Wessel V1
Emperor
I loaded an Austria game. Some feedback up until about 1700AD:
- I started with 400 culture to spend on policies, which is good I think. I haven't checked what cultural levels are reached by nearby civilizations at the time of the Austrian spawn, perhaps the 400 mark could be increased a bit. Just like technology, I feel that it makes sense to help new born civilizations to be at least on par with the world's average.
- Getting Venice as a free city is treated as a conquest and therefore you get a warmongering penalty. I think free cities on spawn should never result in this penalty.
- Also, getting Venice resulted in Germany becoming angry at me from the start, saying 'You have killed a city state under their protection!'.
- Quite a lot of conquest going on actually. Amsterdam is English, France is Spanish, Germany is Byzantine and Spanish. I played quite peacefully, but had I chose to do the opposite I wouldn't be the odd one out.