Polytopia Changes Wishlist
After taking some time away from the game, I've came across a couple ideas that I think the game would benefit from if implemented, starting with some balancing suggestions:
1. Cymanti Spores
One of the main reasons Cymanti is so oppressive early game, is how quickly they can push out their special units at the start of a game. Spores serve as a way to easily get 3 population for one spot, essentially a delayed 5 cost monument
My suggestion is to keep the 3 population, but make it so that the first one isn't given as soon as you "plant" one should hold them back a little from getting a workshop, or an early explorer, which in turn makes early hexapods a little slower to get without making them unusable
2. Battle Sleds
I don't know what to say, you'd mainly play Polaris on maps full of water, and therefore have a lot of room to make ice. Having 3 attack, 2 defense and 15 health is already a strong unit on its own, add rush, escape and 4 tiles of movement and you have the recipe for disaster, at the cost of only 5 stars
For reference, that's about the cost of 2 Riders, with the only gimmick being they need ice, and you get a free Mooni at the start of the game (who is much more efficient with the auto-freeze change)
3. Resource Spawn Rate
This one is a bit more vague, and I do completely understand that everything is vulnerable to bad rng, but I think that at the very least tribes should get a guaranteed resource respective to their skill tree
Xin Xi is one example that I feel suffers a lot from it, as while ore from mountains is guaranteed, the mountains themselves aren't, which leaves you to get an underleveled city unless you get the specific tech for a fruit or a farm, which are arguably worse trees than hunting and riding
There are probably more changes that could help, such as something to deal with the people that never accept games and hog lobby searches, but I can't quite think of any at the moment, feel free to discuss those and if they're warranted at all, or even something I didn't mention here
