lol. yeah, that sounds about right. I'm not really sure how that's figured. Maybe 78 is really high?

I don't see that it adversely affects balance since the modded buildings were made available to the other factions.  in fact, I took over cities where my new mods had been built by the AI.  the balance may be different than it was before, but, it is still balance.  also, upgrading a workshop to a factory is the same as upgrading a study to a library (which is part of the  base game).  it required research and city level to achieve and had a comparable cost to build and maintain.  what's imbalanced about that?

as far as the public square is concerned I felt that the .2 prestige of a new settlement was just way too small and the Inn requires lvl 2 city.  so I designed an improvement for a level 1 city that gave half the prestige of the Inn with a compatible cost and maintenance value.   it added .5 prestige to a city, only build-able once per city.  all kingdom factions had access to it (and they used it) and the empire factions have their unlimited monument which adds .5 each, which they seem to spam so balance was not adversely affected there either.

as for the capes, I see no balance issues with allowing a female NPC to wear a cape that adds +1 movement.  In fact, I think it is a bug, and I just fixed it.

custom factions and custom leaders are part of the base game.  if those are unbalanced then you can't blame me for it (well you could, but, I didn't do it, I swear!)

everyone is all so

"this game sucks, this game isn't fun, i can't play this game...blah blah blah"

I started this post to show that the game can be fun and there are those of us out here than enjoy it enough to play a long game, get high scores and want to share it with the community.  I don't give a small rodents tush about WHAT my score is, I was just sharing the statistics, nothing more.

my "WTF?" comment was just me being funny that I had accomplished so much and yet I still only had a double digit score.  its like that old show on comedy central with Drew Carey, "Who's Line Is It Anyway?" where The Points Don't Matter!  perhaps my 78 points are Super Ultra Mega points, in which case I did quite well!

I am a little curious to hear from one of the devs though to find out what the score is supposed to mean and how it is calculated.  perhaps 100 is the max and score is actually a percentage of game completion.  78 makes sense since I did not do any magic or diplomacy research.

Honestly, I am more interested in the final statistics of peoples games like how many seasons did it take you, what was your victory condition, how much of X resource did you end up with?  that sort of thing.  the score is the least interesting statistic because it has no meaning.  I just included it at the end because it was in such contrast to the other statistics.  it made me laugh.

what size of maps do you like to play?  what kind of winning conditions do you normally go for?

Im thinking of doing a magic win next.  I figure that when I have all four shards I can terraform myself into an impregnable valley surrounded by terraformed mountains and just turtle my way to the ultimate spell.

I don't play these games to "win" I play to play.  I might spend an entire game terraform the landscape to make a funny shape, or leveling a hero I like.  I play these games to experience the world itself and to see how it develops.  And once I get tired of it, I start a new game.  I am playing a game of Galciv now that I am building ships and simply supplying different sides of wars, just for the fun of it. 

I'm kinda on Xia's side. Right now the game is more for fun than to actually win...IMO. I find that most AI's are limited but have to agree the the AI Civ can hand out an ass whipping every now and again. Isn't GalCiv kinda the same way? There were times when I really had to struggle. Seems like an opposing faction leveled up faster than Iand came after me hard. Of course, it seemed far more tactical that strategic. I guess that is my one point of contention. The AI should be able to adjust to evolving strategies---like Daystrom's M-V for example. It is not much of a challenge if the AI beefs up but cannot employ the most rudimentary of military tactics to win.

Yeah, the Civ scoring system seems to make more sense but in the end, I just want to play the game--preferably without the OOM crashes;)