More ideas for specific historical named and with unique habilities and bonus:
- Great Spies
- Great Emissary/Diplomat
- Promotion for units and ship
Would be fun to have the German Red Tails pilots and the Russian Black Panther tank crew.
Even if you lost them you can have a militar heroes memorial where you put their names and gives you global militar bonus.
In fact, one 'archeological' mechanic missing is the archeological site or earlier Battlefield as a Monument/Tourism destination: think Stonehenge once its religious significance is past, or Borodino, Gettysburg or Waterloo all of which receive thousands of visitors a year.
Once promoted far enough, you should receive a 'special convention' of being able to give commemorative names to Units of all kinds. They could be made up by the gamer or from a List provided in game. I could (ahem) gift Firaxs with a pretty massive list from a wide range of sources which are also 'generic' enough to fit almost any Civ:
The Sacred Band
The Iron Division (used in at least 3 different armies in 2 different Eras!)
Die Hards
Ladies from Hell
Hellfighters
Old Ironsides, Iron Lady, Gin Palace (ships)
Red Tails, Green Hearts, Yellow Tails, Flying Circus, Flying Tigers (all air units)
Also Great Chefs! That produce Dishes to put on Restaurants. Nothing like some good Persian Tacos or Polish Sushi.
Now we're demoting the game to individual restaurants? However, some mechanic for Great Tourist Destinations like Great Hotels, Great Restaurants, Great Spas (which last could include everything from Classical Era thermal baths to Railroad Hotels and 'resorts' like the Industrial Era Brighton Pier and Sarasota, NY). Even if the next game doesn't use the specific Tourism mechanic, they could all be Commercial-Cultural places.
Every artifact should have a more specific name from a famous archaeological object not just generic ones. Would be great to found the Antikythera Mechanism on a Kongolese city.
Civic symbols from Philosophers, like the holy sites but related to Goverment/Civics. For example Liberty Bell to add some nice bonus for the Trotskyist Japan.
Let me add that I think Civ VI really suffered in 'immersion' by not allowing the gamer to interact with the history he/she was writing in the game. A screen shot of a new book, newspaper, announcement of some event, for example, or a Historical Timeline full of specific references to deeds and peoples and characters in that specific game:
"Trotsky-Sama and his Ever-Glorious Iron Buzzard Legion have destroyed yet another enemy army!
Trotsky the Great proclaims Peace with the Zulu!
Archeologists discover ancient frescos: fashions are expected to change next season based on the styles revealed from our Great Ancestors"
And so on . . .