When will balance changes end?

[Darkness01101]

Hehe, I hear ya. In fact, I tried the same thing back in May of last year Is funny our thread titles are so similar:

When will balance changes stop?

The problem with having so many civs is the devs have to dedicate so much time and energy to doing +15 HP here, -.02s there, +.01% speed here, +1G there. I hope they can just pin it down someday and say, “These are the final stats for units in our game. Take it or leave it. Enjoy! Now we’re going to put all our efforts on doing cool things.” I prefer a focus on cool game improvements, and, of course, trying to address stability issues people might be having. +1s build time is not a cool improv…

After seeing replies there, though, I came to the conclusion that balance changes to ‘stir the pot up’, so to speak, are kind’ve cool. It would be pretty unfortunate if civs were forever locked in stone with one particular civ being the dominant civ for all eternity in the game, and so everyone always plays it. Isn’t it nice that power can change, and/or you have to devise new strategies due to balance changes?

Prior to that thread, I always thought balance changes were simply to try and create the perfect state where all civs are perfectly equal in power. So, I also wondered how/why it wasn’t perfectly balanced yet after so many years, or why it was such a big deal.