Blue Monkey
Archon Without Portfolio
Game Mechanics:
ITEM ONE: Science is advancing at quite a clip. Every 2-3 turns I get at least two of the “year” techs and at least 2 of the techs in the line I am researching, sometimes as many as four.

ITEM TWO: The upgrade sequence Worker > Engineer > Siege Engineer: I don’t understand why the Engineer can’t build roads among other things. The Siege Engineer seems to have even fewer abilities. And only very occasionally a city will be able to build a worker. It seems usually to be a city that is not connected by road to my heartland.

ITEM THREE: The Phalanx upgrades to Argyaspedes which does not have “army” functions; once I was able to build Argyaspedes no more Phalanxes seem to appear via the Alexander’s Leadership wonder. EDIT: That last is not true - I miscounted the turns; I just got a new Phalanx. The point remains that an army should upgrade to an army.

ITEM FOUR: You’ve got two terrain types without entries in the ‘pedia - Cedars and Passes. Apparently nothing can build a road through a pass. And check out the graphic I found for one square of Cedar.

ITEM FIVE: There’s what I perceive as a problem with the relative costs for city improvements. for example the research related buildings.
Library.................80 shields.....1 gp maint......+50% research
but
Mithra’s Temple.....40 shields.....1 gp...............+50%
Apollo’s Temple.....30 shields.....1 gp...............+50%....+1 happy face
Minerva’s Temple...30 shields.....0 gp..............+50%
I can build Mithra & Apollo (in the same city) for less than the cost of an
Academy..............120 shields....1 gp..............+50%
ITEM SIX: I don’t understand the mechanics of how to use the Potential Brides; do I keep them in place until they become Heirs? Do I move them to a particular location (and if so where)?
ITEM SEVEN: So far as I know, only the Statue, Theater, and Ampitheater add culture. Is that your intent?
Game Aesthetics
ITEM EIGHT: I remember the daughter with “great tracts of land” in Monty Python and the Holy Grail. Is this guy a tribute to her?

ITEM ONE: Science is advancing at quite a clip. Every 2-3 turns I get at least two of the “year” techs and at least 2 of the techs in the line I am researching, sometimes as many as four.

ITEM TWO: The upgrade sequence Worker > Engineer > Siege Engineer: I don’t understand why the Engineer can’t build roads among other things. The Siege Engineer seems to have even fewer abilities. And only very occasionally a city will be able to build a worker. It seems usually to be a city that is not connected by road to my heartland.

ITEM THREE: The Phalanx upgrades to Argyaspedes which does not have “army” functions; once I was able to build Argyaspedes no more Phalanxes seem to appear via the Alexander’s Leadership wonder. EDIT: That last is not true - I miscounted the turns; I just got a new Phalanx. The point remains that an army should upgrade to an army.

ITEM FOUR: You’ve got two terrain types without entries in the ‘pedia - Cedars and Passes. Apparently nothing can build a road through a pass. And check out the graphic I found for one square of Cedar.

ITEM FIVE: There’s what I perceive as a problem with the relative costs for city improvements. for example the research related buildings.
Library.................80 shields.....1 gp maint......+50% research
but
Mithra’s Temple.....40 shields.....1 gp...............+50%
Apollo’s Temple.....30 shields.....1 gp...............+50%....+1 happy face
Minerva’s Temple...30 shields.....0 gp..............+50%
I can build Mithra & Apollo (in the same city) for less than the cost of an
Academy..............120 shields....1 gp..............+50%
ITEM SIX: I don’t understand the mechanics of how to use the Potential Brides; do I keep them in place until they become Heirs? Do I move them to a particular location (and if so where)?
ITEM SEVEN: So far as I know, only the Statue, Theater, and Ampitheater add culture. Is that your intent?
Game Aesthetics
ITEM EIGHT: I remember the daughter with “great tracts of land” in Monty Python and the Holy Grail. Is this guy a tribute to her?
