CIV 5 BNW: Improving Tundra

[AmericanDestiny]

Of the two terrains, deserts are vastly superior to tundra. This is IMHO the worst balancing issue with CIV 5 BNW. This bothers me so much, I was motivated enough to register on civfanatics. Firaxis should remedy this with the next patch. Here are my suggestions:

-Dance of the Aurora can now apply on Tundra with forests
-Petra-equivalent wonder: Wonder that increases food and production yields on all tundra tiles (including forests).

What do you think? Do you have other ideas to level the playing field?

 

[Redaxe]

Whilst I agree that tundra is a bad start the thing is that none of the great civilizations of the world thrived in tundra. Human civilization has always succeeded in more warmer temperate climates and deserts only because of rivers like the Nile and Euphrates.
I do think for gameplay purposes this can be improved by...
Making all the tundra biased civs like Denmark good at early warmongering so they can capture better terrain. That way civs from inhospitable terrain are predisposed to conquer better climates.
But I agree that tundra needs some help, perhaps another bonus resources, Arctic salmon found on coastal and inland river & lake tundra tiles
Technology based improvements/wonders. Transiberian railway as a railroad wonder for tundra cities. I would also suggest a bonus resource called 'thermal vent' on tundra tiles unlocked by a modern age tech which a worker can be consumed to create a geothermal power plant that gives a good production boost to the tile.

 

[GoStu]

I see the first reply beat me to the point: there's really no great historical Tundra civilization. It's the kind of terrain in both game and real life that you either fight your way out of, or are forced into because you have no other place to go. I know when I play as a Tundra biased civ, I am warring my way South (or North of I'm on the south pole) until I have somewhere better to live.

I only really settle cities in the tundra or snow when I want Oil up there. I frequently name crappy tundra towns like that Fort McMurray. (It's a Canadian thing)

EDIT: The one thing I might add is a Petra-like Wonder for a single tundra city. I'd make it much earlier than railroad though. Base it off of the Althing (a continuous government from the year 930). Make it add 1 Food and 1 Production to Tundra tiles. The point of it would be to make a Tundra capital (which you sort of have to settle for wherever you're put) into a capital that's strong in the mid and late game.