Proposal to change this:
(6-07) Increase Amphitheater/Gallery/Opera House Bonus to Guilds https://forums.civfanatics.com/threads/6-09-increase-amphitheater-gallery-opera-house-bonus-to-guilds.685826/ Currently the Amphitheater/Gallery Opera House each give +1 :c5gold: Gold to all Writers/Artists/Musicians Guilds on...
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A previous congress removed the maintenance costs from Amphitheatre, Opera House, and Gallery. One of the things that was pointed out (by
@Rekk ) with that congress proposal was that the old +1
to the guilds for every culture building on empire centralized gold into a handful of guild cities, which are probably not the ones struggling with needs. In fact, this bonus might have had the effect of widening the gap between "have" and "have-not" cities and generating more
poverty globally by altering the median gold calculations.
While removing the bonus altogether addressed this issue, The decision to remove all gold maintenance from the 3 culture buildings did a few things that I would like to change:
- weakened the buildings overall and removed the main incentive to build cultural buildings outside of the guild city core.
- created an incongruous situation w.r.t. how gold maintenance is applied. There are so many non-gold building that don't cost maintenance, that the mechanic itself is unintelligible.
Proposal:
Restore the Maintenance cost to Amphitheatre (2), Opera House (4), and Gallery (4)
Writer's Guild gives +2
to Amphitheaters on Empire
Artist's Guild gives +2
to Galleries on Empire
Musician's Guild gives +2
to Opera Houses on Empire
Now instead of concentrating wealth into the guild cities, the guilds add gold in the opposite direction.
I would have liked to have added this as a 3rd option to the last congress, but we are not allowed to counterpropose our own proposals.