Ideas for World Wonders

[asioasioasio]

Hey
I'm going to try make new graphic mod.
And since we don't know how the stuff for the 3D works. I'll focus on 2D graphics - wich I love in Civ5 - and trying to recreate similliar effect would be good graphics training

I plan to make new world wonders.

Statue of Zeus at Olympia
Apostolic Palace at Rome
Temple of Artemis at Ephesus
Mausoleum of Maussollos at Halicarnassus
Colosseum at Rome
Sultan Ahmed Mosque (Blue Mosque) at Istanbul
Empire State Building at New York
Golden Gate Bridge in San Francisco
Parthenon
Neuschwanstein Castle

Eventualy:
The Church of the Nativity
The Dai Miao
The Kashi Vishwanath
The Kong Miao
The Mahabodhi
The Masjid Al-Haram

List is less or more open, it depends much on how hard will be making new mods.

Do you have ideas what this wonders could give?
On the first row there goes:
- Sultan Ahmed Mosque - that's the first one - hagia sophia after reskining could work as graphic element on the map.
- Apostolic Palace
- Parthenon
- Neuschwanstein Castle
- Statue of Zeus at Olympia

If you could give idea I could make minimods from them. If not I'll just share graphics here on cfc.
Maybe someone wants to add new type of effect - tweaking lua (or sdk)?

 

[asioasioasio]

I need new option for Building wich reduces the unhappiness from number of population by 50% (or if it would be easier - it gives one for two peoples in the city). (Something similliar to Forbidden Palace, by not the number of cities, byt by half of the population in city)

So for example building world wonder "Sultan Ahmed Mosque" (wich is why I need this option) I could have more people in the city (country) and/or golden age would be quicker.

 

[asioasioasio]

The current graphics basing on this image http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/5/50/Blue_mosque2.jpg



Here in better quality http://img256.imageshack.us/img256/2558/sultanahmet2.jpg



It differs a little bit from the orginal civ style - those paintings there uses less dry bryshes and more wet brushes. Tough for the first time I'm happy from the result

 

[labrynianrebel]

I have but one request: Neuschwanstein Castle

 

[Shiggs713]

Wow Asio, looks great so far. Nice button! Glad to see your here for civ5. I'm feeling a brain fart right now, but if I think of anything I'll be sure to drop by with some ideas for these wonders.

pretty much anything you ever want help with you can ask me. Probably without all your help back in the day I wouldn't know half the stuff I do now.

 

[asioasioasio]

Thx Shiggs713 You helped me with the 1939 mod a lot It would be cool to cooperate again . Tough probably I would focus on graphics stuff and micromods in civ5 - real life would not allow me to complete more complex mods (like 1939 for example). In head I have idea for SF mod, but not time to do it . I could help you with graphics - when they'll finally be doable.

For now I have problem using Nexus - it doesn't unpacks .fpk
I'll reinstall it - probably I set something wrong with assets paths.

@labrynianrebel
1. If this image is with Creative Commons license or done by youreself?
2. Do you have it in larger version?
3. If answer on any previous question is no. Wich image could be instead?
http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/3/37/Neuschwanstein_castle.jpg
http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/a/ae/Castle_Neuschwanstein.jpg
http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/e/e8/Neuschwanstein_Castle_LOC_print_rotated.jpg

 

[CYZ]

Can't think of any good bonus for the Mosque, although it looks great!

Apolistic palace... perhaps some sort of bonus involving city states? There's no ww that does that yet.

I believe Neuschanstein castle was never really ment or used as a defensive building. It was mainly seen a great piece of architecture and culture. Perhaps it can give +4 culture for every castle in the empire or something like that. (and ofcourse 2 or 3 engineer points, the game lacks those badly).

 

[asioasioasio]

Thx

This bonus for minor civs would be cool for Statue of Zeus or Parthenon

This is what I would like to see for Blue Mosque (tough requires sdk / lua work, wich I'm not able to do).

I need new option for Building wich reduces the unhappiness from number of population by 50% (or if it would be easier - it gives one for two peoples in the city). (Something similliar to Forbidden Palace, by not the number of cities, byt by half of the population in city)

So for example building world wonder "Sultan Ahmed Mosque" (wich is why I need this option) I could have more people in the city (country) and/or golden age would be quicker.

This fits perfectly imo for 20 mln people Istanbul and Osman Empire - building big empire, golden ages (imo Turkey now has another Golden Age +10% GPD growth in "recession"), and faster growth of population and capitol (where is less unhapiness you can grow faster in civ)

 

[CYZ]

Requirement for Neuschanstein castle=mountain in the vicinity?

 

[asioasioasio]

Yeah - it should be in mountains and with some cultural bonus.

 

[Emerald_Knight]

CN Tower
Willis Tower
Burj Al Arab

 

[Ekmek]

I noticed my paint shop pro has a poserize option that reduces the colors to civ5-like but then it takes a little smoothing out. I like the blue mosque!

 

[evrett37]

I propose major brewery. The organize distillation of alcholol throughout the ages had a major effect on diet, culture and politics of cities.

 

[Chiyochan]

Sure is westernized in here
No offense I cant name many wonders from the east either, but all the same, for me at least. Its less fun building a western wonder as an eastern or african civ.

 

[asioasioasio]

@ekmek - thx
for buttons I use gimp - i like more posterize option there.
And for painting I combined those two tutorials:
http://bmcphotoart.com/photoshoppaintingtutorial.php
http://10steps.sg/tutorials/photoshop/transform-photo-into-watercolor-painting/
and change a little bit both of them

Probably couple of imports from civ4+ expansion would be and idea for wonders for non-europe-centric civilizations

 

[Ikael]

Yay modding ideas! I love those ok, here are mine's:

Statue of Zeus at Olympia - City state influence generated by solving quests gets tripled.

Apostolic Palace at Rome - Empires and CS that declares the war against you gets +7 penalty. CS and empires allied with you gains +7

Temple of Artemis at Ephesus - Unlocks every social policy tree (say, you can start developing the order social tree without needing to research industrialization)

Mausoleum of Maussollos at Halicarnassus - Each wonder under your control generates +3 culture and +3 production to the city where it has been built (including this one, of course)

Colosseum at Rome - Colisseums all over your empire generates +1 culture and +1 happiness. The city where it has been built gains a manteinance free colisseum.

Sultan Ahmed Mosque (Blue Mosque) at Istanbul - Trade routes generates +1 culture each

Empire State Building at New York - Specialists all over your empire gives +2 gold each

Golden Gate Bridge in San Francisco - Doubles the yield of specialists improvements

Parthenon - Doubles the lenght of the golden ages generated by great persons

Neuschwanstein Castle - Every defense building generates +2 gold and +2 culture

 

[need my speed]

My opinion:

Statue of Zeus is hugely underpowered...

Apostolic Palace, remove the happiness bonus. City states (and the AI in general) cheat, so they don't need it, and why would I, with the non existent diplomacy, help my 'allies' with happines?

The rest sounds good.

 

[Titanten]

I've wanted something to make natural wonders more valuable.

I have no idea what to call it, but how about something that makes "each natural wonder you have discovered provides an additional 2 and 2

 

[eris23]

Statue of Zeus: Free morale promotion (not cummulative with the NW of the same effect)
Apostolic Palace: Could prove troublesome to implement but it could give a small bonus to relations with everyone, alternatively, it simply has the same effect as the organized religion social policy, i.e. 25% less happiness for GA
Temple of Artemis: farms and pastures in this city give +1 gold
Mausoleum of Maussolus: 50% longer GA?
Colosseum: Faster military production or more experience
Sultan Ahmed Mosque: +5 happiness
Empire state building: Broadcast towers produce additional culture
Golden Gate bridge: One possibility could be that roads that cross rivers no longer cost upkeep or that roads in general cost less upkeep, otherwise faster movement within the empire.
Parthenon: more great people
Neuschwanenstein: starts a GA or provides happiness

 

[labrynianrebel]

Thx Shiggs713 You helped me with the 1939 mod a lot It would be cool to cooperate again . Tough probably I would focus on graphics stuff and micromods in civ5 - real life would not allow me to complete more complex mods (like 1939 for example). In head I have idea for SF mod, but not time to do it . I could help you with graphics - when they'll finally be doable.

For now I have problem using Nexus - it doesn't unpacks .fpk
I'll reinstall it - probably I set something wrong with assets paths.

@labrynianrebel
1. If this image is with Creative Commons license or done by youreself?
2. Do you have it in larger version?
3. If answer on any previous question is no. Wich image could be instead?
http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/3/37/Neuschwanstein_castle.jpg

http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/e/e8/Neuschwanstein_Castle_LOC_print_rotated.jpg

The second image (http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/a/ae/Castle_Neuschwanstein.jpg) is a lot better then mine.