Laws & Ordinances

[K.J.H.]

I actually hoped that there should be laws and ordinances in the game, like in SimCity or the dictator-game Tropico.
Like:

Alcohol Prohibition
Requires: Some police-stations
Gives: Many, many corruption and it costs a few gold/turn, because of the loss of the brewing market, but it would increase production and increase religious happiness (happiness produced by temples and cathedrals), because the religious community is happy with your religious rule.

Contraception Ban
Requires: Medicine? I don't know ... may be that's too early
Gives: You have a quick growing nation .. but there are chances of a mass epidemic ...
It increases religious happiness.

No More Capital Punishment
Requires: Democracy
Gives: More hapiness, but it will cost you 1 food per city, to feed the prisoners

Allowing XTC Labs and Cocain Fields
Requires: Mass Production?
Gives: You 'steal' gold from nations (many gold per turn, opponents lose gold)
But it's bad for your foreign relationships.

If there comes ever Civ 4 this must be in it!
Any one other ideas?

[Zeb_Fisher]

Re: Laws & Ordinances

I like this idea too. I think it would make the difference between a Democratic-Socialist society and a Democratic-Capitalist society.

I also think it would be cool if each civ had leaders with certain attributes. Like in the game Castles. So for certain periods of the game you have a leader who gives bonuses to military but negatives to commerce and science.

Say for a monarchy you aren't really given a choice which leader you want without having a revolution to overthrow the current lineage, but in a Democracy you are allowed to pick from 2 to 4 leaders.

Zeb

[Optimizer]

I agree. One of my wishes for Civ 3 was a Constitution screen.

Can such laws be implemented in some way, or will you need to wait for Civ 4?

Maybe you could have small wonders that are cheap to build but have negative side effects.

[Cian McGuire]

I doubt that the code could handle this- though that small wonder idea has some merit, but I don't believe that you can code a small wonder to have negative side effects.