Hmmm... What in the world does unique civ really mean?

It sounds, from the webpage, and I'm just guessing here, as if all civilizations start the same, but then change on how you play the game.

>>We have systems for reflecting cultural value of cities and civilizations that depend upon the players use of his resources. <<

So, presumably, if you build lots of military units, your culture will get warlike values. Hopefully these will affect more then just combat (other cultures view you as more aggressive, peacefull technologies and improvements become more expensive etc etc). Or if you build lots of librarys and temples, your people will be more peaceful and wise, again with a spread of game effects outside of just research and happiness, (but less ready to fight outside their borders or support lots of troops).

Obviously tweaking would have to be done to make sure that you don't get a runaway effect where building your army up makes you better at fighting which lets you conquer more folks so you can build your army up more... making it better... etc etc. Cultural values hopefully have a downside as well as an upside.

Folks interested in this sort of thing should pop on over to moo3.quicksilver.com and look at the religion/ethos model being designed for that game. It looks -quite- cool.

quote: Originally posted by Roman on 02-03-2001 07:45 AM I vote for the economics system to be clarified. Especially whether specific resources such as iron are needed to construct certain items.

You got to defend yourself before economics become
a primary factor. If you have a military minded AI
neighbor, and if you want to get to non-military
victory, you have to always be strong militarily.

You want the military AI to be formidable opponent.

So my vote goes for Military AI as number Uno. For
example, it needs to know about some of the dominate
types of military Strategies and Tactics. In the
modern era air power dominates and air superiority
is essential. Also the strategy and tactics should
change with the era. You use howitzers and tanks
differently then you use warriors and cataputs.

I will not buy another Strategy game with a poor
military AI like CTP2.

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Unit support by the entire nation and not by city. Related to this, I would like to see the military supported largely out of cash and not out of production. One of the overarching themes throughout history has been *paying* to maintain a military, and not so much being able to build it up. Just think of maintaining --not building-- the US military in the present for example - does it really place a large burden on America's industrial capacity? Maybe a bit for ammunition and spare parts, but not really. There are fuel costs of course, but that only applies to relatively modern units, so maybe a limited production support in addition to cash support should be made for those units. Nevertheless, it's mainly money, cold hard money, that is the overriding cost, as it has always been for everyone.

The above would also serve to properly orient trade in Civ - without it you wouldn't be able to maintain a large military capacity. Now trade and support could be adjusted by government and unit type, but in general I think the move from production to cash based support should be made. Ironically, maintaining city improvements probably costs more in production in reality than does the military, yet it's cash supported in Civ2 and CtP.