Erebus in the Balance Update

[DaveV]

A modest proposal: one of the most common events in the early game is one of the religion events. If you don't have a state religion, the only choice is "Use these signs as an excuse to raise taxes," which gives 0-50 gold. Yes, you can get zero gold from the event, which is a real thumb in the eye. It's also a very wide range: 3 gold is pretty pointless; 50 gold is enough to fund quite a bit of deficit research. Since the Mammon event gives 40 gold, I suggest the following change to EVENT_SIGN_3 in CIV4EventInfos.xml - from:

Code:

<iGold>0</iGold>
<bGoldToPlayer>0</bGoldToPlayer>
<iRandomGold>50</iRandomGold>

to:

Code:

<iGold>20</iGold>
<bGoldToPlayer>0</bGoldToPlayer>
<iRandomGold>30</iRandomGold>

This changes the event to give 20-50 gold, averaging 35.

[Qgqqqqq]

Good idea!

Just in case people didn't see the v10 released thread, its here: http://realmsbeyond.net/forums/showthread.php?tid=7017

[RefSteel]

It occurs to me that my obsession with fine-tuning my own writing, together with the length of my "Sarcodes Cycle" pieces, sets a bad precedent for others (it does give you a small window on the way I write, but this has nothing to do with EitB). So I'm taking a break from that, at least for the moment, to write some shorter pieces; for most entries I think it's better to just have something written than to try to create a masterpiece. (I have to keep reminding myself of this periodically or I'll disappear into a cloud of words and rewrites and revisions and never surface again.)

"The reclusive Silverback, rarely seen in any age of the world, has never been prized for its pelt in spite of its beautiful sheen. On the contrary, the beast is mostly valued, when it can be found at all, for the entertainment inherent in observing the hoots and whistles and almost-human gesticulations of the visitors who come to see it exhibited." -Maena Dryn, Scholar, Thariss Academy

As winter lengthened and cities across the land were brought to ruin by icy beasts and raging storms, many peoples cached stores of building equipment and tools where they might lie safe and undiscovered until their owners could reclaim them, someday in the hoped-for future, with the melting of the snows. Through the long years of the terrible Age of Ice, some of these caches were robbed or destroyed, but others remained, often forgotten with the passing years even among the few whose owners remained alive, waiting to be discovered again and put to use at last by strangers in the Age of Rebirth.

Legends tell of civilizations that used libraries as centers both of knowledge and of literate communities, and used them too as places to store the recorded wisdom of their people - to preserve their histories. Among civilizations known by more than questionable myth to dwell in Erebus however, a people's history is instead preserved by training soldiers enough to prevent at least some who remember it from being slain, and their records from being burned for kindling. The purpose of a library, then, is to serve as a storehouse of knowledge and a place of study, so that the next generation of scholars and engineers might conceive new weapons, or rediscover the means of building the mightiest of ancient ones, to better ensure those soldiers - and therefore their civilizations - are not overrun and destroyed after all.

"You can keep your magic and new-fangled siege devices. Just give me a good, solid curtain wall of Dwarven stone between me and the enemy." -Tarnok Grif to the Captain of the Guards of Dotremon

"Oh, look! They've changed the direction the ground is facing! How enterprising of them!" - General Loblally Blimmersmoot of the Balseraphs, coming in view of Dotremon, shortly before his pupeteered spell-beasts began the sack of the city

[Qgqqqqq]

Errk, never thanked you for that last entry, despite seeing and appreciating. Thanks RefSteel!


On a *ahem* more gameplay-related note ( ), I have made a proposal about lairs (which is always nicely-controversial) in the more appropriate thread. See here: http://realmsbeyond.net/forums/showthrea...#pid485971