General improvements for

[M00Z1LLA]

Livestock:

@Quirriff

Livestock pen is reduced in cost to at most 100 wood. Making it a more equitable choice in the opening stages of the game compared to a market or trading post.

100 wood seems a bit cheap. Unlike a market or trade post, you are never going to build one in Age 1 because the investments for it are food which you need all of. Something on par with Chinese villages (180 wood) would be reasonable. I think the goal should be to make it a viable strategy for maps with lots of herdables that you can capture but not so optimal on maps where you would have to start from scratch.
A build limit on Livestock Pens might also be needed if they are a super cheap, high-health building.

@Quirriff

Cows/llama/Water Buffalo are available by default in the fortress age no cards needed of course ranching cards will need to be reworked

I would change it as follows:

1. Increase the base cost of cows and llamas to 100 food and 90 food respectively
2. Have the Naturalist Politician enable cows at the new base cost
3. Have a modestly priced Fortress Age upgrade at the Livestock Pen to enable cows/llamas and slightly decrease the cost of livestock (something like -10%)
4. The Ranching card changed as follows: Enables training cows at the livestock pen & -20% cost for all livestock (this keeps it the same for cows, but it now also buffs sheep). Possibly also deliver a couple of skinny cows.

Other options:

• A card to make livestock pens passively generate cows (would require a build limit on Livestock Pens). This might be best as a card for a revolution option.
• An Advanced Livestock Pen as I suggested here:

[Suggestion--rework] <Double Purpose Cattle of Europe>

I get the feeling you don’t have much real life experience with cattle. The only practical difference between breeds is between dairy cattle and beef cattle. In a game about colonial warfare, this is a minor distinction and not worth the needless complexity. The reason the euro civs don’t use cattle is because cows are gated behind cards and take a lot of APM to manage. The first problem to solve is to make cattle accessible without needing to give up a card. I think the best way to implement…

Outlaws:

@Quirriff

Give asians and europeans have access to 3 outlaws per map not 2 since the other eight factions have a fixed roster of 3 outlaws

The approach should be to reduce the access to Outlaws for some of the factions rather than adding more outlaws for Europeans and Asians. Africans have an overwhelming unit roster already so there’s no reason that they need guaranteed access to the most powerful Outlaws. It would be fine for USA to keep their unique Outlaws as a civ specific perk.