the 500f politician offers the worse trade of all of them. Althou it is used situationally, it could use a buff (just like the one you made with The Naturalist).
make it 600f. The game is 15 years old, 600f could create another strat to keep the gameplay fresh.
Interjection or Will from Forgotten Empires tried once to change the age up cost of Philosopher Prince to 700 food. Not sure why this change never made it into de, but maybe there was a reason.
You canāt just consider VS, you have to think about how useful it is.
For instance, sometimes you donāt need a tower, so the governor is just bad. On the other hand, you always need food, and itās the easiest resource to spend, so it has to be weaker.
Besides, some civs donāt have a 400w politician (brit, swedes, spain), and then 500f is a good option.
Why should we buff an already viable polician to make it the āgo toā politician?
Thatās a good question.
It is viable for sure if you want to be aggressive (like the aklak double musk build or the double rax lb/pike) but 2 semi fattened cows is worth 200 food (you need to gather it), and 2v is better than 300f.
I guess 2v+cows will become the standard for eco builds and people will use 500f to rush.
I think one of the principal use of the philosopher prince is for fast forteress : 500 food from the prince and a 700 gold card. Sure 100 more food is nice, but is it needed ?
With your VS approach, you could argue some cards need to be changed, e. g. 700 food/wood/gold. I donāt think it should.
I agree, the difference in VS just contributes to the decision making imo. There are some cards/techs/politicians that just simply donāt seem viable though.
I donāt understand why you want age up with 500f as brit when you have so many vili to protect. Saving 1 vili with your tower make your 200g + tower better, and the tower can do so much more. To me, you donāt realy need 500f in early age 2.
Agree but there are not a lot of situation where 500f > tower and to me 500f deserve to be buffed. Idk about sweden but 500f is almost never used (only with brit and i realy want to know what is the ratio of 500f / tower age up)
so 6 Euro six have the 400w, itās twice the number of civs that do not have it. Is 500f a great option thou? It is not so useful when the 6 Civs that have 400w and 500f always go for the 400w. Itās a no brainer, and this is a strategy game that should require some thinking when you ageup.
I wont be the āto-goā politician, it still offers less than 400w. It will be a buff to fresh up strategies on a 15yo game bc you will have another -arguably- good option to age.
For example, they buffed the Naturalist and now you consider more options before you age.
I am not askign for card changes because that is another mechanic of the game, for Trading Post and 700/600 resources cards developers didnt want to make a distinction (to force some decisions). But for the ageup politicians you know they did want to make a difference, why is it 400w/500f and no 400w/400f then?
exactly, is not about to messing up existing strategies. It is about encouraging new strats buffing less used technologies.
+1
------* Why are we so afraid of changing things? We can always reverted if it becomes the best ageup option -which will probably not-
Would you rather have the old revolutions that were rarely used or these new revolt mechanics?
You misunderstand, you still receive 500 food on aging up, not 700. The āage upā cost is 700 food instead of 800, which of course means you can age up sooner. Itās a little better then 600 food.
Also thereās a lot of people terrified of change, even ones that can be reverted, itās tiring. I really donāt know how their gunna handle DE, even for my tastes itsā¦ very out thereā¦
Though unfortunately most of the revolutions are still awful. As are most (maybe all) of the 900 food politicians.