My attitude is to accept whatever the closest thing is to the game without changes, except where those settings are visibly disruptive in some way that can be shown objectively. I've argued Defender Withdraw upsets the game in a severe way (and mistakenly said I would play /with/ it in my last post, sorry). I have plenty of opinions about what I like or not about other settings, but I'll bear any variance on them according to the taste of you guys. Plus, there is something to be said about growing to like any setting that is not preferable at first blush, and coping with the strangeness itself as the world unfolds within the game.
Resource Depletion appears to be odd, but no option I've seen has me a reason to make a fuss over it as much as Defender Withdraw, so I've confined my request to there. However my preference not to change things is not actually a demand I"m making
not to change things, so I accept removing Battlefield Promotions.
So Alvarez, perhaps what you really want to ask is, how much do you care about the settings in the mod? Would you appreciate experiencing the mod's features and innovations in an unfiltered way? I mean, perhaps your original intuition was treating you right, and your broad (big picture) and superficial (low-resolution, abstracted) expectation about the settings is what you, indeed, want to get out of the game session we will play. It attracted you to sign up and commit, and even now, your own assessment of its importance to you is qualified with the word 'maybe'.
This post archives 1.75 features, plus the mod explains itself when it is running.
http://forums.civfanatics.com/showpost.php?p=8693683&postcount=2
The features mentioned are difficult to test by experience since they come into play over spans of time. I'm indifferent to them, though if someone can see a problem with one that I can't, that's certainly something I will give attention to. I played a bunch of games and blitzed through stuff since I found this thread just to look at the mod's behaviour (I didn't look past the ancient era); Battlefield Promotions appear to be some promotions that are granted with a random chance (but rather likely) and depend on unit's location, as though the unit learns something about fighting in such terrain. When you combine it with the mod's use of the tech tree to unlock promotion branches, it has a fair chance of being a fair power progression - enough that I didn't argue to discard it outright. But I am happy in some ways to remove it.
Terrain damage and resource depletion I've got nothing to say - the documentation and tests you can run speak for themselves.
