I wanted to make a post somewhere that describes my reasoning behind the changed I introduced in LOR tweaks. If you disagree with any change I have made let me know by posting on the form thread for this mod at
http://forums.civfanatics.com/showthread.php?t=453180
or in this thread. If you make a good case and I agree with you I will likely change it.
Reasoning behind changes Introduced:
Pillage your own roads: Just a nice feature should have been in vanilla BTS
Civilization culture no longer vanishes once their last city is captured:
Previously when you destroyed the last city of an enemy empire all of their culture magically disappeared. Due to the
importance of culture on revolutions this makes complete and total destruction of an enemy empire the only optimal way
to play. Making a defeated state a vassal is not a competitive strategy nor is capturing part of an enemy empire and
then making peace. Furthermore, once wiped out the defeated enemy is added back into the list of possible revolution
civilizations so they can pop back up on the other half of the world hundreds of years after they are defeated.
When they do all of a sudden their culture will magically reappear in all of your conquered cities causing unexpected
stability problems. Changing this makes conquering an enemy civ harder, and allows for alternative strategies
like vassal states.
Hereditary Rule Cap: Most people don't realize it but currently monarchy is far and away the best government civic.
By destroying your own access to metal, building tons of cheap warriors for unlimited happiness and then trading your
happiness producing resources for health resources you can get your city populations to size 20+ in the early game
while the AI is still limited to a population of 10 or so. The warriors created stability will also solve any revolution
issues you may have as well as contribute to your overall army strength calculation which makes the AI less likely to
attack you. This makes winning the game trivial even on deity.
Start as Minors tech bonues. Start as Minors is in my opinion supposed to be more challenging then the normal game. Restoring the standard high difficult bonuses to this game option makes it so.
New World Changes: The new world is quite fun, it gives you the opportunity to fight some primitive cultures and
wipe them out or help them as needed. However, as initially implemented way too many very small civs formed each with
only 1-3 cities. They would also never have any real chance of catching up or competing in the game.
Revolutions Scaled Stability Bonus: Currently revolutions make the game much easier. This is because human players
are much better at avoiding them and thus they mostly penalize the AI. The scaled stability bonus gives the AI a
relative stability bonus of 20% on Deity difficulty level somewhat correcting for this.
Barbarian Nomads: Are weak at a strength of 3. By increasing their strength to 5 they challenge the player and
make for a more interesting game.
Battering Rams: With a bombard rate of 6% they were better at removing city defenses then catapults which cost more
and come significantly later. Also with a max damage of only 20% they almost never die. In short they are simply
overpowered as initially implemented
Trebuchets: had a higher bombard rate at 14% then Bombards which come later. Reducing this to 10% make the siege line scale appropriately.
Pikemen city attack penalty removed: As pikemen make poor city attacker relative to heavy footmen this penalty was unnecessary.
Knights given bonus versus melee: Knights as originally implemented are completely trumped by both elephants
and pikemen both of which come earlier and cost less. They also dont have access to city raider making them poor
city attackers compared to heavy footmen which left them with no role in the game. Giving them a +20 bonus verses
melee makes them dominate for a brief time in combat outside cities while still leaving them trumped by elephants
and equally matched by pikemen.
Knights given penalty when attacking or defending cities: For balance given their melee bonus this penalty
gives pikemen the upper hand when they defend cities.
Musketmen given a city defense bonus: Musketmen are weak in LOR. They come later in the game now with the
addition of the musket tech but their strength is still only 9. A city defense boost would make them a more viable
unit better.
Special Forces now the only unit that can achieve a 100% withdraw rate: In base LOR it is possible to make 100% withdraw explorers and use these units to farm more great generals as they never die. This mechanic is broken. Now only a single unit type Special Forces and the Legend SAS can achieve a 100% withdraw rates.
Guerilla III promation rate changes: LOR adds 25% hill attack and defense to the Guerilla line making it somewhat overpowered. By reducing the withdraw rate to 20% we balance that added strength while simultaneously dealing with the 100% problem.
Woodsmen III promotion changes: LOR adds 25% forest defense and 50% forest attack to the Woodsmen line. This makes Woodsmen III overpowered and allows a stack of woodsmen III units to decimate AI armies without any losses. Reducing the first strikes by 1 and the heal rate slightly balances this added strength.
Pathfinder upgrade changes: Necessary to prevent 100% withdraw cavalry.
Privateers production costs: Restored to base BTS costs as these were slightly overpowered at the lower production.
Leonardos Workshop decreased in cost: Nice new wonder, but pretty expensive for what it does.
Great Lighthouse cost increased: This is one of the best wonder in the game as long as you are on the coast but
is cheap to build compared to the other wonders.
Trafalgar square whale bonus removed. Moved to military tradition as military science is was already very good. Trafalgar square is an amazingly good wonder. Probably too good to be build-able for half price. It fits well with the other military buildings at military tradition.
Swaping bonuses of Shwedagon Paya and Pyramids: Pyramids allow you to switch to representation very early in the game.
This lets your cities grow much larger than they would normally at this point. They also removes any stability worries
and give extra research from specialist. Costs and bonus of the pyramids are switched with that of the Schwedagon Pagoda
This pushes back unlock all government civics option to aesthetics instead of masonry and also gives the religion line an
early boost which it needs because it is under powered at the moment.
And as an attack sub it's going to sink any ship..
As summary LoR is really good mod and i can't say a bad word if its played with marathon speed and basic early start. But the games in BTS were usually won after first big war and i'd like to fight also with modern era troops 
That's the biggest reason why i wanted mod with stability.
