Kailric
Jack of All Trades
Are not we all
I forgot to add that Admin will be a cost for all your Civics, so that is something else it does. Other than that it feeds the multi stat Fealty. We could add effects like all Extra Admin gets converted into another stat so it doesn't seem like you are wasting the extra stuff, which your not as it is pouring into Fealty.
Not exactly, Fealty still represents your approval by the People and their over all morale, but Administration is the organization of Labor and Military, and I should add Civics. It helps to feed Fealty but is not Fealty.
This would be an easy setup. We need an XML file to place all this info like which Yields increase which Multi Stat so it is not hardcoded.
Yes, and that is where it comes from.
This is actually a good idea. It would require splitting the "Rebel Sentiment" value in two. This would give Admin a pratical purpose leaving Religion the only Yield that doesn have a direct pratical purpose. Perhaps Religion could "Bless" your Citizens in some way extra besides the mentioned multi stat bonus.
I would think all the stats combined would represent this.
Historically, people have been drawn to religion and freedom of religion more than to Rulers, especially if the Ruler is against their religion.
Under the default victory conditions, you can either side with the Pope and defend him against invaders or appose him and capture Rome your self. In order to win and be Crowned Emperor, Rome must either fall into your hands or not into the hands of enemies. So, there should be some benefit to having the Pope's grace. So, for the Tithe that he demands, you could gain some bonus based on the Pope's attitude towards you. Perhaps a huge bonus to Religious production, or Religious production greatly increases the stats that effect Unit Strength and Unit Production.
So, if you appose the Pope, it is much harder to gain Fealty, but you have more money
When we add in Religions we can take a new look at the whole system, perhaps have other historical figures, duel Popes and such like that, like in actual history during the great schism.
This is true.
The Prison idea is a good one, but for the moment we'll keep it as is(coding time), they are converted by working in your Cities that produce Law. But, I will change their upgrade citizen to Serf instead of Free Peasant as that makes more sense. Why should a command criminal be raised to Free Peasant status when you should first test him out as a Serf to see if he is Loyal
That's an interesting Idea, although I thought about the historical concept of "city air makes men free". If a serf could flee to a City and live there for a year and a day he was considered a Free Man. So, I was thinking perhaps with a Tech or under certain Civics Serfs could be converted to Free Peasants for a Cost. Perhaps with a cool effect that the serf could be an Expert of Master waiting to be discovered
But I think the most natural way to control behavior of abstract and combination yields would be from tags in YieldInfos.xml. They would not be the same for all mods so it's best to avoid hardcoding where possible, though I guess some of their core behaviors (ie what yield controls border expansion, what yield triggers an immigrant, what yield controls "Rebel Sentiment" slider, etc) would require hardcoding to a given Yield to be feasible. In the case of Culture (or whatever the border-expanding combo yield would be) the gameplay role may be relatively limited at 1-plot city radius, but could become more interesting if you have 2-plot city radius with gradual border expansion one tile at a time a la Civ5. Or if you stay at 1-plot city radius but let cities progress through several "Culture Levels" (Struggling->Prosperous->Legendary etc) a la Civ4, where maintaining high local Culture Level can grant some benefit.
