[DLL] (9-NS) Dutch Polder yield change and water build requirements

[stormfallen]

Current Polder:

• Unlocks at Guilds
• Land: requires marsh
• Water: requires at least three adjacent land tiles
• 1 Food, 2 Production, 2 Gold
• +1 Culture at Chemistry
• +1 Production, 2 Gold at Economics

Proposed water Polder (changed bolded, removals struckthrough):

• Unlocks at Guilds
• Land: requires marsh
• Water: requires one of the following:
  
  • At least three adjacent land tiles
  • At least two adjacent land tiles AND at least one Polder
  • At least one adjacent land tile AND at least two Polders
  • (Land Polders on the coast shouldn't count their tile as two tiles for adjacency requirements)
• 1
  
  Food, 2
  
  Production, 2
  
  Gold
• +1
  
  Culture at Chemistry
• +1 Culture, 1
  
  Gold at Economics
• +1
  
  Production,
  
  Gold at Corporations

Polders are rather hard to build on many maps. If they're gonna act like pesudo-land tiles, we might as well let them be pseudo-land tiles for themselves. 3-Polder adjacency not included as that could probably get a little too silly, though if someone wants to modmod it to try that'd be cool.
Chemistry isn't even a tech that requires Guilds, it's weird to have a Polder boost there. I'm also not a fan of having the unlock and both tech boosts be within three tech tiers of each other. The Netherlands could probably use a bit of a nerf (though really we should get rid of their turn 1 culture), and pushing the production and gold back is a light tap.

 

[paul_soryu]

Just noting that effectively this will allow them to eventually be built on all Coast tiles, except the last 3 tiles of (at least) 2-tile-long land appendixes. Given that you have 3 land tiles to build the first one. Land tiles with 3 adjacent Water tiles ("edges") will stop the spread in one direction.

 

[stormfallen]

They're still blocked by resources, and you can have coast tiles with no adjacent land.

 

[paul_soryu]

That's true, forgot about resources.

 

[pineappledan]

Having a mixed adjacency prerequisite like this is a big lift.
I would rather explore Polder's other build requirement -- marshes -- for how we might get more of them on the field.

 

[azum4roll]

I think we should just allow them on resources instead.

 

[Recursive]

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