>>715894386
>It's most definitely salvageable
It really isn't. I've played through it extensively and I do not really believe it can be made into a successful Civ game no matter how much effort is poured into it. The Era system is simply not salvageable in its current form, it is too invasive and even the most tolerable aspects of it that COULD be utilized well in a Civ game can't be extracted and used in this title.

There's just too much to cover to really fix this. I mean let's go with something really basic: Food. In every single Civ title before it city growth was dictated by a balance of food income versus food upkeep. That is completely gone. Now food acts as an experience bar, once enough is accumulated the player purchases one more hex. This new system CANNOT be changed as it is the primary way players expand their territory. So there's no real way to improve the system and bring it up to parity with its predecessors

The game is absolutely littered with examples like these. Mechanics that make you wonder what fucking drugs they were on when they came up with it, especially for a series that has had a working formula for decades.