Hey all, since we haven't gotten anything to do anyways, let's talk about how we can further improve this server!

So the first issue in my eyes are unbalanced ores. Let me start off by saying that I think every nation in any kind of biome should be able to mine ores and make at least some profit off it. Every Minecraft player likes to mine, it's in the name / game. However this is not the case in CivEx. Diamonds are super useful and iron is alright. But all the other ores are a waste of space. There is no demand for gold, emeralds, lapis or redstone. People have little interest in these ores because they are not nearly needed as much as diamonds. Some attempts have been made to make gold and emerald more valuable but in my opinion that was not enough. I think we would have to make some pretty big changes for instance; making emeralds necessary to gain experience or making gold necessary to enchant tools if we want to boost trade in the CivEx world. Only that way all nations would have to trade with each other or steal resources from one another to gain full efficiency, because as it is now diamonds are all you need.

Moving onto the next topic: Food and Realistic Biomes. I see two issues with these.

The first issue with food is that all food does the same. It doesn’t matter if you’re eating bread made from Moria or Mushroom Stew from Wyck Island it just restores hunger points. Because of this reason there is almost no reason for a nation to import food from another nation. Take for instance the jungle biome where almost every plant grows extremely well and animals breed quickly. It’s pretty much useless as other nations have little interest in food. Wouldn’t it be cool if for instance cookies (which are very easy to make for Jungle biome nations) gave a small boost to mining diamonds and a short immunity to coldness? Then Jungle biomes could trade these cookies for diamonds with the Northern nations further increasing trade and interaction in the CivEx world.

The second issue with food is that lots of biomes can make lots of different food. In every single biome you can breed cows and grow wheat. Food should be more exclusive so that nations have to trade with other nations for different kinds of food. To give some more (example) suggestions: Make horses exclusive to plains, cocoa exclusive to jungle, sheep exclusive to forest and finally make biomes that have a big ore generation advantage (Desert and Tundra) unable to make their own food so they have to trade their valuable ores for food or find some other solution.

TL;DR: Buff everything but diamonds, make food more exclusive and usefull. Make every biome be usefull for atleast SOMETHING