Wonders tied to Governments

Baba Khan

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When playing Civ5 I enjoyed having wonders tied to governments, the Hanging Garden, the Pyramids and the Statue of Zeus in early game, the Kremlin (Order), Prora (Autocracy) and the Statue of Liberty (Democracy) later on.

I would very much like this idea to return. Now that there are new forms of governments what kind of wonders build-able only when having the specific form of government can you imagine/would you like to see return?

My incomplete (and euro-centric) list:

Autocracy: Arch of Triumph
Classical Republic:
Oligarchy: Statue of Zeus (Great General Points, +2 combat strength when attacking)

Monarchy: Red Fort
Theocracy: El Escorial
Merchant Republic: St Mark's Basilica

Democracy: Statue of Liberty
Communism: Kremlin
Fascism: Prora (+1 amenities for each coastal resort, -2 Tourism)
 
Now that there are new forms of governments what kind of wonders build-able only when having the specific form of government can you imagine/would you like to see return?

Autocracy: The Great Sphinx
Classical Republic: The Parthenon
Oligarchy: The Statue of Zeus

Merchant Republic: The Uffizi
Monarchy: Versailles
Theocracy: The Apostolic Palace

Communism: The Kremlin
Democracy: The Statue of Liberty
Fascism: The Victory Monument
 
How would it work though, would switching governments disable the bonuses from that wonder? Or would you be able to switch to each government, build the wonder and change again?
 
How would it work though, would switching governments disable the bonuses from that wonder?

When not in the appropriate government, it would be as if the wonder were obsoleted.
 
I've made a discussion bias similar to this, it seems that many people do not like this kind of mechanism of wonders tied to one kind of government. See.

Anyway, now these are my choices:

Autocracy - Heian Palace?? Or other better option
Chiefdom - None
Classical Republic - Forum Romanum (Roman Forum)
Communism - Kremlin
Democracy - Statue of Liberty
Fascism - Prora?? Or other better option
Merchant Republic - Canalasso (Grand Canal of Venice)
Monarchy - Buckingham Palace or Versailles
Oligarchy - Parthenon
Theocracy - Apostolic Palace
 
It would be cool if you could only build the appropriate wonder while you were in the appropriate government, and the bonuses interacted with the government bonuses, both currently and in the future. By pegging the bonus to the legacy government bonus, the wonder could go not entirely obsolete, and its permanent bonus would be based on how long you stayed in its government.

Like the Autocracy wonder could be Valley of the Kings. You can only build it in Autocracy, and when finished, it doubles your wonder-building bonus from the Autocracy government from 10% to 20%. After you switch out of Autocracy, it doubles your legacy bonus, say, from 3% to 6%.

The Oligarchy wonder could be something like the Daisen Kofun (the Kofuns in general being tombs from the era when the Emperor of Japan was still consolidating power, and there were lots of prominent people who got big Kofuns, not just the Emperor - this is a tricky one because governments don't usually call themselves oligarchies). In Oligarchy it doubles your experience bonus for military units, after Oligarchy it doubles the legacy bonus.

Then the Classical Republic wonder could be the Parthenon, and it doubles great people production under the Classical Republic, but then doubles the legacy bonus after it.

Other ideas (and it occurs to me you'd have to balance them all differently):

Monarchy - Versailles has to be built in your capital, but two tiles away from it, and gives you bonus influence points

Theocracy - Mahamaham Tank has to be built in a tile with access to fresh water within a tile of a road, and further reduces the cost of theocracy unit purchases (this wonder would probably have to be really expensive)

Merchant Republic - Dam Square has to be built on the coast and adjacent to a river and reduces the cost of gold purchases

And then the modern ones are probably the stuff people talked about above

Maybe you could also add that each government wonder provides an additional adjacency bonus to all districts it is adjacent to as long as you are in its government - in the primary yield of that district (like putting a campus right next to Versailles during a Monarchy gives it +1 science). Then the government wonder bonuses could synergize with the economic policies that double district adjacency bonuses.

One thing I like about this idea is it gives you some incentive to be in a different government than your competitors, which right now the game doesn't reward and just punishes.

EDIT -- Although now I'm wondering if Classical Republic is meant to represent Ancient Greek Democracy (maybe?) - or whether the Democracy was Oligarchic - that's confusing with the way the bonuses work.

Maybe instead all the ancient/classical government wonders are monuments to the dead - maybe the Classical Republic one could be called "The Gracchi" and refer to the statues of the Gracchus brothers that were put up all over Rome and venerated by the people after their murder?
 
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