Hello guys,
Can Sevo or someone please add these three features for the next addition to Sevo mod?
1. Forts that fire on passing enemies and enact zone of control
2. An assassin or ninja-type unit for early game espionage/ intelligence (that is invisible to other units).
3. Maybe even add a sniper unit with the advent of rifling or later mil techs- also invisible (links for these are below).
These are aspects that are crucial to warfare and have been around for eons.
I just spent 3 weeks in Japan- the fact that they don't have a wonder (except for Gir's fish market and Dual's unheralded Shinto mod
http://forums.civfanatics.com/showthread.php?t=152421) is a travesty. They've been a highly organized civ for 2600 years who were never successfully invaded or occupied until after WW2!
Some ideas (pick one or two):
Early Game
1. OTorii Gate That famous big red gate on Myagima Island (by Hiroshima). I think someone else thought of this, but it could give you a unique unit, like samurai horsemen every 5 turns or something and become a tourist attraction after it becomes obsolete. Like the Statue of Zeus thing from Civ 3.
2. Perhaps a jujitsu or ninjitsu training center, that gives your early spies / assassins (i.e. ninja) some great automatic promotions and adds extra promotions for your other troops trained in that city (like commando or sentry). Dont know the name of one, I would have to look into this.
Later Game
1. Shinkansen (bullet train) - maybe similar to gir's "roman roads" and give every city radius a railroad (or every tile you own a railroad). Maybe give a "mass transit" improvement to every city on the continent plus a health benefit for the pollution reduction. I live in NYC, but Japan's mass transit system (especially the Shinkansen) are a marvel unto themselves.
2. Akhibara - "Electric Town" section of Tokyo. Huge area of town that you can buy any electronic gadget you can imagine. Maybe just a marginal trade/ commerce and tech research benefit w/ no expiration.
Links
Jeckels ZOC Forts -
http://forums.civfanatics.com/showthread.php?t=181921
Bacon's Assassin -
http://forums.civfanatics.com/showthread.php?t=158213
Lopez's Sniper -
http://forums.civfanatics.com/showthread.php?t=169665
Thanks for all the work the few of you hardcore modders do (SEVO, GIR, Keldath, guys mentioned above and everyone else I forgot) so the rest of us less-technically savy people can benefit.