic religion mechanic, with civs being able to invent sports, although by building a World Wonder rather than discovering a tech. The civ, and anyone with Open Borders with the civ, can then construct a stadium in order to play the sport. These buildings provide 1 health (from the exercise in playing) and 1 happiness. In addition, the civ with the appropriate Wonder gets a gold from each city that plays the sport. (Not sure whether Open Borders should be necessary to collect this income.) The Wonder of course acts as a stadium in its home city.

Civs that play the same sports should also get a +1 bonus in their relationships if they have Open Borders. This bonus should probably not e accumulative, i.e. you still only get +1 even if you play lots of the same sports.

I have come up with the following 5 sports. As you can see, they are a little Anglo-centric. I have not yet worked out which technologies should make the Wonders available, but have indicated when roughly they should appear:

OLYMPIC GAMES - founded by construction of Olympia - allows construction of Racetrack - Ancient era
JOUSTING - Field of the Cloth of Gold - Jousting Field - Medieval
TENNIS - Wimbledon - Tennis Court - Renaissance
TEST CRICKET - Lord's - Cricket Ground - Industrial
FOOTBALL - Wembley Stadium - Football Pitch - Modern


Again, sorry if this has been done before. I would welcome comments, especially if you think that it would upset gameplay too much.

No this sounds like a great idea. Need soccer of course, but you could also have missionary units to spread the word of soccer or cricket to the world!

Thanks.

When I say football, I mean the same thing as soccer, being from the UK. Not sure about the missionaries since I think the sport should spread to whole civs rather than cities, although it would be amusing to have little cricketers and footballers running around the map. I also pondered having Great Players, but haven't a clue what they could do.

I thought of something similar, except the "National Sport" would be a civic choice, which gave happiness and other bonuses based on how many football(soccer) pitches, tennis courts, hockey rinks, etc you have around your empire...

mrkingkong