1 Public school surrounded by research quarters can give you over 1k science? Why?

SmileyD wrote:

I honestly think it's fine, 1K research from just 1 district is op, but only if you look at it without the requirements. Because you do need to have 7 other districts to take advantage of it.  And additionally in the contemporary era both of the science cultures can put their cities in collective minds to get probably around 4k Science in my experience and that's without taking into account their district and trait bonuses. Considering the Era, it's absolutely fine. I would actually love to see more food cultures get a similar treatment and get other bonuses. Since food becomes useless around the early modern era. Or maybe add a mechanic that lets you transform food into something else.

The problem is even with 3-4 quarters it's really strong and you WILL inevitably already have some set up from prior eras since. It's also just not very thematically fitting. I know public schools are great, but for them to give so much research its odd.

Here's an idea - remake it to be a hybrid district that gives adjacency to any nearby district instead. Makers, farmers, markets, research, doesn't matter, public school improves them all. Would be a lot more thematic and fitting imho.

StorytellerDave wrote:

SmileyD wrote:

I honestly think it's fine, 1K research from just 1 district is op, but only if you look at it without the requirements. Because you do need to have 7 other districts to take advantage of it.  And additionally in the contemporary era both of the science cultures can put their cities in collective minds to get probably around 4k Science in my experience and that's without taking into account their district and trait bonuses. Considering the Era, it's absolutely fine. I would actually love to see more food cultures get a similar treatment and get other bonuses. Since food becomes useless around the early modern era. Or maybe add a mechanic that lets you transform food into something else.

The problem is even with 3-4 quarters it's really strong and you WILL inevitably already have some set up from prior eras since. It's also just not very thematically fitting. I know public schools are great, but for them to give so much research its odd.

Here's an idea - remake it to be a hybrid district that gives adjacency to any nearby district instead. Makers, farmers, markets, research, doesn't matter, public school improves them all. Would be a lot more thematic and fitting imho.

Yeah that sound pretty neat as well and they can make it even more unique and make it count as everything as far as bonuses go. However i still think the numbers are fine, because i find their legacy trait to be quite weak, it's literary the same bonus as you would get from the Neolithic era legacy trait. I do like the change you suggested, but i think it's really not op, but still pretty good. Since again its the final era, you want to see some ridiculous stuff.