What about combining the Citystates and $Mini-Game idea.

[GhengisFarbâ„¢]

There were lots of people making allegation last game that the Mini-gamers were manipulating the Demo game to profit in the Minigame. What if made the Citystates game in the PTW forum an actual $Mini-game Democracy game where you are SUPPOSED to vote and make decisions based on your holdings and wealth?

Basically, the $Minigame would drive that Demo game instead of vice versa.

[GodKing]

Interesting - I would love to be a lurker in that one...

[Inverse Icarus]

/me is tired of pitching his feuadl idea

[GhengisFarbâ„¢]

Originally posted by UberKruX
* UberKruX is tired of pitching his feuadl idea

Actually that is what I had in mind, it would start our feudal with the players being nobles with their landholdings and trying to improve and profit from them using the $Mini-game.

[Kuciwalker]

I would respond to the complaints this way: that's a good thing. It adds another element of roleplay to the game. We're actually "in" the game, in some form, so we're not just a group of people trying to play it as best we can - we are trying to play it in a way that will benefit ourselves in particular.

[Thrumble]

This could be more vicious than the Citystates concept if people are strictly motivated by their assets and the furtherment of such.

[GodKing]

You would have to make a rule - if you build a settler in your city, the new settler owes its fielty to teh city that created it for x turns.... that would allow the civ to grow instead of just poping out a couple of workers to clear around it and then focusing on building structures.... Or perhaps I am missing something.

[Kuciwalker]

Oh, you mean we each actually control a CITY?

Wow. I want in!

[GhengisFarbâ„¢]

I was thinking the rules would alter a bit depending on the government we were in.

When a new city was founded players from the creating city could choose to go with the new settler and be a part of that "provence". Each player's territory would have to be within the influence area of the city he residing in and should be adjoined in one clump.

[Kuciwalker]

That's going to be cool. We could even use a sort of "economic warfare" between the citystates

EDIT: even better - tariffs and trade laws!

[GhengisFarbâ„¢]

BUMP

On the assumption that a second SPDG ever starts.