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Zapmeister said:
I don't think it's unrealistic that a structure of some sort should appear in each province. In fact, I think it unlikely that a conquering nation of any competence (in the real world, even) would leave its new acquisitions undeveloped.
What is unrealistic is that a nation can only build one kind of structure, so we never see, say, a castle in one province and watchtowers in the surrounding ones, as one might expect in the "real" world.
Also, and here's the problem that gives rise to madcastling, watchtowers are just as effective as citadels in a most important respect defensively. Their presence means that it takes at least two turns to capture the province. I think that if you fixed this (also unrealistic) property of the cheap fortifications, you would fix madcastling.
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I agree Zap, but how exactly do you propsoe to acomplish that? If Watch Tower would take less than 2 turns to capture, that would mean 1 turn, right?
Than it would not be a fort at all. And increasing the Defense value of citadel even more would not make Watch Tower easier to capture than it is now.
I completely agree with you that it would be great to have more different province imporvments to build, like Watch Towers that would actually do what what they say, rather than being "real castles", and so on. But I think it is highly unlikely that something like that could be added that late after game's release, since it would requre major recoding.
Making castle price flexible on the other side is very easy to do, and would require minimal changes to the code. (especially considering that AI doesn't build castles anyway
) I am trying to give suggestions that have a chance of being implemented in the patch, if devs will decide that it is worth it.
Regards,
Stormbinder