Quote:Corporations and spies in particular are the offenders thereA.
1.With corporation banned the one good path its Comunism so again you are forced to pick something if you want to be competitive.
2.I dont think Corporation are better than comunism:if you take the comunism path you get there faster, you get a great person and you dont need to spend one to get the corporation online.
3.Corporation need a seroius setup and cost money and hammers and alot of to spread it .
4.Here we dont play agains AI so getting resource its not that easy and never had time to get the corps full operational.
5.In my opinion the single fact wich makes corporation competitive with state propercy its....emancipation.How's that, you may ask did you loose your mind?
Not , emancipation force people to get out of caste wich wits a real pain for a State propercy player.
B. spy
Spy-defintly not fun, and i realy hate them, are too random, and almost are mision are very anticlimatic.I played 8-10 games with full espionaje and realy used that, in some game i made like 4k espinage /turn and becasue of that game my cousin not playing with me anymore.Everithing to cheap and too many buildings wich gave espionge and the worst part you cant realy defend against that.
C.Nukes -completly agree , unfun and nothing to balance them.
D.War elefants-completly agree, by alowing them a full branch of civ became unapealing-machinery-guilds -banking.Knigs are great but having such a cheap counter and easy to get like war elfant ,make people to avoid them.
D.Financial.
Here we see things diferently,personaly i dont belive finacial its that stron and games can be won without that trait, but makes you need to use diferent aproach when playing.There are traits wich are not that strong by themself but combined became realy strong and i am thinking here about Creativ/expansiv combo for example or creativ/philo. Spi/exp i rank higher than SPI/fin for example.You need to play a litle diferent but are very strong.
F.Blocades.I foun them interisting but realy bad implemented.so banning them its agood way to avoid this bad design.

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