GoodSarmatian
Jokerfied Western Male
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This must be a mistake of some sort, right? Either Arabia's unique ability includes this or the Bazaar does this in addition to it's original ability. They couldn't possibly be replacing double resources with 2 gold on an oasis.
I think when they don't explicitly say an effect has been lost ,it's not and they only mention additions. Bazaars will probably give double luxury resources and additional gold for oil and oases. I don't believe they got rid of the free tech from the GL and Oxford University.
Both the other Policies add culture into the mix, only Honor did not receive any cultural contributions. As I see it, it is all about one tree being vertical, one being horizontal, and the third being what your neighbour think it should be. Giving an influx of culture for all three branches doesn't make one stand out.
Honor was a big no no for me in most games because it slows down politcy development too much. I almost only picked it when playing Aztecs. A culture boost is very welcome.
I'm quite happy with the changes, I just hope attitude actually means something and I'm not constantly attacked by "friendly" civs. I've also seen civs going from FRIENDLY to HOSTILE and back to FRIENDLY in 20 turns (standard speed). Hope this doesn't happen any more.UI
Combat preview for Aircraft UI addition. - what is this Aircraft UI?
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The number above the city name, showing that you have aircraft, missiles or nukes stationed in a city. After the last patch numbers would still be diplayed after you have rebased the plane to another city. Annoying interface bug, good they fixed it.
Diplomacy and AI
I was hoping for more changes to the AI and Diplomacy for this patch. The change log does seem to be a bit lacking considering the state of current AI and Diplomacy.
Unhappiness per city increased to 3 from 2. - This will no doubt affect early game expansion, especially with the happiness nerf to luxuries (only 4 now)
I really wonder how we're supposed to expand. Builing a city to get only one kind of luxury resource doesn't see do be an option any more. I also hope the AI stops the stupid ICS, but I never had the imperssion happiness is to any concern for AI civs.
Looks totally insignificant to me, but Meritocracy looks better now. Again +1 from trade routes.The +5% for Republic is welcome.
This I like very much. Finally gives me a good reason to build knights even before I run out of iron.Decreased Longswordsman strength.