Yes if all vills never have market upgrades but as the game goes on you will upgrade your eco and the vill equivalent of those wonders will drop. So that means the wonders are less impactful to the whole eco after you upgrade the vills. Especially you only make one wonder each age. By age 4 you probably have around 12 vills of working power from wonder (summer palace + tower + confusian academy). No where near original post saying 20+ vills by age 3. Also China is not a boomer civ, no eco bonuses for booming. There are many booming civs there like Japan, Sweden brits Hausa Dutch and inca, native civs all has fertility dance, all those civs get vills way faster than China and/or they have a lot of res generating buildings.
yes it gets less impactful in the later game but as with most china game, the later game doesnāt come. heck in a normal ff game, china doesnāt even get market techs so the value analysis still holds.
a similar analysis is true for the german consulate trickles, which also decreases is value overtime but in the sub 20 mins game where supreamacy games are usually held, its value is still pretty good
other civs can get more vils but they donāt have as good of unit shipments, chinaās unique combo makes it strong. you can hv repeated unit shipments backed up with eco and unit spam
its not always too strong, before the changes it was pretty average. some of the recent changes, especially the goat has kinda pushed it over the edge
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China laming is FREE ELO. End of story, they need more than a tweak, they were under the radar S tier before the unnecessary buff. Garja is a respected veteran who attests theyāve been S tier all along.
Villages shouldnāt be able to garrison IMO,
Unit shipments reduced
Goat reduced.
250w war academy
They would still be A tier after those nerfs.
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I suggest that before any civilization balance suggestions, it is best to say your game id and your elo score, so that everyone can better analyze whether it is this civilization op or you simply canāt play. Otherwise, everyone will think youāre just a rantć
By the way, I donāt think anyone with an elo score below 1800 is qualified to suggest balance casually, so there will only be jokes like Inca in the end.
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Are you joking about the 250w war Academy? Then why donāt I add 50g to build a Castle, produce Mongolian army, and kill your Villager?
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The game balance should fall on the high end of where the bulk of the players are. Balance based on the top tier players is useless. They will maximize whatever changes are made and overcome them
1200 to 1600 is where the bulk of the action is and the players are skilled enough to sift the good from the bad pretty efficiently.
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Itās funny how mass psychology rules these debates on civ strength. Itās like people donāt know what to think unless there is a general movement in that direction. We all know itās impossible to balance this game for the most part thatās why Iāve always said just to saw off the rough edges.
All of the Asian civs have been over strength for over a decade. For the most part I believe the debate died because after 17 years of futility everyone who had fought to change it has either died or gave up hitting their head against the wall long ago. Itās just accepted that itās the way itās going to be.
Japan and china need some work. India I can live with I suppose but the universal defense cry of the Indian fanboys of āyeah but these op units make me need to build an extra houseā does wear a bit thin in moments of frustration.
The euro civs are the stepchildren of the original marriage.
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Villagers/huntables/herdables from villages/TC, cheaper and faster vills while ally with russians (that give a blochouse/fort/factory).
Also their train time card boost villagers too.
I think that they have potential to do it
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From the 1.03 version of the Asian Dynasty in 2009 to the time before aoe3de was released, only the Japanese and Indians were the strongest in Asia. The data and gameplay of the Chinese were far less abundant than these two. , The three most ops in version 1.03 are always the Iroquois, Indians, and Ottomans. The Japanese can also rank fourth according to his n bugs. What about China? The lack of means to deal with cavalry led to ff being defeated by a large number of cavalry regiments without success. de has changed this, adding Mongol armies so that they can effectively deal with cavalry. As for why the Chinese are so op now, there are two reasons why the mutton at the start of the game was changed from 60 food to 120 food in the February patch, which greatly accelerated the speed of the previous era. 2. All Asian civilizations can build wonders without queuing, and all villagers can build them together. This also speeds up the epoch time of 10s. These changes make the Chinese people can do ff from 7:30 seconds to 6:40 seconds. There are still a lot of military cards that can be issued continuously. At this stage, you donāt even need to produce troops. This is the reason why the Chinese are currently op.
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Yeah but no where near boomer civs like brits Japan or dutch etcā¦the sheep bonus is pretty badā¦no one will spend food to train sheep in an actual game. The consulate is just a consulate bonus, all Asian civs have consulate bonuses to choose from. The card which accelerates production is not super useful either. Think about Aztecs or Inca, ship 5 priests or 8 vills in age 3 and put them on fertility dance, it is several times faster production than China. Whereas the same one age 3 card for China only gives 20% faster training.
I am assuming it is a bug, because I checked the French consulate horse artillery, it does NOT suffer from that.
I love your changdao reference. I think a fully leveled up, exalted changdao should beā¦
300HP, 35 damage, times 2 against cavalry, times 1.5 against infantry (because thereās no way a musketeer could defend against that) and then a speed nerf of to 4.5, because theyāre in full armor and carry massive swords. I still oppose the halberdiers being 4.25 speed. Thatās historically inaccurate lol. Same with the pikemen but I know why the pikemen are fast, despite being like, among the most unwieldy of infantry.
I did an old post last summer about how I would love to see a Chinese arsenal added into the Confucian academy and it would give like 6 unique techs that mirror some European ones.
I would also love for China to see a cheap ābombardā added. It could cost 4 pop, have only like 250 HP, pushed like those Japanese flaming arrows, but it can have like 100 damage, times 3 against infantry, times 2 against buildings. I know that Yuan Chonghuan used Chinese bombards to effectively defeat the Manchus in a major battle, so like, the Chinese should have a bombard. So should the Indians. I mean the Mughals. They famously built massive, Ottoman-esque cannons. I guess the only way to make that work is with the great bombards from the consulate.
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edit: the stats on those are wrong as well, the bug has been reported
I agree.Only>1700 elo person can give advice.Strange suggestion is not conducive to the development of the game.Winning probability is Reference basis.Obviously,China only T1-T2
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to add on to this as well, the increased unit selection means you can easily control like 90 units now, meaning chinaās massive armies are much more easy to micro, which was a disadvantage before.
The same can be said for russia, i dont think its a coincidence that these two civs, which were considered sort of weak before are becoming a lot harder for people to deal with
before you may need like 3-4 control groups to micro chinaās unit spam but now it can be like 2
another small but important change is the auto formation for muskets, which now automatically stand infront of skirms and archers, meaning cav cant charge chinaās mass as easily with the consulate muskets
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I donāt consider the meteor hammer a relative of the hussar, itās too unique for that. If anything the stupid iron flail is closer to a hussar, since they arenāt even half as good as a cuirassier lol.
I guess the real thing with me is and I am going to state this as like a thesis āa shift towards more historical accuracy while maintaining balanceā is what I, me, would like to see. With that in mind, the Indians would need a huge overhaul too. The camel cavalry they have is too fast, like historically inaccurately too fast. And I must be clear, I did not get into this game for fun of video games, I got into it because Iām a historian and linguist and I adore that I can play as the Qing dynasty or hear Turkish words that I havenāt actually said to people for a decade because thereās no one left in my life to speak it to lol.
Like I still love the Chinese arquebusier and his little Ming dynasty style uniform, which is super accurateā¦but Iād rather see a Qing bannerman uniform, since I just prefer their outfits more.
Though, to your point about the meteor hammerās armor, you ever play as China and get the natives that boost defense, the Sudanese (+10% melee) and the Jagiellon (+10% ranged) either one of them turns the meteor hammer into a hussar. That extra little defense really offsets the fact that they have only have 532HP when fully leveled up and have all their cards. Hussars to me, especially late game, are used more as damage sponges. Iām more cautious with my valuable meteor hammers.
Then you are at the wrong place my dude. Like the original devs stated, its about having a fun gameplay experience, not about having a historically accurate simulation. And that is exactly how it should be. Its historically themed, but should never go simulation, there are alternatives for you if you prefer that, dont change an existing game into it.
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If this game didnāt have cultural aspects and linguistic traditions, I would not have been drawn to it, and the 1,800 hours Iāve spent on this version alone says I am in a fine place. If this game was 100% fictional like Starcraft and had ALL the same things, just different alien appearances and Sims-like speech, I wouldnāt have been attracted to it.
But the argument for balance is also not a fulfilled goal at all. My biggest complaint against ābalanceā is why do the Europeans and Africans ONLY get the final massive HP and attack boost to mercenaries. In my opinion, every civ should have access to that, either via a card or something. Thatās the point of mercenaries, to bring outside help in. My example is the fully leveled up Dutch Fusilier, who has about 525HP, 115 ranged attack, 80 siege, and 70 melee, but a normal Fusilier with no upgrades has only likeā¦300HP, 70 ranged, 60 siege, and like 35 melee. That is my NUMBER 1 complaint, everyone should have access to that upgrade.
Iād drop my wish for a Chinese and Indian arsenal if they gained access to the final upgrade for mercenaries. I think the Native Americans should get true mercenaries as well.
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Its an age up bonus, atleast for Europeans, I barely play Africans. Just like how the Japanese can retrain shoguns in the shogunate or how the Indians have a building which increases gathering rates.
Mercenaries already are barely used and are a unit type mostly meant for European civs. Most supremacy games doesnt even see an age V and in treaty only a few civs go mercenaries, mainly the ones who have high coin or card bonus. Japan argueably doesnt need the upgrade as their units are already above good and I really dont think Indians and Chinese would suddenly mass use them.
Native Americans would never make mercenaries seeing their poor coin gathering rates. Also regarding your wish for historical accuracy Lakota and Iroqouis wouldnt use them as what would they pay them with? And most European mercenaries didnt go to the new world let alone fight for native Americans. Sure same can be said for Asia, but as I have said before the game is not a simulation, so yes the natives could get them, but not if you keep up the argument for historical accuracy.
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India has always been stealth OP, even from before the times of DE.
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