Possible? All wonders built with units like spaceship?

[Timppå]

I was trying to doodle around in the modbuddy and xml-files of various kinds in my first ever attempt to do a serious modding.

Can someone more experienced person tell me if it is even possible to have buildings such as wonders built with units instead of hammers? (since I couldn't find the spaceship in the buildings xml I wasn't sure)

Idea would be to create a mod where all wonders are buildable only if you can build necessary units.

For example
Pyramids -> requires six limestone units and one decoration unit, limestones buildable in cities that have marble or stone, decoration in any city that has gold or silver or gems in vicinity.
Great wall -> Requires merely 10 stone units and maybe 10 guardian units (think of them as permanent garrison)
Sistine Chapel -> requires marble units as well as a great artist maybe?
etc. etc.

And I am not talking about the resources now, but units that could be built in cities that have certain resources in their near vicinity.

If this is possible, could someone at least say that it is, and hint to a some direction. If it is not, then I raise my hands and admit my defeat.

Why this kind of a mod? Because world wonders have become too easy to build for a big productive city. They should be rare and mighty things, instead of having all the wonders from stonehenge to united nations in your most productive city.

Oh, and if there's already someone who now got the idea and wants to try and make a version of their own of this. I'll gladly just play it

 

[Decimatus]

I like this idea.

Limiting it to cities with certain resources could pretty much mean they never get built though. You would have to tinker with tons of stuff to make sure it worked well.

Without looking at the files, I would say that it should be possible.

The problem will be, how deep will you have to go into the Lua(if not the Source itself) files to do it?

 

[SerriaFox]

The other thing to consider is having multiple cities building unit, then be beat to the wonder, would be very bad.

Made if you had something the the pyramid base wonder, which allows you to finish the wonder

 

[Timppå]

Hmm... It probably takes quite a bit of Lua -tempering, and that unfortunately is not my strong point. Back to "lua for dummies".

Getting beat to almost every wonder because my opponents had two cities surrounded with hills and good relationships with maritime city states in last nights game didn't exactly weaken my resolve though.

I did find the bits of spaceship but it seems to be some sort of special project instead of a building. This probably means that then all wonders would become possible to all civs.

Im still sure there is a way somewhere there.

And in my opinion it wouldn't wonder even if not all wonders get built or you get beat to them even in the new system. At least you would have sufficient warnings if there was similar announcements as there are in the spaceship production.

Wonders should be wondrous, not industrious (I liked that pun)

 

[Decimatus]

Hmm... It probably takes quite a bit of Lua -tempering, and that unfortunately is not my strong point. Back to "lua for dummies".

Getting beat to almost every wonder because my opponents had two cities surrounded with hills and good relationships with maritime city states in last nights game didn't exactly weaken my resolve though.

I did find the bits of spaceship but it seems to be some sort of special project instead of a building. This probably means that then all wonders would become possible to all civs.

Im still sure there is a way somewhere there.

And in my opinion it wouldn't wonder even if not all wonders get built or you get beat to them even in the new system. At least you would have sufficient warnings if there was similar announcements as there are in the spaceship production.

Wonders should be wondrous, not industrious (I liked that pun)

Bringing up the AI is a good point. You will have to do extra extra work to make sure the AI knows how your new wonder system works.