Ikael
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Reading trought the Rock Paper Shotgun interview with Dennis Shirk, I stumbled into yet another really cool aspect of the new cultural mechanic, related to the retrievement of antiquities:
So let me get this straight: we could actually recreate the great museums and art collection of the world inside our cities by pairing relics and works of art that follows a same thematic and grouping them inside certain buildings or wonders, which in turn will give us great tourism and other type bonuses. Say: Tutankamon's coffin + pryamids + the scribe = New theme unlocked "Ancient Egypt": +3 tourism +2 happiness inside the city".
This game. This freaking game, holy crap. This just keep getting better and better.
Those antiquity sites we keep track of, which civilisations were involved, whether it was a battle, whether it was an ancient ruin that was uncovered or a barbarian camp that was destroyed, and so thats exactly when your archaeologist goes there, hes going to try to extract that item and hell be able to take it back and create another great work, an artefact, and put it in the museum. And based on the different types of museums you have, youre sort of trying to collect different types of archaeological pieces.
So for instance the Louvre, if you think about the Louvre, its got art, archaeological things, all sorts of things from across the world. So for instance, if you build the Louvre wonder, trying to fill that with a great diversity of different works of art and artefacts from all sorts of cultures from around the world, and the better you satisfy those what we call theming bonuses from the different wonders and museums in your civilisation, the extra points of culture and tourism that you can generate.
Its actually a really interesting mini-game that kind of happened into being that our community gameplay testers really started to enjoy, because youve got this UI that you can bring up that shows all of your great works and artefacts in all of your different buildings. As Ed said, theming them or matching them up or putting all the ones that youve found in one particular building, you can get different variations on these tourism buffs, like plus two tourism or plus four tourism, if you theme them well, so actually discovering the themes because were not documenting them. Its up to the fans to find all these different kinds of themes. It can give you big benefits, but its actually a lot of fun just seeing what will actually match up from similar time periods, the kind of variety and diversity of artwork you put into place. Very cool.
So let me get this straight: we could actually recreate the great museums and art collection of the world inside our cities by pairing relics and works of art that follows a same thematic and grouping them inside certain buildings or wonders, which in turn will give us great tourism and other type bonuses. Say: Tutankamon's coffin + pryamids + the scribe = New theme unlocked "Ancient Egypt": +3 tourism +2 happiness inside the city".
This game. This freaking game, holy crap. This just keep getting better and better.