Better Suleiman!

[Evalis]

Current version is V.8 (Located on Modhub)

Update: Removed the dummy tech and replaced with dummy building instead. Edited AI to have a much lower war preference (including towards minor civs so he doesn't get warmonger hate) and aim towards stockpiling gold.

Balance feedback would be appreciated as well, but I'm pretty sure I went with a soft enough approach that his bonuses won't make him a no brainer choice. Err the traits are as follows: +1 gold per sea tile and 15% hurry discount.

Happy gaming =D

 

[Evalis]

Just hotfixed the palace not giving extra yeilds problem. Oy can't believe I missed that!

 

[Agent327]

Errr so it´s on mod hub?

 

[Evalis]

It's here now. Just for you . I mostly did this to see if there was some work around to our current editing limitations. And there was =D. Have fun dissecting. Let me know if you see anything I could have done better.

 

[Evalis]

Update: Replaced dummy tech with dummy building. This should also work with conquests now.

 

[Quetz]

nevermind

 

[eris23]

Isn't that a bit too powerful?
Arguably, the cheaper purchase price in itself might be too powerful, depending on how exactly it would stack with social policies...

 

[Evalis]

Playtest a game with it. I used the most broken map i could think of (duel archepelago) and didn't really find it that strong. The balancing factor is that the rush buy discount isn't that pronounced unless you can get out both big ben and mercantilism and those are late game techs. He needs something that helps him survive long enough to do that. It stacks in a linear fashion btw. The exponential benefit of this is 25% at mercantilism and 44% with both. Of course that only applies to extra money he makes each turn, which could be zero or it could be 200. With just mercantilism in the best case scenario this puts him at +50 gpt (on par with gandhi's happiness savings). With big ben too it becomes a whopping 90gpt, which might be too strong.. but again.. getting there isn't guaranteed and that's our best case scenario.

I'll probably work on his AI a bit to favor war less since he doesn't have anything going for him in that regard. Did you find it overpowered when you played? Did Ottoman as AI suddenly stomp everyone?