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Prince
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I thought the update will make amenities more important, but hear me out.
Before the update if you settle x cities and keep population at 10. You need 4x amenities to keep your people content (no bonus, no penalty either). But if you happen to have 5x amenities, you can make your people happy, so you enjoy a 5% bonus. And if you happen to have 7x amenities, your people are ecstatic and you enjoy a 10% bonus empire wide.
Now since content is at -1 amenity. If you settle x cities and keep population at 10. You still only need 4x amenities to keep your people content (no bonus, no penalty either, every city is at -1 amenity, but people are content). However if you want to make your people happy... that will be a major challenge, since each city will need 8 amenities, and you need a total of 8x to make them happy, 10x to make them ecstatic. That's quite a lot of effort for a mere 5% - 10% bonus.
I guess a rational player will just say "screw amenities, I will just keep them content but not happy". And luxuries will be sold more often than before.
If I didn't do that math, the update would make it appears that amenities are more important. But after doing the math it doesn't seem to be the case any more. And yeah, Scotland is screwed.
Before the update if you settle x cities and keep population at 10. You need 4x amenities to keep your people content (no bonus, no penalty either). But if you happen to have 5x amenities, you can make your people happy, so you enjoy a 5% bonus. And if you happen to have 7x amenities, your people are ecstatic and you enjoy a 10% bonus empire wide.
Now since content is at -1 amenity. If you settle x cities and keep population at 10. You still only need 4x amenities to keep your people content (no bonus, no penalty either, every city is at -1 amenity, but people are content). However if you want to make your people happy... that will be a major challenge, since each city will need 8 amenities, and you need a total of 8x to make them happy, 10x to make them ecstatic. That's quite a lot of effort for a mere 5% - 10% bonus.
I guess a rational player will just say "screw amenities, I will just keep them content but not happy". And luxuries will be sold more often than before.
If I didn't do that math, the update would make it appears that amenities are more important. But after doing the math it doesn't seem to be the case any more. And yeah, Scotland is screwed.