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Life After Death
As I had once said in another thread, when a civ is conquered in Civ II it is gone for good. In SMAC, when a faction is conquered than their cities retain the style of the conquered for 50 turns which is stupid. I think that in Civ III when you are conquered you can have an option to keep running your last cities to be conquered as a governer type of person. You can slowly build up a secret military when the civ that conquered you doesn't use the production from a city under your control. You can divert money from the coffers to supliment your annual "pay". To do this you have to suck up to people you can work your ways up the ranks to becoming a extreamly powerful official who can call on the military power from an entire region (please include these Firaxis!) to revolt aganst your king. The ranks would be something like this:
Mayor-You control one city (former capital). If you disobey your orders once than you are killed and your game ends. Your pay is 10 gold every other turn. You stay a mayor for 20 turns.
Local Governer-You control 2 cities. You may disobey your orders once and get a 50% cut in pay for 10 turns. The next time you die. Your pay is 20 gold every other turn. You stay a Local Governer for 15 turns.
After you are a Local Governer you can chose one of two paths to follow. You can be a Colonial Governer or a Regional Governer. If you chose Colonial Governer than you are in control of half of the overseas cities owned by the civ. If you chose Regional Governer that you are in control of one third of the cities on the home continent. The following is the colony path:
Colonial Governer-You control half of all colonies. You can disobey 2 times without penalty before the discovery of steam. (Info travels slowly) After that you can only disobey once without penalty. After the last free lie you can disobey and lose your pay for 5 turns. The next time you are demoted to a Mayor with no pay until you become a Local Governer. The next time you die. Your pay is 40 gold a turn. You stay at this level for 25 turns. This is the lowest level in which you can revolt and break away from the mother country and form your own country. Your only armed forces at the start are your secret army and a milita/partisan unit from each city under your command. You can build new units though. If you fail your game ends.
Colonial Magistrate-You control all colonies. You can disobey orders 3 times without penalty. after that you are demoted to Local Governer, then to Mayor, then death. Your pay is 70 gold a turn. This is as high as you can go.
This is if you follow the mainland way:
Regional Governer-You control 1/3 of all cities on the home continent. You can disobey orders once without penalty. Then you lose your pay for 5 turns. Then you are demoted to Mayor with no pay. Then you die. You cannot revolt because you are too close to the ruler. Your pay is 50 gold a turn.
Regional Magistrate-You control half of the main cities or your former empire. You can disobey orders 2 times without penalty. after that it is the same as the Colonial Magistrate. Your pay is 100 gold a turn. This is when you can break away from the mother country. This is as high as you can go here.
You use your money for three things. One, to buy your secret army. Two, to make whatever your ruler wants and still build a unit and three, to pay off your superior so you can disobey your ruler without penalty.
Please revise this and make suggestions.
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"Adorare Christantine!!!"
Republican Decree #1
Mayor-You control one city (former capital). If you disobey your orders once than you are killed and your game ends. Your pay is 10 gold every other turn. You stay a mayor for 20 turns.
Local Governer-You control 2 cities. You may disobey your orders once and get a 50% cut in pay for 10 turns. The next time you die. Your pay is 20 gold every other turn. You stay a Local Governer for 15 turns.
After you are a Local Governer you can chose one of two paths to follow. You can be a Colonial Governer or a Regional Governer. If you chose Colonial Governer than you are in control of half of the overseas cities owned by the civ. If you chose Regional Governer that you are in control of one third of the cities on the home continent. The following is the colony path:
Colonial Governer-You control half of all colonies. You can disobey 2 times without penalty before the discovery of steam. (Info travels slowly) After that you can only disobey once without penalty. After the last free lie you can disobey and lose your pay for 5 turns. The next time you are demoted to a Mayor with no pay until you become a Local Governer. The next time you die. Your pay is 40 gold a turn. You stay at this level for 25 turns. This is the lowest level in which you can revolt and break away from the mother country and form your own country. Your only armed forces at the start are your secret army and a milita/partisan unit from each city under your command. You can build new units though. If you fail your game ends.
Colonial Magistrate-You control all colonies. You can disobey orders 3 times without penalty. after that you are demoted to Local Governer, then to Mayor, then death. Your pay is 70 gold a turn. This is as high as you can go.
This is if you follow the mainland way:
Regional Governer-You control 1/3 of all cities on the home continent. You can disobey orders once without penalty. Then you lose your pay for 5 turns. Then you are demoted to Mayor with no pay. Then you die. You cannot revolt because you are too close to the ruler. Your pay is 50 gold a turn.
Regional Magistrate-You control half of the main cities or your former empire. You can disobey orders 2 times without penalty. after that it is the same as the Colonial Magistrate. Your pay is 100 gold a turn. This is when you can break away from the mother country. This is as high as you can go here.
You use your money for three things. One, to buy your secret army. Two, to make whatever your ruler wants and still build a unit and three, to pay off your superior so you can disobey your ruler without penalty.
Please revise this and make suggestions.
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"Adorare Christantine!!!"
Republican Decree #1
. I think that such random tinkering with the game mechanisms is not going to add anything significant in terms of playability, but might succeed in complicating matters to a point where no one will really be able to play the game due to the huge amount of different rules.
All I wanted to do is start up some meaningful discussion of the merits of your idea.
So much for reconciliation 
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