Rome captures an Assyrian Royal Library. In other instance, Rome captures Tabyas.
So, all Assyrian cities get +2 Science on their Libraries, but miss out +1 Prod. on their River tiles, +1 Culture and +10% towards buildings. Regarding the capability of the captured secondary cities, they seem fair to me.
....No.
All Assyrian cities, AND all Roman cities AND all the captured Songhai cities get
+3 science (1 more). So Rome can have Captured Tabyas AND build a flavian colosseum AND get +3
on libraries, all in a single city. The biggest problem with UNWs is they effect all Roman cities in an almost retroactive way. Consider that +3
on libraries is pretty comparable to the +1
, and maybe +1-2
China is getting from its paper makers at that point.
You capture Assyria, you're not missing out on squat; you get everything forever. you basically get a second UA.
Now, the question is the global effect. Is the Global effect that bad? I don't think so. Getting Royal Library is pretty close to capturing and/or picking Orders/Brandenburg Gate (you can't get the full +45 XP so early in most games). That is the kind of thing that's purely capable of happening, but I don't see too many complaints about that.
Yeah, except you can pick up Royal Library AND Orders AND Brandenburg, which you will probably be first to now because you're Rome, but with +3
in every city, in addition to your regular +2%
on
city connections, your golden age potential, and your +15%
for buildings, plus whatever goodies you can snag from other civs.
There is not a single source of XP more potent than the Royal library, and it doesn't preclude you from going for any other sources of XP either. Maybe you manage to capture a Dojo, too, so that's:
+15/25/15 XP barracks/dojo/military academy
+15XP Orders
+45XP Royal library
and then maybe 15XP from autocracy, because why not?
The point is Rome stealing global bonuses from other civs is a whole other ballgame now.
It's similar to wonder-sniping. Let's say I capture Petra/Colossus in one game, and Stonehenge/Oracle in another. This is roughly equivalent to capturing Cothon or not, except in an actual game, being able to capture Longhouses, Tabyas, Bazaars, etc. has more value than capturing Stonehenge/Oracle.
Do we ban Petra/Colossus from being captured? Or Brandenburg Gate? Or-God forbid-Palace of Westminister?
No, we don't ban people from capturing wonders, because it's not an accurate comparison. As I said before, UNWs are better, 2-3 times better than any comparable wonder for their era. And they are a form of wonder sniping that
only Rome can do.
If you didn't manage to build a wonder then that's fair. It was available to you, so you either didn't prioritize it, or you aren't playing well enough. Maybe you can get it by conquering wherever it was built? But so could any of the other civs in the game too. That's fair. Everyone can build it. Everyone can capture it. Rome having a pool of 3 bonus wonders that it can capture isn't playing by the rules.