Just a couple I have been toying with....btw can anyone tell me how to ensure the buildings for added Wonders (GW or SW) appear on the city view? I had them all done last year on another recently deceased computer and I don't remember anymore.
Most suggestions can be done with the editor:
National Sports League --- req'd, ten or more colesseums, tech TBA, raises luxuries, gives culture, maybe taxes
National Brewery --- access to wheat (as Strat Resource, and granary in city), Culture, taxes, luxuries
National and Foreign Car Dealerships: this would be designed to force some decisions....it didn't work and you will see why in a moment because the flag that the hydro, coal, nuclear plants use to ensure only one exists can only be used once. Meaning flagging these dealerships would put them in the choice will the PP's and not on their own....that should be changed.
How I fixed it was making them small wonders
National Car Dealership: boost in production, culture, tax, 1 pollution
Foreign Dealership: lesser boost in production, boost in tax and luxuries, no pollution, makes some people unhappy
It was meant to be something like the franchising and whatnot from CTP, but you trade off happiness and luxuries, less pollution for production and culture. I think there should be more choices like this one, bring some more stategy.
CTP had some good ones, but there are issues with stealing names/ideas and not all abilites transfer, but some good ones might. theme parks (as CI or SW), the science ones,...
Hollywood....increases effects of the movie theatres improvement to spread their....er, oops, I mean to prevent foreign propaganda and make people happy....bigtime culture awarded to this one
The Guttenberg Bible doesn't make historical sense to cultures outside of Europe, but Printing Press could do it. Either everyone builds it or there would have to be an equivalent for the other cultral groups (see below)
I am looking at civ specific wonders that are available at different times or with different techs but have similar effects: ie, culture, trade, etc.
For instance: a small wonder such as a tower, specific to the cultural group
Europe -- Eiffel Tower
Med -- Leaning Tower of Pisa
MidEast -- those cool towers in Kuwait City
Asian -- Singapore I believe has similar towers, seen in that movie with Sean Connery and Katherine Zeta-Jones
North American -- the CN Tower (or the very cool St. Louis arch, although who is kidding whom here? The CN Tower is the best!)
I like the idea of GW or SW that go obsolete quickly, but it's tought to predict how long the wonder will take or the research path taken.....but hey, that's the fun I suppose!!
The only thing I would need changed, would be to allow the building of museums as some have suggested after the city reaches a certain cultural threshold, or have all temple, library, cathedral, uni, collesseums built
