I think the changes resolve the puppet situation well. Now if you have 10 cities on a standard map its seems like its a worthy choice to annex or puppet. Annexing the city effectively drops your science and culture in all other cities by just 4.9%, in exchange for an additional 50% in that city, plus purchasing and food/hammer bonuses. Its worth considering both sides, and long term probably wiser to annex



On monopolies, I didn't find +2 faith overpowered. Even with +2 faith tobacco was pretty average in my opinion. I think an issue with the culture and science ones is for some reason they are all mines, and you can rush a mining monopoly really quickly. If you moved the science to something like citrus, which takes a long time to connect, it would be fine. At just +1 per tile it seems underwhelming to me.

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