(March 20th, 2014, 17:59)Krill Wrote: Makes sense. Another question about the spreadsheet though, is that you've listed the tech costs for Agri and others as the base BtS tech costs, not for the altered costs in the 1.1 version. Obviously this would not change the costs for the era much, but if this change were implemented, are you saying that the starting tech costs would return to base BtS values, or keep the current values? The spreadsheet is showing that Agri>AH is 60 beakers less on Monarch/Huge (18 beakers less on Prince/Small) with this change, which obviously has a pretty large effect on starting tech balance.
Oh - yes, I guess the spreadsheet lists BTS costs instead of the slightly different ToW costs. So swap the first-row techs around mentally and reduce metal casting cost a bit too. I'm going to leave the spreadsheet unchanged, I think, even though that doesn't quite make sense.