There is consensus that the following pantheons need changes:
to iron (unimproved, to make it 2 improved.) to horses (unimproved, to make it 2 improved.) OR make the pantheon read "+1 on horses, cows and sheep. +1
for each 2 plains/grassland tiles worked."
/ on trade routes. (If possible) or add a to the yields and probably a faith somewhere else.
yield feels wrong (steps on authority's toes) so changing it to 8
would be good. Or 6 to err on side of not OP., possibly add an extra to make up for it. (Once again to err on side of possibly OP or possibly UP.)I really think open sky is fine. However, earth mother and festivals are both crap currently
Only very early on. Once horsemen and catapults become standard it's stupid easy. Goes from impossible to overflowing yield buckets. Early tribute just ain't an option.
In that case I'd recommend closing the distance! Early on I should expect 8 spearmen on a CSs borders to get tribute, yet 10 won't even approach light tribute. Later I'll be busy warring with a civ halfway across the continent and suddenly 3 CSs are terrified enough to offer heavy tribute while I can't even afford to send anything their way.
IMO this is because CS aren't growing as good as they are supposed to. At certain point of the game (t200+ or so), you can just ROLFstomp every CS (and AI does that to your allied CS on other side of the world). When everyone has cruisers and infrantry, they are like 'hi, I'm Milan, I have 14
and couple of musketmen...' And this happens in every game I get to atomic.
I agree. Aside from the few tweaks and balances which are still being worked out by Gazebo and all the awesome members here, IMO the only thing that I'd say is lacking for sure is some things in CS functionality. I'll re-post this from a thread I made about two weeks ago touching on another issue with CS...IMO this is because CS aren't growing as good as they are supposed to. At certain point of the game (t200+ or so), you can just ROLFstomp every CS (and AI does that to your allied CS on other side of the world). When everyone has cruisers and infrantry, they are like 'hi, I'm Milan, I have 14
I get it, but that sometimes is often not enough, especially when it comes down to a situation where logically it makes sense for an adjacent allied militaristic CS bordering one of my enemies to walk in and take the essentially free land+yields I give them. Instead I often find turns wasted waiting for the CS to annex (just want some consistency), only to have them never even advance and resulting in me just reloading the save and razing. This I guess is also an issue I have with other AI over-settling in every nook and cranny they can, which is certainly annoying and the reason most of my initiated wars begin in the first place...
Is this actually a problem that needs fixing? I've never seen AIs go on a city-state conquering rampage. That mechanic sounds like it would be more annoying than helpful.I've initially planned that city-state receive events(their own not ours), but city-states don't get their events. So..
Nevertheless, I've implemented a soft one-time "Reinforcement" mechanic in World Congress Reformation where city-states receive a bunch of units when their city strikes below 25% HP. It repairs back up to 75% and pumps out 6 units adjacent to the city or in its city-state territory(Added to slow AIs from conquering them and setting mass Sphere of Influences)
Fair enough. It's just frustrating that my pawns cannot be coerced to annex in certain situations, but such is the nature of video games. I concede. Keep up the good work Gazebo. Do you have any guesses as to when we could see an update after the new year?
The man works in weekly cycles. Give him something to bite on monday, you'll have a working new release on saturday. Only that currently he's on holidays, so we can play a little more with the same release.
Do something about randomized victories?
