Hello RI team, first like always, Thank you for your awesome work in this mod, for me this is the best strategy game ever, and also thanks for being open to suggestions and your support. Second i want to tell you somethings that i noticed (revision 4302).
First and most important thing, the civilopedia has a huge error. The building that gives any kind of free citizen or specialist, those free citizen or specialist aren't mentioned in the pedia, affecting strategic planning. I have been very busy in this months and i couldnt play the svns but i always updated it and read the pedia searching major changes. That's why in my last message i said that planned economy wasn't worth it because i thought that you had eliminated free citizen in many late buildings. But the thing was that they aren't mentioned in the pedia.
The second thing is that i always said that "Ministry of Tourism" should be available earlier, but i never said any reason why, or any argument. Sorry for bringing this up again, and i won't do it again, but i want to explain why it should be available earlier.
First i will quote the definition of town square.
A town square is an open public space commonly found in the heart of a traditional town used for community gatherings. Other names for town square are civic center, city square, urban square, market square, public square, piazza, plaza, and town green.
Most town squares are hardscapes suitable for open markets, music concerts, political rallies, and other events that require firm ground
Wikipedia
As you can see, a city square is basically a open public space in the heart of a town. And that's why i think it doesn't need a advance tech for it's ministery. For a real life example, I live in a Latin American Town that was founded by spanish settlers. The Spanish, when they started the colonization (where i live is some of the first settlements) They brang with them a *"perfect city model"* and with it, they planned how to make the new cities from scratch. And what does the city square has to do with this? well they didn't exactly build the first city squares, they just left that public space in the city planning. So, it was like it was already builded.
If we think like that, It's better to call the ministery that do the city squares "Ministery of city Planning". Also other reason is like the square is one of the most basic and early available buildings in the game, The ministery also should be available early. If we thing that "the perfect city" model of the spanish is correct, The ministery of city planning should be available as early as Early Renaissaince. For me, maybe it's too early, but it is realistic. Maybe for game balance purposes, it could be available later, but no so late. Maybe Late Renaissaince or early Ind. era. And the last reason i can think is that having it with Globalization tech is almost useless as the winner of the game is probably decided when it is available.
Thanks for your support RI team, Keep the awesome work
*PS: I said perfect city model, but it is ideal city model, more info in this link:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ideal_city