Make the old Minor Civilisations great again

Age of Empires III: DE III - Discussion
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The 5 new African Minor Civilisations (Natives) are more interesting and better than the old American and Asian Minors.
They have some interesting and new ideas like unlocking a Hero unit, giving things like poison damage or salt mines.

Every Minor Civilisations gets one new Technology

  • Can unlock a Mercenary unit
  • Can unlock a Hero unit
  • Can give poison damage
  • Can give (Gold) mine, Mango Grove, (Cherry) Orchard
  • Can unlock second native unit

Also the two African Civilisations get an additional bonus for allying with Minor Civilisations, they get a 0.5 Influence trickle.

Bonus for Minor Ally

  • Native Americans get a “ghost” villager at the Ceremonial Plaza
  • Asians get an Export trickle
  • Europeans could get XP trickle or something else

New content

  • New Native American and maybe also Asian Mercenary units
  • New “Buildings” like an Orchard that doesn’t have Cherries
  • New Hero units
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IRC TP on minor civs giving XP was tested on some version of the ESOC patch (the patch that DE was based) but was scrapped.

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I’ve heard of that. Just giving a 0.5 XP trickle is not really a good solution. But I don’t know what would be a good alternative for Europeans.
Asians have Export as unique resource and the Community Plaza is also kinda like a resource.

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