Plant forests.

[Securion]

Please change so we can plant forests earlier in the game. Its one of the more satisfying things to be doing, "terraforming" the environment around you, and it would be more fun if we could start that earlier in the game.

Its also more realistic of course.

Having "new growth" not giving production when chopping would solve the "bonus hammers problem".

 

[Leyrann]

New growth already doesn't give production.

As for why it's "late" in the game, it's not all that hard to rush it, and until the 18th-19th century it actually didn't happen except naturally. There's been a lot of deforestation basically everywhere during the 17th-19th centuries.

 

[Manifold]

Please change so we can plant forests earlier in the game. Its one of the more satisfying things to be doing, "terraforming" the environment around you, and it would be more fun if we could start that earlier in the game.

Its also more realistic of course.

Having "new growth" not giving production when chopping would solve the "bonus hammers problem".

Most of the time in the past people were more concerned with clearing the forest in order to operate farming there. When a landscape was abandoned by the people the forest came back often. That was not that good when a resettlement should take place.

 

[Michael Viana]

Yes I agree with Layrann, but I think it is not tough to rush it.

 

[Magma_Dragoon]

I'd like to be able to plant forests a bit earlier, and we should be able to plant forest on resources and improvements that are forest compatible
like a tea plantation, we should be able to drop a forest on that