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Prince
- Joined
- Nov 18, 2015
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- 538
Don't know if you remember me from wayback, but I just played my first two games in pretty close to a decade, both with this modmod included. First thing I'm going to say is espionage is way better now, and scouting is way better now. I remember crazy leveled up Paratroopers being real weapons, and this is better. And all the added buildings are great!
That said, I'm not crazy about the more advanced Authority edit. I played one game with it, and one without, both on Epic King 14/28. In the first one, as Denmark, with the Authority, I just never felt there was enough culture, as being able to bully minors just doesn't seem consistent enough to be the main culture generator. Even with 28 in the game, I only really had one that super close to me, and two more that were kind close. Now, I will admit, I may have won this game anyway if I'd remembered exactly how Culture Victory works and started to attack Egypt earlier, but it was King difficulty, and Denmark is very good at what it does.
Second game I played as France with the smaller Authority change, and yeah, maybe had too much culture, but how much of that was this version of Authority, and how much was just how much free units the French UA got me is maybe a question. Kinda weird to me that France is almost an Ancient Era specialist, but that's another matter. I could see changing how Authority gets culture, but I hope there's another way that's more reliable and doesn't involve me moving half my army back and forth across the map either.
Was actually going to say something about the Observatory too, as I like there being certain esoteric things that don't fit into the perfect structure. Bums me out that Elephants are apparently being lost to Carthage. But sounds like Observatories have already been changed.
Cool to see that people are still working on this mod after all these years!
That said, I'm not crazy about the more advanced Authority edit. I played one game with it, and one without, both on Epic King 14/28. In the first one, as Denmark, with the Authority, I just never felt there was enough culture, as being able to bully minors just doesn't seem consistent enough to be the main culture generator. Even with 28 in the game, I only really had one that super close to me, and two more that were kind close. Now, I will admit, I may have won this game anyway if I'd remembered exactly how Culture Victory works and started to attack Egypt earlier, but it was King difficulty, and Denmark is very good at what it does.
Second game I played as France with the smaller Authority change, and yeah, maybe had too much culture, but how much of that was this version of Authority, and how much was just how much free units the French UA got me is maybe a question. Kinda weird to me that France is almost an Ancient Era specialist, but that's another matter. I could see changing how Authority gets culture, but I hope there's another way that's more reliable and doesn't involve me moving half my army back and forth across the map either.
Was actually going to say something about the Observatory too, as I like there being certain esoteric things that don't fit into the perfect structure. Bums me out that Elephants are apparently being lost to Carthage. But sounds like Observatories have already been changed.
Cool to see that people are still working on this mod after all these years!