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In SMAC you had one choice in each of four categoies, and choosing Free Market, for example, meant you couldn't be Planned as well.
But looking at Locutus' graph in his Just the Facts thread has me wondering.
Some of the Civics choices aren't necessarily exclusive of each other, even in the same category. THere is nothing logical that prevents "Religious Tolerance" and "Pacifism" from being simultaneously valued by a culture. But if the Civics screen works like the SMAC Social Engineering then you couldn't be both at once.
I assume that you can choose only one option in each category, but do we know that? It seems to me that if each option is balanced such that choosing what should be exclusive traits (like "hereditary" and "universal suffrage") that they would provide no gains, or even only losses to the Civ. But choosing things which might complement each other, or at least not be mutually exclusive in theory ("state property" and "Environmentalism") could be possible.
Also, we know there are five choices in each of the five categories, and Locutus' graph has a row of question marks at the bottom. Could it be that those belong at the top and are the default choices? That would make them the equivalent of "frontier/simple/surivival/none" in the Civ 4 world.
But looking at Locutus' graph in his Just the Facts thread has me wondering.
Some of the Civics choices aren't necessarily exclusive of each other, even in the same category. THere is nothing logical that prevents "Religious Tolerance" and "Pacifism" from being simultaneously valued by a culture. But if the Civics screen works like the SMAC Social Engineering then you couldn't be both at once.
I assume that you can choose only one option in each category, but do we know that? It seems to me that if each option is balanced such that choosing what should be exclusive traits (like "hereditary" and "universal suffrage") that they would provide no gains, or even only losses to the Civ. But choosing things which might complement each other, or at least not be mutually exclusive in theory ("state property" and "Environmentalism") could be possible.
Also, we know there are five choices in each of the five categories, and Locutus' graph has a row of question marks at the bottom. Could it be that those belong at the top and are the default choices? That would make them the equivalent of "frontier/simple/surivival/none" in the Civ 4 world.
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