Hey there, I just recently moved and due to the move have not played ROM, or civ for that matter, for several months. I just finished a game and have a little feedback, I wanted to say this stuff a while back, but wanted to play another game just to make sure things were the same.
-The endgame combat is really REALLY boring, there are SO few units in that era, and they are just plain uninventive and boring. The future/transhuman era's need huge overhauls IMO.
-Also units get built waaaaaaaaay to fast due to MASSIVE ammounts of production from all of ROM's OP improvements, I love lots of production, but there needs to be some more scaling in effect.
-Units take forever to go obsolete, and many mid game units are still buildable by future era.
-More techs in the transhuman and future era's are needed and less techs that add even higher production/food/commerce to already overpowered improvements should be in these eras, I understand that as the times progress people would find a way to get more materials and such from existing improvements, but the way it is now is just to much.
-As stated above, there should be an overhaul in improvements making them less overpowered.
-One thing I really don't like is how by the end of the game superultramegacities are mainstream. There needs to be way more challenge later on, and why are all the techs leaning towards peace? Humans will always fight, forever, there should be way more techs with devistating weapons and units, stuff with unique effects not just a high attack strength. That would mean adding a LOT of techs to the trans/future era's.
-I just want to say this again, the future isn't perfect either, more techs that totally WRECK the world as far as superweapons/diseases/megaunits(with HUGE support costs, build times, and a national limit of course) and just anything to counterbalance the generally positive buildings and techs that would come with the late game are an absolute must, I'm talking Apocalypse causing weapons, *Ooooh, thats an idea*
-Apocalyptic and Post-Apocalyptic era's! The future would bring weapons so powerful that an Apocalypse is only inevitable. This would be an awesome idea for an optional era that could be selected in the custom game screen.
Anyways I hope that the endgame will undergo an overhaul, but until then, I just can't play past modern era's, it's just to simple and easy. ROM shines at the early era's, but grows more and more overpowered, easy, and repetatively boring as it nears it's end.
If you could find a way to make the endgame as fun, if not more fun than the early-midgame era's, I would be eternally gratefull. But if no changes are planned for a while, could you add an option to end the game on earlier era's, I seriously hate the late game era's that much. And one final thought, I love the endgame era's more than any other era's, I love future mods and all stuff like that, so this isn't a rant because I just don't like endgame era's, I do, moreso than early era's, just not in this mod as it stands now. Thanks for reading.