Policies

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1. Overview
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This page last updated: v157.2, May 24, 2012 by Seek.
Please see main page for more recent changes.

Overview

• Improves several less-useful social policies to be as interesting choices as their counterparts. There’s been several discussions on the strategy forum regarding how each social policy tree has one or two poor choices taking up dead weight, these seem to be commonly cited.
• The Utopia Project requires one additional tree for a total of six. (The free policy per era in previous versions was removed.) The goal is to equalize the culture building buffs in Balance – City Development and the .217 patch’s change of Artist Specialists from 1 to 3 so that it’s about as challenging to win as before. Policy costs slightly reduced to maintain this balance.
• Policies are now arranged from left to right. This is so the Medieval, Renaissance, and Industrial polices are each in one column. I personally find this arrangement more intuitive.
• 2 Palace, and the first policy costs 50 (was 1, 25). This reduces the magnitude of ancient ruins, purchasing a monument, and other early effects on policy generation.
• The only policy tree exclusions are between Freedom and Autocracy. Piety and Enlightenment (Rationalism), Freedom and Order, and Autocracy and Order are now non-exclusive.
• Policies which increase specialist yields now improve a particular type of specialist, instead of all specialists. Details
• The “no policy saving” advanced setup option defaults to disabled.

Details

• Tradition
  • Tradition: +5 in the Capital.
  • Oligarchy: Garrisoned units cost no maintenance and receive 0.2 XP per turn. Cities with a garrison gain 50% ranged strength (was 100%).
  • Landed Elite: +1 in each city, +2 on defensive buildings and +25% surplus in every city.
  • Ceremonial Rites: Grants a culture building in 4 oldest cities (changed in VEM so that the oldest 4 cities will always receive 1 free culture building – Click for details).
  • Aristocracy: +5 and -25% from population in the capital.
  • Monarchy: +20% for Wonders. +2 on National and World Wonders.
  • Finisher: +1 per National and World Wonder. Greatly speeds border expansion in all cities.
• Liberty
  • Opener: +2 Culture in every city.
  • Collective Rule: Free Settler and +20% for building settlers in all cities (was 50% in the capital).
  • Meritocracy: 2 in each city and +2 on defensive buildings.
  • Republic: -25% cost per city, starts a 10 turn Golden Age.
  • Finisher: Gives one Defense Building in all current and future cities.
• Piety
  • Piety: +3 Happiness.
  • Organized Religion: +2 for Monuments, Temples, and Monasteries. +2  Culture for each surplus happiness.
  • Mandate of Heaven: +1 for Monuments, Temples, and Monasteries.
  • Theocracy: +10% Gold from Temples, +10% Science from Monasteries and +10% Culture in cities with a World Wonder.
  • Reformation: 10 turn Golden Age, and -25% cost for future Golden Ages.
  • Free Religion: 1 free Policy, and +2 Artists, and +5 Landmarks.
• Honor
  • Honor: 4 per 1 of killed barbarians (was 5 per 1).
  • Warrior Code: +1 for Great Generals and a Great General appears at the capital.
  • Military Tradition: +20% for military units and buildings (defense, experience and training).
    
  • Discipline: +20% adjacent to a friendly military unit (was 10%).
  • Military Caste: +4 Culture and +1   for cities with a Garrison.
  • Professional Army: -33% Upgrade cost for units. Gold salvaged from units killed.
  • Finisher: +4 and +1 for Colosseums.
• Patronage
  • Patronage: Gold gifts produce 20% more Influence.
  • Philanthropy: Influence degrades 25% slower.
  • Aesthetics:  Minimum 20 Influence, plus onetime +20 Influence boost.
  • Cultural Diplomacy: +1 for each City-State friend and +2 for each ally.
  • Free Trade:  City-State friends and allies increase in your cities.
  • Finisher: Other players’ Influence over City-States degrades 10% faster.
• Commerce
  • Commerce: +15% gross Gold, and+1 Movement for non-combat units.
  • Guilds: -50% maintenance on roads and railroads. A Great Merchant appears in the Capital.
  • Protectionism: -20% Purchase cost for units and buildings.
  • Mercantilism: +2 from Merchants and +5 on Customs Houses.
  • Merchant Navy: +1 Movement and +1 Sight for ships. +2 Production in coastal cities and +2 on Naval Buildings.
  • Patent Law: +1 Gold on Villages and +2 Gold on Fishing Boats.
  • Finisher: +1 Happiness for each Luxury resource, including surplus copies.
• Enlightenment (formerly Rationalism)
  • Enlightenment: A free Great Scientist appears at the capital.
  • Sovereignty: +2 Gold on Science buildings.
  • Humanism: +1 for Science Buildings (previously excluded Libraries).
  • Secularism: +2 for each Scientists, and +5 on Academies (was 2 on specialists).
  • Scientific Revolution: +15% while the empire is happy.
  • Finisher: 2 Free Technologies.
• Freedom
  • Freedom: +1 on Farms.
  • Tolerance: Each City-State friend and ally contributes GP points to an empire-wide pool, and when the pool is filled a random Great Person appears at the capital.
  • Democracy: Increases power of National Wonders.
  • Universal Suffrage:+50% and a Great Person of your choice appears at the Capital.
  • Constitution: -1 consumed by Specialists.
  • Free Market: +50% Gold from Trade Routes.
  • Finisher: Slows enemy land units inside your territory.
• Nationalism (formerly Autocracy)
  • Available in the Renaissance Era.
  • Nationalism: -1 in every city.
  • Spoils of War: Your empire acquires Cultural treasures from captured cities.
  • Fascism: -3 for every Courthouse and +100% for building Courthouses.
  • Privileged Elite : -0.5 Anger per specialist.
  • Conscription: All units receive the promotion March (heal every turn).
  • Total War: -33% Maintenance cost for units.
  • Finisher: +30 Experience for all current and future units.
• Order
  • Order: A free Great Engineer appears at the capital.
  • United Front: +2 on mines and lumber mills.
  • Planned Economy: -25% maintenance cost for buildings.
  • Communism: Free Production building in all cities. Note, does not construct factories if the factory would reduce the player’s quantity of coal below 5 (same for spaceship factories and aluminum).
  • Populism: +2 Engineers, and +5 Manufactories.
  • Socialism: +1 and 25% from Smithies and Factories.
  • Finisher: +20% Production in every city.