kul
Prince
Scapegrace for me. I like making friends with city states.
Civ design challenge
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Natan35
Mayor of St. Natansburg
I vote for Uighur.
(Though I must add that both your's and scapegrace's designs feature a... Risk of snowballing in the late game).
(Though I must add that both your's and scapegrace's designs feature a... Risk of snowballing in the late game).
kul
Prince
Hmm.. Now that you mentioned it. Well, I usually choose to play civ whose bonus was flat advantage instead of a creeping one.
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I vote Scapegrace
This thing's been a bit dead as of right now, hasn't it? Congrats Scapegrace for winning the last challenge!
Oh well, let's start it up again!
We're going old school with this one - we're gonna use Elam for this challenge!
Go wild with it, folks!
Oh well, let's start it up again!
We're going old school with this one - we're gonna use Elam for this challenge!
Go wild with it, folks!
inthesomeday
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Susiana 
SusaSirukdukh
UA: Elamization
Upon
conquering a city, your religion or pantheon becomes dominant and all religious pressure from other civilizations is eroded. Develop a pantheon with half as much as usually necessary.UU: Sukkal
Replaces
great general. Receive one free when selecting a pantheon, founding a religion, enhancing a religion, or reforming a religion. Nearby melee units receive +50% 
combat strength when defending against 
ranged attacks.UI: Elamite Statue
Available at masonry. Can be built on any non-ice tile. Provides +1
culture and +1 faith per era, and +1 
tourism per Sukkal produced over the course of the game upon discovering archaeology.
Keniisu
YouTuber | Modder
Elamite Empire (Shutruk-Nakhunte)
UA: True Conquest -
When you takeover another civilization's capital the amount of influence
that they had with each city-state 
is added to your current influence. Once you have wiped a civilization off the map (By taking all their cities) gain a large bonus to all national yields. 
c5faith:, 
, 
and )
UU: Copperman (Replaces Spearmen) -
Has 3 Movement
. When attacking cities with at least one source either Iron or Stone gain +33% strength against the city.
UB: Stelai (Replaces Shrine) -
Yields +2 Faith and +2 Production 
. Whenever a citizen is born gain +15 Production .
UA: True Conquest -
When you takeover another civilization's capital the amount of influence
that they had with each city-state is added to your current influence. Once you have wiped a civilization off the map (By taking all their cities) gain a large bonus to all national yields. c5faith:, , and )UU: Copperman (Replaces Spearmen) -
Has 3 Movement
. When attacking cities with at least one source either Iron or Stone gain +33% strength against the city.UB: Stelai (Replaces Shrine) -
Yields +2 Faith
and +2 Production . Whenever a citizen is born gain +15 Production .
Natan35
Mayor of St. Natansburg
Hmmm....
Elamite Empire(Shutruk-Nakhkhunte)
UA: The Best of Them
Selling or destroying buildings in conquered cities grants production in the ones you founded, doubled when you do so in enemy capitals. Faith buildings and wonders grant you an amount of culture upon completion for each city that has followed your pantheon.
UB: Statue
Replaces Monument. While intially having the same yields, it will grant +1 faith if its city follows a religion or a pantheon. Each statue you have increases the gold received from conquering cities. With CiD, it doesn't yield crime and also grants +1 
happiness.
UU: Zagros Tribesman
Replaces warrior. Takes 33% less damage from cities. When within 2 tiles of a mountain, the Tribesman will ignore enemy zone of control and will heal 50% faster.
Elamite Empire(Shutruk-Nakhkhunte)
UA: The Best of Them
Selling or destroying buildings in conquered cities grants
production in the ones you founded, doubled when you do so in enemy capitals. Faith buildings and wonders grant you an amount of culture upon completion for each city that has followed your pantheon.UB: Statue
Replaces Monument. While intially having the same yields, it will grant +1
faith if its city follows a religion or a pantheon. Each statue you have increases the gold received from conquering cities. With CiD, it doesn't yield crime and also grants +1 happiness.UU: Zagros Tribesman
Replaces warrior. Takes 33% less damage from cities. When within 2 tiles of a mountain, the Tribesman will ignore enemy zone of control and will heal 50% faster.
Keniisu
YouTuber | Modder
Copying my premise idea I see? Just kidding, I do like this design quite a bit and it was very limited in leader selection so I do see the reason behind having him and the Empire.
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I was afraid I would be the only one who couldn't really find good uniques, there's no information on specific architecture or military formations
DudewiththeFood
King
Elamite Empire
Shilhak-Inshushinak
Bronze Sunrise
The first mine not built on a resource spawns a copper resource. While a city has a food surplus over +2, buildings require 10% less production and maintenance is reduced by half.
Anshan Archer
Replaces Archer. After shooting, gains +1 movement. Cost 10% less to produce for every social policy tree unlocked.
Sit Shamshi
Replaces Monument. +1 culture compared to the monument and boosts production every time a social policy is adopted however has +1 maintenance.
Shilhak-Inshushinak
Bronze Sunrise
The first mine not built on a resource spawns a copper resource. While a city has a food surplus over +2, buildings require 10% less production and maintenance is reduced by half.
Anshan Archer
Replaces Archer. After shooting, gains +1 movement. Cost 10% less to produce for every social policy tree unlocked.
Sit Shamshi
Replaces Monument. +1 culture compared to the monument and boosts production every time a social policy is adopted however has +1 maintenance.
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Woah Dude that's a crazy UA
Natan35
Mayor of St. Natansburg
Do you realize how OP is the UB? While its just +1 culture, this is pretty strong in the early game, and you're essentially giving this building 50% more yields.
(And halved maintenance is pretty strong as well. How will this part interact with JFD's crime mod? I know its just a design though, not an actual civ in the making...)
(And halved maintenance is pretty strong as well. How will this part interact with JFD's crime mod? I know its just a design though, not an actual civ in the making...)
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All the uniques are fairly OP, but imo not out of the realm of conceivability. The UA is a combination of weaker Indonesia and weaker Rome UAs, building is probably more OP than any other building although it's comparable to the Stele, and the unit is pretty good hit and run archer, super OP if it's a promotion that can be retained upon upgrade. I'd say that's good enough to slightly delay construction in order to spam them and then upgrade rush. I'd say though still not too ridiculous, building is the worst bit.
lordrj15
Manx Modder
Slightly unrelated, but I've been trying to design an Elamite civ for months and recently picked it up again as a project, so if you could divert your creativity to my thread then that would be appreciated.
senshidenshi
Switched the Red and Blue channels
If only every civ I've struggled to come up with a design for could be done in a competition, eh?
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It's very hard considering the little known nature of their actual culture; their historically known aspects seem to be mostly political, which are great for UAs but not much else. They seemed to have not much specifically fascinating unique cultural facets or military techniques, I had to reach for my uniques. Hopefully this challenge will be of some inspiration. Also you should totally submit a design, we've got something of a shortage. If you've been working on one for a while you probably have some very interesting concepts put together.
lordrj15
Manx Modder
Well, if I had a good design I wouldn't be going around begging for ideas ;P
I have the following
UA-Kings of Anshan and Susa (need to find a better UA name)
Something related to city state influence
UU-Zagros tribal levy thing, or possibly an archer replacement. All I can find on Elamite military was that it was similar to the Sumerian military, only it relied more on levies from the highland tribes, and apparently the Elamites weren't half bad at archery.
UB-Apadana/Hahadana
Amphitheatre replacement that yields like, bonus yields due to city state alliances or something. It was where tribute was presented.
I have the following
UA-Kings of Anshan and Susa (need to find a better UA name)
Something related to city state influence
UU-Zagros tribal levy thing, or possibly an archer replacement. All I can find on Elamite military was that it was similar to the Sumerian military, only it relied more on levies from the highland tribes, and apparently the Elamites weren't half bad at archery.
UB-Apadana/Hahadana
Amphitheatre replacement that yields like, bonus yields due to city state alliances or something. It was where tribute was presented.
DudewiththeFood
King
I've slightly nerfed the UA which pretty much makes it useless while you're unhappy and added another maintenance point to the UB (although admittedly that doesn't affect it too much) but otherwise, I don't think it's too bad.
The UA effect is localized so only affects production and maintenance in the city.
The archer's promotion is comparable to Longbowmen and Chu-ko-Nu except it doesn't work in rough terrain.
The UB is strong but only as much as Ancien Regime in vanilla except now, social policies don't directly lead to victory. I think it would need testing in comparison the Poland's UA before it's declared OP. I only imagined the production boost to be less than chopping a forest anyway although I'm not sure about exact values.
The UA effect is localized so only affects production and maintenance in the city.
The archer's promotion is comparable to Longbowmen and Chu-ko-Nu except it doesn't work in rough terrain.
The UB is strong but only as much as Ancien Regime in vanilla except now, social policies don't directly lead to victory. I think it would need testing in comparison the Poland's UA before it's declared OP. I only imagined the production boost to be less than chopping a forest anyway although I'm not sure about exact values.
