The default culture in Quito (Caran) does not belong to Andean group, and therefore unbale to use the great project there.

[luanmameili[LM]]

Will it be changed?

 

[Darsara]

I think the intent was for it to be a reward for the Inca Empire, not for Quito, and they just put it there so the Incas wouldn't get it too soon. But maybe, if enough people ask.

 

[Sidolowka]

I think the intent was for it to be a reward for the Inca Empire, not for Quito, and they just put it there so the Incas wouldn't get it too soon. But maybe, if enough people ask.

I think the problem OP is mentioning is that you need to culture convert the province to an Andean culture in order to be able to use it in the first place.

 

[Darsara]

I think the problem OP is mentioning is that you need to culture convert the province to an Andean culture in order to be able to use it in the first place.

Yes, because it was designed for Inca's. I don't think it's a good design, and slows down using it even more, but I think that was the intent.

 

[luanmameili[LM]]

I think the intent was for it to be a reward for the Inca Empire, not for Quito, and they just put it there so the Incas wouldn't get it too soon. But maybe, if enough people ask.

Actually, though belongs to another culture group, Quito may still form the Inca Empire without converting culture.

 

[Sidolowka]

Yes, because it was designed for Inca's. I don't think it's a good design, and slows down using it even more, but I think that was the intent.

No, what I meant was that you need to CULTURE CONVERT Quito right now because Caran isn't an Andean culture. OP is asking if that's intended and if it's going to be changed.

 

[Darsara]

No, what I meant was that you need to CULTURE CONVERT Quito right now because Caran isn't an Andean culture. OP is asking if that's intended and if it's going to be changed.

Ok, I'll clarify since my point seemingly isn't clear: I think that it doesn't work for Caran culture because they don't want Quito to use it. They want the Inca Empire to grow to it's full seize, conquer Quito, culture convert Quito to Quecha and only THEN get to benefit from Qhapaq Nam. A reply in the reveal thread said/implied they put it up there so that the Incas would deliberately get it late in their expansion, as a reward for accomplishing that. And the general intent is that the Inca Empire should be formed by Cusco, or possibly one of the other Quecha or Aimara countries. Not Quito, even though they COULD. Or maybe they forgot they could, I can't be sure.

Celdur, to be honest, we also toyed with the idea of making it a multi-province Monument, but it would have been a bit problematic code-wise (you know, spaghetti code and all that stuff). So instead we decided to abstract it, and as we expect Inca Empire to be dominant, we put it on the northernmost part of it, and we made it Andean culture group-related. Off-topic, fortunately I could study Central and South American native cultures in university, and definitely they deserve a bit more love. We already introduced another monument in the Andean region related to them, actually.

So it might change, but only in response to player feedback, because this design seems very deliberate (unless they forgot Caran can form the Incas).

 

[Sidolowka]

They want the Inca Empire to grow to it's full seize, conquer Quito, culture convert Quito to Quecha and only THEN get to benefit from Qhapaq Nam.

Yikes that's super convoluted, I sure hope that isn't what the devs intended.

 

[Darsara]

Yikes that's super convoluted, I sure hope that isn't what the devs intended.

You aren't wrong about the complexity, especially given the extremely high cost to even start using it.