Great people, their occurence ?

[Kuciwalker]

Originally posted by Grandpa Troll
you may have something there kuci

what would make this occur?

too much power resorted to corrupt govt heads for the city?

How about this - a golden age occurs in a specific city. During this golden age, the city is a Great City - better culture, gold, science, etc. For example, during the Greek golden age Athens could become a Great City. When the age ends, though, the city returns to its former self.

[molly bloom]

Originally posted by Jaybe
molly b, I am sure such 'great cities' may develop in the game, but it may take awhile.

I think though the idea that a city is primarily about 'trade' or 'science' or 'culture' and therefore produces a similar 'great person' is too simplistic.

Just think about CIV II and how the best trading city is also the one with the greatest research capability (if you have the Colossus, Copernicus, Newton, et cetera).

Ptolemaic Alexandria was a great trading city and of course also had the Great Library- as well as Philo of Alexandria there was also Heron, and of course trading networks that stretched from Greece to India to East Africa to oases in the Sahara and to southern Spain.