Greek Odeon (Theater replacement) does not contain a slot for a Great Work of Writing

As the title says. This is either a bug or a bad design decision -- the Greek cannot build any building with a Great Work of Writing slot, only National Wonders and World Wonders.

Besides that, the Odeon does not require a Monument (unlike the Theater, but like the post-Theater culture buildings). EDIT: Related suggestion moved to the "Culture" thread in the main forum.

This is most likely a bug. You can try fixing this by adding the following into the CEL__A_I.xml file at line 857:


You should also keep the relevant culture discussion in the following thread: http://forums.civfanatics.com/showthread.php?t=504731

I think the Odeon should have a writer specialist instead of an artist.

This is simply an oversight when bringing changes over from G&K to BNW versioned buildings. GEM used G&K style buildings which lacked these BNW extras.

As @stackpointer shows, all that is required is to add the extra detail that certain BNW buildings now contain.

I think the Odeon should have a writer specialist instead of an artist.

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I think you might be right. Does thematically fit better.

stackpointer said:

This is most likely a bug. You can try fixing this by adding the following into the CEL__A_I.xml file at line 857:

Code:

			<GreatWorkSlotType>GREAT_WORK_SLOT_LITERATURE</GreatWorkSlotType>
			<GreatWorkCount>1</GreatWorkCount>

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Actually, these two lines should replace the current lines 857--858, since the Odeon also shouldn't feature an Artist slot (these are confined to the Artist's Guild in BNW).

Will that even work? There's bugs and problems with the vanilla Great Works screen which make it very difficult to add, change, or remove GW slots. I plan to fix that when I have time. The Odeon has specialists as a temporary solution until we can give it GW slots.

Thalassicus said:

Will that even work? There's bugs and problems with the vanilla Great Works screen which make it very difficult to add, change, or remove GW slots. I plan to fix that when I have time. The Odeon has specialists as a temporary solution until we can give it GW slots.

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tl;dr: There's no need for a temporary Odeon solution. What needs to be fixed are the Danish Jelling Stones.

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The Odeon with 1 GW slot should work the same way as the Celtic Ceilidh Hall (a unique variant of the Opera House) works in unmodded BNW: by replacing (showing up in the column of) its non-unique counterpart. There are other problems (unrelated to the Odeon) with the Culture Overview, though:

1. (Minor glitch) Some National wonders (Palace, National Epic, Heroic Epic) take up a separate column instead of being displayed below the respective city name.
2. Custom National wonders with GW slots (CEG: Danish Jelling Stones, unique variant of the Heroic Epic) and custom unique buildings which add a GW slot to a non-GW building don't show up at all, which means it is impossible to swap their Great Works to other buildings or wonders.
3. Custom unique variants of GW buildings which change the number of slots will break the Culture Overview.
4. Changing the slot number of the standard GW buildings will break the Culture Overview.

My Culture Overview Fix (BNW) deals with 1) to 3). The fix for 3) requires that unique GW buildings like the Celtic Ceilidh Hall (unmodded BNW) or the Odeon (CGE) show up either in an accessory column or below the respective city name.

Feel free to incorporate my fix into CEG. I'd also be glad to provide a custom-made fix for CEG (e.g., removing the Ceilidh Hall column, adding a column for the Odeon). In any case, there's no need for a temporary removal of the Odeon's GW slot.

With CEG 3.7, the Odeon now contains a GW of writing slot, same as the Theater does.

I also noticed that the "old" Theatre icon (the Renaissance happiness building) is now used for the Theater, while the "new" icon is used for the Odeon. Great idea!

Glad you like it. You actually provided a great deal of impetus to get this corrected, so thanks to you.