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Tuscany

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Hello!

It was really great reading all your comments and questions last week, lots of fun ideas. This week we will be looking a bit more in depth at the wonder view. Which you can see below.

The wonder view. Please note that art is Work in progress and may change!

Firstly, we have the name of the wonder. This will change dynamically based on where it is built, and what upgrades it has. For example you might build ‘The Cathedral of Stockholm’. Then, after building the Spikes upgrade, this may become ‘The Bloody Cathedral of Stockholm’. We also have a dynamic description that works just like the naming system, but more detailed.

There is also an image of the wonder, which is dynamic to an extent as well. The background depends on where you are in the world (Desert, Jungle, Snow etc) and the depiction of the wonder changes depending on the stage, going from being in construction to highly decorated or even in ruins.


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Now, below this we have the modifier box, where you can find all the modifiers provided by the wonder. Some of these are granted by the wonder itself and some are granted by upgrades, but they are all listed here. These modifiers can either affect the top liege, or the province the wonder is in.


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Below this we have the progress bar, which will show your progress when upgrading to a new stage of your wonder.


Lastly, we have the upgrade view which is split into two tabs, completed, and available. In the ‘completed’ tab you can see a breakdown of the upgrades you have built and their effects, and in the ‘available’ tab you can see all the upgrades you are able to build.

let us know, your questions and comments and we will do our best to answer them!

Also as a note, a lot of people have predicted that the ancient Egyptian Religion will be making a return. I can confirm that the Egyptian Religion will NOT be in this upcoming patch. That doesn’t mean we are against it in the future though….
 
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Great idea, looking forward to playing with this feature in game!

Do the wonders only concern temples or can, for example, great palaces, monuments such as statues or maybe more specialized wonder constructions be built (Akin to the Theodosian walls of Constantinople)?
All sorts of wonders will exist, I've confirmed a few different types before but it won't just be limited to temples.
 
How hard will building and upgrading wonders be? I'd hate to have a situation where every province has a fully upgraded wonder by the end of the game. Will wonders be restricted some how (cost, prestige, piety, rank) to slow proliferation?
They are going to have a large upfront cost and a ticking cost while they are being built. We also don't want too many wonders so we will be experimenting to try and get a good balance.
 
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Interface looks lovely!

Can we see the the province/holding view, and the button which opens up the wonders interface?

Are wonders locked behind technology?

How expensive are they to build?

Thanks!
Not currently locked behind tech but we could end up doing that for some of them.

The province/holding view is still very WIP, so no. :)

And the exact price isn't decided but the idea is very expensive.
 
Will wonders appear on map, like the buildings in the Corners of the World pack? Will we have several options for the wonders, for example, cathedral/palace/mausoleum...?

P.S: talking about the corners of the world, can you add more corners? I would like to see the walls of Constantinople and the Colosseum of Rome :)
Hopefully they will! More on this later.
 
Nice job, I wondered if we could build "generic" wonders in each city (if it's our capital for example) or we can build wonders in some specific provinces?
You can build a wonder in every province unless it already has a wonder. These will be generic. Some historical wonders will already exist though.
 
Looking at the screenshots a bit more closely it seems the wonders give you 0.01 monthly prestige per level. That seems rather low, given the investment. Especially if you compare how the Proud trait gives 0.5 prestige per month (50x as much).
As always its work in progress, so you never know we might tune it up to 0.02 prestige a month. :)
 
Could you make the limit on wonders per province un-hardcoded. I'm thinking specifically for mods such as Game of Thrones where there are multiple wonders in King's Landing, but also for vanilla where there are several cathedrals in small areas, hell Constantinople could be said to have at least 2 wonders there, Rome certainly has several.
While we would love to do this, its unfortunately something we would have to spend some time on programming, so for now atleast it has to be a single wonder per province.
 
Would it be possible to modify sacred buildings of other religions to use them for my own religion with bonuses for me and my religion and penalties for them? Like what Turks did to Hagia Sophia but not limited only to this case.
This is something we would like to do, however unsure if we will have enough time / resources to do it justice so it might not make it in. :)
 
Hello!

Also as a note, a lot of people have predicted that the ancient Egyptian Religion will be making a return. I can confirm that the Egyptian Religion will NOT be in this upcoming patch. That doesn’t mean we are against it in the future though….

So we're getting Celtic Paganism instead?

Also, please implement dynamic heresies using the Holy Fury random religions system as a base. :rolleyes:
 
Will this change already buildable 'wonder-esque' buildings in the game? I'm specifically thinking about the Third Temple in Jerusalem, will it still be built via a Decision or is there any chance of converting it to be a special Wonder?
It might affect some of them, we will decide case by case.