hippodrome

I was just curious.

I'm playing Romani.

For city happiness buildings, there's two types that are "sports-related" you can build that allow you to increase happiness of the city you build it in.

I'm aware of two lines:

martial fields -> arena -> amphitheatre -> colosseum

circus simplex -> hippodrome -> circus maximus


I noticed that after I build arena, I can change my city to have annual/biannual games, but with hippodrome, you can't have annual/biannual races (like in vanilla TW). I haven't gotten a circus maximus yet, so I'm not sure if that's also the case.

I know that hippodrome comes with a happiness bonus already, but always thought it was nice to be able to set the frequency of the races in your city.

Was there a reason the racetrack-type sports buildings weren't coded to allow you to set the frequency of races in your city?

I think it might be because you have both sports and racing. I don't think stock had "races"

Did you scroll through the rates of holding games? IIRC, when you build a hippodrome and already have an arena, it will not automatically set "Annual Games" to "Annual Games & Races" even though they cost the same.