Thank you! But the civ design annoys plenty of people who play them.
Balance wise, it should be fine.
This is a susggestion I myself had made earlier. But devs again gave a wood discount on siege. Probably, they should be like teutons using the farm wood discount to power their economy. But having 2 wood discounts is dedundant. So the new bonus which is better than the 200 wood per age. But about half as effective as the siege wood discount to prevent the kind of siege spam Dravidians can do now.
→ “Receive 10 wood per villager trained till arriving in imperial age
Its easy to research atonement
Probably too much work to be benficial for casual players. The current problem with the cIv.
Thats a huge boost. I am more interested to make their land play viable. The civ itself was not a thallasocrasy in the vein of Majapahit or even to the extent of the italian & greek city states. Cholas were a huge infantry and elephant based land army. Here is an excerpt from a current research by a living historian,
When I started research for this book, I was obviously looking for mentions of ships. When I read the inscriptions, there were all these mentions of army regiments, clearly suggesting that the Cholas loved to document all aspects of their military, political, and religious life.
But I was very puzzled. There’s no mention of navy regiments.
In fact, the great Tamil historian Tamil Y Subbarayalu, wrote a paper about this. He extensively looked at all published Chola inscriptions and found maybe one or two mentions of what might be naval forces based in Nagapattinam, their primary port. But the description is as the ‘Army of the Sea’ rather than naval units. Most Chola inscriptions tend to focus on land-based wars. You see many Chola generals making gifts and temples, but there’s no Chola naval officer.
Then how did they ferry troops to Malay peninsula to fight wars?
“Maybe the Cholas didn’t have a navy, but the Tamil merchants did,”
Good idea. May be with a +2 LOS
I am not against it. But the civ is based on chola empire which was primarily an infantry and elephant force.
Thank you Einstein. Why don’t you explain your 1000 IQ proposal?