Feedback!
1. Loyalty needs changing. with the default setting, cities still have loyalty despite not being occupied anymore. Furthermore, I think loyalty should be effected by religion and also increase by 1% per each turn you control the city. I think you should make it decrease with each social policy you adopt(especially ideological tenets). Additionally, I think that whatever ideology you choose should effect loyalty in a certain way: freedom would reduce disloyalty from population, order would increase the loyalty from WLtKDs and garrisons and autocracy would decrease disloyalty from war.
2. Magistrates and dignitaries aren't enough. I think you should add an additional way of gaining great dignitaries\ magistrates for free(similar to the great person decisions), and remove the dignitary cost of the "request the services of a great person" decision. In my last game, I had -1 magistrates(!!!) After taking the gold for faith decision from piety (is it even compatible?), and I didn't manage to purchase a single city state after 350+ turns. Also, great engineers still effect great magistrate and dignitary counts.
3. The exploration tree: 3 policies are about actual exploration, 2 more about colonies, and the finisher allows you to buy recon units and see hidden antiquity which have nothing to do with the rest of the tree. Personally, I think that culture from internal trade routes could work for this tree, so you could quickly develop colonies and expand their territory faster.
