Great Works you'd like to change?

[GoStu]

Simply put, I think that the great works lists could do with a big extension; I love the culture game and am a bit tired of repeats. I'd love to see some of the below, and would even probably pay for a DLC to cover some of the licensing fees

1) Various GWAM with multiple well-known works have a few different works they can create: for example if the Musician Gustav Holst shows up, he might create any of his 'Planets', or Shakespeare gets a few more plays added. While we're at it, throw a free Shakespeare into the Globe and make old Bill himself the writer who comes with it: it's HIS theater.

2) More modern works, please. I'd love to see Heinlein or some of the other science fiction greats added to the Writer's list ("Love is the condition in which the happiness and wellbeing of another become essential to your own" - Heinlein. "In the beginning, the universe was created. This has made a lot of people very angry and been widely regarded as a bad move." - Douglas Adams).

3) I'd like great musicians to ignore closed borders. Going to war to get a musician across is annoying as all hell and dumb, and it's always the people who dislike you with a different ideology and religion who need the musicians the most. If you can get Open Borders and share anything like ideology, religion, or trade routes you don't need your musician there.

Is there any other works you'd like to see added?

 

[Dralix]

I think they need to change Rubaiyat of Omar Khayyam to this:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-Odz-fB72Ko&t=52s

 

[jlim201]

If you have enough Tourism, and they have a different ideology, you can usually get them to flip.

If you have one/two civs remaining, send a diplomat and trade routes to those civs. I find the best ideology for culture win is Order because it has two bonuses, for less happiness and same ideology. However, if you are short on Great Works, go Freedom to get more.

 

[Chippeth]

I have to admit, I was a bit disappointed when I found out Elvis wasn't a great musician.

 

[jasper]

Joe Montana should be a great war general and maybe add some funny meme pictures as great works.

 

[otaman1]

Romeo and Juliet & Fur Elise seems more popular than Macbeth and Fifth Symphony

 

[Breadsmith]

I want Moonlight Sonata.

 

[LordDavius]

1) Various GWAM with multiple well-known works have a few different works they can create: for example if the Musician Gustav Holst shows up, he might create any of his 'Planets', or Shakespeare gets a few more plays added. While we're at it, throw a free Shakespeare into the Globe and make old Bill himself the writer who comes with it: it's HIS theater.

THIS. So much this. When I first built the Globe, I expected to see Ol' Billy the Bard pop out, and my reaction was "Oh. Mary Shelley. That's nice, too."

As for multiple works, also yes please. Kipling could produce the Jungle Books, Kim (my personal favorite), or even Just So Stories... Carroll could produce The Hunting of the Snark: "In the midst of the word he was trying to say,/In the midst of his laughter and glee,/He had softly and suddenly vanished away-/For the Snark WAS a Boojum, you see."

Definitely add in Douglas Adams, too. I agree on that point as well.

 

[Makavcio]

There are tons of works I would love to see. In games and pretty much everywhere where popular culture dominates, I always have a feeling that "great" means: "popular in the USA". I'm not accusing anyone of anything here but it's hard not to notice that some parts of the world have many representatives, while other parts have nobody.

If it was up to me, I would just spam into the game as many great works as possible. There are at least two modders on steam workshop who are doing this and even though they think that Chomsky is a great writer, I applaud their work

 

[Derpy Hooves]

Just having more of them would be great, and I really don't get why they didn't have some era restrictions set up, every time I get a Van Gogh in classical or an ancient chinese poem in the atomic era it just feels weird.

 

[GoStu]

If you have enough Tourism, and they have a different ideology, you can usually get them to flip.

If you have one/two civs remaining, send a diplomat and trade routes to those civs. I find the best ideology for culture win is Order because it has two bonuses, for less happiness and same ideology. However, if you are short on Great Works, go Freedom to get more.

Yes, but if you have enough Tourism to get them to flip, you're probably already winning. What I'm saying (and I'm seeing in your post too) is that it's the diplomat and the trade route that are doing the heavy lifting there. The Musician continues to be dubious at his job.

 

[rodrigoq]

ICP - Miracles

srsly, its a work of art, a literary POS, a wonder of idiocy. It deserves a place in Civ.

 

[Redaxe]

Here's a renaissance masterpiece I'd like to see. What is often regarded as the distant ancestor to a modern computer. These automata are programmable mechanical devices that work on cams and gears and was built in the mid 1700s. The amount of craftsmanship to create these devices is nothing short of incredible.
This is called the Writer produced my Pierre Jaquet-Droz

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FUa7oBsSDk8

 

[Suliz]

Bernini's Apollo and Daphne - my favourite piece of sculpture

 

[blackcatatonic]

I'm always surprised that Tchaikovsky's great work is the 1812 Overture. The guy wrote Swan Lake and The Nutcracker, for Pyotr's sake!

 

[holywar]

I'd like great musicians to ignore closed borders. Going to war to get a musician across is annoying as all hell and dumb, and it's always the people who dislike you with a different ideology and religion who need the musicians the most. If you can get Open Borders and share anything like ideology, religion, or trade routes you don't need your musician there.

If they won't even open their borders to you, what makes you think they will attend your concert? It makes sense to me. Even civs with a different ideology/religion will open their borders for the right price, if you haven't done other things to piss them off. Pay the toll or you can't get in peacefully.