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Upon conquering and placing the city in puppet state, I noticed a precipitous drop in happiness, way beyond I expected. This occurred late in a cultural game, having completed and obtained the finishers for Liberty, Freedom, Commerce, Knowledge and Patronage thus far. What seems to have...

A gifted Great Prophet from Freedom - Immigration spawns without a religion and can only found a holy site. Probably a limitation of the way religion is set up in the base game, though.

Also, as an FYI, once you meet a city state, a similar error occurs at line 342 in IGE_CityBanner.lua. GetCityStateStatus throws an error message. elseif owner:IsMinorCiv() then local strShortDescKey = owner:GetCivilizationShortDescriptionKey(); local bWar =...

Although probably not possible without the SDK, but I think it would be interesting if the type of Great Person gave some kind of flavor to the Golden Age. For example maybe something like Great Merchant: +x :c5gold: per Merchant specialist during Golden Age Great Engineer: +x :c5production...

Maybe combine the two a little? +x :) per Monument, +x :) for the National Epic (Arc de Triomphe flavor). Makes the policy a little organic. Gives a little something to both larger and smaller empires.

I can relate. :)

This is true, it opens up a few more options. The aforementioned "American Dream" mod, for example, replaced America's trait to +1 bonus gold and culture per specialist. That would have been impossible with the current possible base trait parameters.

The only other way I've seen is kind of gaming the system, if you'll pardon the expression. The "American Dream" mod, for example, does its thing by silently making a UB out of the Palace for that civ with the "trait" abilities, but it makes things awkward by having two entries for "Palace"...

Along the same lines as immigration benefits from Wonders and Policies, there could also be Unique Abilities which act as an influence. For example, America could have "Manifest Destiny" replaced with "Melting Pot" considering how immigrants are explicitly mentioned in their Dawn of Man intro.

Excellent mod! Any plans for future versions to have emigration mitigated or immigration enhanced by Social Policies or Wonders? For example: Statue of Liberty Happiness is considered at greatly increased value to potential immigrants. Citizens may emigrate to owning civilization if homeland...

I was thinking of changing a trait bonus lua to be based on how many tiles the civ controls or, failing that, getting the portion of the score granted from controlled territory. I was looking to see if it was possible through lua, but so far, it seems like something that might have to wait for...

Since you aren't supposed to be able to raze the capitals of other civs, that might have to be the one exception that could still be made a puppet.

Actually, the movement bonus gets lost with Mech Infantry. It's kept from Minuteman through Riflemen and Infantry.

I buy tiles at a choke point or to chain city territories together to pen other civs in. Not enough time for a monument and waiting to culture to grab tiles in some situations. If another civ plonks a city down close to me, I'll buy tiles to keep that city from growing in my direction and...

Once the mod tools come out, I'm considering tweaking America to drop the unique bomber and have something that fits more with the Manifest Destiny theme, maybe either a Frontiersman (unique settler) or Hardy Pioneer (unique worker, Colonization referece).