Dancing Hoskuld
Deity
Every animal will eventually give some education. The story of animal buildings give +1 education.
hmm... given some of the values on buildings unlocked with Education it should be harder before education even with numerous myths etc...I probably would after Education tech but I am not before as I have no need so far.
Yes difficulty is the biggest factor and what you are set on is established as the 'nearly impossible' level so it's pretty horrendous. If I recall it's like -6 edu per population on that setting (maybe more.) It's -4 on standard deity lvl. So each pop is going to be quite a hurdle and if you can manage to stay in the positive edu lvls on that setting without lots of units to help with it then the game is surely set too easily.Is the difficulty/nightmare mode included in the calculation of education? I think TB mentioned it somewhere. But no one says the difficulty in his 'I can reach education xxx' statements
I use Deity/nightmare and in my opinion there is too big difference between smaller cities (below 3) and size 6 or 7 in prehistoric. For the former I reach almost 500 easily. Now I am in early ancient (mining, wheel) and my capital just grew to size 7 and it has education 30 (-5 per turn). I guess this value will drop a lot below zero soon without me being able to do anything about it (until writing), as I built all stuff and plenty of myths already.
So what's the source of your positive education in that city? Something is certainly strange about that. I wonder if you're using autobuilt buildings in the My_Mods module? There's no automatic anything but drain on a new city otherwise.
Strikes me as a bit overpowered to have the Song be given in every city. Having storytellers learn a song from one city and teach it to the next would be more interesting I think (and we can work out that side of things very soon.) For now though it seems really OP to have them go to all cities. I also noticed that some Myths were buildable in the city queue - was this intended?
The Song is what makes the Myth a pseudo national wonder so they have to go to all cities.