Yes i agree, back a few years ago it was harder than a bear to get things going. Zap hardly knew alot of python, nobody had any SDK/dll experience, etc.
Balance yes later. But still at the same time working on it, with improvements.
Garbage civics, i was thinking about this lately, and you are right you have to play alot harder trying to keep everything afloat, but what if "we" could move the civic to only START happening when you reach the Ancient Era? That way at least you'd have a fighting chance in the beginning rather than
this all the time
Infact i took out the Garbage civic just to see what would happen, and i had a waay better chance to progress.
Yes your vision is great, the ideas you are coming up with, well both you and DH are GREAT
, keep them coming.
I finally had a chance with the new tech tree to test it out, and i got only to the Ancient middle Era stuff and i was having a "Fun Time." FINALLY