The valuing of the traits has evolved since PB1. Since pretty much everyone nowadays have followed multitude of games and seen what best MP players have written. It is no wonder that snake picking is boring and predictable. You had to be pretty confident or ignorant to choose subpar civ/nation when picks like Sury/Pacal/Willem+other top tier financials/India/Inca are still there.
One could try to make a map that is unfavourable to Financial/expansive. Not sure what that would mean. Probably a very poor land without any water with very few workable tiles could do it, but who wants to play with a map like that?
One could try to make a map that is unfavourable to Financial/expansive. Not sure what that would mean. Probably a very poor land without any water with very few workable tiles could do it, but who wants to play with a map like that?