Constantinople Wonder

[STABBY5]

While everyone got upset that the city didn't have a wonder despite containing hagia sophia and Theodosian walls and the devs said they are adding hagia sophia, have we considered making the whole city a wonder?

It's easily one of the most important sites in the game and in history. It was for a long time the only unique province in the game.

I mean it has the equivalent of 5 wonders in it. Theodosian walls, hagia Sophia, the great palace of Constantinople, the imperial library(which had the remnants of the great library of Alexandra) and the hippodrome.

It's honestly a shame it only gets the benefit from one especially only the cathedral.

I think the whole city should be the wonder and get various(non similar) buildings from each(wall ,library ,palace , cathedral, hippodrome) and events as if it had each of these wonders in it. Or unique buildings. The first level of it could represent the walls so that even if it gets burned to the ground the walls are still there.

This would also give the 4th crusade something to burn and really show the effects.

It really should be the city of the worlds desire.

 

[Seclouds]

Hoping the tribal and nomandic can destroy all wonders on maps.

 

[STABBY5]

Hoping the tribal and nomandic can destroy all wonders on maps.

Anyone can burn them. So the latin Emperors can sit there and tear off the lead roof of the imperial palace for profit.

 

[Secret Master]

Anyone can burn them. So the latin Emperors can sit there and tear off the lead roof of the imperial palace for profit.

Oh, you can pillage your own wonders? I didn't see the option for that.

Could you direct me to the place where one might undertake such behavior?

 

[SigurdStormhand]

Oh, you can pillage your own wonders? I didn't see the option for that.

Could you direct me to the place where one might undertake such behavior?

Just above the Great Work progress bar.

 

[klopkr]

City of World's Desire Is not a bad wonder. But I feel like Rome would be getting a bit of the shit end of the stick with just the apostolic palace.

 

[Secret Master]

Just above the Great Work progress bar.

I figured out why I didn't notice it before.

I am currently playing the ruler who built the wonder, so he can't also burn it down. It's grayed out for me.

 

[Thure]

City of World's Desire Is not a bad wonder. But I feel like Rome would be getting a bit of the shit end of the stick with just the apostolic palace.

Rome during this game's era was just a backwater place... Most ancient wonders were destroyed or some nobles build their castles in them.

 

[Patriarch of Bub]

Rome during this game's era was just a backwater place... Most ancient wonders were destroyed or some nobles build their castles in them.

Then you add them in deteriorated conditions and must be restored before upgraded.

 

[STABBY5]

City of World's Desire Is not a bad wonder. But I feel like Rome would be getting a bit of the shit end of the stick with just the apostolic palace.

To be honest yes. Perhaps restoring Rome as the capital should do something similar for it but my focus here is to make sure Constantinople gets the treatment it deserves as the most important city in the world at the time.

 

[Rags17]

Ooh, ooh - IDEA !

What of there were five custom Great Wonders in the game - one for each Holding type that gave the holder mucho prestige and or piety for holding it. The Wonders would be "Greatest <holding_type> in the World" and could be trumped by someone else adding to THEIR existing Wonder. For example, I might create the "Greatest Church (or City, Castle, Village, Nomad Capital)* in the World" and spend 2,000 gold to make it so, then someone else comes along and spends another 2,000 gold and wins the title off of me.

This could be a great money sink as players struggled to keep the titles as "best in the world".


* eg Cologne Cathedral, Constantinople, Krak des Chevaliers, Itil, Xanadu etc