First of all, I would like to commemerate you on the best mod I have ever encountered for a game. It's intuitive, and adds ten fold the content that BtS did. You are truly a great person
. The following are just
suggestions/refinements, I'm sorry if they sound critical. They would simply make this game all the better and cleaner.
Fixes/Minor/Infastructural Changes:
1. I have a problem with the automatic turns system which means that I can only fully automate my turns, instead of being allowed to simply idle for the set period of turns as well.
2. Rename the bonus resource "oil products" to "petro-chemicals" and possibly add hydrogen as a "virtual" resource (similar the synthetic rubber and the like, expect without quantity), one which is simply aquired if you have a coastal city in the modern age. It can be used for the fusion reactor, fusion bombs, clean private and public transport, all sorts of things. However, without immediate explanation of acquisition, it might cause over complications.
3. Rename the "Chemical Plant" national wonder to "Petro-Chemical Refinery/Plant".
Suggestions:
1. The requirement that a coastal city is owned to build a fusion reactor (or as mentioned earlier having hydrogen), as pure fusion requires hydrogen, and H2O is water, etc (At least the requirement of two/three ground water pumps).
2. The addition of a pure fusion bomb
, which doesn't deal fallout, but greatly increases the direct damage of the blast, instead of overtime damage and attrition, possibly requiring the ITER or a fusion reactor to be built first in order to trigger worldwide construction, similar to the Manhattan project.
3. The construction of airbases in your territory as a military improvement, planes can relocate to these positions to bomb and rearm and refuel there as well. (Maybe the fort could be revised as a military base instead?)
4. Please obsolete at least some ancient, classical and medieval units and buildings and wonders like the Forbidden Palace by the beginning of the modern era. The city building interface gets rather messy when you have triremes and slingers inbetween your nuclear bombs and airports. (Maybe they could be replaced by a single cheap and quick militia or conscript unit?) Also conduct a general clean up of all the world wonders, they are brilliant, but there are so many of them.
5. Could you add an unit/age bias for the turn automation AI? If you're in the Future era, you don't want to have your AI building bowmen when you only have time to build marines and tanks in your tight schedule for war.
6. I'd like to see the AI start actually building up a pre-war arsenal of nukes and bioweapons, and have oppressed nations and vassals do that sort of thing in a WW2 sort of scenario. It would be great.
7. A-bomber planes could be replaced by MOAB bombers later in the transhuman era as ICBMs become more readily avaliable. MOAB bombers are high damage moderate movement planes capable of delivering multiple high damage strikes in a single turn, with the added bonus of being reusable.
8. Stealth bombers/supersonic planes are half as likely to be shot down/have their attack neutralized by air defenses.
9. Desalination plants could be a high capacity modern version of a ground water pump on the coast that have triple the benefits of a groundwater pump, despite lowering income by one point in that region. They could be utilised as an improvement or coastal city building. They might be national wonders that boost food production for every food beneficial improvement in your territroy on that continent, or spread irrigation throughout your territory on that continent.
10. Replace the "Treasury" national wonder with just the "[Federal] Reserve Bank". You could use the treasure resource as an instant gold store bonus or if you are able to convert the gold bonus to production points.
I will now present you with a system of prerequisties you could use for several of the wonders that would organise and clean up the national wonders section of the city build menu. It would probably be incredibly tiresome to do this, and might restrict the players freedom. It's completely up to you.
Banks
Bank -> "[Federal] Reserve Bank" -> "Central Bank" + 3 banks -> Wall Street + International Monetary Fund + 5 Banks -> World Bank
Factories | = separated
Cement Mill/Brewery| Chemical -> Biofuel/Fertilizer/Rubber Plants| Aluminium Factory -> Filling Factory
Laboratories
2 Laboratories/Observatories -> Space Laboratory + Radio Telescope -> Deep Space Research Institute
Epics
Heroic Epic -> National Epic
You get the picture.
Awesome mod mate (I'm Australian mate, gotta encourage the stereotype mate) and it keeps getting better.
