Luxerne
Warlord
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- Aug 3, 2016
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There's been a lot of talk about how the civs and leaders are going to be changed/improved/rebalanced in the upcoming April patch. I wonder if we might get more changes to the existing great people sometime?
We've gotten some changes to GP in the past, like how many of the admirals got new abilities for Gathering Storm, or how a few generals, admirals, merchants, and engineers got new abilities in Rise and Fall. Most recently, we got updates to Nobel, da Vinci, and Einstein in the December 2020 patch.
Which other GP do you think could have their abilities changed or rebalanced in some way?
We've seen that there's the possibility of GP getting completely different abilities. For example, Rajendra Chola gets gold and bonuses to naval looting in vanilla, but instead provides a flat +3 to all present and future naval units in GS. We've also seen the possibility of GP simply being buffed (like da Vinci) or nerfed (Adam Smith, for owners of R&F or GS).
I suppose the first thing I'd ask to be changed is how the game handles the scientists and engineers that produce eurekas. Zhang Heng, who was added in the NFP, is unique in that he provides the eurekas for three specific techs (celestial navigation, mathematics, and engineering) and completes these techs instantly if the eurekas are already triggered. None of the other GP with specific eurekas have this functionality.
I can't count the number of times I saw Euclid, for example, waiting to be recruited, but I'd already boosted mathematics. So, I'd hope that the GP with specific eurekas could all be changed so that they complete the technology if the eureka is already triggered.
For reference, these are:
Scientists: Euclid (mathematics), Mendeleev (chemistry), Turing (computers)
Engineers: Bi Sheng (printing), Lovelace (computers), Goddard (rocketry)
This change, however, would definitely introduce an... interesting possibility with Lovelace. She's an industrial era engineer who would potentially unlock an atomic era tech. I guess I would change the eureka part of her ability to be something like "Unlocks the eureka for Computers. If already triggered, unlocks a different random eureka from the atomic era." That would help with the potential redundancy between Lovelace and Turing too.
What are your thoughts on the existing great person abilities and how would you change them?
We've gotten some changes to GP in the past, like how many of the admirals got new abilities for Gathering Storm, or how a few generals, admirals, merchants, and engineers got new abilities in Rise and Fall. Most recently, we got updates to Nobel, da Vinci, and Einstein in the December 2020 patch.
Which other GP do you think could have their abilities changed or rebalanced in some way?
We've seen that there's the possibility of GP getting completely different abilities. For example, Rajendra Chola gets gold and bonuses to naval looting in vanilla, but instead provides a flat +3 to all present and future naval units in GS. We've also seen the possibility of GP simply being buffed (like da Vinci) or nerfed (Adam Smith, for owners of R&F or GS).
I suppose the first thing I'd ask to be changed is how the game handles the scientists and engineers that produce eurekas. Zhang Heng, who was added in the NFP, is unique in that he provides the eurekas for three specific techs (celestial navigation, mathematics, and engineering) and completes these techs instantly if the eurekas are already triggered. None of the other GP with specific eurekas have this functionality.
I can't count the number of times I saw Euclid, for example, waiting to be recruited, but I'd already boosted mathematics. So, I'd hope that the GP with specific eurekas could all be changed so that they complete the technology if the eureka is already triggered.
For reference, these are:
Scientists: Euclid (mathematics), Mendeleev (chemistry), Turing (computers)
Engineers: Bi Sheng (printing), Lovelace (computers), Goddard (rocketry)
This change, however, would definitely introduce an... interesting possibility with Lovelace. She's an industrial era engineer who would potentially unlock an atomic era tech. I guess I would change the eureka part of her ability to be something like "Unlocks the eureka for Computers. If already triggered, unlocks a different random eureka from the atomic era." That would help with the potential redundancy between Lovelace and Turing too.
What are your thoughts on the existing great person abilities and how would you change them?