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Dev Diary #113 - Wonderful Views

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

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

Does this mean that we will get restriction on moving armies like with EU4 or in the upcoming Imperator? I hope that your answer will be yes, because I think that that would give much more depth to CK2 warfare, which right now is just whoever can muster the bigger army wins
 
There is a popular mod on Steam, called "Your Personal Castle", that allows you to build additions onto your castle in your capital holding. Will this system do something similar?
 
Will we be able to modify a wonder that someone else created? Like, say, I'm the Seljuks and the Fatimids restored the Pyramids or something, could I come in, conquer the province and make them my own by changing around the upgrades?
 
CK2 is life and you guys at PDX make it worth living.

Looking forward many, many more years to come and continue to enjoy it all. Unless... CK3 shows up in some acid trip as the answer to humanity's problems in one of the shot callers.
 
I have two suggestions/questions, I suppose.

Do cathedrals and great temples (or whatever the cathedral-equivalents are going to be called for other religions) grant a boost to MA, if build on a holy site?

Could pagan temples have some kind of 'statue of god' upgrade? Similar to the statue of Zeus in Olympia, or the Athena Parthenos? I think that'd be a pretty cool upgrade, not sure what it could do though. Maybe increasing conversion speed (seeing is believing and all)? Maybe tie it in to Temple Dedication (though then it'd probably have to be specific to Hellenism)?
 
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.
 
So he build speed is standart or we can speed them up by spending more money?

Opinion/Idea: build cost should be divides for period. lets say, wonder cost is 500, you pay 250 right now and rest is shared as montly payment, so you also should check income not to build wonders on toomany places at same time.
 
Maybe we can deconstruct ancient ruins like aqueducts or the pyramids to build new things. Saladin used the Great Pyramids of Giza to build Cairo up.
 
Does a steward on oversee construction speed up wonder building? construction speed reduction has been known to get building time down to one day with a combo of artifacts, modifiers, tech and a decent steward.