Sostratus
Deity
People don't really complain about the +100% adjacency cards, ever. Those reward you for executing the districts well, although many districts are just map rng.
Everyone and their mothers focus on the building yield cards because those are way stronger for the most part. I think that's pretty poor policy card design - one of the hallmarks of poor design fit is that you can't really just change the numbers to fix the problem.
Personally they could address a lot of the issue directly by making the cards give bonus yields to specialists which is tied to population (need people to fill the slots) and buildings (which grant the slots.) So it would functionally still be a building card, contingent on population, and you could even add a factor for quality by saying something like "+X yield to specialists, +Y extra if the adjacency exceeds N." Also makes specialists actually matter.
"Noooooo y-you can't do that Sostratus, I don't want to have to work scientist slots to boost my science! I want it given to me from my universities merely existing!!!"
If you were a true disciple of the path of knowledge, you would make sure to work those scientist slots.
And we could finally have another card for the IZ and harbor...
Everyone and their mothers focus on the building yield cards because those are way stronger for the most part. I think that's pretty poor policy card design - one of the hallmarks of poor design fit is that you can't really just change the numbers to fix the problem.
Personally they could address a lot of the issue directly by making the cards give bonus yields to specialists which is tied to population (need people to fill the slots) and buildings (which grant the slots.) So it would functionally still be a building card, contingent on population, and you could even add a factor for quality by saying something like "+X yield to specialists, +Y extra if the adjacency exceeds N." Also makes specialists actually matter.
"Noooooo y-you can't do that Sostratus, I don't want to have to work scientist slots to boost my science! I want it given to me from my universities merely existing!!!"
If you were a true disciple of the path of knowledge, you would make sure to work those scientist slots.
And we could finally have another card for the IZ and harbor...