Johannes Gutenberg

Ability
Each turn, you have an extra civil action for taking, developing, building or upgrading your labs and libraries, with a discount of 1 science or 1 resource.

Whenever you use this action, score 2 culture.

Gutenberg in History
Johannes Gutenberg, a German goldsmith, is to this day considered to be one of the most influential people in the history of humankind. His invention of the printing press sparked an information and education revolution in Europe and it marks the most important event in modern period history.

Printing press made it possible for books to be printed quickly, accurately and on a large scale. Before that, all the books had to be written by hand, and as you can imagine, the process was very expensive and time-consuming. Some books took over a year to finish!

With this new invention, hundreds of pages could be printed in a matter of hours, which lowered the prices of the books significantly, and it increased literacy and spread education to the masses. However, Gutenberg never profited from his revolutionary idea. He was unable to repay the loans he took to set up the business, and he died in poverty.

Designer's Note
Gutenberg does not give you science directly - instead, he helps you to build scientific infrastructure. Your labs and libraries do not produce more science, it is just significantly easier to build and upgrade them.

Well, honestly, to truly capture impact of the printing press on the education and knowledge, his effect would need to be much stronger. We need to keep balance, so instead of that boom, we added interesting gameplay effect to Gutenberg - for the best utilization of his abilities, you should to take, develop, build and upgrade scientific techs in steady tempo, step by step, turn by turn. You are rewarded also by fame - Gutenberg didn’t enjoy much of that during his life, but his impact was recognized later by history.