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After careful analysis of our situation, I think communism won’t be the right choice of government for now.
There are two advantages communism has over fundamentalism. Spies are vet and science is better. The drawbacks are that people are unhappy and that units and infrastructure cost maintenance in shields and money.
I think communism would bring more worries than it would bring benefits and one of the key issues of communism, fast research, won’t be as fast as we thought if we can’t get the cities to celebrate at the same level as in fundamentalism. Unit support would be the plague of the new government too.
Research in fundamentalism is no longer an issue since we can have a new science every 6 turns if we set the sliders to 10/50/40 and still collect net income of 832. We don’t need that many sciences any more, possibly none, so science is not an argument for communism.
Another possible argument for communism is that it features vet spies. But I must ask the question: Do we really need spies? I mean they sure are useful, but are they necessary?
The problem with spies is that they are really prone to casualties without results if they are not vet, especially when they are performing sensitive missions such as sabotage of city walls. Even if they are vet, they are often captured after the successful destruction of the intended target. Maybe enough diplomats can do the trick, since they are guaranteed to succeed in their attempts. And we can buy many diplomats for the difference in money we get if we go ahead with zero science. On the other hand, we may want to take advantage of German form of government and use the spies to reduce the size of their cities and make them really cheap. It’s up to the citizens to decide.
Regardless of the decision whether to research espionage or not, we need much more diplomats than we currently posses. I suggest we start a diplo-building programme in more than half of our cities. I also noticed the disproportion in the number of cities building engineers and those building diplomats. Stop building engineers, we have plenty of them! I propose we stop building engineers in cities already supporting two or three of them and having negative food and start mass producing diplomats there. These diplos are going to bring down each and every last one of the city walls our cowardly enemies erect and enable our glorious armies to run through Germany and Greece like hot knife through butter.
We are not ready for the representative governments either. I suggest we don’t even think about the switch to republic or democracy until we get Bach + Women’s Suffrage brilliant Greeks are building for us. And even then, if we decide to switch to demo, we should stay demo only long enough to celebrate all our cities to their maximum capacity and after that switch back to fundamentalism. It is possible that celebrated growth of our cities won’t be enough to justify the loss of turns our senate is likely going to impose on us forcing peace treaties with heathen Greeks and Germans.
There are two advantages communism has over fundamentalism. Spies are vet and science is better. The drawbacks are that people are unhappy and that units and infrastructure cost maintenance in shields and money.
I think communism would bring more worries than it would bring benefits and one of the key issues of communism, fast research, won’t be as fast as we thought if we can’t get the cities to celebrate at the same level as in fundamentalism. Unit support would be the plague of the new government too.
Research in fundamentalism is no longer an issue since we can have a new science every 6 turns if we set the sliders to 10/50/40 and still collect net income of 832. We don’t need that many sciences any more, possibly none, so science is not an argument for communism.
Another possible argument for communism is that it features vet spies. But I must ask the question: Do we really need spies? I mean they sure are useful, but are they necessary?
The problem with spies is that they are really prone to casualties without results if they are not vet, especially when they are performing sensitive missions such as sabotage of city walls. Even if they are vet, they are often captured after the successful destruction of the intended target. Maybe enough diplomats can do the trick, since they are guaranteed to succeed in their attempts. And we can buy many diplomats for the difference in money we get if we go ahead with zero science. On the other hand, we may want to take advantage of German form of government and use the spies to reduce the size of their cities and make them really cheap. It’s up to the citizens to decide.
Regardless of the decision whether to research espionage or not, we need much more diplomats than we currently posses. I suggest we start a diplo-building programme in more than half of our cities. I also noticed the disproportion in the number of cities building engineers and those building diplomats. Stop building engineers, we have plenty of them! I propose we stop building engineers in cities already supporting two or three of them and having negative food and start mass producing diplomats there. These diplos are going to bring down each and every last one of the city walls our cowardly enemies erect and enable our glorious armies to run through Germany and Greece like hot knife through butter.
We are not ready for the representative governments either. I suggest we don’t even think about the switch to republic or democracy until we get Bach + Women’s Suffrage brilliant Greeks are building for us. And even then, if we decide to switch to demo, we should stay demo only long enough to celebrate all our cities to their maximum capacity and after that switch back to fundamentalism. It is possible that celebrated growth of our cities won’t be enough to justify the loss of turns our senate is likely going to impose on us forcing peace treaties with heathen Greeks and Germans.
) is that they can target specific city improvements like city walls. 
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