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... or the lack of promotion opportunities.
What was the highest XP any of your units has ever gotten?
Mine was 28. Since the min XP gain per combat is 1, i had roughly 15 combats with that unit. Quite an achievement, considering most units don't last more than 3 combats, if they are lucky.
This got me thinking, because you need at least a unit with 27 XP to get the "commando" promotion (use of enemy roads). And even if you did get that promotion, would you really send that unit into combat alone with no backup? Would be quite a waste.
So to me it seems there are so many wonderful promotions, but 50% of them will never see any meaningful use.
So what i've done was set Min XP gain from 1 to 4. So each unit is guaranteed 4 XP per combat it wins. This "new" promotion would also improve future combat surivival and as such really add an RPG layer, where you can build your units up and call them "elite" instead of the system we have now.
In my latest game i've had 2 infantry units with XP ~40 that stayed with me from the ancient age on up. Those are 2 serious arse kickers, but not undefeatable as i found out.
Is anyone else unhappy with the minimal XP gain from vanilla Civ4?
What was the highest XP any of your units has ever gotten?
Mine was 28. Since the min XP gain per combat is 1, i had roughly 15 combats with that unit. Quite an achievement, considering most units don't last more than 3 combats, if they are lucky.
This got me thinking, because you need at least a unit with 27 XP to get the "commando" promotion (use of enemy roads). And even if you did get that promotion, would you really send that unit into combat alone with no backup? Would be quite a waste.
So to me it seems there are so many wonderful promotions, but 50% of them will never see any meaningful use.
So what i've done was set Min XP gain from 1 to 4. So each unit is guaranteed 4 XP per combat it wins. This "new" promotion would also improve future combat surivival and as such really add an RPG layer, where you can build your units up and call them "elite" instead of the system we have now.
In my latest game i've had 2 infantry units with XP ~40 that stayed with me from the ancient age on up. Those are 2 serious arse kickers, but not undefeatable as i found out.
Is anyone else unhappy with the minimal XP gain from vanilla Civ4?
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