Monument To Nizami Ganjavi In Rome Puns

Recently I was playing a game as France in 1.31 and was occupying Rome in a short war to take back Avignon. While clicking on Rome’s province I happened to get a notification for the event “Selling of Indulgences.” This event gives you the option to give some money for papal influence while adding reform desire.

That gave me the idea to for title idea. Historically, selling of indulgences was done in part to fund the renovations to St. Peter’s Basilica in Vatican City. It would be a cool flavor if the construction was tied more reformation events. This could make reformation timelines and reformation spawning to be more historical

I have some ideas for how to implement:

1. The Curia controller can use Curia funds to make renovations

2. The effects of St Peter’s monument could extend to all Catholic nations... this might mean changing the current effects for each level

3. Create more events related to selling of indulgences specifically in countries in HRE. Events could be related to ministers like Johann Tetzel traveling around Germany selling indulgences (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Johann_Tetzel). Negative reactions to indulgence events like these could increase the likelihood that the Reformation would spawn in a particular province. Obviously this is not a fleshed out idea but there could be an event like: "Grand Commissioner for Indulgences Attacked" - effect: "Martin Luther decries indulgences!" which would increase reformation desire and increase the likelihood that reformation center more likely to spur in providence. A requirement for the event to fire would be that the province would have to be in Germany after 1500 (or a different date).

4. Each country that selects the selling of indulgences decreases the time it takes for construction by x amount of days instead of controller of Rome spending money or manpower. To balance out, the cost of the project and/or time to construct could be increased.

5b. Potentially level 0 for the Basilica monument could be a negative modifier for the Curia controller as historically the Old St. Peter's Basilica had to be torn down due to it falling into disrepair by the 1500s (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Old_St._Peter%27s_Basilica). The cost to deconstruct and move to level 1 should be increased in time and money to force Curia funds to be raised by indulgence events.

Let me know what you t

The Tropaeum Alpium is a somewhat massive-looking monument in southern France, close to the city-state of Monaco and not far from the Italian border. It commemorates the victory over no less than 45 tribes that were inhabiting the Alps and their surrounding areas, also reportedly featuring a massive statue of Emperor Augustus himself. And, in all honesty, the monument leaves me riddled for a variety of reasons.

• The campaign to subjugate the Alps took no less than nine years, so one would think that they would build a monument this big in Rome itself. Instead it is more or less located in the middle of nowhere. I get that the campaigns at least in part were done to lay the groundworks for further expansion north so they might not have thought about them as significant enough to erect a monument in Rome itself – but if the Romans thought that the Alpine campaigns were in fact insignificant then why did they bother building a monument in the first place?
• Then there's the mentioned tribes. From what I could find about most of them we know little more than their names and their approximate home regions. I have to suspect that the number is inflated to make the victory look more impressive but then again they are all mentioned by name. What makes a "tribe" in the eyes of a Roman, and do we know how the Romans were able to distinguish them? Why did they even bother mentioning them by name in the first place? Apparently most of them fell into obscurity fairly quickly anyway and were never heard of again.