[Vote] (3-18) Proposal: Royal Library generates as many Great Scientist Points as the School of Philosophy

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VP Congress: Session 3, Proposal 18

Spoiler School of Philosophy :

Cost: 125
Culture: 1
Science: 5
Great Scientist Points: 2
1 Great Work of Writing slot
Unlocked at Philosophy

+20% Science in the city during golden ages.
1 Specialist in this city no longer produces Unhappiness from urbanization.
-1 Unhappiness from illiteracy in all cities.
25 NationalPopRequired
Production cost and population requirement increase based on the number of Cities you own.

Spoiler Current Royal Library, with its special traits underlined :

Cost: 125
Culture: 3
Science: 5
Great Scientist Points: 1
3 Great Work of Writing slots
+3 if themed
Unlocked at Writing

Free Library in the City
Free The Flood Tablet (great work of writing)
+1 Science for every 2 Citizens in the city.
All Libraries produce +3 Science.
+5 experience to Units creates in any city (maximum of 45 xp) for every great work of writing you control.

+20% Science in the city during golden ages.
1 Specialist in this city no longer produces Unhappiness from urbanization.
-1 Unhappiness from illiteracy in all cities.
15 NationalPopRequired
Production cost and population requirement increase based on the number of Cities you own.

Proposal:

Assyria's UB (Royal Library) generates the same 2 Great Scientist Points as the School of Philosophy.

Rationale:

Assyria's UB currently generates one less Great Scientist Point than the national wonder it replaces. Which is weird for a civ that has a strong science flavor; no tradeoff is mentioned anywhere in its civilopedia text, and it isn't reasonable to think that one less GPP is intended to somehow counterbalance the large amount of special traits it has.

It is a minor thing on this civ, but one that feels bothersome to see for not having any clear purpose to be there; maybe it was just a buff to the School of Philosophy that someone forgot to apply to the Royal Library back then.

 

[DImensiondog]

I’ll sponsor this

 

[Recursive]

Proposal sponsored by DImensiondog.

 

[pineappledan]

This feels more like a bug fix that ought to be on github, rather than a change for congress.

 

[Recursive]

I'll allow it as either.

 

[Legen]

I actually prefer as a bugfix myself. I just proposed here in case it had a balance concern I'm not aware of.