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| Yeah what the other guy said by fabio 04/18/2015, 7:42am PDT | ||||
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| Too many numbers. The unit customization is as trite and overly complicated as it was in Fallen Enchantress. Master of Orion is as complicated as that shit should get. It's also hard to figure out if attack and defense boosting stuff is worth it because it never gives you the formula to tell you what those numbers mean. And just like FE, you essentially have to design every unit twice: one with the most industry-expensive loadout when you have plenty of time to build during peace, and one with all the extras cut out for the most industry-efficient unit to crank out during wars of attrition.
You have to balance military and building upkeep so your gold reserve doesn't die. Every game should have just followed Civ 4's example and eliminated building upkeep, making their cost one of opportunity only. You have to balance city size with approval rating, which applies a percentage penalty or bonus to food and gold production, but the approval rating for expanding is global to your whole empire yet the approval bonuses are local to each individual city. I think this is how it worked in Civ 5. Endless Legend throws another wrench into things by having empire size = the number of harvesting tiles you're expanding to. It's very hard to tell if five 1 hex cities equals the same size as one 5 hex city. It makes for some very anal city planning. You have to start crunching the numbers on the value of a single large city with moderate value tiles (expanding to a couple mediocre tiles in order to reach high value tiles), or the longer term value of plunking down lots of one tile cities on only the absolute best yield locations. A city population size is also totally independent of its physical size, which only affects the number of resources you harvest from tiles while population produces the same resources out of thin air so at some point a bunch of 1 tile, 10 population cities is going to out produce a 10 tile, 10 population city AAAAHHHHHHHHH!!!!!!!!! Fuck I have no clue. |
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Endless Legend free weekend NT by 04/16/2015, 4:30pm PDT  hmmm by 04/18/2015, 2:11am PDT Yeah what the other guy said by 04/18/2015, 7:42am PDT Oh, one city per district by 04/18/2015, 1:33pm PDT Fuck! Even the manual doesn't explain traits! Jesus christ NT by 04/18/2015, 2:14pm PDT aaaaaand I've already broken it by 04/19/2015, 3:42pm PDT |
