new specalists and wonders/ideas (athelete)

[sirford]

After catching the beginnng of the olympics, i realize that almost nothing of the atheletes/olympic games are included in civ 4. After about 3 minutes of pondering, this is what i came up with.

The athelete specalist gives +1 gold, +1 (happy) face, and +3 great person(great athele).

The Great Athelete is where i'm having problems. (was hard and unsure about this guy).
-As a super specialist the Athelete would add +5 gold and +1-2 happyness(?)
-Would construct an Atheletic Hall of fame. would give +50% culture, +1-2 happyness. (unsure about this).
-Break a record. All of your cities receive +1 happyness and +1 culture(maybe only happen once or twice).

The coliseum would allow 1/2 Atheletes.

the Olympic wonder is enabled by the construction wonder, and is obsoleted/disabled while that country is at war. (would seem more fair to just disable while at war) (disabled while at war due to events like WWII, and USA/USSR due to the cold war and each countries boycotting the other's games due to each's own war).

The Olympic wonder would give a +1 relations to each other participating civilization for each era that it passes through(classical, industrial, modern, etc). It would also spring up the Olympic games every 4 turns, to a random city to a random civilzation that is allowed to participate (maybe once a civilzation gets it, it can't get it until each other civlization recieves the oylmpic games). Maybe building the wonder itself would cause every other olympic game to be at one of your cities, or increase traderoutes in each of your cities. Probably a +8-10 culture rating for the olympic games (or none at all because it's mainly international?), and i figure +1-2 for great athelete in the city.

To the city having the olympic games, remove all unhappyness for the turn, double the trade route yeilds (and maybe add additional trade routes, maybe +2?), even give the golden age status to the city ( +1 hammer and gold to city locations that have atleast one).

I think it would add to more peace in the harder difiiculty levels (and this is coming from a guy who would be more adptly named Warmongerer McSkullCruhorsehockyy (irish, i'd believe, or scotish))

 

[sligo]

Cool idea, actually. Other than the generic coliseum, there really is no recognition of what sports do for cities. After the 2nd coliseum is built in a civ, each city gets a "major" sports team. If they get a great-athlete, they can add another major league sports team.

The number of sports you have in one city determines, then, how many "sport" exports you have available to you. I.e. You can trade sports with other nations (as long as you're not at war with them, obviously). There'd be a list of say 5 or 10 sports - American Football, Football (Soccer), Hockey, Baseball, Basketball, Lacrosse, Cricket, etc. 2 countries can trade a sport for a sport and both would receive the benefits.

- Sligo

 

[atreas]

I like this, but maybe it needs some work. I could suggest connecting the great athletes to gold and to experience points of military units - the better trained people usually are better trained soldiers; plus in ancient times training was for battle and only as a side effect it showed in sports.

Maybe every some turns after the discovery of a specific athletic tech it happens some "elections" to see which city will stage the next Olympics. This city gets the usual "golden age" results for some rounds, and is selected according to which civ has gothered the more "athletic points" during all this period. A great athlete could force the next n Olympics to a city, or be added to the city as great specialist.