Because there is a limit on how much he is willing to give us information on subjects. And because I think he's a good GM he has already likely given us all the information we should need/have at this time on this one.
I'm personally fine with losing those even if it would suck in exchange for having a possible Pioneering Spirit like trait which we can use to drop out Centralization which is the main stopping block for our best Stability option Enforce Justice.
Oh totally, CoT is an excellent example of that, but the Hats are our only possible source of something like PS so I think it's worth the effort to make a grab for something that will really help our build out.
Then the problem seem's to be on your end considering that other people have come up with an explanation with the given information.
Then the problem seem's to be on your end considering that other people have come up with an explanation with the given information.
Pioneering Spirit is gain a settlement reducing stability. This makes the roads issue worse, and introduces additional cultural drift. It would likely also drop legitimacy. Making it harder to gain stability.
Why glass work rather than art patronage? If we make people understand the importance of this discovery then glass work will naturally follow as more people will want the product and therefore innovations must be made to transport the product safely.
I do not think we can evolve CA linked traits unless we get a new trait slot
That's just not true.
The first part of this statement is clear - with or without CoT, we have access to the market information. The second part is not. It can be taken as either "CoT's market dominance effect is doubled", where the "recent innovations" are doing the doubling, or "CoT now doubles the effect of market domination" where CoT itself is doing the doubling.
On its own, this statement just means that an indeterminate amount of Wealth generation per turn is lost. From the context of attempting to clear up this exact question though, it doesn't make sense as a statement specifying that only some is lost as opposed to all - therefore, unless @Academia Nut was being deliberately vague (in which case either interpretation is possible) he was specifying that all Wealth generation from this effect is lost.
Note how the bonus Diplomacy is distinct from the advanced mechanics - if domination bonuses were standard, this wouldn't be a separate point.
You have pulled that entirely from nowhere. If you want to go that route, then maybe we should keep CoT because it's going to evolve super soon as a result of all this trade we're dominating.
Then choose art patronage Ruwynna even stated in the update that unless she goes to convince people they will not choose to use the new discovery.
So the logical progression of events should be Go to convince people of the discoveries usefulness>People see it's usefulness and want more>They research glass to better handle the substance
Well my current understanding that I am operating on is that when base PS triggers it basically does the equivalent of a Main settlement and costs us 1 Cent, but you only need a Secondary Trails to counter the interconnection issue on a 1 to 1 basis which I am getting from that New Trails does +1 Cent as a Secondary. So for the narrative/hidden mechanical effect of our interconnection (i.e the marginal trails) a Main would be net positive on connection through trails since it counts as two secondaries.
