Akbarthegreat
Angel of Junil
Playing a Persia game on monarch, I realised that the first UHV condition (7% of land area) is pretty hard compared to vanilla RFC because of the different way in which culture spreads. Earlier you could just plonk a few pointless cities in the desert and pop their borders with the culture slider, which would take you a large way towards your goal. Secondly, the current UP doesn't seem as powerful as the original (+2 stability upon city conquest).
With these two things in mind, I think it would help if Persia's stability map were expanded a bit. To include Thrace, a few more tiles near the upper Indus, and (most importantly) Egypt. This seems compatible with maps I can find of the Achaemenid empire at its greatest extent.
Additionally, the apothecary seems pretty useless with respect to the Uhv conditions. Hell, I didn't even bother researching more than the techs for catapults and the Mausoleum (was that a mistake?) because maintainence ramped up pretty soon.
EDIT: Just checked, settling only Persia's core, historical and contested areas don't even give half of the required land area (only ~3.2 / 7 %)
With these two things in mind, I think it would help if Persia's stability map were expanded a bit. To include Thrace, a few more tiles near the upper Indus, and (most importantly) Egypt. This seems compatible with maps I can find of the Achaemenid empire at its greatest extent.
Additionally, the apothecary seems pretty useless with respect to the Uhv conditions. Hell, I didn't even bother researching more than the techs for catapults and the Mausoleum (was that a mistake?) because maintainence ramped up pretty soon.
EDIT: Just checked, settling only Persia's core, historical and contested areas don't even give half of the required land area (only ~3.2 / 7 %)
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