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I'm going on with my test. I'm one of the strongest civs, I'm using Imperium right now. Why on earth would someone use Redevelopment (no one is using it until now)? I would spend +550 gold per turn to help some small civ with 2-3 cities each while they're probably about to be wiped out by larger civs... Shouldn't Redevelopment give you some other advantage? And about Imperium, 5 major civs are using it right now but they don't seem to be involeved in more wars than before you introduced these new civics. And by the way, why would someone bother about being disliked by some small civs? My strenght ratio with civs that hate me because of imperium is between 2.1 and 35.7 in my favour. And none of them will of course ever declare war on me. In the meantime other major civs don't care about my civic. That's why I was suggesting that other major civs should hate you for imperium, not minor civs.
Edit: Even more, if I use imperium, I get all the gold benefits and smaller civs get all the gold penalties, especially since they will probably use Appeasement; wouldn't that render useless that relations +3 or -3? So basically relations remain the same between stronger and lesser civs because + / - compensate; but the strongest civs get a lot of gold while smaller civs lose a lot of gold. Doesn't seem very balanced to me, unless I'm missing something.
Edit2: don't get me wrong, I like these new civics ideas very very much but if there's not anything I'm missing, they need balancing
Edit: Even more, if I use imperium, I get all the gold benefits and smaller civs get all the gold penalties, especially since they will probably use Appeasement; wouldn't that render useless that relations +3 or -3? So basically relations remain the same between stronger and lesser civs because + / - compensate; but the strongest civs get a lot of gold while smaller civs lose a lot of gold. Doesn't seem very balanced to me, unless I'm missing something.
Edit2: don't get me wrong, I like these new civics ideas very very much but if there's not anything I'm missing, they need balancing