[douche]

Too bad they kind of missed the mark with the Civ 4-engined reboot.

The only really unbalanced part of the original was if you happened to land in a temperate area with lots of beavers, friendly Indians with the Fur Trapper training, and managed to roll Henry Hudson for the first Continental Congress member. Very quickly you could start churning out full stacks of furs and basically printing money that would allow you to buy specialists, cannon, ships and supplies.

[ekianjo]

Yeah the Civ4-reboot was awful. Or at least, it was just a recreation of the original without any addition while it could have been a great opportunity to build on it.

> The only really unbalanced part of the original was if you happened to land in a temperate area with lots of beavers

Sure - there are actually many ways to make money fast, but they also have a system that rebalances prices back in Europe when you sell too much of the same thing (price fall) - this forces you to diversify your production.

[Pxtl]

A lot of fantastic games from that age have these kinds of problems - the competitive balancing of modern online gaming didnt' exist back then, only the Rule of Cool.

Master of Magic is a similarly awesome oldschool 4X game, and it, too, suffers from boneheaded balance problems.