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Players, please cast your votes in the poll above. Vote "Yea" for every proposal you'd be okay with if it were implemented. Vote "Nay" if you'd be okay if these proposals weren't implemented. You can vote for any number of options.
All votes are public. If you wish, you can discuss your choice(s) in the thread below. You can change your vote as many times as you want until the poll closes.
Host Note: Proposals 7-26 and 7-26a are mutually exclusive, but either can be passed along with 7-27 or 7-27a (which are also mutually exclusive).
VP Congress: Session 7, Proposal 26
Discussion Thread: (7-26) Buff The Tradition Scaler
Proposer: @pineappledan
Sponsor: @pineappledan
Proposal Details
Current Tradition scaler:
+1
Science in the Capital and +3% 
Growth in all cities for each Tradition Policy adopted
In total the tree gives +20% Growth in all cities: +15% from all scalers, and +5% on the Opener
Proposed Tradition scaler:
+1 Science in the Capital and +5% Growth in all cities for each Tradition Policy adopted
In total the tree gives +30% Growth in all cities: +25% from all scalers, and +5% on the Opener
Rationale:
The current scaler is weak. It's possibly the worst scaler of any policy tree.
Tradition is generally considered weak, and while boosting the scaler's power is not a silver bullet, it's current weakness is at least a contributing factor.
Tradition used to have +5% growth on the scaler, but was lowered to 3% years ago. This was in a time when Tradition was considered more competitive, and we were looking for ways to manage unhappiness. Tradition is now much less competitive and Unhappiness is much more lenient, but this nerf was never reverted.
Tradition lacks many useful bonuses outside of the capital. The global growth bonus is one of the few abilities it grants on empire. Strengthening it will allow Tradition satellite cities to grow faster.
VP Congress: Session 7, Proposal 26a
Discussion Thread: (7-26a) Change Tradition and Fealty Growth and Food Scalers
Proposer: @hokath
Sponsor: @hokath
Proposal Details
Current: As 7-26 explains, the growth scaler on Tradition is weak. It was nerfed due to conditions that are no longer present and should be reverted.
However, it is also weak because %growth is fairly useless in the early stages of the game when food outputs are low. In return it scales later on.
Proposal:
Tradition gets +1 food in all cities instead of growth on the scaler. The opener 5% growth is removed and the +2 food in capital is increased to +3.
Fealty loses +1 food in all cities on the scaler. Instead it gains +1 faith. (edit: the combat strength is not changed) The +3 faith per city following your religion on the finisher is changed to +3 gold (it is currently +3
).
Thoughts:
+1 food on the Tradition scaler is great for the early Tradition game because it allows you to immediately work tiles like Hills or Plains that you usually have to wait to be able to use.
Later, it helps with working that first specialist slot. Overall this will push Tradition to be stronger early, and cut down on the scaling power later. The lasting impact of the tree remains its GPP bonuses.
The change to Fealty is approximately a neutral swap of yields (5 food for 2 faith and 3 gold), and shouldn't impact the balance a great deal. You will get more faith, earlier, which I think will be welcome for the religious fanatics amongst us.
VP Congress: Session 7, Proposal 27
Discussion Thread: (7-27) Buff Fealty Policies Organized Religion and Divine Right
Proposer: @hokath
Sponsor: @Recursive
Proposal Details
Current: Fealty has some policies that are rather left behind.
Divine Right has -2 boredom and 25% of happiness converted to culture in each city. A fairly boring (ha ha) bonus that gives fairly tame yields with the modern happiness numbers.
Organized Religion has 50% passive pressure from your cities under your religion against other religions' cities (wordy bonus but makes sense I think), and +1 faith from specialists.
Proposal:
Divine Right becomes:
-1 boredom,
50% of happiness to Culture and 50% of happiness to Tourism,
"Settling a City or Capturing a City triggers an Historic Event"
notes: 1) the boredom to -1 is to balance the additional yields from happiness conversion. 2) The strength of the historic event would be the same as new era from the palace.
Organized Religion gains "+1 gold for every 5 followers of your majority religion in the world"
Discussion: Clearly this is a straight up buff to Fealty. Personally I am of the opinion that Fealty is not as strong as Statecraft or Artistry, though clearly there are many caveats to that. I think these changes would strengthen Fealty in areas where a player wanting to make the most of Religion might want to go, rather than just cranking up some numbers that everyone would enjoy. In the case of the Divine Right happiness conversion I do think this is justified because of how low the numbers are, but if someone convinces me otherwise I'm happy to scratch that part. A +gold for followers option was a nostalgic nod to the CivIV religion mechanic, where you could turn Great Prophet into great profit (ageless joke).
VP Congress: Session 7, Proposal 27a
Discussion Thread: (7-27a) Fealty - Alternate Rework For Organized Religion and Divine Right (+Serfdom)
Proposer: @azum4roll
Sponsor: @azum4roll
Proposal Details
Current Divine Right:
25% of
Happiness produced in each City is added to the City's Culture per Turn.
-2
Unhappiness from Boredom in all Cities.
Current Organized Religion:
Emit +50% Pressure from Cities with your Primary Religion as your Majority Religion to all nearby Cities without your Primary Religion.
+1 Faith from Specialists.
Current Serfdom:
+1 Culture in Cities for every 4 non-Specialist 
Citizens.
+2 Production and +1 
Gold from Pastures.
+33% Yields from Internal
Trade Routes.
Problems:
Proposed Divine Right:
+33% Yields from Internal Trade Routes.
Completing an Internal Trade Route also triggers a Historic Event as if completing an International Trade Route.
-1 Unhappiness from Boredom in all Cities.
Note:
The Historic Event is the same type as International Trade Route to other major civs (land/sea).
Currently, completing an International Trade Route adds full influence to the target civ, and 1/3 of the influence to every other civ.
With the new Divine Right, completing an Internal Trade Route would add 1/3 of the influence to every civ (since it counts as completing a Trade Route to yourself).
This does NOT mean AI will get an extra trigger of difficulty yields when they complete an Internal Trade Route, unless a future proposal adds an Internal Trade Route completion historic event, or includes Internal Trade Route completion in the existing Trade Route completion historic events.
Rationale:
Removing the useless component and moving the ITR bonuses from Serfdom here. This policy is now for those who want to go for a Cultural Victory, but don't have a good (external) trade partner.
Proposed Organized Religion:
Cities with your Primary Religion as the Majority Religion emits +25% Religious Pressure.
+1 Delegate for every 10 Cities following your Primary Religion.
+2 Culture from Shrines and Temples.
Note:
You don't have to be a founder to benefit from extra delegates. This is also grouped into Religious Authority, and should be added to the number from the reformation building before rounding.
e.g. Reformed founder with Organized Religion and 15 cities following the religion gets floor(15/10 + 15/10) = 3 delegates from Religious Authority, not 2.
Rationale:
Now this actually helps you defend your primary religion (while attacking at the same time). Percentage is lowered since this works on every city in range instead of only those not following your religion.
If you want to go for diplomatic victory and have a strong religion, Fealty can also be a choice.
Culture from Shrines and Temples is to replace the lost happiness to culture conversion (and is buffed).
Implementation Details:
You don't need to have the Holy City to benefit from Religious Authority, so the check in CvPlayer::TestFaithToVotes() needs to be changed.
It doesn't matter right now, so I don't know why there was a check of Holy City ownership to begin with.
Proposed Serfdom:
+1 Culture and Faith in Cities for every 4 non-Specialist Citizens.
+2 Production and +1 Gold from Pastures.
Rationale:
Instead of putting yields on both specialists and non-specialists, this gives a non-specialist focus on the Fealty tree, which differs from the other two Medieval trees.
The Faith is moved here to compensate for the loss of ITR yields.
Players, please cast your votes in the poll above. Vote "Yea" for every proposal you'd be okay with if it were implemented. Vote "Nay" if you'd be okay if these proposals weren't implemented. You can vote for any number of options.
All votes are public. If you wish, you can discuss your choice(s) in the thread below. You can change your vote as many times as you want until the poll closes.
Host Note: Proposals 7-26 and 7-26a are mutually exclusive, but either can be passed along with 7-27 or 7-27a (which are also mutually exclusive).
VP Congress: Session 7, Proposal 26
Discussion Thread: (7-26) Buff The Tradition Scaler
Proposer: @pineappledan
Sponsor: @pineappledan
Proposal Details
Current Tradition scaler:
+1
Science in the Capital and +3% Growth in all cities for each Tradition Policy adoptedIn total the tree gives +20%
Growth in all cities: +15% from all scalers, and +5% on the OpenerProposed Tradition scaler:
+1
Science in the Capital and +5% Growth in all cities for each Tradition Policy adoptedIn total the tree gives +30%
Growth in all cities: +25% from all scalers, and +5% on the OpenerRationale:
The current scaler is weak. It's possibly the worst scaler of any policy tree.
Tradition is generally considered weak, and while boosting the scaler's power is not a silver bullet, it's current weakness is at least a contributing factor.
Tradition used to have +5% growth on the scaler, but was lowered to 3% years ago. This was in a time when Tradition was considered more competitive, and we were looking for ways to manage unhappiness. Tradition is now much less competitive and Unhappiness is much more lenient, but this nerf was never reverted.
Tradition lacks many useful bonuses outside of the capital. The global growth bonus is one of the few abilities it grants on empire. Strengthening it will allow Tradition satellite cities to grow faster.
VP Congress: Session 7, Proposal 26a
Discussion Thread: (7-26a) Change Tradition and Fealty Growth and Food Scalers
Proposer: @hokath
Sponsor: @hokath
Proposal Details
Current: As 7-26 explains, the growth scaler on Tradition is weak. It was nerfed due to conditions that are no longer present and should be reverted.
However, it is also weak because %growth is fairly useless in the early stages of the game when food outputs are low. In return it scales later on.
Proposal:
Tradition gets +1 food in all cities instead of growth on the scaler. The opener 5% growth is removed and the +2 food in capital is increased to +3.
Fealty loses +1 food in all cities on the scaler. Instead it gains +1 faith. (edit: the combat strength is not changed) The +3 faith per city following your religion on the finisher is changed to +3 gold (it is currently +3
).Thoughts:
+1 food on the Tradition scaler is great for the early Tradition game because it allows you to immediately work
tiles like Hills or Plains that you usually have to wait to be able to use.Later, it helps with working that first specialist slot. Overall this will push Tradition to be stronger early, and cut down on the scaling power later. The lasting impact of the tree remains its GPP bonuses.
The change to Fealty is approximately a neutral swap of yields (5 food for 2 faith and 3 gold), and shouldn't impact the balance a great deal. You will get more faith, earlier, which I think will be welcome for the religious fanatics amongst us.
Spoiler Why not just swap scalers? :
VP Congress: Session 7, Proposal 27
Discussion Thread: (7-27) Buff Fealty Policies Organized Religion and Divine Right
Proposer: @hokath
Sponsor: @Recursive
Proposal Details
Current: Fealty has some policies that are rather left behind.
Divine Right has -2 boredom and 25% of happiness converted to culture in each city. A fairly boring (ha ha) bonus that gives fairly tame yields with the modern happiness numbers.
Organized Religion has 50% passive pressure from your cities under your religion against other religions' cities (wordy bonus but makes sense I think), and +1 faith from specialists.
Proposal:
Divine Right becomes:
-1 boredom,
50% of happiness to Culture and 50% of happiness to Tourism,
"Settling a City or Capturing a City triggers an Historic Event"
notes: 1) the boredom to -1 is to balance the additional yields from happiness conversion. 2) The strength of the historic event would be the same as new era from the palace.
Organized Religion gains "+1 gold for every 5 followers of your majority religion in the world"
Discussion: Clearly this is a straight up buff to Fealty. Personally I am of the opinion that Fealty is not as strong as Statecraft or Artistry, though clearly there are many caveats to that. I think these changes would strengthen Fealty in areas where a player wanting to make the most of Religion might want to go, rather than just cranking up some numbers that everyone would enjoy. In the case of the Divine Right happiness conversion I do think this is justified because of how low the numbers are, but if someone convinces me otherwise I'm happy to scratch that part. A +gold for followers option was a nostalgic nod to the CivIV religion mechanic, where you could turn Great Prophet into great profit (ageless joke).
Spoiler Other options that didn't make the cut: :
VP Congress: Session 7, Proposal 27a
Discussion Thread: (7-27a) Fealty - Alternate Rework For Organized Religion and Divine Right (+Serfdom)
Proposer: @azum4roll
Sponsor: @azum4roll
Proposal Details
Current Divine Right:
25% of
Happiness produced in each City is added to the City's Culture per Turn.-2
Unhappiness from Boredom in all Cities.Current Organized Religion:
Emit +50% Pressure from Cities with your Primary Religion as your Majority Religion to all nearby Cities without your Primary Religion.
+1
Faith from Specialists.Current Serfdom:
+1
Culture in Cities for every 4 non-Specialist Citizens.+2
Production and +1 Gold from Pastures.+33% Yields from Internal
Trade Routes.Problems:
- 25% -> is not useful. If you get 11 Happiness in a city, it only translates to +2 Culture due to rounding.
- -2 Boredom sounds like it would help the conversion ability, but no, it only affects unhappiness.
- The weird +pressure to foreign cities NOT following your religion is what causes religion neutrality in the late game. Nothing organized about it.
- Fiefdoms and Serfdom carry the tree. There's no reason not to pick those first before the other two branches.
Proposed Divine Right:
+33% Yields from Internal
Trade Routes.Completing an Internal Trade Route also triggers a Historic Event as if completing an International Trade Route.
-1
Unhappiness from Boredom in all Cities.Note:
The Historic Event is the same type as International Trade Route to other major civs (land/sea).
Currently, completing an International Trade Route adds full influence to the target civ, and 1/3 of the influence to every other civ.
With the new Divine Right, completing an Internal Trade Route would add 1/3 of the influence to every civ (since it counts as completing a Trade Route to yourself).
This does NOT mean AI will get an extra trigger of difficulty yields when they complete an Internal Trade Route, unless a future proposal adds an Internal Trade Route completion historic event, or includes Internal Trade Route completion in the existing Trade Route completion historic events.
Rationale:
Removing the useless component and moving the ITR bonuses from Serfdom here. This policy is now for those who want to go for a Cultural Victory, but don't have a good (external) trade partner.
Proposed Organized Religion:
Cities with your Primary Religion as the Majority Religion emits +25% Religious Pressure.
+1 Delegate for every 10 Cities following your Primary Religion.
+2
Culture from Shrines and Temples.Note:
You don't have to be a founder to benefit from extra delegates. This is also grouped into Religious Authority, and should be added to the number from the reformation building before rounding.
e.g. Reformed founder with Organized Religion and 15 cities following the religion gets floor(15/10 + 15/10) = 3 delegates from Religious Authority, not 2.
Rationale:
Now this actually helps you defend your primary religion (while attacking at the same time). Percentage is lowered since this works on every city in range instead of only those not following your religion.
If you want to go for diplomatic victory and have a strong religion, Fealty can also be a choice.
Culture from Shrines and Temples is to replace the lost happiness to culture conversion (and is buffed).Implementation Details:
You don't need to have the Holy City to benefit from Religious Authority, so the check in CvPlayer::TestFaithToVotes() needs to be changed.
It doesn't matter right now, so I don't know why there was a check of Holy City ownership to begin with.
Proposed Serfdom:
+1
Culture and Faith in Cities for every 4 non-Specialist Citizens.+2
Production and +1 Gold from Pastures.Rationale:
Instead of putting yields on both specialists and non-specialists, this gives a non-specialist focus on the Fealty tree, which differs from the other two Medieval trees.
The
Faith is moved here to compensate for the loss of ITR yields.
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