Players:
Portuguese - cupcoffee
Dutch - Dario
French - Radyserb
Habsburgs - Karlheinz
English - McMonkey
Changes:
France has one Trade Center less
Dutch has one more Trade Center (making Dutch to the major trading target)
The Colonial Goods are not on the freight position any longer (making the tech progress slower I hope)
+House Rules
+Event mistake repaired (England gets 1640 now the right tech)
House Rules:
-No reloading of any kind
-No tech exchange
-No rehoming of caravans
-No ship chaining of any kind
-Diplomats can only be used during peace times
-No sneak attacks; you will also have to wait one turn before you mobilize your invading troops
-Settlers, cannons and ships can only be built in Europe: Exception is when colonial cities reach size 8
MODIFIED: -Any shortcuts between the oceans (like Suez or Panama) can not be used; All units will have to circumnavigate along Cape Hope and Cape Horn
-Cities can not be placed adjacent to trading posts (airbases); only on top of them
MODIFIED: -No conquest of Scotish and Ottoman AI cities until 1700 and of continental European AI cities in general (but recapture is possible)
-No founding of new cities in Europe and in the Ottoman Empire; only rebuild razed ones
-No terrain stealing to the AI
-Slaves can not be used to found new cities
MODIFIED: -No terraforming (just o orders)
-No transport of fortresses per ship
-You may only build one fortress per 4 citizens in your city: ie.
4-7 city size: you can have 1 fortress.
8-11 city size: you can have 2 fortresses, and so on...
- You may build fortresses without restriction in continental europe and england
NEW: - No founding of new cities on tundra, mountains or hills. (preventing large "arctic" empires)
No foundings of new cities on forest, marsh and jungle too (you have to cut the obstacles first with worker(s))
For Habsburg it's not allowed to colonize with austrian, hungarian and german workers.
Tariffs are allowed.
Blackklicking is forbidden.
No City Bribe allowed.
No Food Caravans
Knights must be nobilitated at home, so they can't be built in colonies.
NEW: You can just build diplomats in cities with Royal Court and Missionaries just in cities with a cathedral and monastery
Link to the game files