My ideas for a new Civ IV expansion

[Lord David]

Here's my ideas for a new Civ IV expansion, it's got a few blanks, not yet refined, but it can be filled in later...so here goes...

Civilization IV Expansion
New Religions:

Shinto - Shinto Temple - Shinto Jinja - Shinto Monestery; Religious Wonder: Itsukushima Shrine

Jainism - Jain Temple - Jain Tirtha - Jain Monastery; Religious Wonder: The Gomatheswara

Sikhism - Sikh Temple - Sikh Gurdwara - Sikh Monastery; Religious Wonder: Harimandir Sahib

Satanism - Satanic Temple - Satanic Church - (No Monastery); Religious Wonder: Satanic Black House

Scientology - Scientology Temple - Scientology Centre - (No Monastery); Religious Wonder: Fort Harrison Hotel

New Technologies:


Ancient Age
Purification (Religious) – Needed for Shinto – Occurs after Meditation "The soul's impurity consists in bad judgments, and purification consists in producing in it right judgments, and the pure soul is one which has right judgments." - Epictetus

Asceticism (Religious) – Needed for Jainism – Occurs after Priesthood "The principle of asceticism never was, nor ever can be, consistently pursued by any living creature. Let but one tenth part of the inhabitants of the earth pursue it consistently, and in a day's time they will have turned it into a Hell." - Jeremy Bentham

Spirituality (Religious) – Needed for Sikhism – Occurs after Monotheism "I'm touched by the idea that when we do things that are useful and helpful - collecting these shards of spirituality - that we may be helping to bring about a healing." - Leonard Nimoy

The Occult - "So the supernatural becomes that mystical unknown - we refer to it as the unconscious, heaven, maybe even God." - William Shatner
Allows Improvement: Pagan Temple +1
Obsolete if city has a religion
Needed for The Cult - No prerequisites

Medieval Age:
The Arts (Culture) "Thoughts create a new heaven, a new firmament, a new source of energy, from which new arts flow." - Paracelsus
– Allows National Wonder: The Louvre No mad from this city
Can turn 3 citizens to artist
City likely to generate great artist
– Allows Improvement : Arts Museum: +1 per 10% culture rate
+1 culture
Required to build The Louvre
Occurs after Alphabet
Needed for Drama

Industrial Age
Archeology (Scientific) "As the archeology of our thought easily shows, man is an invention of recent date. And one perhaps nearing its end." - Michel Foucault
– Allows National Wonder: Valley of the Kings:
Requires (1 Historical Museum)
Provides full benefits to any unearth “razed” wonder
Most likely to generate a great scientist
If a city is founded on a razed city with a destroyed wonder, that wonder is unearth, restored and functions with half of benefits (full benefits with Valley of Kings)
- Allows Improvement: Historical Museum : +1 per 10% science rate
+1 10% culture
Required to build Valley of the Kings
Occurs after Education

Modern Age
Evangelism (Religious) "The church which ceases to be evangelistic will soon cease to be evangelical." - Alexander Duff
– Needed for Scientology – Occurs after Mass media (Needs Theology)
Spreads current state religion
Allows Wonder: Rockefeller Center:
+50% culture in this city
+1
Provides Hit TV Shows
City more likely to generate Great Artists


The Cult (Religious) "What's a cult? It just means not enough people to make a minority." - Robert Altman
– Needed for Satanism – Occurs after Radio (Needs The Occult and Theology)

Biological Warfare
– Spies (or an equivalent unit) can poison water supplies, farms and other such resource tiles in enemy territory)
Occurs after Biology

Return of old techs like:
Miniaturization "Soon it's all going to be digital anyway. It's all going to be saved on a little coin somewhere." - Richard Donner
- Occurs after computers (Used for oil platform)

The Laser "About a year later, I realized how to make a laser... a Fabry-Perot resonator would solve the problems of needing a low-loss cavity resonator for the laser light, while at the same time allowing pump light to shine in to excite the medium optically." - Gordon Gould
- Occurs after computers (Needs satelites, optics, used for SDI defense)

Smart Weapons "As far as missile defense is concerned, a very thorough consultation process is underway." - Gerhard Schroder
- Occurs after the laser (Needs Rocketry, Allows improvement: SAM battery, cruise missiles)

A whole new Future Age! Complete with future techs like cybernetics, nano technology and relevant units like Mech Warriors etc...

New civilizations

Mayans - unique unit - Eagle Warrior (replaces spearman); unique building - ceremonial platform +2 health from corn (replaces Pagan Altar)
Dutch – unique unit - unique building -
Portuguese – unique unit - unique building -
Belgians - unique unit - Fusilier (replaces Rifleman); unique building - Fort 15% defense against gunpowder units (replaces Castle)

New Wonders: As noted before: Panama Canal - Can only be built at cities with 0 - 2 tiles to coast on both sides
- Provides shortcut for your ships
- Can charge gold for each allied ship that passes through
- Can charge or ban non ally ships from passing through
+2 speed for ships
+1 trade route
More likely to generate a great merchant.


A more advanced UN:
The ability to withdraw or be banned from the UN (No need to follow global resolutions, Other civs are unhappy towards you for 10 turns)

Feel free to add to this if you want and what ever you think...