Dev Diary #113 - Wonderful Views

[Divine]

Will I be able to switch out upgrades after upgrade construction?

How much initial cost are we talking?

I'm gonna be honest if we could keep the whole scaling to income away from this it would be great.

The costs are still numbers we're tweaking but currently there's no plan to scale any of the costs by ruler income.

 

[MonzUn]

As I may be jumping in an answering questions a bit here and there I will follows Dan's example and introduce myself!

I'm Daniel, one of the programmers.
I'm also the one who implemented this UI (Supported by the team with design and art though of course!)

 

[Tuscany]

In holy fury, pagan monuments things like Irminusl has become modifier, will Irminsul become wonder?

And what about buisiness focus tower(leaning one too) and maze? If leaning tower is going to be a wonder, then how about real leaning tower built at 1372?

Its a question of time, we'd like to convert these to atleast upgrades.

 

[Tuscany]

Will there be ways (for modders, at least) to (temporarily) deactivate some or all of the bonuses from a wonder, e.g. the (presumably Norse) Temple of Uppland granting no bonuses (and possibly granting penalties instead, e.g. conversion resistance or revolt risk) in Catholic hands until you spend money/piety/whatever to re-consencrate it as a Christian church?

You could change the modifiers for the wonder in script I believe.

 

[Tuscany]

Great walls, or fortifications will they be a thing and if yes, can they block enemy troop movement?

Great walls will, but they are more like the great walls around a city.

 

[Tuscany]

Does that mean we will finally have wall models on the map around settlements?

Unfortunately this is not planned for.

 

[Tuscany]

It souns very...."Stellaris".... Crusader Kings Ii Megacorp?

Yeah just minus about 2000 years.

 

[MonzUn]

Will wonders have 3D models on the map?

That is one of our stretch goals for this update! Can't promise that it makes it in but it's something we would really like to do =)

 

[Tuscany]

Will bloodline affect what upgrades you get for example having a vile bloodline would allow for I don't know heads on pikes outside the wonder lowering revolt risk while benevolent or construction bloodline would have access to a granary that adds siege defense?

Tying in bloodlines is something we would like to do if we have time.

 

[Tuscany]

So excited for this.

Also if you're still taking suggestions, if someone hasn't already brought it up a throne of skull really ought to be an option. Or at least a very large pile.

Cool Idea!

 

[Tuscany]

Very nice, but

should be done otherwise if possible:

• Start building it, cost is cheap
• construction is finished only when you kill, let's say, 100 prisoners in your dungeon - but it can be finished quickly, in a year or less if you meet requirement
• A special execution "skulls for the skull throne" is unlocked, increasing cruel opinion of you temporarily by +1 (but stackable)
• you can give away your own skull as a depressed lunatic

And actually kind of the same thing (with longer natural construction) should take place for epic Cathedrals - they should accumulate enough piety to get upgraded, from priests and societies as well as from ruler and conversion patron. If you can do it, a similar system can be applied to Holy Sites, ability to create new ones and desacrate old ones.

The upgrade needs 100 kill list kills currently, the time to build is not final.

 

[Tuscany]

Where does this leave the Theodosian Walls? I assume they fit into the "great walls" category, but you also mentioned that the Hagia Sophia will be a wonder, so will they be stuck as just a unique upgrade since the wonder slot is already taken?

Something like that but we're not 100% decided yet

 

[Tuscany]

What? Thank you

The wonders cost so much gold we didn't want to charge anymore for them.

 

[Tuscany]

Will it be possible to destroy wonders?

We have a plan for it but unsure if it will make it into this patch!

 

[MonzUn]

We have a plan for it but unsure if it will make it into this patch!

Currently it is possible to abort construction of the first stage though and as long as that doesn't cause any issues it will get to stay.

 

[Tuscany]

A build time of 48 years is a little bit much, I think it should be reduced by a month for every person you execute or otherwise kill in that time. If that is possible to do.

As mentioned before this is WIP.

 

[Tuscany]

Two questions:
Is the next update going to be completely free or it is going to be a free patch with a paid dlc?

This update will be free, no accompanying paid dlc.

 

[Tuscany]

so no hope for that in this patch?

There will be bug fixes alongside this patch.

 

[MonzUn]

Will it be possible to rename wonders, just like Artifacts? This would be great!

It will be possible to rename wonders =)

 

[MonzUn]

Is there a University kind of wonder ?
I would like my University of Muscat to be a true Wonder: the Muskatonic University... And store my Necronomicon in it.

Universities are planned =)