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Art Buildings Tweaks (BNW)

Makes slots for Great Works of Art available earlier.


Quoting user sadv from civfanatics.com: 'The normal slot building (for Great Works of Art) is available too late. As is, you can begin earning Artists as a tier 1 Medieval tech. However, getting slots for Art can be difficult until you get Museums at Archaeology, which is two eras later in the Industrial. ... In contrast, Writers and Musicians get a building to slot their works from the same tech that unlocks their guild. ... Maybe Firaxis was just trying to make Art work differently, but I don't think it was a good choice.'

This mod makes slots for Great Works of Art available earlier while trying not to stray too far from the original design of BNW. The following changes are applied to buildings and national wonders:

• The Museum is unlocked at Banking (was Archaeology), costs 250 production (was 300). This reduces the technology costs for beelining from the Artist's Guild to Museums by about two-thirds.
  
• The National Epic is renamed to National Memorial, contains 1 slot for a Great Work of Art (was Great Work of Writing). For strategies focussing on Great Works, this national wonder offers a second pre-Renaissance, non-Cathedral Art slot (the first one comes for free with the Palace).
  
• The Cathedral produces 2 culture per turn (was 1). With Art slots easier to come by, Cathedrals are slightly buffed; they still postpone the need to build Museums.
  
• The Opera House, Museum, and Broadcast Tower all require a Monument (was Amphitheater, Opera House, Museum). As the various culture buildings received different Great Work slots in BNW, a chain of prerequisites does not seem reasonable.
  
• The Hermitage requires a Museum in every city (was Opera House).
  
• The Opera House and the Celtic Ceilidh Hall cost 160 production (was 200). This restores a smooth cost progession from the Monument to the (now cheaper) Museum.
  
• As a purely cosmetic change, the Amphitheater is renamed to Theater. BNW replaced the Renaissance-era Theatre (a happiness building) with the Zoo, and the short name seems more memorable.

The thread that inspired this mod can be found at http://forums.civfanatics.com/showthread.php?t=507512.