Right now clearly there are two civs that are almost like perma banned in tourney. although there are 18 civs it still like 16 civ game. just becuase of RUS and HRE. I think these should be immediate balance patches instead of years of perma banned civs. anyway…
For RUS:
I see that some play it without building a mining camp entire game even to late castle just because of golden gate and free resources.
How about we make Hunting cabins and High Trade House generate gold only for standing trees. If they are chopped you loose the gold income? Pros: It force the player to move out to the map to gather the wood instead of chopping the safe wood next to tc and the hunting cabins Or make the decision to chop the safe wood but build the Hunting cabins out in the map where they will give constant income but have to defend with the army.
Right now they can build Hunting cabin, Tower, lumber camp and High trade house at the same place and play until late castle just selling and buying. safe under the tc. its hard to burn anything because they can easily fast castle while garrisoning in 8 slot towers.