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c3c unfair to democracies
I got to play a little with c3c since I got it 2 weeks ago (at last...) and although I like most of the changes done the more I am playing the more I'm becoming annoyed about the change done to the democratic type of government 
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1.democracy becomes very inferior compared to other systems of governments. even when I played for cultural or other non aggresive victory the unit doubling cost is so prohibitive I could barely afford to defend adequtely my cities.I am left then with either having some defence (by cosiderably moving most of my resources to buliding units) and watching other non dem civs bypass me by all measures or not having decent defence and praying other civs dont notice. when I do get attacked ,even with mobilization, it is nearly impossible to crank out enough units for defence (and that is before the older problem of war weariness) unless my attacker is very tech inferior and the only choice left is to switch gov type.
2.this completely unbalances the different gov types and combined with the great stenghs of facism and the secret police headquaters wonder for communism in an average game in higer difficulties(where wars, no matter i'll give the AI ,are unpreventable from time to time) or Mp it is simply not worth choosing democratic gov type.the monetary and productivity benefits aren't worth the cost in shoddy defences or lower building capabilities of my civ(wasting double the time on building every unit)
3. it is also historically inaccurate.for all the talk about 500 dollar screwdrivers manufacturing military equiptment didnt (and doesnt) cost that much more in democratic gov then in dictatorial gov. if it would be so in reality we all now would be communists (or facist '
'). a higher unit cost of 10-30 % more for democracies would be more accurate and also balance the game without making democratic gov so inferior.
4. this would also prevent giving the wrong messages to players thatfiraxis was so careful about in the past (which is why ,to my knowledge ,there was no facism in the original civ3 and 2 and still no fundamentalism now in civ 3 or c3c)
so please firaxis be fairer to democracies and lower unit costs for democracies and make (civ) world safe for democracies again
. 1.democracy becomes very inferior compared to other systems of governments. even when I played for cultural or other non aggresive victory the unit doubling cost is so prohibitive I could barely afford to defend adequtely my cities.I am left then with either having some defence (by cosiderably moving most of my resources to buliding units) and watching other non dem civs bypass me by all measures or not having decent defence and praying other civs dont notice. when I do get attacked ,even with mobilization, it is nearly impossible to crank out enough units for defence (and that is before the older problem of war weariness) unless my attacker is very tech inferior and the only choice left is to switch gov type.
2.this completely unbalances the different gov types and combined with the great stenghs of facism and the secret police headquaters wonder for communism in an average game in higer difficulties(where wars, no matter i'll give the AI ,are unpreventable from time to time) or Mp it is simply not worth choosing democratic gov type.the monetary and productivity benefits aren't worth the cost in shoddy defences or lower building capabilities of my civ(wasting double the time on building every unit)
3. it is also historically inaccurate.for all the talk about 500 dollar screwdrivers manufacturing military equiptment didnt (and doesnt) cost that much more in democratic gov then in dictatorial gov. if it would be so in reality we all now would be communists (or facist '
'). a higher unit cost of 10-30 % more for democracies would be more accurate and also balance the game without making democratic gov so inferior. 4. this would also prevent giving the wrong messages to players thatfiraxis was so careful about in the past (which is why ,to my knowledge ,there was no facism in the original civ3 and 2 and still no fundamentalism now in civ 3 or c3c)
so please firaxis be fairer to democracies and lower unit costs for democracies and make (civ) world safe for democracies again
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