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Dynamic Towns - Vox Populi

Oh yea, I forgot about this, but they have also added a new kind of City Connection which may be of interest to you.

Industrial City Connections (ICCs)
- New type of City Connection
- ICCs require a FULL rail connection to the capital, a Seaport, or a full rail connection to a city with a Seaport
- ICCs have a special icon, made by gwennog
- Benefits:
Provides Production in the city, equal to the amount of Gold given by a City Connection
Machu Picchu & Colosseum also increase Production given by ICCs
Gives +1 Production and Gold to Villages under them (+2 if a Trade Route passes through them)
This bonus only works for a full connection - no more patchwork road/railroad systems
Unlocks Train Station, which has been renamed to Coaling Station
See Train / Coaling Station and Seaport entry under Buildings for other balance changes

^^ Ripped straight from the Vox Populi 4.8 Changelog.

Thanks for the heads up Lucius! That's a good idea! Things are quite hectic right now, but I'll make this change when I get a chance.

Hello there Azaquor, I wanted to inform you that sometime in the future Rome in Vox Populi will be gaining the Villa as a unique improvement. Might I suggest renaming the Villa in Dynamic Towns to Port perhaps?

Just realized I didn't include an example.

The University Event has you pick between
Focus on the Hard Sciences: +2 Science
Focus on Liberal Arts: +1 Culture
Religious Education is most important +1 Faith from Universities.

By the way, since I am here suggesting ideas, it would be nice if there were some Events for Towns & Large Towns.

Like instead of just growing into a Large Town, what if you could choose certain specialties?

VP has similar events when you build your first University, and there are also ones that trigger for Markets & Monuments at different thresholds.

Since the idea I suggested previously seems not be that easy to implement, I thought of a new (and better idea).

What if Villages adjacent to Forts and Citadels could grow into Military Bases (Authority Finisher)?
(aka like how Suburbs can grow adjacent to Kasbahs).

Military Bases would have less yields than other Large Towns, but would compensate for that by granting +40% Defensive Strength (higher than a typical large town, but lower than a Fort) to Units and dealing 5 Damage to units enemy units adjacent. (like a weaker version of a Citadel)

For yields, it could probably give +2 Production & Border Growth Points. (like how Forts in VP give Border Growth but giving Production instead of Science since it is a town)
-PS (yields doubled on City-Connections & Trade Routes to keep them useful after a War when the front has moved)

Though it would probably need some additional balancing

Oh you should definitely open a thread on the Civ forums for this - the peeps there have way more knowledge about balance and coding limits than we do.

I still think Authority should have some town bonus, considering the other trees got it basically for free.

I know atleast that giving fortified units XP based on their tile is possible as it's already done by a custom civ on the forums. Look up "Macedonian Empire for VP" thread on the forums, it's on their unique improvement.

And version 4 is out, adding full compatibility for Vox Populi 4.2.7. Thanks to Lucius for calling my attention to the Rationalism changes!

Lucius and Chinag, these are good ideas. Though some would be easier to implement than others. For example, I'm pretty sure in regular BNW it's simply impossible to adjust improvement defensive strength based on adjacent tiles or even policies or techs. Which is a shame since that would open up a lot of great design space. Maybe it's possible in VP though?

I'm also slightly wary of giving Authority too much of a boost to their civil infrastructure, since the general idea is "Authority gets to take over rich cities."

Let's keep brainstorming! I also intend to start a balance discussion over on the VP forums sometime soon, if I can get around to it.

Also, thanks for the quick update Azaquor!