Personally I think keeping wonders generic is not the dumbest idea. I'd assume great cathedral is one of the ten to twenty options available to christians, which should serve the purpose.
^ That's what I think.
Unless we are talking about inert icons / eye candy that give no bonuses what so ever anyway , like the Hadrian's Wall already in the game .
Seriously the only reason you wouldn't have Hagia Sofia or a restored temple of Jerusalem as probable wonders is to avoid having people ravaging them in game and having to deal with a possible flamewar afterwards. Also the case for Mecca -Kaaba.
^ Maybe run with that idea a minute , think about it a long minute ?
It seems to me that a game with crusades , witch burnings , Lucifer's Own , Seduction focus , bastardy , etc , etc , is already pretty daring , and skating already very close to politically incorrect / Not family friendly .
It has occurred to me that the art for witch burnings , Lucifer's own , seductions , executions , events could be a lot more .... umm ..... interesting.
But , as far as I know , you don't even see any mods that would add more interesting art to these aspects , either.
Why might that be ?
Well, I actually evolved a conspiracy theory over night to explain that.
Irish Chieftains did not only get more bloodlines than Byzantine Emperors, they also had their own culture specific succession law long before (And it's actually its own design, not a rip-off of republics).
Thus, likely sponsored by the chinese (Evidence for China being behind everything you can find in Jade Dragon), paradox seems to have been undermined by Irish-descendant developers, who now do what we'd all do in their position, and focus on the part of the world they know about.
Evidently, not Justinian left the mightiest legacy, but St. Patrick.
Here's my theory ;
How many sales of this game do you figure will actually be made in Sweden , or Moldavia ?
Now , what about the Anglo - American - centric market ? How big is that market compared to Albania - centric ?
I'm not particularly fond of the British or the Americans , and so , perhaps for that reason I notice a lot of --- yes , specifically historical games --- never the less pander heavily to an Anglo - American view of the world.
And I suspect the motive is maybe less ideological , more commercial.
Notice , in five minutes flat you can find a discussion forum where 30 different people are discussing American politics , and yet not one of those 30 people has ever even set foot in America.
Just the other day I met a German woman , born and raised in Trier , who thought , " The Holy Roman Empire ( *whisper * - of the German people . ) "
Was a reference to Caesar and Cleopatra , and all that jazz.
So my guess would be that the Anglo - American - centric market is the biggest seller. Anglo - American - centric is what even Czechs and Libyans are buying , or so it seems to me .
Hence , you get Irish bloodlines , and Stonehenge.
