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Sumeria Nerf (Ziggurats)

Says not compatible?

I mostly play TL europe (nightmare starting place for sumeria) when I reach modern age they still have war carts :D

But yeah usually in other maps they are OP but not as unbalanced as Kongo

Oh, one very important thing to note is that I also play with lots of other mods. Especially with the "take your time" mods that increase the research costs by x2. I recommend using those mods very much, because they improve the game balance.

If you guys want to see a full list of mods I am using then check out this link:
https://www.civforum.de/showthread.php?102780-Eure-besten-Mod-Kollektionen-f%FCr-Civ6&p=7475548&viewfull=1#post7475548
It is written in German, but it is worth trying those mods and they work well with my Sumeria nerf. I am very satisfied with them.

Also in single player I had to build lots of military and settlers early on in the game instead of zigurats to compete with the AI and not get rushed by an enemy army. So I am already aware of this.
But I still managed to build lots of builders later on for both ziggurats and farms to keep the housing high.

I believe when ziggurats can give you +1 science, culture and gold they are still very strong (plus one additional culture later on in the game). My mod turned them into allrounders. So dont forget the other yields besides science.

Ziggurats are simply not that powerful. You do not get housing, food, or production, which are essential in the early game. If you are focusing on science yields in the early game, any competent human player will just invade you with a bigger army as he has been focusing on food, production, and housing instead of measly science yields. On deity difficulty, sure, you can cheese the AI with ziggurat spam as the AI is not competent enough to take advantage of it. Even then in singleplayer: Your sities will grow slower, your production times will be longer and your overall position owuld be worse than if you just focused on the essentials first. Maybe if this was civ 5 it would be decent, but in civ 6, early science is no where near as important as food and production. Sure it works against the AI, but the AI has the intelligence of a rock, ANYTHING works against them.

Ok guys, I think I will not add a science boots to ziggurats, because I have recently tested Sumeria even on demi-god difficulty and they are still quite strong. Also I had no big housing problems.

I havent played in multiplayer, yet. Certainly there are more imbalances in the game than just ziggurats. My mod is just a step in the right direction.

Yes, because everyone in multiplayer bans sumeria because of the ziggurats, not the Warcarts that can literaly steamroll an entire continent.

You just have to build a few more workers to build additional farms to get the housing. You dont need to work those farms with your population.
Ziggurats also give you +1 culture if you build them on river tiles. So they are still very strong.

I have often seen a strong Sumerian AI with an insanly huge science amount in the vanilla version. So I decided to nerf them.

to be fully honest, i don't think ziggurats are very good.
yes, you get a bit of science at first, but then you can't make farms, which means no housing, so your cities don't grow that much.