TheSpaceCowboy
The Gangster of Love
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I’d like to propose a complete overhaul of the American civilization, including an additional leader.
Firstly, America’s unique building, the Film Studio, would be available for all civilizations. It’d be unlocked at Radio, and like the Art Museum and Archeological Museum, it’d be an alternative build to the Broadcast Center. It’d no longer have the 100% tourism bonus, nor produce any Great Artist or Musician points. Instead, it’d be the only building to produce Great Director points, and would house up to three Great Works of Cinema.
America’s new unique district would be the Suburb, a replacement of the Neighborhood. It’d cost only half the production of a Neighborhood, but would have a maximum housing of only five. Each Suburb would include a Main Street, the content of which would change depending on the adjacent tiles. On a Suburb’s Main Street, you might see a:
Replacing Founding Fathers as America’s unique ability is E Pluribus Unum. America does not found cities but States. When founding a State, any of the 50 States may be selected, each with a unique benefit based on the maps geography, as follows:
Feel free to offer suggestions for Arkansas, Connecticut, Delaware, Nebraska, New Hampshire, Ohio, Oregon, South Dakota, and Utah.
While I’d keep Teddy as is, I’d also add
Gen. Dwight D. Eisenhower
Leader Ability: Supreme Commander of the Allied Forces
Leader Agenda: Containment
Ike likes Civilizations with whom he shares a government and will push strongly for an alliance. Ike and loathes civilizations with a different government that try to expand. Ike will always try to liberate captured City-States.
Firstly, America’s unique building, the Film Studio, would be available for all civilizations. It’d be unlocked at Radio, and like the Art Museum and Archeological Museum, it’d be an alternative build to the Broadcast Center. It’d no longer have the 100% tourism bonus, nor produce any Great Artist or Musician points. Instead, it’d be the only building to produce Great Director points, and would house up to three Great Works of Cinema.
America’s new unique district would be the Suburb, a replacement of the Neighborhood. It’d cost only half the production of a Neighborhood, but would have a maximum housing of only five. Each Suburb would include a Main Street, the content of which would change depending on the adjacent tiles. On a Suburb’s Main Street, you might see a:
- Bar (if adjacent to a Vineyard): +1 Amenity
- Church (if adjacent to a Worship Building): +1 Faith
- Coffee Shop (if adjacent to a Coffee Plantation): +1 Production
- Elementary School (if adjacent to a University): +1 Science
- Gas Station (if next to an Oil Well): +1 movement to friendly units
- Grocer (if adjacent to a Farm or plantation): +1 Food
- Jeweler (if adjacent to a Jewel or Silver Mine): +1 Gold
- Movie Theater (if adjacent to a Film Studio): +1 Culture
Replacing Founding Fathers as America’s unique ability is E Pluribus Unum. America does not found cities but States. When founding a State, any of the 50 States may be selected, each with a unique benefit based on the maps geography, as follows:
- Alabama: The Land of Cotton (+1 Culture from Cotton, +1 Gold w/Plantation)
- Alaska: (x2 Silver from Mines or Oil from Wells built over either Snow or Tundra)
- Arizona: (+1 Appeal to Desert tiles)
- Arkansas: Diamond Mine (+1 Gold for Gems)
- California: Napa Valley (+1 Culture from Wine)
- Colorado: Mile High (+1 Appeal adjacent to Mountains)
- Connecticut: Whalers (Whales provide +1 Oil after Square Rigging)
- Delaware: Tax Haven (x2 Gold from Commercial Hub adjacency)
- Florida: Florida Oranges (+1 Food from Citrus)
- Georgia: Sweat Tea (+1 Culture from Tea, +1 Gold w/Plantation)
- Hawaii: Vacation Destination (x2 Tourism from Seaside Resorts)
- Idaho: (+1 Food from Potatoes (new resource))
- Illinois: Navy Pier (allows construction of a Royal Navy Dockyard on Lake tiles)
- Indiana: Land of the Indians (+1 Culture on any tile formerly occupied by a Barbarian village)
- Iowa: Caucus (+1 Amenity from triangular farms)
- Kansas: America’s Breadbasket (+1 Food from Wheat)
- Kentucky: Derby (+1 Amenities from Horse Pastures)
- Louisiana: Bayou (+1 Culture from Marshes)
- Maine: +1 Food from Lobsters (new resource)
- Maryland: Chesapeake Bay (+1 Food from Crabs)
- Massachusetts: Boston Clam Chowder (+1 Food from Pearls)
- Michigan: Motor City (+1 Production from Aluminum)
- Minnesota: 10,000 Lakes (+1 Appeal adjacent to Lake tiles)
- Mississippi: Cash Crop (+1 Culture from Sugar, +1 Gold w/Plantation)
- Missouri: Gateway to the West (+100% Production towards Settlers, who gain additional movement points)
- Montana: Yellowstone (x2 Tourism from National Parks)
- Nebraska: Cornhuskers (+1 Amenity to Farms adjacent to a University)
- Nevada: Viva Las Vegas (Entertainment Complex receives +1 Amenity per adjacent Desert tile)
- New Hampshire: Old Man of the Mountain (+1 Tourism from Natural Wonders and adjacent tiles)
- New Jersey: Jersey Shore (Can construct Seaside Resorts on any Coastal tile)
- New Mexico: Los Alamos (Desert tiles reduce the Production cost of the Manhattan Project)
- New York: Greatest City in the World (+50% Production towards Broadway and the Statue of Liberty, no Governor needed for Washington Square Park)
- North Carolina: Blackbeard’s Treasure (x2 Tourism from Artifacts recovered from shipwrecks)
- North Dakota: Fracking (+1 Gold from Oil over plains)
- Ohio: Rock & Roll Hall of Fame (x2 Tourism from Great Works of Music)
- Oklahoma: (x2 Oil from Oil Wells)
- Oregon: (+1 production to Lumber Mills)
- Pennsylvania: Pittsburgh Steel (+Production from Iron)
- Rhode Island: Colossus of Rhodes (+50% Production towards the Colossus)
- South Carolina: Indigo Plantation (+1 Gold from Dyes)
- South Dakota: Rush Mount Rushmore (+50% Production towards Mount Rushmore (new Wonder))
- Tennessee: Athens of the South (x2 Great Musician Points)
- Texas: Everything’s Bigger (Extra territory upon founding, can expand further than normal)
- Virginia: Old Dominion (+1 Culture from Tobacco, +1 Gold w/Plantation)
- Vermont: Green Mountains (+1 Appeal next to hills with forests)
- Washington: Seattle’s Best (+1 Food from Coffee)
- Wisconsin: Dairyland (+1 Food from Cattle)
- West Virginia: “Take me home, country roads” (+1 Production from Coal)
- Wyoming: (+1 Food from Buffalo (new resource))
Feel free to offer suggestions for Arkansas, Connecticut, Delaware, Nebraska, New Hampshire, Ohio, Oregon, South Dakota, and Utah.
While I’d keep Teddy as is, I’d also add

Gen. Dwight D. Eisenhower
Leader Ability: Supreme Commander of the Allied Forces
- America immediately has access to the Liberation Casus Belli
- Wars of Liberation generate no Weariness or Warmongering
- When declaring a War of Liberation, America will automatically levy all of its suzerains’ units for free for up to 20 turns - this is forfeited if America starts any other conflicts
Leader Agenda: Containment
Ike likes Civilizations with whom he shares a government and will push strongly for an alliance. Ike and loathes civilizations with a different government that try to expand. Ike will always try to liberate captured City-States.
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