turingmachine
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- Joined
- May 4, 2008
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Feedback on the new Israel:
I really like how it plays. The great prophet general helped me with an early war, and I was able to found a religion even on a higher difficulty.
My only negative is that the yields of the Kibbutz are probably too high: +2 food (+3-4 counting the farm yield), +3 Culture, +1 Faith, +1 Happy is a lot for a UI with no real terrain limitation. (Well it has the terrain limitation of the farm which is flat land or fresh water but that covers like 90% of the map). The French UI only ends up giving +6 yield (in addition to the base tile yield) with less important yields (no food), has a much stricter terrain requirement, and that's mostly because the French UA sucks. Yours is giving +8 (half of which is food), plus happy, plus the base tile yield, and you can build it almost anywhere. It feels a little overkill.
Really, even being able to give every other farm +2 food by itself is a huge bonus (food being the most important yield). I would tone it down to just the +2 Farm Food, and +1 Faith (which ends up being a +5 yield UI in the end), or a similar combination like that.
I really like how it plays. The great prophet general helped me with an early war, and I was able to found a religion even on a higher difficulty.
My only negative is that the yields of the Kibbutz are probably too high: +2 food (+3-4 counting the farm yield), +3 Culture, +1 Faith, +1 Happy is a lot for a UI with no real terrain limitation. (Well it has the terrain limitation of the farm which is flat land or fresh water but that covers like 90% of the map). The French UI only ends up giving +6 yield (in addition to the base tile yield) with less important yields (no food), has a much stricter terrain requirement, and that's mostly because the French UA sucks. Yours is giving +8 (half of which is food), plus happy, plus the base tile yield, and you can build it almost anywhere. It feels a little overkill.
Really, even being able to give every other farm +2 food by itself is a huge bonus (food being the most important yield). I would tone it down to just the +2 Farm Food, and +1 Faith (which ends up being a +5 yield UI in the end), or a similar combination like that.