What civs ought to be changed? Man, which civ do not ought to be changed. I hated that the vast majority of civilizations in Civ V were designed as warmongers first and foremost, with double UU being the norm rather than the exception and most traits focusing into military aspects and the like, even on civs such as the Ottomans which were not exactly warmongers. Epic history fail *sigh* some civs that ought to change from the top of my mind:
Due to overall suckage:
- India: It explains by itself
- America: It's so... bland. And come on, this is a great opportunity to get an ideology-based UA rolling
- Celts: The definition of a one-trick pony, get an early religion and their UA actually disminish trought time. Its UB, while good, comes far too late to make too much of a difference, not to mention that happiness is not exactly a huge advantage seeing how easy is to get in G&K
Due to new mechanics being introduced (trade routes, tourism, expanded religons, etc):
- France (well, already there)
- Dutch: Give them some sea trade routes advantage, period
- Arabia: Land caravan bonus is go!
- Byzantium: Since the religious SP tree is expanding, perhaps so can do it its extremely weak, albeit conceptually interesting UA
- Carthage: They were >the< trading powerhouse of the classical era. It needs to be represented somehow
- Spain: Albeit I actually love its UA, but perhaps a tourism bonus would be in order
- Egypt: Archeology and artifacts are coming. You know you want it to affect Egypt somehow.
Due to historic unaccuracy and warmonger overdose
- Ottomans: Built one of the most stable empires in the middle east ever since Babylon, gets warmongered *sigh*
- Germany: Contributed to mankind with far more than a genocidal dictator, the possibilities for non-war related bonuses are endless: Autobahn UI, Mittelstad UA... to see the Iroquois getting industrial bonuses over freaking Germany really showed the creator's historical knowdegle at full force
- Japan: Moar warmonger civs, MOAR. And with a wholly uninteresting UA to boot. Come on, we already got the Huns, the Mongols, the Shongai, the Zulu, the Aztecs... I think that some kind of uber-resistance against foreign culture / tourism / influence would be quite fitting and original, me thinks