ROFL this discussion is almost hilarious.. I mean some strategy-related dicussions here are warranted, others are just plain stupid.. this falls into the latter..But Iīll answer the question anyway..
Bolting the starting citizen (which isnīt hard to do, the kataskopos can roam around tcs for quite a while unlike ulfs or priests), would be like killing all 3 starting villagers and waiting 15 secs or so before starting to create any new would be for you.. I just tried killing my 1st citizen, for fun (they make neat noises when they die), and it set me back more than a minute - I clicked classical at 4.15 instead of my usual 3.20... So a Zeus player with a little skill would dominate any atl.. Nidhogg and Titans come into play much, much later, when you prolly should have bolted something already, or you played well, saving it up - bolt is the best Greek arch. GP anyway, no need to make it unbalancing - same goes to why they canīt bolt oxcarts..
Bolting them beyond archaic would be ok, but there would be little point in that anyway (better by then to save bolt), and itīs prolly a little unnecessary to implement it..
People bitching about atlanteans and how powerful they are should just stop (though the idiot posting in this thread was kinda entertaining).. Theyīre good, yes, but the best parts of them (kronos rush and mass turmas) have been nerfed already.. Theyīre raided easily as hell (And donīt go whining about how they can hide in manors - they donīt work when theyīre hiding, which is the whole point of raiding - and of course manors cant walk around with them to wherever they are), and they have pretty crappy siege - destroyers deserve a little more credit, but people using them as meatshields, hehe.. axemen will chop them faster than Nigella, and destroyers canīt kill any HU anyway so just go around them - they might work as a screen, but as a meatshield, no.
Deconstruction is pretty damn good, no question about that - and itīs not so simple as to just rebuild in all cases - but atl archaic powers are better than other godsī in general - Gaiaīs forest can, with itīs many uses other than eco boost - be worth 4 times dwarven mine, and shockwave gives an edge in any battle when used right - try shocking enemy massed archers in a large, important battle..
[This message has been edited by Johnny_Deppig (edited 04-17-2004 @ 08:54 AM).]