Florence (province of Firenze) should get an event/decision lowering development cost

[Me_]

Most major cities in the game have Farmland or Grassland as their terrain type (Paris, London, Wien, Prague, etc.). The notable exceptions to this are Venice (Coastal), Holland (Marsh), Florence (Hills) and Genoa (Hills) which have terrain that increases development cost.

Venice and Holland get an event and decision respectively, that give major reductions to development cost. Unfortunately, the birthplace of the Renaissance does not get similar treatment, meaning that Firenze is rather expensive to develop (they have the Important CoT modifier, but so does Venice and Holland).

I'd suggest adding an event or decision that would give Florence a reduction in development cost.

 

[Mattius]

Can't see why not.

 

[leadshooter69]

The fact that adding more exceptions seem reasonable tells me that the current terrain development cost system should be reworked.

 

[MetalTaberna]

Coastal should get Development cost reduction in general, what with the vast majority of commerce going over the sea and thus through ports.

 

[Chlodio]

Florence starts as high already... Is majority of Florence really hills? It seems that it could have farmland instead.

 

[Sarmatian]

Florence starts as high already... Is majority of Florence really hills? It seems that it could have farmland instead.

It's a hilly region. Definitely not farmland.

 

[Maria Theresa]

Florence might have been birthplace of Renaissance and booming with culture and science but after 1500s it was left far behind other cities like Paris, London, Venice etc when it came to population size/wealth/production. And even in 15th century it was nowhere near the levels of others. Venice was more than twice the size of Florence and Milan was bigger aswell. So i find it hard to justify further development cost reductions for Florence. The 10% they get from Tuscan ideas seems good enough.

 

[Mattius]

All of Italy should get a little. Like -5% or something.