historix69
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A puppet city does contribute culture, gold, science to your empire.
A puppet city does not increase culture cost for new social policies.
A puppet city does profit from social policies, e.g. it does receive Food-Bonus, Production-Bonus, Happiness-Bonus, Culture-Bonus, etc.
Is there a rational explanation how puppet cities can profit from social policies without increasing their costs? Or is it just a Game Design Decision?
I always thought that culture costs increasing with number of own / annexed cities were somehow related to the increased build up of social / political infrastructure. If so, then puppets should not profit from social policies since they are lacking the social infrastructure which is neccessary to profit from social policies.
So from a rational point of view I would expect puppets either
- to not increase s.p. costs and to not profit from s.p. or
- to increase s.p. costs and to profit from s.p.
The current system rewards to build a huge puppet empire, get all the interesting social policies at lower costs and then to mass annex the puppets (if you really want to annex them).
A puppet city does not increase culture cost for new social policies.
A puppet city does profit from social policies, e.g. it does receive Food-Bonus, Production-Bonus, Happiness-Bonus, Culture-Bonus, etc.
Is there a rational explanation how puppet cities can profit from social policies without increasing their costs? Or is it just a Game Design Decision?
I always thought that culture costs increasing with number of own / annexed cities were somehow related to the increased build up of social / political infrastructure. If so, then puppets should not profit from social policies since they are lacking the social infrastructure which is neccessary to profit from social policies.
So from a rational point of view I would expect puppets either
- to not increase s.p. costs and to not profit from s.p. or
- to increase s.p. costs and to profit from s.p.
The current system rewards to build a huge puppet empire, get all the interesting social policies at lower costs and then to mass annex the puppets (if you really want to annex them).