- Magnanimous (from Pedro II/Dom Satan
): Recruiting or patronizing a Great Person refunds 20% of their point cost.
- Nobel Prize (from Sweden): +50 Diplomatic Favor upon recruiting a Great Person. +1 Great Engineer points from Factories and +1 Great Scientist points from Universities. Sweden's presence in the game adds three unique World Congress competitions in the Industrial Era.
I'm going to be a killjoy. Sorry. This are a few things to consider about this two abilities. Nobel Prize enabled three additional Competitions, making
World's Fair less likely to show up, thus the +100 Great Person rewards. This is minor, but it is something.
Sadly, there is something major to consider:
Magnanimous doesn't behave well with Alfred Nobel or World's Fair's reward. The expected behavior would be starting with the leftovers from overshooting, to which we add 20% points of the previous Great Person and +100 or +200 points from Nobel and/or World's Fair's.
It works well when the Great Person is bought. For example, a Great Writer is at 420 points and I have +100 from Nobel. The next one would start at 184 points: 0 points from leftovers, 84 points from Magnanimous (20% of 420) and 100 points from Nobel.
It doesn't work well when you are granted the Great Person for free with enough points. The game compares the Leftovers + Magnanimous points to Nobel + Fair points, and pick the highest number between the two (instead of adding both).
Let's pick the previous example with a leftovers of 6 (426/420) and 24 (444/420).
- 6 (Leftovers) + 84 (Magnanimous) = 90 < 100 (Nobel) → The next one starts with 100 points (instead of 190).
- 24 (Leftovers) + 84 (Magnanimous) = 108 > 100 (Nobel) → The next one starts with 108 points (instead of 208).
To make use of Magnanimous and Nobel/Fair bonus points effectively, Pedro II has to buy Great Person if he doesn't want points to go to waste.
It isn't exclusive to Pedro II. As leftovers is almost always inferior to Nobel bonus for all other leaders, you probably saw each new Great Person starts with a smooth 100 points, instead of 100+X points, X being the leftovers.
Meanwhile, potent Farms.
The Last Best West (Wilfrid Laurier): Farms are constructible on Tundra terrain, including Hills once Civil Engineering is discovered. On Tundra and Snow terrain, Camp and Farms provide +2 Food, Lumber Mills and Mines provide +2 Production, and ressource accumulation rate is +100%. Reduces the cost of purchasing a Snow or Tundra tile by 50%.
Mayab (Maya): Cities do not enjoy Housing from freshwater, unless it comes from Aqueducts. Farms provides +1 Gold and an additional +1 Housing. For every adjacent Observatory, Farms provide +1 Production. +1 Amenity for every Luxury adjacent to the City Center.
Seowon (District): Unique district that replaces the Campus. Cheaper to build. Has a starting adjacency bonus of +4 Science, but has -1 Science for every adjacent district tiles. Can only be built on Hills. Hidden: +1 Science to adjacent Mines, +1 Food to adjacent Farms. Yes, that bonus is tied to the Seowon, not Korea's ability (which does nothing?!).
Not extraordinary, but a Tundra Farms can reach +4 Food, +1 Gold and +1.5 Housing if adjacent to a Seowon. A Tundra Mines can reach +3 Production and +1 Science next to a Seowon as well.
As expected, the +1 Production to Farms from adjacent Observatories is tied to the Observatory and not from the Mayab ability.
Accumulation rate is key!
The Last Best West (Wilfrid Laurier): Farms are constructible on Tundra terrain, including Hills once Civil Engineering is discovered. On Tundra and Snow terrain, Camp and Farms provide +2 Food, Lumber Mills and Mines provide +2 Production, and ressource accumulation rate is +100%. Reduces the cost of purchasing a Snow or Tundra tile by 50%.
Workshop of the World (England): Iron and Coal Mines accumulate 2 more ressources per turn. Military Engineers receive +2 charges and are trained twice as fast. Additional yields from powered buildings are increased by 4. +20% Production toward Industrial Zone buildings. Harbor buildings increase Strategic Resource Stockpiles by +10 (on Standard Speed).
Grand Bazaar (Building): Unique building that replaces the Bank. Cheaper to build. Accumulate 1 extra Strategic resource for every different type of Strategic resource this city has improved. Receive 1 Amenity for every Luxury resource this city has improved.
Coal can be found on Tundra Wood, and Iron on Tundra Hills. The ressource accumulation is ×2 instead of +100%. My +3 Coal/turn turned +10 Coal/turn as (3+2)×2. When the Grand Bazaar was added, it was +12 Coal/turn for that single Tundra Coal!
I would have expected the bonus Stockpiles from Harbor buildings being tied to the RNDY, but no. It really comes from the Workshop of the World ability instead.
I just wanted to expose my findings.
