Trading posts nerfed?

[vranasm]

yesterday I finally break through enough in rationalism tree to get the +2 science TP, but to my surprise it gives only 1 in reality!

screen of SP:


reality on map:



sooo just everyone knows...

 

[Callonia]

Your 327 gold per turn makes me upset.

 

[vranasm]

Your 327 gold per turn makes me upset.

it's just settler game for achievement...no worries needed. Actually I had in GA over 500 or something and around 700 science....but a bit later in game

 

[Callonia]

oh ok

 

[woodsnib]

This happened to me as well
I think it must be an unfortunate typo in the description of Free Thought

 

[Louis XXIV]

Maybe they changed it because people were upset about trading post spam (although I still tend to build them because of worker boredom).

 

[QuothTheRaven]

Yeah, it's always just been +1 science for me too. Either the tooltip is wrong, or the ability is bugged.

 

[rj86]

Same again for me, I wonder which it's supposed to be?

 

[evanbgood]

I think it's bugged in the direction of it should be +2. +1 is pretty unimpressive, and I'm not sure, but I typically don't think I'd make a research city surrounded by trading posts. Since libraries provide a population-based bonus, I would think it would be best to make farm-heavy research cities. Then again, research does seem to have some of the strongest % modifier buildings... Hmm... perhaps I'll have to test this!

 

[grandad1982]

Whats with the black splochs in the screen shot?

OT. Patch patch patch.....

 

[rogerdude]

I don't like how the map looks with all those TP's. They should make them back into villages/towns. It's unrealistic to have a city surrounded by a dozen TP's.

 

[vranasm]

Whats with the black splochs in the screen shot?

OT. Patch patch patch.....

well later it was much better i got at some places red-white rectangles as placeholder texture until you left "enough time" to load the right texture... hills+mountains looked like biggest problem in that sense...

 

[vranasm]

I don't like how the map looks with all those TP's. They should make them back into villages/towns. It's unrealistic to have a city surrounded by a dozen TP's.

in modern age they looked more like towns from what i can remember after i zoomed in...

 

[Monsterzuma]

I like the trading post graphic myself. It makes so much more sense than that completely non-sequitur cottage improvement. And by the time the cottage would have turned into a village/town, the trading post takes on a more town-like appearance too.

I disagree that +1 science is a weak buff, by the way. It is a doubling of the amount of science provided by the tile. On top of this, trading posts are already awesome without the improvement.

 

[Ahriman]

Tooltip is wrong. +2 would be too strong.

 

[Dizzy75]

Found a confirmation in the Bug Report forum: http://forums.civfanatics.com/showthread.php?t=382904

I do suspect it was an intentional nerf, as Ahriman suggests.