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Usain Bolt is pretty fast. So fast that he’d beat you in a foot race if he was wearing heavy body armor while you streaked down the track with nothing but the wind and the finish line between you and him. Also, it’s a game. Have fun

I’m a lawyer. I sit around at a desk all day reading and writing. I became a lawyer because I’m pretty good at reading and writing. I’d even say that I can do lawyer work better than your typical marine. But guess what? If you put a pack and boots on me I bet I’d be a lot slower on a trek than those same marines. All men aren’t the same and can’t do all jobs equally.

It's a conspiracy and @AlexHerbert is in on it too

I’m just convinced that you edited your original message to try to make me look bad

The missing context here is that houses used to be free for ptol, so Vali was just placing them as fast as he could at the edges.

This would make them more useful earlier. I like the suggestion.

Many thanks for bring back the old badsou maps.

This was when they were built in a23 (back when they were still useful). Usually to break a stalemate in a 3 (plus one very useless player) v 4 situation. The 3 would be outplaying the 4 in basically every way but couldn’t win because of pop cap limits.

I also liked the idea you posted awhile ago about it housing super strong techs like eco super boost, military super boost, and pop boost everyone did but some random person no one had heard of before or since. It didn’t matter, @Nescio was just awful and forced his awful vision for the game forward and lost many players in the process. I honestly don’t think the game has recovered since, which is a real shame because the game had just expanded a bunch during covid

Boo. In a23 there was a real decision between going for WTF, wonder (for extra pop), or champs. That’s is an objectively better setup that what exists now, which is only a choice between champs and WTF Novelty is also silly. You could say that about any unit, building, and/or tech

That means you might recoup your resource costs 15 minutes after the game is over because all your allies resigned while you were spending all your time building a really expensive building with no other use.

Strong agree. It used to automatically give a small pop bonus with the tech to get even more. Then our former glorious leader @Nescio said this was unnecessary and that the wonder was still useful as a temple. Such a brilliant understand of the game he had

Wonders are one of the most useless building in the game. They super expensive in resources and time. I don't know if I've seen a game all alpha where building a wonder helped that team (assuming it isn't a win condition).

This is a real hack. I like it. My main point is that food is the slowest gathered resource. So you can't value it the same as the others in a 1:1 basis. It's also the resource most likely to hit 0 when a player loses. Additionally, the auto train cows part can get a player into real trouble if their food supply suddenly runs low.

Interesting but it’s an incomplete picture. 1. Corrals use food as a resource input, which is slower to gather. 2. Corrals use of food to gather food also means that the food collection chart will have lots scarcity dips caused by capital investment costs. This is pretty dangerous and can bankrupt a player quickly. 3. Corrals require more micro. 4. Corrals require continual investment/management whereas ice houses just need to be built once. 5. Ice houses are unique to Persia, which has a higher pop cap/ eco potential, so more it’s easier to collect the input resources 6. You’re missing the corral training tech 7. Cows can be batch trained 8. You can build 7 (or more corrals) all at once all in all, I agree ice houses need a buff but I don’t think it’s as desperate as the above portrays