Does anyone else find that with the civic changes, Despotism is very underwhelming compared to Monarchy, which you can reach almost as quickly? Even when I get bronze working first, I find myself getting Monarchy as soon as possible because it's just so much better.
Despotism still has a high maintenance level, and high levels of unhappiness, with few, if any redeeming elements. Given the extremely close proximity between the two civ choices, Despotism is almost totally useless. Very rarely do I ever use it as a temporary stepping stone between Chiefdom and Monarchy; and only if the difficulty level is high enough that I need just one or two less unhappinesses in my cities.
The 30% more food needed for city growth is also a big deterrent from despotism in itself, especially if I'm still in tribalism when I get bronze working.
It's deliberate and was fixed in the last couple of days. You can't work peaks within your city cross until you figure out how to move through peaks. Kinda makes sense wouldn't you say?
Shut up about that! The AI is great savior when it offers over 9000 gold for a single technology when I have more than four to spare. I say it balances out considering that the AI pretty much NEVER trades technologies with me unless I have it 1 turn away from completing, or it's centuries overdue.
There's issues with the advanced start option (rev 459):
- building a city, and buying techs, then "regenerating map" allows you to keep the techs you bought
- techs previously bought before the map was regenerated (e.g., ceremonial burial) which founded a religion in your empire gives you the tech, but you don't have the religion anymore (nor the option of researching the tech, so that religion is unavailable to you).
What part of Despotism do you dislike compared to what of Monarchy do you like?
Munger,
hi, you can do this now if you like,
it require a bit work but not to problematic -
in the cciv4civicinfo.xml file - you got a tag that limits cities per player - its the first civic i think,
just set the number you want - and copy paste it to each and every civic in the file.
this will give you the limit you want.
its a really really simple thing to do - you can use notepad+ or winmerge they are both free.
have fun.
I noticed that the behavior when stack attacking another stack (without the game option enabled) is now different. After one battle the whole stack goes into "wait for next turn" mode and I have to reselect/wake the stack for the next attack. In the previous versions the stack stayed active minus the unit that ran the last attack (or including it if moves remained).
This seems more tedious to do, so is there a reason for this change ?
(Rev 460 is my current version)
@Breaker29,
Check the Civic Chiefdom. There lies your answer.
JosEPh