Hi, is hellenic sphere valid now with the -10% loyalty?
I swear I remember -40% from old times (which would have been a reasonable downside for the good ones) but when I played (last couple of months) it was just 10% I barely noticed. It made me feeling this sphere too "good" and when I played hellenic leader I just switched off.
Just asking your oppinion not ask for nerf lol.
(The Truth is that on Emperor-immortal difficulty the game was "slow enough" and I got 200% during the long renessaince Era which seemed overkill for coin (I built Big Ben with 100k

) but on Diety it was pretty fast to get only 40-50% for much shorter time.)
Btw yesterday I finished my first GS (and first religious play with Russia on diety) - without AI+. Well the AI stucked with warriors/archers in Rennesaince (I did not update either as almost everybody was friend after I killed close rival Spain

) - nobody could kill each other, well the AI has serious problem with good upgrade with the new system (however I saw 100/100 iron horses in the trade screen). No Niter musketmans are good but it seems it will be not enough. But disabling resources for more units would break the concept of the game.

I do not know if I dare try GS with AI+... I saw that the AI behaviour changed a lot and I do not know what happens. I am not impressed by the AI without AI+ - with AI+ at least they moved together but there were strange moves too.
Next time I may try a domination game on diety and see how pain is that resource system and the AI (in the GS update notes they may defend cities better). My favorit domination leaders are hellenic though...
One game experience is not too much so I may be wrong - I play more to see better.
I skip few days or a week - the updates come fast.

I do not have the motivation to try the vanilla game again though...or at least with which mods if not Combined tweek. I almost agree with all the new features - I do not know if the AI adepts properly to the changed civics though (e.g. AI does not rush misticism civics and religion is easy to get).