steampunk1880
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A call for input on units and buildings to attach to a clockpunk age!
if there are no objections I'd really like to try to use the method by which all special untis and buildings have prerequisite building "Tradition of Great Inventions" which is given free by Great Inventor's Workshop Wonder
please post any ideas you have WITH tech/resource/good/building requirements, WITH detailed unit/building stats, WITH a small description to go into the civilopedia.
stuff we already have
Wonder: Great Inventor's Workshop
Requires: Invention, 7 mathematics academies, 7 engineering schools, 4 alchemist laboratories.
Civilopedia: Here a great genius of our time spent the vast majority of his life sketching out reams of fantastic devices to make life easier, cheaper, or just plain more fantastic for the common man. With the patronage of the state the Great Inventor's inventions spread far and wide inspiring generations of men and women to build fantastic devices in the service of our nation.
Stats: World wonder. 5 can be built, limit 1 per team. 30% science in city. Can turn 1 citizen into scientist, 1 citizen into engineer. Provides free building "Tradition of Great Inventions" in all cities.
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Unit: Clockwork Armored Cart
Stats: tracked unit, strength 25, movement 2, starts with blitz causes collateral damage up to 15%. -25% strength vs gunpowder units, -50% to attack cities. Upgrades to early tank.
Requires: Clockworks and Gunpowder, Tradition of Great Inventions, copper and sulfur.
Civilopedia: Clad in thick but light copper plating these clockwork terrors of the renaissance are a product of fantastic inventive thought inspired by the great inventors of the past. Use them to smash infantry and cavalry in the field but don't expect it to be much use in the narrow city streets.
Unit:Scout Glider
Stats:flying unit with no ability to attack, only recon. Same range as early fighter. Can see invisible units. Upgrades to early fighter
Requires: Physics, Good (Sails) and Tradition of Great Inventions.
Civilopedia: Taking a cue from the soaring type of bird, these canvas gliders built by our inventive geniuses can be held aloft for hours by thermal updrafts giving their pilots a clear lay of the land and our generals a valuable resource in scouting.
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Building: Tradition of Great Invention
Civilopedia: Inspired by the works of our nation's Great Inventor and encouraged by our society that holds them in high regard, many young tinkerers are ready and willing to push the envelope of what is possible into the realm of the fantastic.
Stats: Prerequisite for all Clockpunk related units and buildings. Provided free in all cities by Great Inventor's Workshop
Building: Automaton Clock
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Automaton_clock
requires Clockwork, Tradition of Great Invention
Civilopedia: An automaton clock or automata clock is a type of striking clock featuring automatons. Clocks like these were built from the Middle Ages through to Victorian times in Europe. Our tradition of inventive genius makes them far more common in our country than in others. The automatons usually perform on the hour, half-hour or quarter-hour, usually to strike bells.
Stats: 5% maintenance, 20% hammers, 1 happy, 3 culture, allows one citizen to become engineer.
Upgrades from town clock.
Building: Orchestrion Theater
http://www.girlgeniusonline.com/ggmain/doublespreads/ggcoll03_018_019.html
Requires: Realism, Tradition of Great Invention
Civilopedia: An orchestrion is a generic name for a machine that plays music and is designed to sound like an orchestra or band. Orchestrions may be operated by means of a large pinned cylinder or by a music roll and less commonly book music. The sound is usually produced by pipes, though they will be voiced differently to those found in a pipe organ, as well as percussion instruments. Many orchestrions contain a piano as well. In our age of clockwork, orchestrion theaters comprise enormous wall sized machines, usually complete with mechanical dolls moving in time to the music, and seats from which citizens can appreciate the works of our music roll composers.
Stats: 1 happy, 3 culture, 1 happy per 20% culture rate, .5 happy per 20% science rate, can turn 1 citizen into artist, one citizen into scientist, one citizen into engineer, one happy with dye.
Upgrades from opera house
Building: Step Reckoner Manufactory
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Stepped_Reckoner
Requires: Scientific Method, copper, Tradition of Great Invention
Civilopedia: Step Reckoners are portable cranked mechanical calculators that can add, subtract, multiply and divide. They're a real step up from the abacus when it comes to calculating arithmetic. Other less inventive countries claim that the fiddly bits are impossible to make reliably but we managed just fine.
Stats: plus 3 gold; provides Good (Mechanical Calculator) in all cities trade route yadda yadda
Building: Good (Mechanical Calculator)
Civilopedia: A portable device for doing basic mathematics. There was some problem with the carrying function on early devices but they say that it's fixed now.
Stats: +1% hammers, +3% science;
Try to keep things balanced. thinking up uberunits and buildings may be fun but human players pwn the AI enough as it is.
This post will be updated as needed. I'm thinking if one person suggests something and three other people say it's good then we can probably add it to the list for testing. Also changes to what's already up there are free for discussion.
A call for input on units and buildings to attach to a clockpunk age!
if there are no objections I'd really like to try to use the method by which all special untis and buildings have prerequisite building "Tradition of Great Inventions" which is given free by Great Inventor's Workshop Wonder
please post any ideas you have WITH tech/resource/good/building requirements, WITH detailed unit/building stats, WITH a small description to go into the civilopedia.
stuff we already have
Wonder: Great Inventor's Workshop
Requires: Invention, 7 mathematics academies, 7 engineering schools, 4 alchemist laboratories.
Civilopedia: Here a great genius of our time spent the vast majority of his life sketching out reams of fantastic devices to make life easier, cheaper, or just plain more fantastic for the common man. With the patronage of the state the Great Inventor's inventions spread far and wide inspiring generations of men and women to build fantastic devices in the service of our nation.
Stats: World wonder. 5 can be built, limit 1 per team. 30% science in city. Can turn 1 citizen into scientist, 1 citizen into engineer. Provides free building "Tradition of Great Inventions" in all cities.
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Unit: Clockwork Armored Cart
Stats: tracked unit, strength 25, movement 2, starts with blitz causes collateral damage up to 15%. -25% strength vs gunpowder units, -50% to attack cities. Upgrades to early tank.
Requires: Clockworks and Gunpowder, Tradition of Great Inventions, copper and sulfur.
Civilopedia: Clad in thick but light copper plating these clockwork terrors of the renaissance are a product of fantastic inventive thought inspired by the great inventors of the past. Use them to smash infantry and cavalry in the field but don't expect it to be much use in the narrow city streets.
Unit:Scout Glider
Stats:flying unit with no ability to attack, only recon. Same range as early fighter. Can see invisible units. Upgrades to early fighter
Requires: Physics, Good (Sails) and Tradition of Great Inventions.
Civilopedia: Taking a cue from the soaring type of bird, these canvas gliders built by our inventive geniuses can be held aloft for hours by thermal updrafts giving their pilots a clear lay of the land and our generals a valuable resource in scouting.
++++++++++++++++++
Building: Tradition of Great Invention
Civilopedia: Inspired by the works of our nation's Great Inventor and encouraged by our society that holds them in high regard, many young tinkerers are ready and willing to push the envelope of what is possible into the realm of the fantastic.
Stats: Prerequisite for all Clockpunk related units and buildings. Provided free in all cities by Great Inventor's Workshop
Building: Automaton Clock
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Automaton_clock
requires Clockwork, Tradition of Great Invention
Civilopedia: An automaton clock or automata clock is a type of striking clock featuring automatons. Clocks like these were built from the Middle Ages through to Victorian times in Europe. Our tradition of inventive genius makes them far more common in our country than in others. The automatons usually perform on the hour, half-hour or quarter-hour, usually to strike bells.
Stats: 5% maintenance, 20% hammers, 1 happy, 3 culture, allows one citizen to become engineer.
Upgrades from town clock.
Building: Orchestrion Theater
http://www.girlgeniusonline.com/ggmain/doublespreads/ggcoll03_018_019.html
Requires: Realism, Tradition of Great Invention
Civilopedia: An orchestrion is a generic name for a machine that plays music and is designed to sound like an orchestra or band. Orchestrions may be operated by means of a large pinned cylinder or by a music roll and less commonly book music. The sound is usually produced by pipes, though they will be voiced differently to those found in a pipe organ, as well as percussion instruments. Many orchestrions contain a piano as well. In our age of clockwork, orchestrion theaters comprise enormous wall sized machines, usually complete with mechanical dolls moving in time to the music, and seats from which citizens can appreciate the works of our music roll composers.
Stats: 1 happy, 3 culture, 1 happy per 20% culture rate, .5 happy per 20% science rate, can turn 1 citizen into artist, one citizen into scientist, one citizen into engineer, one happy with dye.
Upgrades from opera house
Building: Step Reckoner Manufactory
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Stepped_Reckoner
Requires: Scientific Method, copper, Tradition of Great Invention
Civilopedia: Step Reckoners are portable cranked mechanical calculators that can add, subtract, multiply and divide. They're a real step up from the abacus when it comes to calculating arithmetic. Other less inventive countries claim that the fiddly bits are impossible to make reliably but we managed just fine.
Stats: plus 3 gold; provides Good (Mechanical Calculator) in all cities trade route yadda yadda
Building: Good (Mechanical Calculator)
Civilopedia: A portable device for doing basic mathematics. There was some problem with the carrying function on early devices but they say that it's fixed now.
Stats: +1% hammers, +3% science;
Try to keep things balanced. thinking up uberunits and buildings may be fun but human players pwn the AI enough as it is.
This post will be updated as needed. I'm thinking if one person suggests something and three other people say it's good then we can probably add it to the list for testing. Also changes to what's already up there are free for discussion.
mischief
. They are worthwhile on their own - oops wrong thread sort of - eg Myth of the Bull lets you study Bison Training... A similar set of buildings that are built long before the branch and are useful in their own right but may be restricted in some way the open possibilities.
