I am kind of interested in this civ 3 new trade model. I have gotten the impression that civ3 will be taking a lot of ideas from imperialism, which in my mind is a very very good idea.
If your city has silk coal iron etc, I would like to see the city harvest these resources each turn. They can either go into a huge stockpile or be used by another city in your empire, Or you can set the price for your goods and try to sell them to others. Now if you want to build a temple you can either buy it or you can take 10 stone blocks and 3 lumber out of your reserves. Same if you want to build a archer, take out 1 grain and 1 iron. Besides the building of cities I would like to see the building of storage yards or granaries etc. This would give other players the opportunity to pillage & plunder your reserves. This wouldn’t eliminate caravans as caravans would be goods like gems beads and goods that merchants normally trade.
This kind of model in my mind would create large pressure to expand and to get as many resources as you can. Not only that it should pretty much eliminate all that annoying micromanaging. People would take there turns a lot faster and the games would go a lot faster. More effort could be spent on strategic planning.
One another note, one of the most disappointing things I have found is that lots of people die due to barbs or a lucky chariot at the start of the game. I would like to see the introduction of a new unit called the palace guards or something like that. This unit will start out with a defensive strength of 2. This unit can not move out of the city, and can not attack outside the city, it is just a defensive unit and it should disappear with the discouvery of any new government type, (maybe you can keep it in monarchy)
Anyways I would like to hear from firaxis if I am even CLOSE on my guess on the trade system? Also if we had some idea of the trade system it would give the civ2 community a chance to have some input on its development, which would make the game better in the end.
Anyone from firaxis brave enough to comment?
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