It is likely that a Charlemagne campaign was planned at one point, due to the presence of Charlemagne and Roland heroes and the originally more Carolingian spin of the Frankish civilization.Monasteries (the Western European version, at least), looked more like real monasteries, with more than one building and a cloister, and were available from the Dark Age.The Editor's "City Wall" was the original design of the Central European fortified wall.Docks would produce only civilian vessels and technologies while a different naval building, Ports, would produce war ships and their upgrades.In addition to armor and weapons upgrades, it would be available from the Dark Age and serve as a dropsite for Ore (see Nature) and Stone. The original concept of the Blacksmith was more like the Storage Pit in Age of Empires.Houses would generate small amounts of gold over time as a reference to taxation.Bizarrely, the Mongols, Celts, and Vikings, three widely separated cultures, would have shared a common building set.It survived as an eye-candy building in the Scenario Editor but only had Western European and East Asian versions until The Forgotten made it in other building styles. The Trade Workshop was going to allow villagers to produce "luxury goods" which would be sold for gold.Vitus Cathedral, and that it was intended to be the generic Central European wonder or the Gothic wonder when first made. There is at least a theory that the final Frankish wonder is not based on Chartres Cathedral but on Prague's St.In a released confidential "Design Doc" (5.0 version), the designated Briton wonder is Westminster Abbey, Aachen remains the Frankish wonder, and the Saracen wonder is debated between the Great Mosque of Samarra and the Mosque of Omar in Jerusalem.The Central European building set was likely introduced later than the others. The Aachen Cathedral and Suleiman's Mosque are still available as eye candy in the scenario editor, and the beta Temple of Heaven can be downloaded from some fansites. Fortunately, the designers took the extra effort to give each civilization an unique wonder that gave them more personality. The beta had one wonder per building set (Aachen Cathedral for Western Europe, Suleiman's Mosque for Middle East, beefed-up Temple of Heaven for East Asia) like in Age of Empires.
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