rain otter
Since I think it makes more sense to talk about each Miracle individually, instead of making one big suggestion about all of them together, this one is about Demeter only.
This Miracle just needs a stronger effect imo.
Even in the past Demeter had already been one of the weaker Miracles, but there were Players using it sometimes.
A few years ago the happiness-values of the Tavern and Museum have been changed (and the level of reducers being increased, hence even less wine needed), while the Demeter-effect remained the same and lost its value even more in comparison, since it has become much easier/cheaper to increase Happiness (and hence Population-growth) otherwise.
So I would recommend to simply increase the current effect at level 5 from 12/h, towards around 36/h.
This should be quite easy to do, while being effective at the same time.
Demeter would then become useful again, especially in situations where you need to produce a lot of units, break a cultural agreement, settle a new city and so on.
It would definitely be better in comparison to how it had been few years ago, but I don’t think 36/h would already be considered “too strong” and instead move it up to be a decent option.
Generally speaking I think it’s important that all Miracles are viable to some degree, which atm. can hardly be said about Demeter.
Even while it’s not the weakest Miracle right now, most Players currently wouldn’t consider using it and would be disappointed, if they start with a Demeter-City on a new Server.
But especially with a new account where you constantly increase your max Population, settle new Cities or experience short-time corruption, it would be helpful to have a Demeter at hand, but right now it's just too weak.
cursive basalt