:. National Wonders

National wonders are much like regular nation improvements in that they allow you to further modify your nation based on your own strategies. The difference between national wonders and nation improvements is that national wonders do not require a specific number of citizens to develop but instead have an enormous cost associated with them. Another difference to national wonders is that you can only purcahse one of each type of national wonder and you may only develop one national wonder once every 30 days. National wonders cost $5,000 a day to maintain. When purchasing national wonders do not expect a huge return for your investment. That is not the point behind national wonders. Instead, national wonders are intended for those nations who are reaching the very peak of their nation development due to nearing maximum development in infrastructure, land, improvements, etc... to give those nations a slight push above their competition. Therefore national wonders are not intended for everyone and are instead intended to provide a slight strategy for the most advanced players and an additional goal for everyone to strive to. The following are the official costs and bonuses of national wonders:

Internet - $35,000,000 - Provides Internet infrastructure throughout your nation. Increases population happiness +5.
Space Program - $30,000,000 - The space program sends your astronauts to the moon and beyond. Increases happiness +3, lowers technology cost -3% and lowers aircraft cost -5%.
Great Monument - $35,000,000 - The great monument is a testament to your great leadership. Increases happiness +4 and your population will always be happy with your government choice.
Movie Industry - $26,000,000 - The movie industry provides a great source of entertainment to your people. Increases population happiness +3.
Great University - $35,000,000 - The great university is a central location for scholars within your nation. Decreases technology costs -10% and increases population happiness +.2% (+2 for every 1000) of your nation's technology level over 200 up to 3,000 tech.
National Research Lab - $35,000,000 - The national research lab is a central location for scientists seeking cures for common diseases among your population. Increases population +5% and decreases technology costs -3%.
Social Security System - $40,000,000- The social security system provides benefits to aging members of your nation. Allows you to raise taxes above 28% up to 30% without additional happiness penalties.
Disaster Relief Agency - $40,000,000 - The disaster relief agency helps restore your nation and its people after emergency situations. Increases population +3% and opens one extra foreign aid slot.
Interstate System - $45,000,000 - The interstate system allows goods and materials to be transported throughout your nation with greater ease. Decreases initial infrastructure cost -8% and decreases infrastructure upkeep costs -8%.
Great Temple - $35,000,000 - The great temple is a dedicated shrine to your national religion. Increases happiness +5 and your population will always be happy with your religion choice.
National War Memorial - $27,000,000 - The war memorial allows your citizens to remember its fallen soldiers. This improvement is only available to nations that have lost over 50,000 soldiers during war throughout the life of your nation. Increases population happiness +4.
Stock Market - $30,000,000 - The stock market provides a boost to your economy. Increases citizen income +$10.00.

This post has been edited by admin on Mar 23 2007, 10:03 AM

very nice improvement to keep top nations here

You may want to add something to Internet. Just +4 happiness while others have that plus something else will make it the least popular of the bunch. Maybe some kind of tech bonus or infra bonus to go with it.

The Great Temple needs either a larger bonus, or for specific religions to have specific effects like governments do.

True, or make it cheaper than the others.

Thanks for the input. I've made some adjustments.

Wow, that was a fast edit.

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Awesome, admin. I love this. When are they going to be released? Or did I miss that in the original post?

Also why would the Great Temple be +5 while the Great Monument is only +4 they are basically the same thing.

The National War Memorial has an added requirement, yet has less benefit than the internet. Perhaps cheaper soldiers to go with the war theme?

just wondering have any nations lost 100,000 soldiers, becuase I was looking through the biggest losses defending and attacking and didnt see anyone with more than 80,000 lost. I think this should be lowered a little bit

Question - If you purchase a social security system and raise taxes from 28% to 32%, will that incur an additional happiness loss from the tax increase, and if so, what will the penalty be?

EDIT: Thanks for clarifying.

This post has been edited by Bakunin's Dream on Dec 17 2006, 06:11 PM

Because the monuemnt allows players to pick a particular government (governemnt has specific effects) and their citizens will be happy with it. Since religions do not have specific effects the temple needs a better bonus.

also, why does the movie industry cost more than the internet when the internet gives +5 happiness while movie gives +3?

Good point admin :J

Also Admin:

Perhaps interstate systems could reduce infra upkeep as well as initial cost? I propose this because the main reason nations don't increase infra levels after 4999 or 5999 is because of upkeep.

This would allow certain nations to go even farther than 5999 now.

Yes/No?

I agree. The issue with large nations is not infra purchase cost; it's the fact that infra upkeep becomes so prohibitively expensive that acquiring additional infrastructure actually makes your income go down. If these are meant to provide further incentives for nation growth, I would recommend having some of them reduce infra upkeep costs.

Hmm... 12 million for what does almost the same as a bank?
Losing 100k soldiers is a high requirement for a benefit similar to that of other wonders. No nation has lost that many yet, and I don't see Egore and Pierce willing to fight to lose an extra few thousand soldiers to get it.

In principle I like them...

The Interstate System is now the Harbor of improvements.

I have added that to the description. Great input from everyone so far. :J