This way, a civ could choose to ignore those Civics for a time and get more gold, to maintain a large empire, or could choose to have a much smaller empire but more efficient: this would be usefull for the civs starting on an island for example.Īdditionnally, the Civics would work like the Emancipation one: additionnal unhappy heads would be added if a given civ is too much backwaeded in Civics. Those Civics would improve drastically the efficiency of the cities. THAT, would represent well the volunteer efforts that is a change in a given society, taking many years of developpement and a lot of ressources, unlike the real Science. > There could be another "tech" tree, but with only Civics to discover. Because civilization could be advanced socially and technically but not scientifically.ĮDIT: But if the tech tree depends on relations (mostly), what will be the use of the "commerce"? PS: Another idea could be that to be several tech trees, through which we could go by different bars, like the Civ4 science/happiness-culture ones. Therefore, in the system above, there could be a slight benefit from commerce into science, as for example an immuable percentage of it, as it is the case in Civ4, like 10%. Therefore, it could be wise to get some research of commerce, as the interaction of different points of view. ![]() Of course this could trigger other things among the natural apparition of backwarded continents and a possible Discovery Age into a normal Civ game, or the need to define another meaning and use of the commerce and the sliders.ĪFTER THOUGHT: It is true that commerce could be seen not only as commerce, but as people interactions, in the same way of cultures interaction such as mentioned above at a more powerfull scale, the scale of each person. This ideas could go well with the jdog5000's Revolution Mod, as in this mod, rebellions and revolutions can happen more or less oftenly what can generate research boosts. Other (see 'culture centers' in another of my posts) * A powerfull research bonus for each independant culture one is assimilating in its own culture, this depending on several events: * A powerfull research bonus for each trade route we have with each civ. * A powerfull research bonus for EACH civ we are in contact with. I give it without any turning: the tech pace would depend on culture contact exclusively. I would like a much more natural and random way in the same time. Of course this does not mean that one can't work on it: scientists exist and programs like the Manhattan Project can born, but are not near to cost as much as in the Civ series.įor those reasons, I would suggest to completely remove the Tech Bar, and suggest to manage tech discoveries differently. I think that maybe for the first reason, they are never near any other financial aspect of a country or civilization: because in any way they can't be controlled. * Second, I don't thing scientic researches can monopolize in such a Sid Meier's Civilization way the economy of a whole country or civilization. One can refere to this with the philosophic Platon's Cave analogy. As far as I can see it througout the History, they are pretty random and uncommanded. * First off, one cannot really command to those things. Plus, I am not satisfied with the current Scientific research system of Civ4 which consist in moving a research bar as if scientific discovering were a plain volunteer AND expensive things: So here I am in interest with the whole scientific discoveries system. (we can agree that a wonder of the world is pretty much more the effect of a golden age rather than its cause) But this does not tell us why do they appear. In some ways, Civ3 tried to answer to this interesting question by triggering random golden ages. ![]() In the same way, what the hell made that in the couple most recent centuries humankind have known such a clearing scientifically speaking? Why do we name the Renaissance and the like? I have always been saying myself how amazing it was that for some reasons, one or another civilization have had a scientific "golden age".įor example, I'm always wondering what if Ancient Greece were to prolong its scientific golden age: could have the steam power been discovered 2000 years before?
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