Hot Bakery (Hoto Cocoa)

**Hot Bakery** led by Hoto Cocoa is a civilization by Mathetes tou Megalou Aleaxndrou. It is based on the Is the Order a Rabbit series.

Hot Bakery is tested only on Brave New World. It is best played with Divine Yuri's Rabbit House Civilization that comes from the same universe.

## Overview

### Dawn of Man

May all the little sisters of the world look towards you, Cocoa! You are the youngest of the Hoto family. Coddled you were, you wish to show affection to cute things, and immediately wanted to cuddle Tippy and Kafuu Chino at first sight. They treated you with suspicion at first, but they warmed up to you, even if the visual signs were few and far between.

Cocoa, the little sisters of the world wait for you to embrace them. With your bread bring them over and stand as the greatest elder sister ever to be remembered. Are you ready to take on the journey to bring all the little sisters under your care, Cocoa? Can you build a civilization that will stand the test of time?

### Strategy

Cocoa leads a robust yet flexible civilization: All of Cocoa's unique bonuses provide a consistent and powerful bonus that grants Cocoa a some sort of benefit to any sort of victory: While Cocoa doesn't have a direct bonus to a Cultural Victory, Cocoa's high population and the resulting high science allows Cocoa some edge over civilizations with no bonus to cultural victory.

Cocoa's earliest bonus is the free granary, and it is a powerful bonus by itself: +2 Food immediately without requiring any investment in production or maintenance allows Cocoa to raise the population of Artocopial cities in the early game far faster than almost any other civilization. In addition, Cocoa's City-State bonus isn't as useful in keeping allies as that of Megas Alexandros, but manages to be powerful enough to be relevant especially when combined with Cocoa's other bonuses.

Cocoa's UU and the UB are the most iconic aspect of Cocoa's gameplay: the Artopolion makes Wine and Sugar starts or settles useful, while potentially making room for a maximum of 12 Global Happiness. Not only that, the Artopolion often becomes better than the Indonesia's Unique Ability, since the Indonesians are limited to 1 extra copy of the luxury to sell to neighbors, while Cocoa can have more copies of the unique resources depending on the the cities and resource positions, all while contributing to Cocoa's already venerable population game spurred by the free Granary.

Lastly, the Unique Merchant Replacement is a very versatile unit that encourages Cocoa to take advantage of Wonders that give Merchant Points, as well as employing Merchants once Artopolia are completed: The Unique Merchant plants into Academies while also having the ability to hurry production, making it a mix of a Great Scientist and Great Engineer early game with each GP's abilities that are most relevant in the early game. In addition to their ability to boost Cocoa's development, they also have a remarkable sight range, as well as the ability to speed healing of nearby units, making them also great military assets as well. The healing bonus that the Elder Sisters provide makes Bombers even better, allowing Cocoa to engage in bombing attacks longer than most other civilizations.

Because Cocoa can grow very quickly in the early game especially with the Civilization IV Trait mod, Cocoa tends to suffer from unhappiness. To compensate for the early unhappiness problem, the player is recommended to prioritize Meritocracy or Monarchy. Should the player be fortunate enough to found a religion, prioritizing Pagodas and Religious Centers will help to control unhappiness.

With the August 22 patch, Cocoa has become less reliant on resources, but also less able to control the luxury market. Artopolion no longer gives luxury resources depending on the surrounding resources, but rather gives only one of the 3 luxury resources available (Souvlaki renamed to Cafe Cocoa in the process). However, the luxury resources provided prioritizes the resource that Cocoa doesn't have, meaning 3 of Cocoa's cities do not cost any happiness to found once the cities have built the Artopolion, nor does it lose the  Growth bonus associated with the resources.

However, the Artopolion now grants 1  Production to all the Monuments in the empire. Because of this new change, Cocoa has become even more expansion-oriented than before. While Artopolia must be built before Cocoa can receive the new bonuses, the ability to get a significant boost to production means Cocoa is given a strong late Classical to Medieval game as long as there's luxury resources to back up Cocoa's expansion.

## Unique Trait and Components

 Influence with City-States decay 20% slower and recover 25% faster. All founded cities start with a free Granary.

Basic Version
Every Allied City-States increase the  Capital's  Production and  Science by 1.

Special Version
 Reliable Elder Sister
(Replaces Great Merchant)
 Artopolion
(Replaces Market)
Costs 125  Production instead of 100. However, Base  Gold yield increased to 2 from 1, and increases the  Food yield of Wine, Cocoa, Citrus, Sugar, Sheep, Cattle, and Bison by 1. Yields 1  Production.
First Artopolion causes monuments throughout the empires to yield 1  Production. Every 3rd Artopolia afterwards causes all cities to yield 1  Production. Artopolia yield 1 copy of either Bread, Jam, or Cafe Cocoa, prioritizing the luxury resource that Cocoa doesn't have.

1. Hot Bakery
2. Artopoleion
3. Dominique Ansel
4. Tatte
5. Pattiserie Sadaharu Aoki
6. Demel
7. Conditori la Glace
8. du Pain et Des Idees
9. Taillevent
10. Pasticceria Machesi
11. Ble Sucre
12. Paris Baguette
 **Spy List**

1. Hoto Mocha
2. Cocoa's Eldest Brother
3. Cocoa's Elder Brother
4. Tippy
5. Aoyama Blue Mountain
6. Rize's Father
7. Chiya's Grandmother
8. Chino's Mother
9. Cocoa's Mother
10. Cocoa's Father
11. Mate Rin
 **Dialogue List**

* First Greetings
	+ Hello, and welcome to Hot Bakery! I am the youngest of the hosts, and my name is Hoto Cocoa.
	+ Oh, a newcomer! Come on in, we'll treat you to the finest of our wares. Name's Hoto Cocoa.
	+ Hello, customer! Ah, a new one? Welcome! I am Hoto Cocoa, your host.
* Defeat
	+ Aaaahhhhhh... Well, can I at least have that fluffy bunny?
	+ Aaaaannnnnngggg! Now no little sister's going to call me a elegant and awesome older sister~
* Special First Greeting for Kafuu Chino
	+ Uh hello... wait, Chino, is that you? Come on in! Feel free to hug your big sister right here.
	+ Make yourself at home and call me big sister, Chino. OK? Uh? You don't want to call me a big sister? Pleeaaaaase?
	+ Chino? I'm going to cuddle~ Tippy, you're welcome to join in.
* Friendly Greeting for Kafuu Chino
	+ Hello- Oh, Chino, it's you! Come here! Big sister's waiting for you!
	+ Chino! Welcome back! Would you mind lending Tippy for a minute?
	+ Chino, you've come in a good time! What brings you to your older sister's abode?

## Music

AI
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* Trait
* Major Civs
* Minor Civs
* Flavor
* Mods

 Hostile
 Deceptive
 Guarded
 Afraid
 Friendly
 Neutral

 Friendly
 Protective
 Conquest
 Bully

 Religious Intolerance

Cocoa is a capable opponent if not checked by a more aggressive neighbor. Cocoa might not have the Science potential of Korea or Babylon, but makes up for that with a wide variety of early game bonuses that allows Cocoa to snowball well, and the AI takes advantage of its Happiness bonus. Cocoa will prove to be expansionist if Civ IV Traits is enabled, and Cocoa will focus Science and Gold, prioritizing Diplomatic victory. With an almost guaranteed higher population that most neighboring civilizations, Cocoa will often come out on top of the science and production demographics if left unchecked. Cocoa also sometimes plant the unique Merchants into Academies, further accentuating the science advantages through population.

## Mod Supports

### Events

**Eratosthenes' Legacy**

A certain lunar princess of the East has accepted the glory that is Hellenism, and we too are in the borders of the great Greek culture's influence. The lunar princess seemed to be interested in adopting Hellenic social policies, while you, Cocoa, were more interested in something you're more talented in, namely mathematics.**Option 1:** Excellent! It is time to learn the best language that ever existed!
* Costs 250  Gold and  Culture in Standard Speed.
* Free Great Scientist
* Academies produce 2 Science and Culture.

**Option 2:** Guess we'll provide some place for them to teach. Some people's bound to learn.
* Costs 200  Gold.
* Instant university in the  Capital.

**Option 3:** Too much bother, don't want to learn another language~
* Nothing

### Decisions

**Make Koulourakia**
The koulourakia is a delicacy of the Hellenes, who make the treat at Easter to be eaten after the Holy Saturday. The vanilla flavored butter treat is usually ring-shaped, and your little sisters will find these treats to be delicious.*Requirements/Restrictions:*
* Player must be Hot Bakery's Hoto Cocoa.
* Player must be in the Renaissance Era or beyond.
* Player must have a state religion.
* Can be enacted once per era.

*Costs:*
* 600 (+75 for each allied City-State)  Gold in Standard Speed

*Rewards:*
* 10 (+15 per era)  Food for all of the player's cities.
* 15  Influence with all met city-states.
* Fully converts all the player's cities and the allied city-states into the player's state religion. However, the holy city of the player's state religion and the religion that the player founded if it isn't the state religion are exceptions.

**Make Loukoumades**
This sweet delicacy of the Anatolian and the Balkan Peninsulas had what could be considered an ancestor in the Classical Era. The Enkris (pl. Enkrides), a dough fried in olive oil, was described extensively by authors like Archestratos of Trinakrie, Kallimachos of Kyrene, and even in the He Metaphrasis ton Hebdomekonta. Of the 3 mentioned, Kallimachos mentions of cakes served in honey which would be very similar to the Loukoumades. The modern variant is called lokma by the Tourkoi and the Loukoumades by the Hellenes, of which the earliest mentions is found in the works of Al-Baghdadi. You wish to serve this sweet treat to your little sisters, especially your favorite Kafuu Chino.*Requirements/Restrictions:*
* Player must be Hot Bakery's Hoto Cocoa.
* Player must be in the Renaissance Era or beyond.
* Can be enacted only once per game.

*Costs:*
* 750  Gold and  Culture in Standard Speed

*Rewards:*
* All the players' cities receive the Loukoumades Shop.

**Implant Molang Population**
When it has been found out that Tippy, the fluffy angora rabbit, is the host to the spirit of Chino's Grandfather, your dream of fluffing and cuddling the daylights out of Tippy in the sleep became an impossibility. Nevertheless, you sought to find a equally cuddly, round, soft bunny, and found a suitable replacement in a certain peninsula.*Requirements/Restrictions:*
* Player must be Hot Bakery's Hoto Cocoa.
* Player must be in the Modern Era or beyond.
* Can be enacted only once per game.

*Costs:*
* 1000  Gold and  Culture in Standard Speed

*Rewards:*
* Capital receives the Molang Enclave building.

* The extra vote scales with the number of City-States when Community Patch is enabled.

### Unique Cultural Influence

"Our people are eating rabbit-shaped bread, while the elder sisters are cuddling younger sisters. I fear that the world will be overtaken by the influence of your culture."

## Full Credits

 Last Updated:

* Mathetes tou Alexandrou: LUA, XML
* Europa Barbarorum Team: War Theme
* Koi: Intellectual property (Cocoa, Mocha), Art sources
* Yoon Hye-Ji: Intellectual property (Molang)
* White Fox: Animation (art source), Music

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