New Wonder Revisions

After finally beat the first 2 Arab UHV with The Spiral Minaret and House of Wisdom built in my cities, I think the HoW's hammer cost arent so bad, but "double production speed with Library" would be a cool feature, if it's possible.
But since the tech UHV is easily beatable without House of Wisdom, I doubt the wonder will be much of help even with triple bulbing ability, especially since you need to build lots of armies.
Maybe change it to "1 free tech for every GP discoveries"?

The Krak des Chevalier deserves attention here, both the current effect and the building requirements are too Spanish-sided. My suggestion is either removing the Catholic state religion from the requirements so HRE and Muslim civs could build it or make it only require Catholic so France can also make it.

 

I would love if the Roman Pantheon would be included in the game. We need more Roman style worldwonders, Hadrian's Wall would also be an awesome addition if those mods exist of course..

Spoiler Pantheon Rome :

 

Meanwhile I'm still holding out for Broadway. :/

 

*weeps in thorium*

 

You should get that looked at.

I like the smaller meltdown chance idea, but how often do meltdowns happen as is? How much of a benefit would it be?

I like the idea of an extra free building for colonies, but if it is supposed to be more of an immediate benefit than a long term one then it should be a building that will help the city quickly. Something that you would build eventually for the long term benefit anyway, but that you often forego early on because the production isn't there yet. Alternatively, the idea for reduced maintenance in colonies is also good. Instead of being for a set number of turns, it could be until the wonder obsoletes, in which case the wonder can obsolete around the time that the Spanish and Portuguese empires began declining. It could work well if it causes economic instability not long before their colonies are supposed to break free.

 

I also thought of reduced colony maintenance for the duration of the wonder, though I'm afraid it could conflict with the English UP as well. England managing to grab El Escorial will strengthen their UP, making them more OP. While it may just be a relatively short game timeframe, it will still help a lot in catapulting England economically and technologically further.

 

House of wisdom and El Escorial

My two cents:

House of wisdom. Allow more control over the techs that are bulbed.

my suggestion: In addition to its current benefit (double ajmount of bulbs + three in stead of two techs able to bulb) (1)When bulbing for tech(s), let all great people doulble as great prophets and (2) let all great prophets double as all other great people. (3) Allow for great people to fill in the gaps in their bulbing options. (4) Allow for multiple great people to research/bulb together.
Additional/different suggestion: (5) Allow for allocation of superfluous bulbs
In the form of bulbs or money or perhaps even production.

El escorial. reward expansion in the short term.
my suggestion: Setteling a new colony increases the pop in either your capitol or city with the trading company by 1.