jacktannery
Prince
a) And how do you suggest they balance the implied penalty to simply connecting resources... an action that is *clearly* meant to be a critical one to any successful strategy for any civ?
b) Honestly the idea that Ancient Forests are less productive in *any* way compared to normal forests is about as unintuitive an idea as I've seen so far. I just don't understand how a mature ecosystem could possibly provide less of anything to a society adapted to surviving in it.
Tsathoggu, I guess I expressed myself badly. My idea was following from Calvante's analysis, and his attempt to find 'a way to make elven cities SMALLER than other civs' As he says 'My proposition was complexe and (I appologize) almost unreadable as I tried to think of a way to 1) reduce elven ability to gather food ; 2) compensate for that in yield per pop'.
So my idea was in that vein: a way to reduce elven food tile WITHOUT the dreaded 3food/pop. I estimate it would reduce 4 food total from a forest city on average, which is hardly gimping.
As for part b, again I expressed myself badly. At present, forests are -1 food. I was simply suggesting that if it was ever decided to gove elves +1 food from forests (as discussed by Opera above) to counter this (thereby making forests 0 food modifiers for elves) that this by done on Normal as well as Ancient Forests (rather than instead of).
Hope that makes sense.