Until the virtues themselves are given a proper balance pass then I can't see Elodie ever rising above that of a poor/boring choice.
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The Rising Tide upgrade system has done nothing to help Franco Iberia stand out either, as a couple of free virtues per game is not going to amount to anything worthwhile by the end of your standard 200-turn conquest.įocusing on culture is a really bad idea in Beyond Earth and its limited role has gotten even more limited with the introduction of water cities.
Give me back my bonus to worker speed! (Īnother sponsor who has fallen from grace, going from game-breakingly good to puzzlingly awful in the space of a single patch. The only thing keeping PAC out of last place is the fact that you can play a fairly different culture orientated strategy with water cities + Monomyth + Techno Artisans, but it's at the cost of wonders actually representing something unique and special and for any Civilization game - spin off or not - that's just really disappointing. This is just a very badly thought out design choice and if you want further proof of that then just look at how it badly it suits the new upgrade system offering the worst upgrade bonuses of any sponsor, Brasilia included! Making matters worse is the fact that most of them are unlocked on wayward technologies that you'll not want to research anyway thus making the ability more of a liability than a boon. How do you explain a sponsor who has the ability to finish massive feats of human engineering in a single turn? Do they all have magic hands or something?Įven more hilarious is the fact that the ability comes off as somewhat weak because the majority of wonders in BE are so terribly ineffective. This ability is so remarkably unthematic that it actually makes me angry. Well, here we still are and yes it sucks. I can remember when every member of this very forum was calling this ability change a typo, with the designers stating it would be "changed" in time for release. Once my favourite sponsor in Beyond Earth, PAC has been ruined for no good reason in Rising Tide. And just when you thought that wonders in BE couldn't be devalued further. I'm not even going to mention the 'diplomatic capital for kills' portion of the ability because I find it insulting that Firaxis would even consider that a bonus. No energy support, no army limit bonus or additional combat expertise just a hidden counter in the background that ensures any lucrative reparations payout is even more lucrative.Īll Guerilla Mastery really does is give you a slight boost whilst you're already ahead and that is neither helpful nor particularly interesting. Similar to Civilization V, Brasilia is a war orientated race that doesn't get the important tools required for actually waging a war. With the new war score system being introduced last patch, this sponsor has some potential to do something different as the idea of trained soldiers turning the tide of a war through nothing but pure numbers is a thematic one.Īfter trying it out in a few games though, I can say that the bonus to war score points just doesn't have a big enough impact to be worth upgrading.Įven with INTEGR's War of Ideas agreement in tow (which offers a total +75% war score bonus when coupled with Brasilia's fully upgraded UA), the net result is a bunch of extra technologies or resources you didn't prioritise because they weren't important anyway. Thanks!ĭear, oh dear! Firaxis just can't seem to give Rejinaldo a break, can they? Taking home many a worst sponsor award since the vanilla release, Brasilia's benefits never seem to make any sort of meaningful impact on your game. Share your top 12 too so we can get a decent discussion going.
To be clear: this isn't a tier list necessarily, but just a ranking of how much I like each sponsor, taking into account everything from their design and backstory to their unique abilities and overall game balance. To start off I've chalked up a favourites list of where I personally rank the 12 sponsors of Beyond Earth and might consider doing more for virtues and wonders etc.
It's not getting any easier to enjoy BERT what with Firaxis' suspect ability to fix big problems - what did they do to marvel quests!? - but I thought I'd start up a little discussion on the elements that people currently like/dislike for giggles anyway. I've been absent from the Beyond Earth scene for a while now and I've since noticed that activity on this forum has slumped in the wake of the most recent patch.
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