tl;dr: What if Turks could gather gold +33% faster starting in Dark Age but have no Gold Mining or Gold Shaft Mining to balance it out. This would give them an improved Drush and Archers in Feudal. OP or not?
The goal is to make Turks better early game so that they can survive late game. The loss of late game Mining prowess may make up for it?
Regular gold mining rate: .379 gold per second
Turks bonus/Gold Mining: +15% faster: .436 gold per second
Turks + Gold Mining/Gold Shaft Mining: +15% faster: .501 gold per second
Turks + Both Techs: .576
My hypothetical Turks: .504 (starting in Dark Age)
This would give the Turks a faster Drush. The time to mine 10 gold, to add to 50 starting gold after Loom:
All civs: ~26 villager secs
Current Turks: 23 vill secs
Hypothetical Turks: 20 vs
Time to mine up another Militia:
All civs: ~52 vs
Turks: 23 s
Hypothetical: 20 vs
Bodkin Arrow? 50 gold:
All civs: 132 vs
Turks: 115 vs
Hypothetical: 99 sec
Archer rush? 45 gold per Archer, Archers created every 35s
All civs: 119 vs
All civs need 7-8 villagers on gold to produce Archers non-stop from 2 Archery Ranges.
Turks: 103 vs
Turks need 6-7 villagers on gold to produce Archers non-stop from 2 Archery Ranges.
Hypothetical: 90 vs
Hypothetical Turks need 5-6 villagers to produce Archers non-stop from 2 Archery Ranges.
Will this encourage a Turk to do the super common Drush + FC, but do it effectively? Is this OP? What do you think?
The goal is to make Turks better early game so that they can survive late game. The loss of late game Mining prowess may make up for it?
Regular gold mining rate: .379 gold per second
Turks bonus/Gold Mining: +15% faster: .436 gold per second
Turks + Gold Mining/Gold Shaft Mining: +15% faster: .501 gold per second
Turks + Both Techs: .576
My hypothetical Turks: .504 (starting in Dark Age)
This would give the Turks a faster Drush. The time to mine 10 gold, to add to 50 starting gold after Loom:
All civs: ~26 villager secs
Current Turks: 23 vill secs
Hypothetical Turks: 20 vs
Time to mine up another Militia:
All civs: ~52 vs
Turks: 23 s
Hypothetical: 20 vs
Bodkin Arrow? 50 gold:
All civs: 132 vs
Turks: 115 vs
Hypothetical: 99 sec
Archer rush? 45 gold per Archer, Archers created every 35s
All civs: 119 vs
All civs need 7-8 villagers on gold to produce Archers non-stop from 2 Archery Ranges.
Turks: 103 vs
Turks need 6-7 villagers on gold to produce Archers non-stop from 2 Archery Ranges.
Hypothetical: 90 vs
Hypothetical Turks need 5-6 villagers to produce Archers non-stop from 2 Archery Ranges.
Will this encourage a Turk to do the super common Drush + FC, but do it effectively? Is this OP? What do you think?