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Here are a few of my ideas on government and other social things:
Governments: I believe that a good list of governments would be as such:
Tribal
City-State
Monarchy
Feudalism
Republic
Democracy
Communism
Theocracy
Dictatorship
Facism
In the beginning of the game you would get the choice to start off as either a Tribal, or City State government. Each of these governments would have seperate advantages and disadvantages which would help you in the game. Also, depending on the one you choose, the tech tree might be some what differant, allowing you not to access certian technologies.
A tribal government would have eithre no, or very very light, boundries, but might have a food bonus, as well as less discord, and such.
City State would have more dicord and more corruption(trade is difficult between differant cities like that), however would make more money and have better science
Feudalism would have a cut science rate, less happiness, but less corruption, and they could produce the Feudalism only unit: Knights
Theocracy and Fundementalism's affects would depend on how big of a part of the game religion will make up. if it goes along msot of the segestions around here, they would procude more money and production, could only supprot one religion ,and would percute all others, have strained relatiosn with nations of other religions, and such
Almost every government would have government only units such as Fascist stormtroopers and the like. Theocracies would have missionaries which would spread the choice religion faster than it would under normal circumstances.
Now for the idea of ethniticity. Let me say that I agree with the ideas as long as it does not get to complexe. If Fixar listens to our ideas, that can be the only real threat to the game, that it will become far to complexe. But here is my general idea for it
When a city is taken it would suffer from a period of unrest, and reduced efficency. This would also stop the type of game play where one completely finaces a war agaisnt the enemy, with cities taken from the enemy.
After this time runs out they would become a normal city, with normal production and such. However, they would not forget which civilization they came from. If you took the city from the Celts, the people would not forget that they are Celtic, for a very very long time. It might take hundres of turns for them to be complete assimulated, depending on the period the game is in. This population might try to rebell and rejoin the other civilization if it still exists, begging them to take them back. Or, if the civilization is destroyed, they may attept to rebell and recreate their old nation.
Now there would be ways to combat this, of course. For instance, you could flood the city with your own settlers until your population over weighs their population, lessening the chance. Or you could try to force the ethnic group to split up and deport them to differant cities, once again lessening their power. this would also speed up the tiem of assimulation.
Now the question of slavery comes up. I actually find it to be a good part of CTP, and enjoy it. I know it's a controvercial topic, but it is a realistic factor in the game, and if doen right it can help a great deal. I think there should be a few ways to gain slaves in the game.
First of all, in the ancient phase, when you defeat an enemy unit there shoudl be an off chance that you capture a few as slaves, and send them to a city. Also you shoudl be able to have a slaver unit which acts in much the same way as the CTP unit. Finally, when you capture an enemy civilization you could choose to convert part of the cities population into slaves, and disperce them throughout the Empire, or you could enslave a nationalist group inside your out boundries, another reason for having the computer rembre the ethnics of the cities.
that is how you gain slaves, how would they play? First of all, the advantages would be that you feed them less, and theyt are more productive. However, there is that chance of rebellion much as in CTP. Now, here is where the ethniticity becomes important, slaves would NOT be assimualted into the empire, and would not lose their heritage. Because of this there would always be the chance for amn ethnic revolt in a city, even cities which were not conquered from the people, but places they were deported to. Finally, you could free the salves, in which point they would become like any other ethnic citizen of your nation, but it would cause soem unhappiness, and be costly if you do so.
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