[Vote] (5-46) India Nerf

[azum4roll]

VP Congress: Session 5, Proposal 46

Current India's UA:
1. Starts with Pantheon
2. Great Prophets 35% cheaper

This roughly translates to 1 more Prophet over the game, and the first one comes earlier​

3. All owned cities convert when you found a Religion

Owned cities get 1000 pressure each​

4. Each follower of State Religion in an Indian city provides 1% Food and emits +1 Religious Pressure, if the State Religion is the Majority Religion of the city

Note that there's no bonus if the city isn't following the State Religion​

Pressure bonus is capped at +24, or 24 followers​

5. Cannot build Missionaries
6. Does not suffer from Religious Unrest

Proposed India's UA:
1. Starts with Pantheon
2. Great Prophets 35% cheaper

This roughly translates to 1 more Prophet over the game, and the first one comes earlier​

3. All owned cities convert when you found a Religion

Owned cities get 1000 pressure each​

4. Each follower of State Religion in an Indian city provides 1% Food and emits +0.6 Religious Pressure, scaling with game speed, if the State Religion is the Majority Religion of the city

Note that there's no bonus if the city isn't following the State Religion​

Pressure bonus is capped at +21, or 35 followers​

5. Cannot build Missionaries
6. Does not suffer from Religious Unrest

Rationale:
The scaling with game speed is there because slower game speeds have lower base pressure. This is an oversight fix.
The +1 pressure is widely considered too much and civs all over the world are overwhelmed by the Indian religion. The AI loves picking Orthodoxy too. +0.6 and the cap are old amounts, but now it's added on the base pressure.
They already don't suffer from Religious Unrest with their high pressure. Removing it saves some text space.

 

[pineappledan]

Why not 0.5 per follower, capping at 20 (40 followers)?

Much cleaner. Still stronger than the old 0.6 after modifiers.

 

[azum4roll]

Let's use the old numbers for now. That's what people are familiar with. Plus it's easier to think +10% than +0.5... wait what's the base value?

 

[pineappledan]

This is the kind of proposal that I would have tried to fast-track if I were a magi. It’s basically a ratification on a proposal that obviously missed the mark last session, we have a mountain of AI testing and player testimony backing up the balance issue at play. It would have been acceptable as a hotfix a month ago, imo.

 

[azum4roll]

I sponsor this.

 

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