Recent content by Hreat

Thoughts I have never had while playing: "hmm, I wish I spent more time manually adjusting trade deals"

I wanted to peek under the hood at this system but couldn't find it in the mod files.

I deal with this by editing the TechCosts file to make the renaissance era techs cost more. Since they research slower you are more able to keep up on the buildings needed to keep unhappiness in check.

If it only happened twice I'd say it's probably just bad luck. There is deffinitely some portion of games where establishing a religion is impossible due to a combination of AIs that get early faith bonuses or find faith goody huts. This is more true on higher difficulty and slower speeds...

I too avoided researching Civil Service as long as possible, now I just think emissaries shouldn't obsolete at Civil Service. I view it as the same situation that caused the change where UUs have their obsolescence delayed - you shouldn't be punished with less effective units after researching...

You should deffinitely consider the base tile the luxury spawns in. One of the things that makes Olives perform so well is the 1p you get from plains tiles. One of the reason Furs are bad is that they spawn in Tundra. One of the reasons Incense is awful is that it likes to spawn in desert...

If you're going to take a look at reworking monopoly bonuses can we please do it as part of a wider rebalancing of luxury yields? There are some very big differences in the combination of bonus yields from luxury tiles, the bonuses available from buildings, and the bonuses available from...

This. I disable war elephants in my games.

I do this a lot, where I trade away something I'd prefer to keep just to avoid the spam from AIs giving me lowball offers on it. There's a prior thread on this same topic where you can see some of Gazebo's thoughts on the issue. Personally I'd like a "reject all incoming trade requests"...

Does anyone know where this is in the mod files if I want to adjust it? I poked around but couldn't find it.

If this was allowed you'd have to nerf all the yields unimproved jungles provide. Forcing the jungle to be cleared is necessary to maintain balance or else every banana plot would have higher yields than a natural wonder.

Not a technical limitation, just a design choice. Communitas at various times allowed unique improvements and GP improvements to be built on and connect strategic and/or luxury resources.

moving jungle/forest/marsh clear back to the original positions is one of the changes I make every time I download a new version. I got very tired of the AIs establishing monopolies before I could connect even a single luxury. Having your luxuries gated for eras by the need to clear jungle or...

It seems my puppet cities almost always end up as a huge drag. Sometimes they're fine for a while, but sooner or later they seem to get stuck working farming (or another similar process) and then begin to fall hopelessly further and further behind as the rest of the world advances and they...

No, they aren't. If I'm working a city down to low hp with dromons and then conquering it with 1 attack from a trireme, an embarked Warrior is a lot cheaper and just as effective. More effective if you consider the greater ease of movement inherent in being able to stack with the dromons...