Suggestion: add Kashgar/Kashi as a spawning city state

[dissatisfieduser]

What I said in the title. There's always a big empty spot in the Tarim basin where Kashgar goes and it seems like such a waste of tiles given the spot it can be settled is a plains tile, meaning it can be settled but it's surrounded by desert tiles, meaning it can't even be reached by settlers. It gives China and Mongolia something to aim towards and fill the map a bit. I just don't see why not add this so if anyone could venture a reason why not I'd be happy to hear it.

 

[PiR]

There is Turfan and Marakanda already, one of them should be removed then?
as they would be competing for the same lux

it's true that it's better to make it a CS if no settler can ever reach it

 

[dissatisfieduser]

There is Turfan and Marakanda already, one of them should be removed then?
as they would be competing for the same lux

In practice, neither Turfan nor Marakanda ever seem to fill in the space that Kasgar would even if both were administered and thus benefit from the culture output of a playable civ; and I don't see why not make the region more dense as opposed to keeping the region to just two CS.

 

[PiR]

I don't see why not make the region more dense

Each unit, each city, makes the game lag more after some turns. That's why I never play the later eras.

But I agree that the stop should either be a desert or there should be a way to get there with a settler or it should be a CS. Otherwise it's just frustrating

 

[Skojardu]

Each unit, each city, makes the game lag more after some turns. That's why I never play the later eras.

Were there unit caps for RFC 4? I think the capped number of units each nation can field should reduce lag.

 

[PiR]

I don't think there was in RFC4, but there is (per type of unit) in RnF5. It still lags a lot for me around 1500 AD, but I have an old machine. It also generated crashes, but that was actually due to a mod that has been removed.

 

[Rhye]

There is the code for Kashgar in that location, yes. It's commented. I think I got rid of it when shrinking the map size, thus reducing the CS in the area from 3 to 2.
Is there a real need to readd it?

 

[dissatisfieduser]

There is the code for Kashgar in that location, yes. It's commented. I think I got rid of it when shrinking the map size, thus reducing the CS in the area from 3 to 2.
Is there a real need to readd it?

The copper and sheep right across the mountains above kashgar are not reachable from Marakanda and Turfan. This makes it hard for China and Mongolia to contest Russian acquisition of these resources. Plus, I felt the area looked empty and it would look better with an extra city state.

 

[Jet]

Mongolia is harmed by the trash cities it has to start with. If I understand correctly this would be an additional one.