Playing the fay currently. I have just completed winter restoration and Im doing summer restoration. what I see is all the point of winter court is to construct the restoration. There is no other reason why you would use it. And it must be done
quickly. May be if you allow 1 food per ice... As it is now, only to delay you. I was third and now I am almost the last in the list. Even a poor nation with 3 cities went above me as I loosed time with winter restoration. I even choped down most woods to make it quickly.
Some odd efects:
1) some tiles, when back to prairies, remained with no food on city view, even when showing full food on general view. So I couldnt use them and had to go into world builder, erase them and restore them again (one was a bison in middle of rivers). That way they recovered the food production.
Edit: It seems to happen with tiles that remained green in middle of winter.
2) the fay that went to winter and back retained the winter promotions toghether with summer promotions. Specially my pixies.
You cant upgrade warriors to pixies, which makes my level 7 warrior useless now that wild things are level 4 or 5. So I have to save him till I can upgrade to summer/winter lord?
As said before, I went low in the list. I dont researched archery nor religion, in fact I loosed the FoL which I wanted, but other way I would have no winter restoration. I only have bronze working which gives me pixies, but no hunters nor archers nor nothing more.
I am in a good position, far from strong enemies and my neighbor is the 3 cities Liosarjfar (he has the stravalfar pressing from the other side), and thats why I tried winter asap.
By the way, the Liosalfar and the fay have the same cultural color so the borders merge. Please change that.
One more: if you use commando promotion after coming back to summer, it is removed every time from your unit, I know cause I have a hero promoted adventurer and I loosed the promotion twice. (I had to load a previous game to recover the hero before wasting those promos