dreiche2
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maybe this thread is a better place to discuss things than the dwarven one...
So do others think it's a little bit against flavour that elven and leaves cities get so huge? here are my two cents from the other thread:
well I agree I found it kind of strange that elves (or followers of the leaves) would get huge cities...
though if you somehow decreased their growth, you probably have to overhaul the whole system, cause then the health bonus of guardian of nature is useless...
flavourwise, I think three things should be considered:
1. elves love forests
2. elves are not to numerous
3. in civ elves should probably be healthy and content
now, actually when the growth would be restricted, the health would automatically come from the forests (cause they already give health). Even the restricted growth could come from the forest (if you remove the additional food from the ancient forest). So maybe there should simply be different benefits from the forests instead of health and then everything comes from itself?
edit: so about the suggestion above, you could make forests produce GPP for example (I would not generally convert food into GPP though, that's somehow strange)...
edit: or concerning the food, you could make the elves (that is, the ljosalfar (sp?)) be self sufficient on forests, but give them less food on other tiles/farms etc. Followers of the leaves would get the normal food yield (just one), so they could still grow large cities, but if they want to make use of many forests the size is restricted...
So do others think it's a little bit against flavour that elven and leaves cities get so huge? here are my two cents from the other thread:
well I agree I found it kind of strange that elves (or followers of the leaves) would get huge cities...
though if you somehow decreased their growth, you probably have to overhaul the whole system, cause then the health bonus of guardian of nature is useless...
flavourwise, I think three things should be considered:
1. elves love forests
2. elves are not to numerous
3. in civ elves should probably be healthy and content
now, actually when the growth would be restricted, the health would automatically come from the forests (cause they already give health). Even the restricted growth could come from the forest (if you remove the additional food from the ancient forest). So maybe there should simply be different benefits from the forests instead of health and then everything comes from itself?
edit: so about the suggestion above, you could make forests produce GPP for example (I would not generally convert food into GPP though, that's somehow strange)...
edit: or concerning the food, you could make the elves (that is, the ljosalfar (sp?)) be self sufficient on forests, but give them less food on other tiles/farms etc. Followers of the leaves would get the normal food yield (just one), so they could still grow large cities, but if they want to make use of many forests the size is restricted...