Modern Buildings Guide - Visual Variations - Let's guess the gameplay!

[JNR13]

Currently incomplete but already posting to speculate together. Will update it with more info as it becomes available.

Antiquity Building visual guide: https://forums.civfanatics.com/thre...eplay-visual-incl-cultural-variations.692419/
Exploration Building visual guide: https://forums.civfanatics.com/threads/exploration-buildings-guide-gameplay-visual-incl-cultural-variations.693194/

 

[JNR13]

We don't really know anything about gameplay for the Modern Age yet apart from there being Factories which with resources, fuel resources being consumable again, aircraft changing-up warfare, and presumably some sort of space race.
However, we have already seen a lot of buildings for the age, so I started collecting what we have for the reference sheet. I also added uniques for now because a) this age doesn't have as many styles, so I had leftover space and b) because some of them could still turn out to be generic buildings which we just haven't seen visual variants for yet.

A new feature in this age seems to be full-tile buildings, possibly working similarly to unique improvements. They all seem infrastructure-focused in some way: Power Plant, Train Station, Aerodrome, and Spaceport.

The style uses we know:
America: North Atlantic
France: Continental
Meiji: Asia
Mexico: Latin America
Mughal: Asia
Siam: Asia

I have deliberately avoided naming the buildings to not significantly skew discussion towards my own guesses, as those are as good as anyone else's and not based in more info than the look of the building itself. However, I have sorted them according to what I think they are or at least which type of building class they'll be in, similarly to previous style sheets.

 

[Eagle Pursuit]

Is it my imagination or is there a tree inside that square French unique building? Perhaps an arboretum, botanical garden, or conservatory?

 

[Isengardtom]

Is it my imagination or is there a tree inside that square French unique building? Perhaps an arboretum, botanical garden, or conservatory?

Yes I think so too

Nice overview again @JNR13

I’m hopeful that I’ll play more into the modern age with this civ game. With 6 I used to get a bit bored after medieval / renaissance

 

[Eagle Pursuit]

With regards to the French unique building with the glass dome, Google routinely brings me back to two glass domes in Paris that were made during the Belle Epoque. They are both on the same street and both Grands Magasins (department stores): Galleries Lafayette and Printemps Hausmann, which a both still in operation. So, perhaps this round, glass-domed building is a Grand Magasin, rendered a little more generic so Firaxis doesn't step on anyone's toes with a look too similar to existing businesses?

 

[Boris Gudenuf]

With regards to the French unique building with the glass dome, Google routinely brings me back to two glass domes in Paris that were made during the Belle Epoque. They are both on the same street and both Grands Magasins (department stores): Galleries Lafayette and Printemps Hausmann, which a both still in operation. So, perhaps this round, glass-domed building is a Grand Magasin, rendered a little more generic so Firaxis doesn't step on anyone's toes with a look too similar to existing businesses?

So, if the French building is a 'department store' and the American one a Cement Plant, can we make the (doubtless Rash) assumption that America will be Production focused in Modern Age, or specifically focused on Infratructure/Wonder construction and France will be Consumption focused - as in, Gold and/or Culture?

 

[Eagle Pursuit]

America is certainly Production, I would think. But maybe more like infrastructure rather than factories making commercial goods, given concrete and rail. Although building infrastructure leads to factories that make commercial goods.

I'm thinking the Grand Magasin is going to be themed on boutique sales of elite goods. Your Chanel purfumes and such. So, Gold and Culture, yes. But the Conservatory or whatever it is, would probably be Science and Culture. I'm curious to see what happens when you put them in the same district, the synthesis of haut couture and intellect.

As an aside, I'm just loving this Belle Epoque architecture that France has. I hope that I enjoy the civ.