Would this be a cool nation wonder?

[SerriaFox]

I was thinking how important oil is to the civil economy, and I was thinking you could be able to simulate this with the following national wonder:

National Highway ACT:

Provide happines equal to Oil reserve - 5, note this can provide negative happiness
Prephaps this should be automatical build when you discover combustion?

 

[Evalis]

There is currently no way to implement this. I'm not certain if you can have a building auto-construct upon researching a tech... and since buildings can't produce resources, the only way to simulate this would be to consume an oil resource for each happy.. which probably isn't a good idea, considering how scarce resources are already.

 

[Abremms]

there needs to be some other upside beyond the happyness mechanic, i agree its interesting, but i wouldn't ever build it just for that. maybe if it increased trade route yield by 20% and/or movement on roads by 1.

 

[Voyhkah]

Should be simple if lua is anything like python. Here it is in Python Psudocode:

   function onTurn(self, argslist):
   player, numTurn = argslist[]

//Code START//

  if player.hasBuilt(gc.getInfoTypeForString("BUILDING_NATIONAL_HIGHWAY")):
      numOil = player.getNumResource(gc.getInfoTypeForString("RESOURCE_OIL"))
      player.changeHappiness(numOil - 3)
//Code END//

 

[SerriaFox]

I really don't want to use up the oil, just show how much is available for the civilian economy.
A 20% boost to the economy might be enough to make building worth it.

 

[Evalis]

@Voyhkah There's the rub.. no one know any of the variables that affect those things. So it's all just speculation. I 'speculate' this would be an interesting wonder.... hehe

 

[CrazyAce]

there needs to be some other upside beyond the happyness mechanic, i agree its interesting, but i wouldn't ever build it just for that. maybe if it increased trade route yield by 20% and/or movement on roads by 1.

I agree, after looking at the history of this ACT, this idea would benefit from this idea.