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  • #1

    Depression

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    I think that if there are golden ages, shouldn't there be depressions? I don't know they'd be triggered, but maybe commerce would be greatly reduced for a while, and maybe it could be brought out of by building city improvements like FDR did to get out of a depression in real life.
    "The first man who, having fenced off a plot of land, thought of saying, 'This is mine' and found people simple enough to believe him was the real founder of civil society. How many crimes, wars, murders, how many miseries and horrors might the human race had been spared by the one who, upon pulling up the stakes or filling in the ditch, had shouted to his fellow men: 'Beware of listening to this imposter; you are lost if you forget the fruits of the earth belong to all and that the earth belongs to no one." - Jean-Jacques Rousseau
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    I think a depression already is in the game, although not for the same reasons. When Corruption gets out of hand from "not enough room" or war-weariness. I think making a Depression official and being announced by advisors would be great, though.

    Kind of off-topic here, but if Social Security got us out of the great depression, then what is going to happen when it runs out? Bush rushed it's shelf-life guarenteeing that my own mother won't be able to retire, but what will happen to the economy? Another depression?

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    • #3
      To tie what yall said together, perhaps when total corruption in your empire gets so high, your civ falls into a depression for like 20 turns. When in a depression your commerce and sheilds should be reduced quite abit, maybe even halved. But there should bea limit of this happening like a few times a game, otherwise it could just ruin the game (No one wants to play a game where they are in depression all the time- it would get discouraging, if not boring). Your advisors should give warnings of high corruption by saying your civ is slipping into recession, then if the problem is not fixed, they would announce your full-fledged depression.

      Kman
      "I bet Ikarus eats his own spunk..."
      - BLACKENED from America's Army: Operations
      Kramerman - Creator and Author of The Epic Tale of Navalon in the Civ III Stories Forum

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      • #4
        Another thing, depressions should probably only really apply to free-market economies, i.e. Republics and Democracies. Centralized economies could probably be characterized as being in a permanent state of depression given the inefficienies of command economies, and thus would already be accounted for in the game from Depotism, Monarchy and Communism.

        If depressions are added to the game, then we might as well as add natural disasters, as well as other types of random events. This would be a nice optional addition to the game.
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