Drakarska
Epic Dadness
Interesting, we didn't experience a lack of buildings in most of our game so far. Just played a quick 100 turns on Monarch difficulty to make sure everything is working. I never ran out of buildings to build (had a good start though and could keep my research strong at all times).
Sounds like research cannot keep up with production in your cities. 20% tech rate is not normal and means you probably expanded too quickly and/or didn't put enough effort to generate commerce.
Generating early commerce is a bit more difficult in this mod than normal BtS as rivertiles don't grant 1C for free anymore and cottage growth has been slowed down as well.
Trade is crucial for early research/commerce and there have been some changes compared to BtS:
- You really need to connect your cities quickly either by building roads or researching sailing. New cities without trade connection are a sure way to go bancrupt.
- Open borders are hard to get as your AI opponents now have to be pleased with you. If you manage to get some it is very important to actually establish a trade connection (i.e. you need to see their cities and there has to be some kind of connection either by roads, river or sea). Scouts and ships are very useful to establish those connections as they are faster and can enter rival territory.
Looking at keldath's save I can see that you were playing at epic game speed. Maybe it has something to do with it. We didn't make any changes to the game speed modifiers but we also never really tested anything besides normal speed. We will take a look at it.
I would also encourage everybody to try a game with our recommended game settings in the OP. Early game should be more interesting because there is less space and more direct contact with the AI.
Ah, that explains a lot then. I was playing on epic speed as well, in addition to huge map.
Interesting. I never play quick speed, or lock myself into one particular criteria of settings. Will have to take a look at the xml when I have time later to see what need to be tweaked.
Appreciate all your hard work guys, well done.