CBO Balance
General:
•Increased # of votes needed to win Diplo Victory
• Modified Tourism (modifiers, values, theming bonuses, etc.) slightly to encourage longer-term requirements for influential status
• Flattened end-game tech curve a little.
• These three changes should bring Science victories a little closer to diplo and culture victories in terms of 'natural conclusion.' We shall see.
• Reduced Quest influence rewards from CS quests by a flat 5
Only thing I disagree with here is the lowering of CS quest influence. Nothing wrong with quests right now, I think they were absolutely perfect, it was just that diplo units were too expensive.
Buildings:
•Removed maintenance from Customs House
Good change!
Units:
•Reduced instant value of Great Writers, Merchants, and Scientists slightly
I know this is a "slight" change, but I think its premature, I thought the plan was to try out an alternate GM and then see how it went. This basically nerfs the amount of science and culture we generate over time with no counter balance.
• Revised Great Musician Concert Tour:
• Now grants flat amount of Tourism with the Target civilization based on your recent Tourism per turn (12 turns on normal). # of turns increased by 1 for every owned work of Music (so 5 works = 17 turns of Tourism calculated). Also grants target player 3 Happiness, scaling with gamespeed.
I assume the number is still static, meaning there is no value in waiting to use the GM? If so, its an interesting concept, I think it would be interesting to run some math and determine if it actually makes great works worthwhile.
Pantheons:
•Ancestor Worship - reduced ratio to 3 (was 4), Council now +2 culture (was +1), removed Faith
• Beauty - reduced Faith to +2 (Was +3)
• Wisdom - increased ratio to 15 (was 10), increased City bonus to +1 Science +2 Faith
• Stars and Sky - reduced Faith to 1 (was 2)
• Open Sky - shifted ratio to 1c per 2 (Was per 3)
• Craftsmen - Cities with specialists yield +3 Faith, Quarries/Stone Works yield gold/production
• Commerce - ratio now 30, connection now +3/+2 (was +2/+2)
Festivals - Reduced faith to 1 (was 2)
All decent changes. People I think are overreacting on the festivals change, you can still compete for a religion, especially with tradition (I think a lot of people forget that a tradition player may have access to some faith-lacking pantheons and still get a religion because of their faith bonus).
Policies:
•Exploitation: Removed CS upgrade element, added +25% modifier to bullying value for bullying CSs
• Exploration: Removed reveal capitals element, added ability to upgrade units in CS territory that is at least friendly.
• These change should theme Imperialism a little more around your relationship with CSs (good or bad) and removed the rather worthless 'reveal capitals' element
I wish I had known you already had plans for Imperalism before I made that thread, else I wouldn't have bothered to offer alternate policies
Exploitation looks good, Exploration still seems strange, but its better than the reveal capitals. Overall this didn't really address any of my concerns on the tree, but again I think it needs tuning not rebuilding.
CSD:
Reduced CSD diplo unit cost across the board
Reduced Diplo building cost a little
WOO HOO!!!
CP:•Big naval pathing change: Naval units (prior to Astronomy) will now have the ability to move through - but not end their turn on - ocean tiles.
The big change here is that it opens up much more of many maps before astronomy. Many an island could be reached if I can cross brief stretches of ocean. Also, how does it work if I try to cross ocean not knowing if there is land on the other side?
Ultimately my question is, what issue is this trying to solve? If it is solving melee naval ships early game, I think this is a big overreaction to that problem.
• Updated Communitas resource script
What was changed here?
