Im not saying that this game should be switched from a turn-based game to a real time strategy just to fit this idea. This has to deal with your citizens and their work. I believe that in this game, the factor of jobs should be included into the game to make the human player to think a little harder instead of just building a coal plant and churning out troops as if he were drafting the population of China. Instead, factories, power plants, and yes, the military should give jobs to citizens. But instead of there being an all military-no building economy, there should be a limit per city on how many citizens can be trained to be troops; the bigger the city, the more units that city can support. Jobs should start from early on. Building the Colossus should keep people employed for a set amount of time until built, and they go back into unemployment. Temples would provide jobs to people as priests, libraries to people as making them librarians, factories as making them the laborers that keep your military machine rolling, ect.


But as witnessed during the Great Depression (1929-1939), the whole world was affected. Millions of people were unemployed and the US government had set up projects such as the Hoover Dam, and Mt. Rushmore to give people jobs. Russia resorted to the farmers in the Ukraine to support their people, whom of which were starved. In my idea, if too many people are unemployed, they become poor and your civilization will dwindle into an economic depression. Not only will that cause it, but also war. War destroys buildings when that city is captured. If most of your cities are captured, then recaptured, after the war should a depression should commence. These should not last very long but the civilization will not generate nearly the amount of gold it did before the depression and people will be unhappy because they have no jobs to go to feed their families or even housing.