And yet, despite a history practically defined by militancy, France gets eternally pigeonholed into the culture niche.Let France be a religious/militant civ under Philippe Auguste and let England be the European cultural powerhouse for once.
Funnily enough most of my favorite films, T.V. shows, and actors/actresses are British. Probably because I'm a big fan of obviously historical/fantasy genre and it's almost obligatory for them to be British, or at least European.Like I said, I understand what Civ culture represents. I just resent it.
Hallyu/K-pop Korea sounds fun.
If Sequoya gets into the game as a Great Scientist or as a Leader, I'll be happy either way.
Considering Rough Rider Teddy isn't necessarily geared towards culture victory anymore, maybe the culture for kills on the home continent could go to the Garde Impériale.
Why do you have to call me out like this?
Your point still stands, though. The best thing we can come up with for North American Infrastructure is houses?
I also think that it comes for going for a easy route design wise, i think good examples for Unique Infrastructure for North American tribes could be like Star Chart Lodges for the Pawnee to represent their astronomy or the Kuruvungna springs for the TongvaWhy do you have to call me out like this?
It's simply an accepted fact that the whole point of the game is to play around with different cultures. They are simply all played within the rulest of the underlying boardgame.
There are no "Star Chart Lodges". It's a standard home of the Pawnee. These were built with specific orientation in mind (we don't have a 'California' civilisation with a house built according to fengshui rules as their unique infra.... at least yet
), but they were still "a house" as Mr. Salt puts it. I'd rather look for other avenues of representing their culture (more unique bonuses while forgoing the unique infrastructure altogether?) rather than fetishise what's there but doesn't sound or look cool enough on its own. 
On the flip side, that means getting stuck with Napoleon again.
Well, most Native Americans didn't build specialized buildings; said houses were also temples, meeting halls, etc. That being said, several Native American civs are good candidates for not-houses. While I think a clan hall would be ideal for a PNW civ, ceremonial poles are the really, really, really, really obvious choice. Salmon weirs would be a less obvious choice that's non-housing. The Powhatan had council halls. Virtually any tribe west of the Mississippi could get a sweat lodge.
Yeah i get that those had housing as it main use but we also know that it had observatory -like qualities that makes it unique and distinct from just a traditional house.It's simply an accepted fact that the whole point of the game is to play around with different cultures. They are simply all played within the rulest of the underlying boardgame.
Some human cultures didn't make cities (and maybe what passed for a city for some would be deemed a series of villages by others), some cultures didn't even make permament encampments.
Some found value in architectural works, others did not. Some find value in antiquity, others tore down old buildings after a set time to make newer versions of them.
Unless you introduce different handling of cultures that are at odds with the boardgame model undeneath, you'll simply have to accept that most of these things are the same sort of squinty-eyed concession to find something roughly equivalent to an idenitfiable local construction that serves a special purose and involved a great deal of masonry, organised workforce, planning, all that stuff. You can sometimes find something a little less mundane here and there (artificial lagoons, weirs and totems of the NW Coast) but it will never be comparable to giant palaces, cathedrals, fortresses or factories that are the thing "unique infrastructure" is supposed to represent in an ideal scenario.
There are no "Star Chart Lodges". It's a standard home of the Pawnee. These were built with specific orientation in mind (we don't have a 'California' civilisation with a house built according to fengshui rules as their unique infra.... at least yet
In this case, the Pawnee earth lodge is a concept that is unique insofar as settled people like us are concerned. They are permanent dvellings built for specific seasons of the year. So that the community would return to these during harvest and planting season while living as foraging hunters in teepees offseason. They even used astrology to set these up due to their belief system and class organisation, they weren't completely random dugout homes devoid of any planning or reason. So in the end they are a house like any other, not an observatory or palace, but the way they are used as houses is what gives them an interesting quality.
Of course, that's a nice bit of lore on Civilopedia, but getting any of the game mechanics to play ball with this concept without herd hunting, nomadic lifestyles or changing of seasons is the tough/impossible part.
I should have a better answer for this given how often I've asked for them.
I'd see them as a defensive trade/diplomacy oriented civ, reflecting the fact that they were a major hub on the proto-Silk Road and the fact that they were remarkably resistant to both cultural and military domination by Babylon/Assyria. Not sure about their UU, but I think their UI should be a unique Government Plaza based on Dur Untash, one of the few ziggurats outside of Mesopotamia.
As what was said earlier there are instances where unique infrastructure could be something other than a dwelling such as a totem pole for a PNW tribe.
I think the Mekewap's Food from Bonus Resources was meant to represent buffalo pounds.
You are probably right. However it could have been a unique infrastructure that wasn’t a dwelling making room for another tribe that could get one instead.
