Or take farms down just a notch in food. I think they're a bit OP now anyhow.
I would rather increase the amount of yields provided by other things than nerf farms.
Or take farms down just a notch in food. I think they're a bit OP now anyhow.
I would rather increase the amount of yields provided by other things than nerf farms.
What can you increase? I usually don't care about hammers except for a handful of cities that are actually building military units, and commerce doesn't mean anything given where levels are now. Science comes fast enough, gold is pretty pointless after the 100%-science-and-still-break-even point, culture doesn't do nearly enough, and I never use espionage when I can just crush the offending party.
I think a good idea would be to make a line of autobuilt garbage buildings that depend on civic, city size and maybe some building prerequisites. They would represent what people do with garbage when there is no organized alternative.
Then you could manually build Landfills and similar to improve the situation as they replace the autobuilt garbage buildings.
Reduces Air Pollution
- Forest (-5)
- Bamboo (-3)
- Savanna (-4)
- Tall Grass (-2)
- Cactus (-1)
- Kelp (-5)
- Sea Grass (-5)
Reduces Water Pollution
- Jungle (-5)
- Bog (-5)
- Swamp (-5)
- Flood Plains (-5)
- Coral (-5)
Increases Air Pollution
- Active Volcano (+10)
- Dormant Volcano (+5)
Increased Water Pollution
- Tarpits (+5)
Wait... Jungle doesn't help with Air Pollution? About the only thing keeping Earth anywhere near on track in that dept is our jungles!
It seems you've tried to divide responsibilities for reducing the differing pollution types here but that strikes me as less rational whereas I think you can still strike a good game balance while keeping with good rationale by allowing some to overlap. Besides, if Jungles handle only Water Pollution and Forests handle only Air Pollution, it kinda imbalances the map starts a bit I think. I'm not saying Forests should have much of an impact on Water Pollution nor that I disagree with Jungles helping in that regard, but I'd think Jungles would help a LOT with air pollution.
Also, I've noticed that polar regions tend to suffer less from air pollution thanks to the ability for water to freeze the water vapor out of the air and thus transferring the pollution to the ground (which usually isn't as bad there) so Ice and such would probably help with Air Pollution.
Oh... something I was thinking about the other day regarding this subject... Global Warming triggers... we have the Global Warming being triggered by a particular spot on the Air Pollution level of a given city and that is impacting areas outside of the city radius which does make sense but what I think we need to get that all into balance is a Global property counter for air pollution that controls Global Warming so that one city may contribute a lot to the problem, yes, but doesn't directly trigger it. Even one terribly unmanaged huge city would still be unlikely to have much of an effect on the globe by itself.
@Thunderbrd
So what are your ideas for new stats of the terrain features? Like Jungle -5 air and -5 water? What values would you put?
forest also should have -1 water pollution
@Thunderbrd
So what are your ideas for new stats of the terrain features? Like Jungle -5 air and -5 water? What values would you put?
Not improvements as such, but water pollution has for a while now decreased yields from coast/ocean tiles if it gets bad enough. However it depends on the pollution in the city itself, not from those particular tiles.
I suppose it makes sense in a strange sort of way. You build farms and mines everywhere, and if there's aqueous pollution that makes the crops wither, what do you do? You wash it away!
I suppose the idea is that you can have vibrant, well fertilised farms producing mountains of food, while nearby the rivers and oceans are a sickly green of algae, slime and bacteria from all the fertiliser/pesticide runoff.
But doen´t Ice andpermafrost mean msot of the water frozen, so pollutants have no chance to be washed away?
But doen´t Ice andpermafrost mean msot of the water frozen, so pollutants have no chance to be washed away?