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EpsTweak for Adaptation

EpsTweak is a series of small mods that tweak the balance of Civ 6. Rather than put all of them into one hefty package, I've split them into small fragments to allow you to make your own custom rulesets.


How many times have you found yourself in this situation before: You fire up a multiplayer game with your buddies, wait for a long loading screen to complete, get in the game, start planning your strategy and... someone calls for a restart because the map RNG put them in tundra, and they're not playing a tundra civ. Sigh. Time for another painfully slow re-host.

This is caused by a long-standing problem with Civ 6 (and even 5) where apart for a scant few wonders or specific leaders, there is never a good way for a civilization to adapt to rough terrain. Meaning that if you have the misfortune of landing in it, you're left starting with a severe handicap. Wouldn't it be nice if that weren't the case? If the game extended a helping hand in particularly tough starts?

Well, that's exactly what this mod is for. When you found your first city, the game will scan all tiles within 2 tiles of the Palace. If it determines that there are too many rough terrain tiles, it will permanently give your whole civilization a set of abilities to help cope with that terrain:

If there are at least 7 Tundra, Tundra Hill, Snow, or Snow Hill tiles, you'll adapt to Tundra, allowing you to build Farms on Tundra tiles. Also, Farms on Tundra will have +1 Production.

If there are at least 7 Desert or Desert Hill tiles, you'll adapt to Desert, allowing you to build Farms on Desert tiles. Also, Farms on Desert will have +1 Production and Faith.

If there are at least 5 Mountain tiles, you'll addapt to Mountains, allowing your citizens to work Mountain tiles. They will yield +1 Production, +1 Faith, and +1 Food for each adjacent Farm.

There are a few exceptions when applying the above:
Canada will receive no bonus for settling in Tundra.
Russia will not receive a Production bonus on its Tundra Farms.
Mali will not receive a Faith bonus on its Desert Farms.
Inca will not receive extra Production on its Mountains.


Translations:

Included in the "German translations for Civilization VI mods" pack.