Village yields too low?

[Zuizgond]

I think villages are a bit too underwhelming especially in the mid and late game and wanted to know what the community thinks about them.

Village
+2 +1
+1 with Guilds
+1 with Railroad

You usually build them on city connection, so +2 +2 on railroad and an additional +2 +2 in Industrial era if a TR passes over it.

So in Industrial era that's a total of :
+7 +2 +4 (on railroad + city connection)
or +5 +2 +2 with no TR (on railroad + city connection)

They are almost worthless if built outside of city connection. Considering they cannot be adjacent to each other you don't have a lot of them in your empire.

In my opinion the yields are a bit on the low side. My suggestion would be to add an additional +1 to the TR bonus when you discover Architecture (or maybe Radio but this would come a bit too late).

What do you think about it?

 

[Grassland Farm]

Well, which improvement do you consider to be a good metric for "good"?
Because damn, I often build Villages OUTSIDE of trade routes/city connections and they're still worth it. I'd rather have 2 gold 1 culture than 2 production (Mine) in most cases. Culture is arguably the strongest yield in the game.

 

[Rekk]

They're fine. Build them on roads and make sure to push a land trade route through them.

 

[rkkn]

Well, which improvement do you consider to be a good metric for "good"?
Because damn, I often build Villages OUTSIDE of trade routes/city connections and they're still worth it. I'd rather have 2 gold 1 culture than 2 production (Mine) in most cases. Culture is arguably the strongest yield in the game.

culture IS very strong. gold not so much, but the mine is 3-4 production by the time you can build villages, not 2. unless you're not counting forge?? though I don't know why you wouldn't