That’s why I’m not a huge fan of “a new kind of resource” for the sake of having a new kind of resource. XP already abstracts a whole lot of different elements of the period, trade, rare resources, prestige, even technological advancements, and it’s a great design imo. There is no need to break it down again.
That being said, a “new resource” would only be a good design if there are unique ways to spend it in the game.
Yes, capitols come too late in a game and serve no additional purpose.
In vanilla that’s fine, but every new culture group gets a whole lot of “bundled buildings”. Bundled economic buildings can always made fair as Europeans have factories. But it’s not that Europeans can get to imperial age really faster than others so they’ll need a special building to somewhat “delay” their access to imperial techs (even most casual games do not go to imperial)
I think they should follow the US state capitol model, accessible earlier in age 3 and with a few new techs, but a little weaker so that state capitol is still unique enough (it can train building wagons which is already very unique though):
But it could also follow the basilica model that gives unique “shipments”, much like the university in the NE mod.
Besides the XP trickle, I would try to simply make Capitol itself accessible in the Industrial Age, but only Knighthood, Immigrants, and Legendary Native Warriors are accessible in the Industrial Age.
It might just be a rebranding of XP by calling it something else. “Fame” or “Prestige” are just as vague and catch all terms, but are a little more thematic at least.
Xp being called xp is a legacy from aoe3 classic where you leveled up your home cities and earned your cards, no longer relevant.
XP is still XP to gain shipments. And the Homecity level up, and the visual upgrades to the Homecity itself.
It’s only pointless aesthetics now though.
I don’t think it needs a passive effect since that’s just a buff to the European civs only. Maybe a little bonus trickle via aging up with El Presidente could make it a little better but not 100% guaranteed.
One way Capitols could be made a little more relevant could be to give them a pseudo-shipment like the Italian Basilica. This could be a “National Army” that gives the more exclusive units for each civ. Like Consulate Armies, it could give units that aren’t normally trainable.
British - Ships a Rocket and Rangers
Spanish - Ships a Heavy Cannon and Soldados
Dutch - Ships a Heavy Cannon and Blue Guards
Ottomans - Ships a Bombard, Spahi, and Nizams
French - Ships a Heavy cannon and Grenadiers
I 100% agree. None of these techs would be game-breaking to get early or in a revolution. It would even be fine to make it so that revolutions didn’t grant so much population capacity so that Immigrants was actually useful.
Then there is no that problem.
XP trickle as passive effect is the easiest and most decent approach I’ve considered.
Even if 1XP per second is fine.
Italians have their own Capitol too.
And, this greatly affects the balance.
Not like it.
In age 5 a 1XP/s trickle is negligible (shipments would arrive 0.04% faster). Might as well not bother changing it for something like that.
Something impactful like sending armies would make Capitols much more attractive. Age 5 is meant to bring the game to a close, so shipping a big expensive army would help to achieve that. If it costs enough and takes long enough to arrive, it wouldn’t be overpowered.
It happens that before it was a little uneven since a deck of level 40 was always going to be better than a deck of level 10 and that generated that new players did not want to play the game because they were going to be crushed by the most veteran players, now it is a little fairer and it doesn’t change too much that instead of unlocking cards, you unlock cosmetics as always…
I agree. A new resource should be something that isn’t just there. It’s kind of hard to achieve without it being too redundant.
I like that idea.
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Factories increase production by 5% (also affects speed of heavy artillery).
Livestock 5% more productive, since it fattens faster.
In case of generating wool/milk, the reinvestment of coins is reduced by 10%.
Crops 5% more productive.
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The analytical engine allows you to do math like never before, so you can do research faster.
Note: It’s a great invention and that’s why I wanted to propose it here, but I can’t think of a practical use within the game that is original enough. If anyone has a better idea, please tell me.
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It could also be implemented on naval trade routes.
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Agricultural production increases, the more cattle you have.
