(1-10a) Make Paper Maker Make Paper: New China Unique Wonder

[pineappledan]

Counterproposal to this

Problem:
China's UB -- the Paper Maker -- is bland, underpowered, thematically and historically silly, and it doesn't even give you Paper. Literally Unplayable.

Rather than just giving people the option of changing the UB, I thought I would give the community the opportunity to vote if they wanted China to have a UB, a UNW, or a UI

unique or boosted attributes are underlined

Spoiler Proposed UNW :

Tàicháng Sì
(replaces Scrivener's Office):
available at Writing
Requires 15 Population
+1 Culture per 5 Citizens
+3 Paper (up from 1)
+1 Food in City for every City-State Friend and +1 Faith for every Ally
+3 Gold to all Chanceries on Empire
+10% Production towards Diplomatic Units
1 Civil Servant Specialist Slot
Production Cost scales with number of cities on Empire
Creating Great Works grants a We Love the Empress Day and +1in all Cities. These bonuses decline by 50% every Era.

UA Changes:
Remove WLTED and +1 in all cities when creating a Great work (bonus in UA from gaining cities only)
Add +10% Gold during WLTED (moved from old Paper Maker to UA, now +10% )

 

[pineappledan]

The problem with a UNW proposal for China is that China's UA is already pretty great, and a UNW is basically a second unique trait with a timed unlock. This means that a UNW for China is necessarily going to have to take some power from the UA in order to justify itself, stealing from Peter to pay Paul.

 

[Cebrudras]

One fun UNW interacting with the UA could be something reducing the decay placed at an awkward spot in the tech tree and maybe with high pop requirements. The UA is at it's most unique when you have to actually think and plan around eras transitions.

 

[CrazyG]

This is my favorite suggestion of the 3 proposals for a current revamp. And I totally support a revamp because the current civ isn't necessarily weak but it sure is boring.

 

[pineappledan]

I sponsor the sql and text for this change, but it would require DLL work to move the trait abilities into a building

 

[Stalker0]

This is my favorite suggestion of the 3 proposals for a current revamp. And I totally support a revamp because the current civ isn't necessarily weak but it sure is boring.

Mine as well

 

[Recursive]

I sponsor the DLL changes required for the proposal.

Proposal Sponsors: pineappledan (other stuff), Recursive (DLL changes).

(Sponsors have indicated that they are able and willing to perform the code changes required for this proposal if the community votes Aye on it. Other coders are free to sponsor this as well. A proposal without a sponsor will not advance to the Voting Phase.)

 

[Recursive]

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