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I have a problem with long standing gov's being efficient. I have been working on a train of thought for awhile now that the longer a certain gov. is in place the more efficiency drops. The more entrenched bureaucrats become the more they hinder the private sector. A good house cleaning of...

Couple of points here: 1) The Whitehouse is the Whitehouse because it was torched in the War of 1812, not the Revolutionary War. The fire scorched the original rose colored marble and it was painted white to cover the damage. 2) See my earlier post regarding changing notions of spelling...

I had to log in just to ut in my two cents worth. Truthfully, it's not that Americans changed the spelling of words or you Aussies, Canadians, etc. It's just that when the colonies were founded, there were no hard and fast rules on spelling. Thomas Jefferson (a very educated man for his day)...

I like the Idea of more graduations in combat and movement. Also, the idea of impassible terrain types would be cool, as long as the impassiblity could be ameliorated with tech advances. As far as armor in roadless mountains, the same should hold for arty. and regular infantry. However, I...

I think the idea of settlements would be cool in a prehistory kinda setting (might have to make settable as an option). Using initial settlements instead of cities would wind the clock back further to 6000 bc. A modified tech tree would be implemented to discover the basics like irrigation...

Visible trade routes would be useful. As far as trade route protection, I think that you should be able to designate one of your units for trade protection. It would no longer be visible or useful for other matters unless released from "convoy duty". It should still be accountable for unit...

I like your idea A_L :goodjob:

I've been playing civ and all of its descendants since I was in the Navy. Regarding Zork, never played, but I did play Adventure on my VIC20. Also, I remember when my uncle got a Pong console for his TV (couple of years before the Atari 2600?). As for Age groups, I now have my 11 y/o son...

Along the line of Techs in Civil wars: 1. What if the availability of Techs to rebel factions is tied to the number of Libraries/Universities/Research Labs in the rebel cities? 2. What is the role of said improvements in generating discontent? If they produce Techs but also unhappiness...

It is true that long distance wars have occured throughout history, but these wars were generally over tangible reasons (trade, resources), but the AI seems to focus more on power (ie. if your civ is fairly ahead of the rest it will gang up on you). While this might be partially true in the...

@ GeneralZed: What about global conflagrations like WWI and WWII?

I was doing some thinking (by the Khan, good Idea). My thought was that some techs are not mutually exclusive between Militarism/Democracy. If you had two main branches, why not have the mutually exclusive techs to the outer sides, but have convergent techs in the middle where crossovers...

The greatest harm is war weariness in your civ.

I see three points here: 1) Since, as is mentioned elsewhere, the time scale can be thought of in abstract turns, why not have alternating turns for the four seasons (or just two if you prefer) with corresponding benefits and penalties, ie. loss of food in winter, but increase in science...

850. :cry: You Cry, "Arrgh!" after reading this thread for an entire evening and realize it is not to 1000, 2050 or 4444 yet! 851. :) Your first post on cfc is on this thread