Better Balanced Game 1.5.2

Patch 1.5.2 Civilizations

• Mississippi - Burning Arrows -2 combat strength
• Rome - Legions +2 cs per tradition from +1
• Persia - Civilization Bonus +3 from +5
• Carthage - Gaulos to 100% from 25%
• Carthage - Quinquereme to 100% from 25%
• Carthage - Suffetes to 100% from 20%

Memento

• Warclub - 0.5 cs per city state from 1

Patch 1.5 Beta​

Leaders

• Ibn: +1 wildcard attribute at the start of an era, +2 when you research the first civic.
• Jose: +1 to all stats in settlements during a celebration
• Napoleon emperor: to +16 gold
• Simon: +2 War Support
• Xerxes King: Down to 50 gold / culture when capturing a settlement
• Hatshepsut: Urban resources receive +1 gold / +1 culture if on or adjacent to a river or navigable river (ie the actual resource tile)
• Isabella: Reverted gold reduction on finding wonders, back to base game

Civilizations
Khmer

• Amnach (second unique civic): +1 settlement limit
• Chakravarti (third unique civic): +50% growth rate in the Capital. -2 Happiness in every other city. (From -5 happiness in every other city)
• Chakravarti mastery (Third Unique civic): +1 prod on specialists (tradition)

Greece

• Hoplites +3 combat strength vs cav
• Unique Quarter: +5 gold per city state from +2
• Symmachia (second unique civic): +5 culture per city state from +2

Egypt

• Riches of Duat (first unique civic): From +15% production towards wonders to land units receive +3 combat strength in friendly territory (tradition)
• Unique Quarter: Gains +25% production towards wonders

Espionage

• Steal Civic up to 60 influence to match steal tech

Spawn Bias broken up into T1-T4. Each Tier has a score associated to it.T1: 150 - T2: 75 - T3: 25 - T4: 10Civilizations

• Aksum T2 coastal
• Egypt T1 nav river + T4 Desert Bias
• Greece T2 rough terrain
• Han T4 Grasslands
• Khmer T1 Floodplain
• Maurya T4 Vegetation
• Maya T2 Vegetation + T3 Tropical
• Mississippia T3 River Bias + T4 Grasslands Bias
• Persia T4 Desert
• Rome T4 Grasslands
• Carthage T2 coastal

Leaders

• Amina T2 plains + T2 Dessert
• Ashoka T2 Bias Wine
• Catherine T1 Tundra
• Charlemange T4 Grasslands
• Confucius T4 River
• Hatshepsut T1 Nav River + T4 Desert
• Isabella T0 Wonders (highest bias)
• Jose t2 Bias Wine
• Pachacuti T1 Mountain Bias
• Xerxes T4 Desert
• Tubman T4 Vegetated
• Trung T3 Tropic + T4 Vegetated

Leaders or Civilizations not listed have no bias.

Patch 1.4.1​

Bug Fixes​

• shell-tempered pottery actually persists correctly through eras.
• Tech stealing now scales +60 per age, instead of being a flat 60 every age.
• Russian translations were not being applied as intended.
• Text fixes to several incorrect tooltips. (Pachacuti still not displaying on tooltip though )

Stability​

• Removed Maya changes in favor of Firaxis change.
• Removed several old memento changes that firaxis ended up implementing the same change (Seal for example).

A full list of changes will be maintained in this document

Dynamic Timers​

• Fast Dynamic Timer - 30s base
• Normal Dynamic Timer - 30s base

Leaders​

• Revert Machiavelli
• Isabella receives 75g when discovering a natural wonder. Doubled in distant lands.
• Reduce tech stealing nerf to 60 influence
• City State Memento reduced to +50 influence (Tecumseh nerf)
• Pacha changed to +1 science / +1 gold on quarters that are adjacent to at least one mountain
• Bug Fix: Persia's UI persists as +3 gold / +1 culture when transitioning ages

# Patch 1.3

## Dynamic Timers:
- Fast Dynamic Timer - 15s base - 5s per city - 1s per unit
- Normal Dynamic Timer - 20s Base - 5s per city - 3s per unit
- Firaxis Dynamic Timer - 30s base - 10s per city - 5s per unit
*Note: To enable the turn timers, you have to select dynamic turn from the timer settings, and then choose a advanced timer settings.*

## General Changes:
- Cities receive -1 happiness per negative war support (from -3)

## Civilizations:
### Maya
- Revert: Civ Civic Calendar Round +5% science or culture from finishing techs or civics (from +10%)

### Mauryan
- Nagarika base cost 50 production and 20 progression cost (from 60 and 30)
- Purabhettarah base movement 3 (from 2)

### Mississippian
- Revert: Civ Social Policy Shell-Tempered Pottery buildings receive +.5 gold adjacency from resources (from +1)
- Burning Arrow ranged combat 12 @ lvl 1 / 17 @ lvl 2 (from 15 / 20)

### Egypt
- Add new tradition usable in exploration and modern (after playing Egypt in antiquity) for +2 prod to navigable rivers

## Leaders
### Isabella
- Revert: Reduce bonus yield to 75% on natural wonder tiles (from 100%)

### Hatshepsut
- +1 culture / +1 gold from imported resources (from +1 culture)

## Influence
- Cost of Tech Steal espionage action increased to 75 influence (from 40)

Patch 1.2

LEADER CHANGES
Isabella
- Fixed an issue where Isabella was not receiving bonus yields from wonders. Tiles should now get the +75% yield.

Pachacuti
- Further increased spawn bias from a score of 20 to 100 to match Egypt's river bias
Note: I'm still figuring out the spawn bias formula, if you notice in most games you aren't getting mountain spawns please let me know.

MEMENTO CHANGES
Merchant's Saddle
- +1 sight and movement for settlers and merchants (From scouts, settlers and merchants)

Imago Mundi
- Scout's Search and Lookout abilities gain +2 sight. (From +3)

Civilization:

1. Aksum
   1. Revert “Civ Civic Periplus: +2 resource capacity on settlements adjacent to navigable rivers or coast”

Leaders

1. Machiavelli
   1. Revert “Remove +3 influence pre turn”
2. Tecumseh
   1. +2 food / +2 production per CS you are Suz of (from +1 food / +1 production)
3. Pachacuti
   1. +1 Food / +1 Production for buildings adjacent to mountains (from +1 food)
   2. Increased spawn bias for mountains
4. Both Frederick’s
   1. Free units don’t have a maintenance cost and have +5 combat strength
5. Isabella
   1. Remove bonus gold from discovering natural wonders
   2. Reduce bonus yield to 75% on natural wonder tiles (from 100%)
   3. Greatly increased spawn bias towards natural wonders
   4. Note: Goal is to make her more consistent and less high roll
6. Napoleon, Revolutionary
   1. Siege units receive +5 combat strength
   2. Note: Still working on a bonus for the other version of Napoleon

Mementos

1. Lydian Coin +50 gold per age at the start of an age (from +100)
2. Bifocals +15 influence when researching a tech or civic mastery (from +50)
3. Imago Mundi +2 sight instead of +1 for Scout's Search & Lookout abilities.(from +3)
4. Chalcedony Seal +1 culture / +1 gold Unique Buildings and Improvements if you have 3 or more Unique Buildings or Improvements (from +3 / +3)
5. Merchant's Saddle and Gold & Sapphire flowers to be determined in another patch