Yes, we will launch the Indians with a booster pack. That will be closest to the quests that came with the Babylonians (the Fertile Crescent Booster Pack) and the Norse (the Northern Invasion Booster Pack).
To be fair, the Persians appear to have gotten their elephants from the Indians. As a matter of fact, the origin of Carthage’s elephants is a bit unknown, and some historians think they may have been from India, too.
honestly, that’s the best compliment we can receive. We know any non-Roman civ will miss the mark for many people (there are no majority favorites left). So all we can do is identify our best one, go boldly in that direction, and work hard. Hopefully our design and quality will win some more...
We put a lot of thought into this issue, studied Mauryan diet historically, and discussed it with several Indians. We arrived at allowing the Indians to hunt and fish but not gather food from herdable animals. Herdables will be used by the civ in a unique way we will explain, so the Indians...
Yeah, off hand I have no reason why we *would* do this, but it sounds like we at least *could* create a unit that, I don't know, prioritizes attacking Farms or Walls or something first.
PF2K's images are obviously better, but here's what I had mocked up when we were arriving on what size to make these Plantations.
First, here is what all the other civs have with 3x3 Farms:
Second, here's what the Indians will have with 4x4 Plantations:
Doing our due diligence, we looked...
Certainly. Right now the Plantation acts just like a large farm. We were able to quickly figure out how to convince the game to allow multiple villagers to farm the same one at the same time, so that was a tremendous relief. What else would you like to know?
I’d love if we made the Carthaginians. There’s lots of great civs we could make. It takes us about 1-2 years to make a civ, so we need to be extremely choosy.