pineappledan
Deity
With the Great Wall wonder, there is already a precedent of abilities that obsolete. On the same tech, to boot (Assyrian siege tower obsoletes at gunpowder)
Siege towers' sapper ability stopping at Gunpowder could have been a decent counterproposal. Resolve this issue in the opposite direction. If people want to keep the siege tower around after their sapper ability turns off, they still are mobile medics at least. It would be new code, so it's more complex than just removing a obsoleting tech entirely, but it's something I would have favoured over allowing siege towers to be eternally useful as anti-city weapons.
re: the Khan not having a post-industrial model, that draws an equivalence between two things that are qualitatively very different. Men on horseback carrying a tug is still a standard ceremonial thing in today's modern Mongolian armed forces. A man on horseback in modern day doesn't stand out like a siege tower. Likewise, the combat effect they have, a leadership aura and a siege bonus, are also qualitatively different things, and a Khan providing inspiration and leadership to modern troops on horseback doesn't break immersion like a siege tower still providing a bonus vs cities in the modern era.
Siege towers' sapper ability stopping at Gunpowder could have been a decent counterproposal. Resolve this issue in the opposite direction. If people want to keep the siege tower around after their sapper ability turns off, they still are mobile medics at least. It would be new code, so it's more complex than just removing a obsoleting tech entirely, but it's something I would have favoured over allowing siege towers to be eternally useful as anti-city weapons.
re: the Khan not having a post-industrial model, that draws an equivalence between two things that are qualitatively very different. Men on horseback carrying a tug is still a standard ceremonial thing in today's modern Mongolian armed forces. A man on horseback in modern day doesn't stand out like a siege tower. Likewise, the combat effect they have, a leadership aura and a siege bonus, are also qualitatively different things, and a Khan providing inspiration and leadership to modern troops on horseback doesn't break immersion like a siege tower still providing a bonus vs cities in the modern era.
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