Ugh! I am so frustrated!
One of the things you have to do as a modder is play a lot of Civ. You need to test what you do to the game to see if it works. One of the blessings of this is that sometimes you wind up with a really great game.
This was one of those games. I was playing as Asoka and trying for a peaceful space victory because I needed to test the Future era. I had a whole continent to myself, I was a production and military powerhouse. I had happy citizens due to Hereditary Rule and lots of troops in my cities taking care of them. Then...
Lincoln built the UN and decided that he had to have everybody switch to Universal Suffrage. I voted no because I hate to defy (though I should have), but the resolution passed and there I was. Stuck with cities with 29 unhappiness and shrinking fast. In running HR, I had built very few happiness buildings, and it wouldn't have mattered anyway, the unhappiness was too large. I also couldn't change out of US, and believe me, I wanted to.
It totally ruined what I would consider to be a great game of Civ.
tl;dr
I'm thinking of modding the UN and Emancipation mechanics to be a little more fair, or at least a little less brutal to the player, however I lack essential experience in some of the game mechanics. (I'm usually not playing for optimal game, I'm testing something or other and often don't pay attention to the deeper strategy and mechanics.)
So I throw the questions out to you guys.
1. Does it (the US mechanic or Emancipation) need to be changed?
2. Are they unfair?
3. How would we change them if we could?
4. And what would we change them to?
Some ideas would really be appreciated. I'm angry enough to mod out the UN entirely.
Discuss.
One of the things you have to do as a modder is play a lot of Civ. You need to test what you do to the game to see if it works. One of the blessings of this is that sometimes you wind up with a really great game.
This was one of those games. I was playing as Asoka and trying for a peaceful space victory because I needed to test the Future era. I had a whole continent to myself, I was a production and military powerhouse. I had happy citizens due to Hereditary Rule and lots of troops in my cities taking care of them. Then...
Lincoln built the UN and decided that he had to have everybody switch to Universal Suffrage. I voted no because I hate to defy (though I should have), but the resolution passed and there I was. Stuck with cities with 29 unhappiness and shrinking fast. In running HR, I had built very few happiness buildings, and it wouldn't have mattered anyway, the unhappiness was too large. I also couldn't change out of US, and believe me, I wanted to.
It totally ruined what I would consider to be a great game of Civ.
tl;dr
I'm thinking of modding the UN and Emancipation mechanics to be a little more fair, or at least a little less brutal to the player, however I lack essential experience in some of the game mechanics. (I'm usually not playing for optimal game, I'm testing something or other and often don't pay attention to the deeper strategy and mechanics.)
So I throw the questions out to you guys.
1. Does it (the US mechanic or Emancipation) need to be changed?
2. Are they unfair?
3. How would we change them if we could?
4. And what would we change them to?
Some ideas would really be appreciated. I'm angry enough to mod out the UN entirely.
Discuss.