Should provincial investments be merged with the building system?

[olivenkranz]

For clarity's sake when I say "megacity" I mean "a city which can be made arbitrarily large if you want to spend enough time moving slaves around"

I have cities with 400 or 500 pops without moving slaves... isnt that a megacity?

 

[Gilbert95]

Overall I like the province investments as larger decisions about a province, in comparison to the territory level decision of buildings. However, the four choices are a hold-over from the original release which was much more focused on the four traits (and their associated mana) - martial, finesse, oratory and zeal. The effects feel a little shoe-horned into those four categories. For verteran players this is not a big deal, but for new players these are probably not very intuiatve. I wouldn't mind a minor update to the system that re-casts these around some other organizing principle. Depending on the principle, this could open up some design space, as you would not necissarily be restricted to exactly four slots.

 

[Vohen]

I have cities with 400 or 500 pops without moving slaves... isnt that a megacity?

In the previous patch, people routinely made cities with 10-15x that amount, so no.