Cultural Modifiers

[Psitticine]

Yeah, just think of those cool knives! And the cheese, man, the CHEESE!!!

[Talenn]

Fireaxe et al:

I believe his question (and mine) is why would ever pick 'neutral' over a modifier that only gives pluses? Eg, Scientists only give a bonus to research and has no downside. So why not at least pick one like this over 'neutral' every time?

Thanx,
Talenn

[LintMan]

My guess is you'd pick "neutral" over one of the advantage-giving cultures to give yourself a bit more challenge. Or a player-designed AI race can be assigned the neutral culture to make it less tough.

[Talenn]

LintMan:

Yeah, thats a possibility I suppose, but IMO it kind of invalidates the rest of the 'race building' costs etc. If you can get an advantage for nothing, why bother trying to 'point balance' the whole shooting match?

I'm hoping I am just missing something here and that there is some other adverse result of picking one of these 'gimmes' instead of a 'balanced' or 'Neutral' one.

Talenn