[Vote] (4-15) Proposal: Sacred Sites boosting Holy Sites

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VP Congress: Session 4, Proposal 15

Spoiler Current Sacred Sites reformation belief :

Hotels and all buildings purchased with Faith provide +3 Tourism each. World and Natural Wonders gain +4 Tourism each. Hermitage provides +10 Culture and +10 Tourism.

Spoiler Holy Site base yields :

+4 +5 +3

Spoiler Prophecy enhancer belief :

Reduces minimum Policy requirement for Wonders by 1. Prophets of this Religion 25% stronger, cost 25% less Faith. +3 to base Holy Site yields. If this is the majority Religion, Follower reduction from rival Inquisitors and Prophets is halved.

Proposal:

• The Sacred Sites belief also adds +3 Tourism to Holy Sites.

Rationale:

Apparently, Holy Sites aren't sacred enough to be a sacred site. But Hotels are!

Mainly a thematic change. The tourism boost is at the belief's lowest value (+3) as to not change the rate of cultural victories with it too drastically.

It does open the option of using prophets more aggressively for tourism, akin to the Prophecy enhancer belief, but the +3 base yields (tourism included) on Prophecy isn't strong at the moment. This suggests that a +3 tourism on Sacred Sites won't be a drastic change, at least by itself; Byzantium and India may have a combo to explore here.

 

[Enginseer]

Wait.. but don't Hotels basically add the culture of Holy Sites as Tourism... but I suppose it wouldn't change much in the grand scheme of things.

 

[axatin]

If we want to do a change for thematic reasons, we should go all the way: Remove the tourism bonus from hotels and the hermitage and give it to temples and the grand temple instead (with reduced values as the buildings come earlier)

 

[Legen]

I'll sponsor this.

 

[Recursive]

Proposal sponsored by Legen.

 

[pineappledan]

We already have enough beliefs augmenting holy sites. Also the Prophecy Enhancer already gives this exact same bonus.