I feel like in this situation we have not explored alternatives, but moved right into random intercepts. Again, I am fine making interception do less damage if we think at base its too strong. We can weaken certain Air promotions, like the one that auto heals every round. Maybe planes don't benefit from medic, etc.
In the previous model I may have agreed with you that air power was too strong because Triplanes did it all. They stopped other planes and killed units, and do "ok" against cities. Now triplanes exist as pure anti-air, with pretty limited ground attacks compared to bombers. You effectively need 2 planes to do the same job as one...that's a pretty large nerf.
So in summary, I agree with you about the potential power of planes, and agree with you that its important to ensure a reasonable curtailing of air power in the spirit of balance. But I believe we can explore several other viable options that don't introduce a random element into an otherwise non-random combat system.
from all needs in the City? Effectively, the Public works shrinks your potential unhappiness cap by 1 for all types of unhappiness.
into empire stability. Other game testers have reported back that they do not do what it says on the package. You come back saying that what it says on the package isn’t what it does, or should do. So let’s either make public works perform as advertised, so that no hole is too deep that you can’t throw a pile of 
, or alternatively adding a 
, it has no merit and you're throwing Production away for nothing in return. -Unhappiness buildings do have other benefits, like Police Station/Constabulary slow down Spies or hinder them otherwise and they're buffed by Policies as an additional help, PW has no other benefits than bringing a rusty, dull knife to an Unhappiness gun fight.
