Have you ever been to Nara Park?
I even based on this to suggest that the Japanese sacred animal should be herdable deer rather than Dutch goats.
When heroes can cause effective damage to Kannushi, then they are easy to target and die, making the economy of this civilization terrible.
When heroes can’t cause effective damage to Kannushi, then they can’t be stopped by the opponent, thus gaining an overly strong economy.
Obviously it is difficult to balance, even if there is a way, I don’t think it should be designed like this.
As long as Daimyo is not a starting hero, why not simply allow Japanese explorers/cartographers to build Shrines (whether or not the Shrines are separated from Houses)? They came from low-ranking samurai and commoners, having no problem building shrines. I’d rather introduce Monks who don’t have great combat power as ordinary healers at the Monastery, and the Shinto stuff is only a part of the economy and has nothing to do with healers.
When you suggested Emir as the name of a unit other than Hausa, I had thought you don’t mind that.
The biggest problem with Prince is that it exists like Wonders. When it’s somewhat unreasonable to rule the town in any other Qing territory outside of its home city, let alone Americas, Africa and Europe?
Don’t like General, you can choose Viceroy.
The financial industry and trade industry of the Qing Dynasty were almost the most developed in the thousands of years of imperial China. With the silver standard in economic policy, a large amount of silver in the world flowed into China. Merchants with the same place of origin established merchant guilds (“Shāngbāng”, the nature is not the same as European guilds) that could affect the economy of the entire empire, and used the wealth they earned to develop towns in their hometowns.
On the other hand, since the developments of the Silk Road and the Tea Horse Road, caravans have been an important part of the imperial economy. In the vast empire with a population of 400 million people and many neighboring states, Chinese merchants must carry a large amount of goods for long-distance travel through mountains, rivers, steppes and desserts. The way out of the big cities was not safe, natural disasters, wild beasts, outlaws, and barbarians are common. Since ancient times, the guilds had organized private armed forces to escort caravans, and there are also some agencies that are professionally hired to escort caravans.
You might think that something like these might have similar existence in other countries around the world. But the difference is that the Chinese folk romanticize such armed forces. Those escorts are used as themes in literary works and entertainment works, such as wuxia novels and dramas. For the Chinese civilization in the game, they will not be a strange existence, at least in the eyes of Chinese-speaking players. They’re great for getting some economy-related effects like having trickles, etc.