Unique Ability Elimination Thread

cpm4001 said:

Well, we've got a Unique Unit Elimination Thread, a Unique Building Elimination Thread, and a Unique Improvement Elimination Thread - guess we just need a Unique Ability Elimination Thread now! As in the other threads, voting goes +1, -3, and please explain why you're voting the way you are.
So, without further ado, here's the Giant List O' UAs (as of BNW, of course)!

America - Manifest Destiny - All land military units have +1 sight. 50% discount when purchasing tiles.
Arabia - Ships of the Desert - Caravans gain 50% extended range. Your trade routes spread the home city's religion twice as effectively. Oil resources are doubled.
Assyria - Treasures of Nineveh - When a city is conquered, gain a free Technology already discovered by its owner. Gaining a city through a trade deal does not count, and it can only happen once per enemy city.
Austria - Diplomatic Marriage - Can spend Gold to annex or puppet a City-State that has been your ally for 5 turns.
Babylon - Ingenuity - Receive free Great Scientist when you discover Writing. Earn Great Scientists 50% faster.
Brazil - Carnival - Tourism output is +100% during their Golden Ages. Earn Great Artists, Musicians, and Writers 50% faster during their Golden Ages.
Byzantium - Patriarchate of Constantinople - Choose one more Belief than normal when you found a Religion.
Carthage - Phoenician Heritage - All coastal Cities get a free Harbor. Units may cross mountains after the first Great General is earned, taking 50 HP damage if they end a turn on a mountain.
China - Art of War - The Great General combat bonus is increased by 15%, and their spawn rate is increased by 50%.
Denmark - Viking Fury - Embarked units have +1 Movement and pay just 1 movement point to move from sea to land. Melee units pay no movement point cost to pillage.
Egypt - Monument Builders - +20% Production towards Wonder construction.
England - Sun Never Sets - +2 Movement for all naval units. Receives 1 extra Spy.
Ethiopia - Spirit of Adwa - Combat bonus (+20%) when fighting units from a Civilization with more Cities than Ethiopia.
France - City of Light - Museum and World Wonder theming bonuses are doubled in their capital.
Germany - Furor Teutonicus - Upon defeating a Barbarian unit inside an encampment, there is a 50% chance you earn 25 gold Gold and they join your side. Pay 25% less for land unit maintenance. (Fall Patch changes it form 50% to 67%.)
Greece - Hellenic League - City-State Influence degrades at half and recovers at twice the normal rate.
India - Population Growth - Unhappiness from number of Cities doubled, Unhappiness from number of Citizens halved.
Indonesia - Spice Islanders - The first 3 cities founded on continents other than where Indonesia started each provide 2 unique Luxury Resources (and can never be razed).
Japan - Bushido - Units fight as though they were at full strength even when damaged. (Fall Patch Updates) +1 Culture for Fish Boats and +2 Culture for Atolls.Korea - Scholars of the Jade Hall - +2 science for all specialists and for all Great Person tile improvements. Receive a tech boost each time a scientific building/Wonder is built in the Korean capital.
Mongolia - Mongol Terror - Combat Strength +30% when fighting City-State units or attacking a City-State itself. All mounted units have +1 Movement.
Morocco - Gateway to Africa - Receives +3 Gold and +1 Culture for each Trade Route with a different civ or City-State. The Trade Route owners receive +2 Gold for each Trade Route sent to Morocco.
Persia - Achaemenid Legacy - Golden Ages last 50% longer. During a Golden Age, units receive +1 Movement and a +10% Combat Strength bonus.
Poland - Solidarity - Receive a free Social Policy when you advance to the next era.
Polynesia - Wayfinding - Can embark and move over Oceans immediately. +1 Sight when embarked. +10% Combat Strength bonus if within 2 tiles of a Moai.
Portugal - Mare Clausum - Resource diversity grants twice as much Gold for Portugal in Trade Routes.
Rome - The Glory of Rome - +25% Production towards any buildings that already exist in the Capital.
Russia - Siberian Riches - Strategic Resources provide +1 Production and Horse, Iron and Uranium Resources provide double quantity.
Siam - Father Governs Children - Food, Culture, and Faith from friendly City-States increased by 50%.
Songhai - River Warlord - Receive triple Gold from Barbarian encampments and pillaging Cities. Land units gain the War Canoe and Amphibious promotions, strengthening them while embarked.
Spain - Seven Cities of Gold - Gold bonus for discovering a Natural Wonder (bonus enhanced if first to discover it). Culture, Happiness, and tile yields from Natural Wonders doubled.
Sweden - Nobel Prize - Gain 90 Influence with a Great Person gift to a City-State. When declaring friendship, Sweden and their friend gain a +10% boost to Great Person generation.
The Aztecs - Sacrificial Captives - Gains Culture for the empire from each enemy unit killed.
The Celts - Druidic Lore - +1 Faith per city with an adjacent unimproved Forest. Bonus increases to +2 Faith in Cities with 3 or more adjacent unimproved Forest tiles.
The Huns - Scourge of God - Raze Cities at double speed. Borrow City names from other in-game Civs. Start with Animal Husbandry technology. +1 Production per Pasture.
The Inca - Great Andean Road - Units ignore terrain costs when moving into any tile with Hills. No maintenance costs for improvements in Hills; half cost elsewhere.
The Iroquois - The Great Warpath - Units move through Forest and Jungle in friendly territory as if they were Roads. These tiles can be used to establish City Connections upon researching The Wheel. Caravans move along Forest and Jungle as if they were Roads.
The Maya - The Long Count - After researching Theology, receive a bonus Great Person at the end of every Maya Long Count calendar cycle (every 394 years). Each bonus person can only be chosen once.
The Netherlands - Dutch East India Company - Retains 50% of the Happiness benefits from a Luxury Resource if your last copy of it is traded away.
The Ottomans - Barbary Corsairs - All melee naval units have the Prize Ships promotion, allowing them to capture defeated ships. Pay only one-third the usual cost for naval unit maintenance.
The Shoshone - Great Expanse - Founded cities start with additional territory. Units receive a combat bonus when fighting within their own territory.
The Zulus - Iklwa - Melee units cost 50% less maintenance. All units require 25% less experience to earn their next promotion.
Venice - Serenissima - Cannot gain settlers nor annex cities. Double the normal number of trade routes available. A Merchant of Venice appears after researching Optics. May purchase in puppeted cities.

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VicRatlhead5199 said:

Venice - Serenissima - 15(Correcting AggressiveWimp's vote he only subtracted one and adding my own neg 3) This UA can be really amazing in the late game but one or two early, strong, aggressive neighbors can literally take the wind out of your sails. If you see Venice in your game it's easy take them out when they're weak, trying to build umpteen trade routes and protect them all. Their inability to found cities makes it very easy to plop one of your own right next to their capital and launch an invasion from there. Venice has to be allowed to reach their strong point. I think it's funny when people say India's UA is the only one with a direct negative when Venice has a pretty big one.

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jlim201 said:

cpm4001 said:

Germany - Furor Teutonicus - Upon defeating a Barbarian unit inside an encampment, there is a 50% chance you earn 25 gold Gold and they join your side. Pay 25% less for land unit maintenance. (Fall Patch changes it from 50% to 67%.)
Japan - Bushido - Units fight as though they were at full strength even when damaged. (Fall Patch Updates) +1 Culture for Fish Boats and +2 Culture for Atolls.

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MantaRevan said:

What are the rules on voting in these? Can you vote every 24 hours, or only once, ect?

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cpm4001 said:

As I said in a previous post, you can vote once every 24 hours.

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cpm4001 said:

AgressiveWimp actually split his -3 across multiple UAs, and so Venice's "score" is currently at 16.

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TreYs said:

A bonus that gives a bonus to your opponent? No thanks. The GP gifting seems gimmicky, as well.

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fuzzatron717 said:

-3 votes go to one civ only not spread across the board! FYI if you are wondering why some people are doing this one person made a mistake and others followed.

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AgressiveWimp said:

That wasn't a mistake I made, I meant to do that. And how is that wrong? Where in the rules in the OP does it say "you cannot split your vote; all -3 votes must go to only one civ"?

If cpm4001 says we can't split votes, fair enough, because he started the thread. But he didn't, so why do you feel this isn't a correct way of voting?

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As in the other threads, voting goes +1, -3, and please explain why you're voting the way you are.

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sendos said:

My apologies to all. I noticed that the elimination threads carry different rules and I briefly thought they were uniform. I won't make the same mistake again.

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AgressiveWimp said:

If cpm4001 says we can't split votes, fair enough, because he started the thread. But he didn't, so why do you feel this isn't a correct way of voting?

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