What if Republic gave a production bonus in cities with Walls?
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I could also put a Walls bonus somewhere in the Tradition tree
I don't see any reason to tie walls into social policies. Why can't they just be good for boosting city defense? Maybe have walls give defense boost, castle give faster healing, arsenal give defense boost, military base give ranged attack bonus (strength or range or a second shot?).
In general I dislike the new social policy design of trying to give social policies synergy with particular buildings. I far prefer the design where they give synergies with particular playstyles.
I also don't see what form of government (Republic) has to do with military defenses. The various famous Republics were hardly famous for their fortifications. Fortifications are more associated with monarchies and feudalism.
Representation was dropped from the mod's 50% to vanilla 33%.
Right, but did you also change the policy cost multiplier from 0.3 to 0.15?
If not, then representation is fine. If you did, then I'm a bit worried by each city only increasing poilcy costs by 10%. We're back to city-spam being a good strategy.
Landed Elite is 1 per 10 in every city
Ah, ok, I misread.
I don't like this effect in Tradition; Tradition should be about tall empires. This effect favors wide empires (it is easier to get 6 cities that are 10 each than 2 cities that are 30). An effect like this fits better in Liberty. Maybe this is better than the Meritocracy bonus for connected cities?
In Tradition, I prefer the food bonus, which makes more sense with the name Landed Elite. How does a happiness bonus from population fit with land?
A free Great Engineer is an instant wonder, or the massive production from a Manufactory. I feel this plus a 10% wonder bonus is much more powerful than the original 25% wonder production bonus.
I think free great people are very boring effects from social policies. I think policies should mostly favor long-term bonuses rather than 1-shots, and I think that great people should largely come from specialists (that is what specialists are for).
I think bonuses should actually be something you feel. You're barely going to notice a 10% bonus. That is maybe 1-2 turns faster, which is nothing.
I'd prefer to boost the long-term effect and drop the great engineer.
Tradition in particular should be about long-term gains, not instant power - the concept of tradition is all about slow and incremental change and favorable institutions, not bursts of greatness.
Alternatively; keep the wonder production bonus small, but add in a +X yield bonus per wonder, instead of having this on Constitution. +1 culture per wonder?
I commend their decision to remove the -25% policy cost reduction however.
Why? I'm not sure it is a bad idea, I'm just interested in your reasoning.
I'm not really any happier with that effect
A bonus from militaristic city states is far too narrow a bonus I think for a social policy. I'll try to think of some alternatives.
I could see this as a happiness effect; the idea being that lots of pro-labor organizations working together make the workforce easier to manage.
Maybe: happiness per production point? So you get +1 happiness for every X hammers being produced in each city? That might not be technically feasible, of course. The idea would be: more hammers means more jobs means happier workforce. It is a late-game policy, so it should be powerful.
I could change Planned Economy to affect all production buildings at a lower rate.
Maybe. But I think a science boost is weird. Since when did central planning increase science and creativity?
How about an effect that gives a production bonus to all the production buildings? That feels a lot more in flavor; Order seems to be about being an Industrial tree, as opposed to military, scientific, cultural, economic, etc.
+1 hammer to every workshop, forge, windmill, factory, watermill and their UU replacements? That could be a nice effect. If it is too weak, add hydro plant and solar plant and nuclear plant.
Ok on CR, maybe Babylon just had a really nice start position, and happened to have an AI flavor that game that really favored expansion.
effect.
per 10
in every city. It lets the whole empire grow +10% population with the same amount of happiness.
experience from Militaristic unit rewards. I'm not really any happier with that effect either but want to take a while to think over the policies before figuring out what to change it to.
