Tigranes
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Thanks for your reply! Just like in Civ 4, your Civ 5 scenario is one of my most favorite! 
Missing Special Forces and terrorists, though...
Do you have any plans to include Coprporations or merge with existing Corporation modcomp? Kings ruled in older time, in our modern time Corporations have the true power, without them modern Earth feels as unrealistic as without modern military. I did play a game with your mod and Corporation mod together, I must say it turned out very nicely, I was happy to see that small Germany was able to build 1 Corporation, China stole 2 and my USA had 4, bringing me 1/6 of my income in the late game. Competition with Russia for the key City States like Sweden was very fierce -- outbidding influences got to 300s
, and extra cash from Corporations gave me an edge on Emperor difficulty. As it should. Russia is number one in land, China in population, but USA is number one in GDP and lion share of it comes from US Corporations. We need BIG business please! 
I am not sure if you are ever planning to update this scenario with any significant changes, but at least I hope we could fix some oddities which I will list in this thread gradually as I discover them:
1. My first observation is Missionary costs 1000
while initial Great Prophet 200. This makes me a little uncomfortable 
2. Also I hope there is a way to rename Pantheon to Religious current or Local Believes or something else corresponding to the modern nature of the scenario. Especially since Pantheon Believes are listed with the respect of the real life World Religions.
3. While we on this Messiah name/belief is more fitting to one of the Christianities than Hinduism, while World Church name more belongs to Catholicism than Judaism, but you can also simply rename it to Chosen People or something.
4. Egyptian UB should be really already present in Egyptian cities (or at least in Cairo) at the start of scenario. It feels odd to "build" Ancient Egyptian Burial Tomb as (Islamic) Arab Republic of Egypt. Pretty sad that UB does not contain automatic ancient work of art.
5. World really needs pre-placed works of art/writing/music
of different eras fitting to particular civ, as . I understand this can be a monumental task but in 2014 world does have Great Works of all the previous eras. Most civs can only realistically try to win via culture or diplomacy and artifacts alone do not reflect the rich cultural heritage of this planet.
6. Some civilizations where religion plays important role could be represented by few social policies in Piety brunch given at the start. In general I simply recommend universally giving each civ 3 policies from each 2 branches (6 free policies in total) instead of 3 from 1 brunch like now (3 in total). Say Egypt can have 3 Traditions like now and 3 Pieties. Whereas South Africa can start with 3 Traditions and 3 Rationalisms, to reflect the existing starting differences between various civs with greater depth.
7. By no means can Mexico's political system be described as a Freedom
. President belongs to Mexican political party that held power in the country for 71 years. You can compare Germany with USA, but you cannot compare Mexico to either. It's more on par with Argentina or Brazil. If you have noticed -- Order has the least number of civs adhering to it. So having one more (Mexico) will only help things. I am on the fence about Indonesian Freedom though... Freedom House lists country as "Partly Free". Even though they finally elected non-military president -- their official ideology Pancasila sounds something from the world of Order to me than Freedom. So it's your call to make, but I would keep in Freedom only mature democracies with the proven record of separation religion and state and no military/one party rule in recent past... Unlike civ 5 mechanics Order does not become Freedom overnight .
8. Finally please consider Iran situation. There is a Shinto and Judaism in this scenario but no Shia Islam which places Iran in very lonely position in real world. However, in civ 5 attitude does not get formed by differences in religion but rather by differences in Ideology. So I would recommend making Iran Order as well. No longer will Saudies like fellow Autocrats! Most Sunni Muslim civs are Autocracy anyway. On the map with North Korea -- Orders in Iran and Korean would get along nicely as in real life.
Missing Special Forces and terrorists, though...Do you have any plans to include Coprporations or merge with existing Corporation modcomp? Kings ruled in older time, in our modern time Corporations have the true power, without them modern Earth feels as unrealistic as without modern military. I did play a game with your mod and Corporation mod together, I must say it turned out very nicely, I was happy to see that small Germany was able to build 1 Corporation, China stole 2 and my USA had 4, bringing me 1/6 of my income in the late game. Competition with Russia for the key City States like Sweden was very fierce -- outbidding influences got to 300s
, and extra cash from Corporations gave me an edge on Emperor difficulty. As it should. Russia is number one in land, China in population, but USA is number one in GDP and lion share of it comes from US Corporations. We need BIG business please! I am not sure if you are ever planning to update this scenario with any significant changes, but at least I hope we could fix some oddities which I will list in this thread gradually as I discover them:
1. My first observation is Missionary costs 1000
while initial Great Prophet 200. This makes me a little uncomfortable 2. Also I hope there is a way to rename Pantheon to Religious current or Local Believes or something else corresponding to the modern nature of the scenario. Especially since Pantheon Believes are listed with the respect of the real life World Religions.
3. While we on this Messiah name/belief is more fitting to one of the Christianities than Hinduism, while World Church name more belongs to Catholicism than Judaism, but you can also simply rename it to Chosen People or something.
4. Egyptian UB should be really already present in Egyptian cities (or at least in Cairo) at the start of scenario. It feels odd to "build" Ancient Egyptian Burial Tomb as (Islamic) Arab Republic of Egypt. Pretty sad that UB does not contain automatic ancient work of art.
5. World really needs pre-placed works of art/writing/music
of different eras fitting to particular civ, as . I understand this can be a monumental task but in 2014 world does have Great Works of all the previous eras. Most civs can only realistically try to win via culture or diplomacy and artifacts alone do not reflect the rich cultural heritage of this planet.6. Some civilizations where religion plays important role could be represented by few social policies in Piety brunch given at the start. In general I simply recommend universally giving each civ 3 policies from each 2 branches (6 free policies in total) instead of 3 from 1 brunch like now (3 in total). Say Egypt can have 3 Traditions like now and 3 Pieties. Whereas South Africa can start with 3 Traditions and 3 Rationalisms, to reflect the existing starting differences between various civs with greater depth.
7. By no means can Mexico's political system be described as a Freedom
. President belongs to Mexican political party that held power in the country for 71 years. You can compare Germany with USA, but you cannot compare Mexico to either. It's more on par with Argentina or Brazil. If you have noticed -- Order has the least number of civs adhering to it. So having one more (Mexico) will only help things. I am on the fence about Indonesian Freedom though... Freedom House lists country as "Partly Free". Even though they finally elected non-military president -- their official ideology Pancasila sounds something from the world of Order to me than Freedom. So it's your call to make, but I would keep in Freedom only mature democracies with the proven record of separation religion and state and no military/one party rule in recent past... Unlike civ 5 mechanics Order does not become Freedom overnight .8. Finally please consider Iran situation. There is a Shinto and Judaism in this scenario but no Shia Islam which places Iran in very lonely position in real world. However, in civ 5 attitude does not get formed by differences in religion but rather by differences in Ideology. So I would recommend making Iran Order as well. No longer will Saudies like fellow Autocrats! Most Sunni Muslim civs are Autocracy anyway. On the map with North Korea -- Orders in Iran and Korean would get along nicely as in real life.
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