I created this separate POST with the aim of trying to discuss viable solutions. You can take a look at the ‘Possible Solutions’ section if you want.
Settlements have three functions: population, villager creation, and fortification.
- Of course, TCs have been affected by the unfair nerf to defensive buildings. The nerf should have rightly been to increase the number of units
I believe that with the villager production capacity of the village centers nerfed (and the possibility to nerf it more if required) and some of the nerfs made to urban centers were reverted, it would be possible to maintain the fortification and villager creation functions in such a way that settlements would remain a point of interest even if more houses were added.