Apparently in the newest version whether an institution spawns or not doesn't matter anymore and the penalty still starts at the set years (1500, 1550, etc.).
I don't mind a late spawn but the penalty used to start when an institution spawned.
What can happen? Well colonialism, but industrialization is another example for late spawning, is known to spawn late. In my so far brilliant game as Byzantium, it's 1525 and colonialism still hasn't spawned. Penalty for all countries 50%!!!
Who thought this one up?
This completely unbalanced the entire game. Both Spain and Portugal are notorious for getting too involved in Morocco and as a result lack the monarch power to get quest for the world in a acceptable time frame. The consequence is they can be late with meeting the requirements for colonialism to spawn. And that means a lot of non player countries get so far behind, its impossible to keep up...especially if the next spawn is on time!!!
So no penalty when an institution hasn't spawned sounds as very good advice to me.
I don't mind a late spawn but the penalty used to start when an institution spawned.
What can happen? Well colonialism, but industrialization is another example for late spawning, is known to spawn late. In my so far brilliant game as Byzantium, it's 1525 and colonialism still hasn't spawned. Penalty for all countries 50%!!!
Who thought this one up?
This completely unbalanced the entire game. Both Spain and Portugal are notorious for getting too involved in Morocco and as a result lack the monarch power to get quest for the world in a acceptable time frame. The consequence is they can be late with meeting the requirements for colonialism to spawn. And that means a lot of non player countries get so far behind, its impossible to keep up...especially if the next spawn is on time!!!
So no penalty when an institution hasn't spawned sounds as very good advice to me.
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