Great mod!!
I just finished the game via domination using Hojo.
Some suggestion:
-Aquebuiser needs more balancing, pretty useless now. It comes too late, can only be built by christian cities AND only has Str 8 (same as samurai). I would expect a unit that comes so late in the game and comes with so restricted condition to at least have some usage. I am not building any of these as I don't see their advantages over the lower tier Samurai.
Maybe jack up his str to 10 or more, or give them more bonus VS melee/archer. Maybe loosen the requirement of Christian city? Speaking of Christian, I don't see any other use of this religion other than being able to build Aquebuiser... hmm
-Great general is pumping out like mad, due to the linear birth rate. I am not sure if this is a good idea, when u get too many of them, their value diminishes. I would prefer a slower birth rate or even an exponential birth rate.
-Endgame snowball effect.
The game is fun from the beginning till mid-game, after that when my empire reaches a big enough size, ~8 cities , the rest of the game is just mopping up the other AI. Since the AI don't expand and goto war with each other much, by the time I got a decent empire, they are still owning 3-4 cities each.
Also, once all techs has been research, we could just switch to 100% wealth and these
can be used to rushbuy every single build. Resulting in a landslide production boost.
is not useful as happiness is not a problem, see the following point:
I know that this aspect is difficult to fix, right now I have no idea yet...
-Happiness no problem.
Happiness is a challenging and fun problem... in the early game tho. Once my empire expand to a decent size and is able to secure enough happiness resource + happy boosting tech/civic, happiness problem
extinct. War weariness is not a problem at all in my game.
The larger your empire is, the better...this totally counter the civ4 concept. There should be some form of penalty for larger empire, citizen unhappy, maintanence killing the empire etc.
-Barb ships are annoying. They appear randomly and destroy my fishing boat. Not sure if their existance aid the gameplay.
-This is just personal preference
3D Tokugawa clone
I personally prefer an unanimated 2D leaderhead
Things I liked:
-The Map. Nicely done, resources/tree/forest nicely placed.
-The units..
-The city improvements
-The music
All in all, very good mod! good job