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Good to know. I hate how much dry humor withers online.
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I wish I had a save to check but I feel as if vassals after Iron Fist give way more than they should. My vassals pre policy actually do give a small amount of yields -- it's just the policy that drives to ridiculous levels.
I don't have much to say about the health of my vassals as I've had ones that were hopeless and others that were not much weaker than myself. Though even if I only have healthy vassals I don't think Iron fist should give the yields it's capable of giving.
I'm genuinely surprised that others aren't experiencing this? It's absolutely immersion/gamebreaking for me.
I'm really liking the balance tweaks in the 2-1 beta patch regarding religion. At this point there are only 2 bug-bears left for me when it comes to religion, specifically founder beliefs: Council of Elders is running a little hot, and Way of the Pilgrim is a little counter-intuitive.
For Council of Elders, I would just throttle down the production and science yields a tad. Right now it balloons out into ridiculous yields territory a bit too quickly, especially on larger maps. Also, you can easily time missionary/GP spreads to coincide with wonder production, essentially turning them into mini-Great Engineers in the mid/late game.
For Way of the Pilgrim, I think the calculation for how Culture/Tourism yields are calculated needs to be reevaluated. Currently you get the biggest yields for sending missionaries to cities with lots of followers of another religion. So if you want the biggest yields you need to target cities that your missionary likely won't fully convert. And if you use a GP to flip a city, even if it had tons of followers of other religions, you essentially get no yields because it seems to only count followers converted, not followers removed. So if you want to actually generate a lot of tourism with a high-culture-output civ, you want to spread your missionaries out and NOT convert their cities. Because once you convert their cities you won't be able to generate any more tourism from WotP. Yes, you'll get a tourism boost with them if you can entirely convert their empire, but then your spreading boost is useless. Thus the counter-intuitive nature of this Founder belief. I think it should be changed to be the same as Apostolic Tradition is, where your yields are based on the number of followers converted, not on the number of other followers in the city at the time of conversion. That way you are encouraged to fully convert cities rather than look for "juicy" cities with lots of followers of other religions.
I do think Council of Elders needs a nerf. It has become my go to founder in most cases.
I personally think it is the best designed founder belief right now. Regardless of its power, its actually just really simple and effective to use. Its very clear how it works, you can time the bonuses to rush wonders, and it is effective even if you can't hold your religion in other countries long term. Its just very solid. Also the holy site bonus and holy council building really good.
But its also.....very powerful. I think the science bonus is fine but the hammer bonus could likely use a nerf. Its too easy to rush wonders with this belief right now.