bengalryan9
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Australia was eliminated while I was typing my long rationale for why it's great (and my vote wouldn't have saved it anyways)... I'm still gonna share it lol. I don't think it's situational at all because I find it hard to believe you'd get a map start with no woods, no lakes, no rivers, no mountains, and no coast (as Australia!). Possible, I guess, but unlikely. The appeal mini-game is not well understood? How? It's one of the few things in the game that is explicitly spelled out in the civpedia and works exactly as advertised. How much extra science did you get from that +3 campus you had for 100 turns before you could finally build your +4 campuses in every other game, especially at a time where those science points are at a premium? Plus the Dead Sea by itself isn't going to give you breathtaking appeal anyways, it would take something else to bump up the adjacency. It couldn't have been rainforest, because you wouldn't have gotten any appeal bonus then. It couldn't have been mountains, because any campus that starts between the Dead Sea and those mountains is going to be at least +5. A campus sandwiched between the Dead Sea and a geothermal fissure get you to +3, but you wouldn't have breathtaking appeal so that could still be raised with a little work. The most likely situation would be a campus between the Dead Sea and two forest tiles, but just because you can get a +3 bonus doesn't mean that it's the long term best spot to build it. A holy site placed in that same spot would've got you at least +6. If it was a river giving you the added appeal, a commercial hub built in that spot would've been +5 at the least. Even a theater square would've been a better fit since it my experience that's the one that is the hardest to get adjacency bonuses to. So it sounds like you put the district least fit to go there in that spot, but even then +3 is nothing to scoff at. This is way more powerful than I think some of you realize... if someone held a gun up to my head and said I had to win a game on deity to save my life, I'd probably take Australia. Sorry to see it go. No hard feelings or anything, though.
Aztec - Legend of the Five Suns: 7
Greece - Plato's Republic: 13
Japan - Meiji Restoration: 5 (8-3) Using your own districts to boost your adjacencies is a great ability. I'd much rather do it as Australia (through appeal boosts) where I get a bunch of other bonuses as well.
Kongo - Nkisi: 10
Maori - Mana: 15 (14+1) The best? Probably not. Fun? Oh yes. And it's still really good.
Russia - Mother Russia: 10
Aztec - Legend of the Five Suns: 7
Greece - Plato's Republic: 13
Japan - Meiji Restoration: 5 (8-3) Using your own districts to boost your adjacencies is a great ability. I'd much rather do it as Australia (through appeal boosts) where I get a bunch of other bonuses as well.
Kongo - Nkisi: 10
Maori - Mana: 15 (14+1) The best? Probably not. Fun? Oh yes. And it's still really good.
Russia - Mother Russia: 10