Hi,
just want to add some ideas on maybe more fun identity specific gameplay for abbassid around merchants,
(my english is not perfect).
All civ have specifics gampeplay around gold income :
French landmark + villagers gathering rate
English age 4 farm gold income (and gameplay around cheeper farm early game)
Chinese collectors
mongols ovoo (stone) but helps has much
Russ househunt
Delhi sacred sites tech
HRE age 3 landmark
Abbassid merchants + golden ages
While all other civ have specific gameplay with their specific units (and upgrades around them : english archer, french cavalry…) and abbassid don’t, i think improving and focusing on merchant will add more identity for them and more incite play.
We know that they have house of wisdom tech around the merch but i belive it is still not efficient to play around it for the low investment it gives (at the begining).
We have today at the house of wisdom : +30% income ; +5 armor ; 2nd ressource gathering
Bonus civ - 33% merch cost
So here is some improvements we could add for them :
- -50% cost instead of -33%
- +30% speed given by a tech in market for eg. (has wheelbarrow +15% speed for vills)
Those improvement are for inciting to play the merch from age 2 (and not age 4 like every game) and giving more valuability to the house of wisdom tech tree (eg : +5 armor) to add a different playstyle.
Side notes :
-Devs are on the good path for fixing things but they should have more reaction for hotfixes like the bugs we had for Delhi and others. It was too long and thats a part of why a lot of player are not playing but waiting for more updates.
- add Colors for civs, i, think one of the most important things that keeps a lot of player want to play a game is add customization. Path of exile is a good example, starcraft 2/heartstone ladder units custom apearence (advice for your futur ladder !), any kind of units transmog.
-Random maps option : no pleasure, no suprise, zombie strat because of knowing the map i’m playing on
-Nomad map like in age 2 : MANDATORY
-Random civ pick : I’m the king of person who can spend 5 min thinking what kind of civ i want to play, then quit game 'cause i don’t know (i know…) just add it for my health pls
- chinese civ : remove crossbowman and add bonus against armor for chu ko nu, because there is not much value from archer comparison
Thanks for thoses who read.