pineappledan
Deity
For civs without a unique tile improvement, snow tiles are not improvable by anything except forts and Great Person Tiles unless they that a resource on them. However, there are many civs with tile improvements that can build their unique improvement on snow:
Spain- Hacienda
Shoshone - Encampment
Morocco - Kasbah
France - Chateau
Portugal - Feitoria
Polynesia - Moai
Tundra tiles give 1, and with a university, all Snow tiles give 1. With Rationalism, Snow tiles can get a total of 3 with no improvement, which is stronger than any other base terrain. This makes Snow stronger than all other tile types in late game, and only civs with UIs can take full advantage of that by placing strong improvements on these otherwise barren tiles.
Is this okay? Should this be a sort of secret benefit for these 6 civs, that they can exploit polar regions not only better than other civs, but to such a degree that they are better than any other tile.
If people don't think this is a good state of affairs then there is a simple fix. Snow can simply be removed as a valid terrain option. There are several civs with unique improvements that can't take advantage of Snow tiles already, like the Huns' Eki, or the Mayan Kuna
Spain- Hacienda
Shoshone - Encampment
Morocco - Kasbah
France - Chateau
Portugal - Feitoria
Polynesia - Moai
Tundra tiles give 1, and with a university, all Snow tiles give 1. With Rationalism, Snow tiles can get a total of 3 with no improvement, which is stronger than any other base terrain. This makes Snow stronger than all other tile types in late game, and only civs with UIs can take full advantage of that by placing strong improvements on these otherwise barren tiles.
Is this okay? Should this be a sort of secret benefit for these 6 civs, that they can exploit polar regions not only better than other civs, but to such a degree that they are better than any other tile.
If people don't think this is a good state of affairs then there is a simple fix. Snow can simply be removed as a valid terrain option. There are several civs with unique improvements that can't take advantage of Snow tiles already, like the Huns' Eki, or the Mayan Kuna