Launching my first civ: The Brazilians (version 1.0)

You download the old version of the race "The Brazilians" in this post, click in the links below. To check my new version (leader 3d), go to http://forums.civfanatics.com/showthread.php?p=1882356#post1882356

The files to download the old version are:
http://www.civfanatics.net/uploads7/brazilians01_-_011.zip
http://www.civfanatics.net/uploads7/brazilians01_-_02.zip


Have fun using the first arts developed by CivArmy creator, enjoy this classic!!!



These characteristics were defined to Brazilian Civilization:

Civ Name: The Brazilians.
Bonuses: Religious and Agricultural (C3C) or Religious and Commercial (Vanilla and PTW).
Title and Leader Name: Companheiro Lula.
Favorite and Shunned Government: Republic and Feudalism (C3C) or Republic and Monarchy (Vanilla and PTW).
Aggression Level: 03 (moderate).
Culture Group: American.
Noun: Brazilians.
Adjective: Brazilian.
Default and Alternative colors: Yellow (the same of the Egyptians) and Blue (the same of the Germans).
Unique Unit: Embraer Tucano
Civilopedia entry: RACE_BRAZILIANS

Military Leaders:
Duque de Caxias
Deodoro da Fonseca
Floriano Peixoto
Dom Pedro II
Getúlio Vargas

Scientific Leaders:
Santos Dummond
Vital Brasil
Herculano Florence
Padre Roberto Landell de Moura
Machado de Assis

City Names:
Brasília
São Paulo
Rio de Janeiro
Belo Horizonte
Salvador
Porto Alegre
Fortaleza
Recife
Curitiba
Campinas
Goiânia
Belém
Manaus
São Luiz
Guarulhos
Santos
Santo André
São Bernardo do Campo
Osasco
Barueri
São José dos Campos
Vitória
Campo Grande
Florianópolis
Cuiabá
Natal
Maceió
João Pessoa
Teresina
Aracajú
Palmas
Rio Branco
Macapá
Porto Velho
Boa Vista
Sorocaba
Ribeirão Preto
Bauru
Presidente Prudente
Jundiaí
Piracicaba
São Carlos
Araçatuba
São José do Rio Preto
Niterói
São Gonçalo
Campos
Petrópolis
Uberlândia
Uberaba
Betim
Juiz de Fora
Londrina
Maringá
Caxias do Sul
Gramado
Pelotas
Camboriú
Blumenau
Olinda
Campina Grande
Porto Seguro
Juazeiro
Petrolina
Santarém
São Caetano do Sul
Diadema
Limeira
Taubaté
São Sebastião
Jacareí
Mogi das Cruzes
Rio Claro
Americana
Paulínia
Jaguariúna
Vinhedo
Indaiatuba
Itu
Franca
Araraquara
Barretos
Botucatu
Barra Bonita

Civilopedia, the Brazilians:

The mix of European, African, Native American and Asiatic cultures results in the Brazilian Civilization. It started in XV century, when pioneer sailors coming from Portugal arrived in present day Brazilian territory.
These lands were inhabitant by native Indian races, as the Tupis, Jês, Karibs and Aruaks, that were killed by the superior European armies. The survivors were enslaved or were married to their new masters. First, the Portuguese arrived, to explore the unique wood Pau-Brasil (origin of the name Brazil) and plant crops, then later the French, English, Dutch, Spanish and other nations, to plunder and conquer new lands.
There were many wars in this Portuguese colony, because it had natural resources and rich soil for agriculture. These wars happened between Portugal, rival nations and the colonists. The economical activities were based on things such as wood, sugar, exotic plants, gold and cafe. These activities were all important in Brazil. In the cycle of sugar, for example, the northeast coast, the main area of this activity, ruled all the life in colony. When the importance of sugar died down and the gold rush began, the southeast became the economical, political and cultural heart of Brazil.
The main method originally used by the Portuguese to support their economy in Brazil was slavery. Africans were enslaved in their continent, to work in the crops and mines in colony. They came mainly from nowadays Mozambique and Angola, former Portuguese colonies in south of Africa. Slavery was abolished only in XIX century, creating many chances for poor Europeans and Asians that dreamed of a better life. So, people from Italy, Japan, Middle East, Korea, more Portuguese, Spanish and others arrived in the country.
Brazil attained political independence in 1822, when Dom Pedro I, A PORTUGUESE PRINCE, declared Brazil and Portugal two separated kingdoms. He did that so his family could continue to rule both countries. When his father died, Dom Pedro I went back to Portugal to take over the royal seat, his son, Dom Pedro II, continued ruling in Brazil. The Empire was replaced when the Republic was declared in 1889. The Republic continues today, but stopped in two periods: from 1930 until 1945, when the popular farmer Getúlio Vargas ran a bloody dictatorship and from 1964 until 1986, when the army took over the country, supported by United States of America government, saying that URSS had a plan to invade Brazilian boarders.
Brazil today has one of the 15th largest GNP of the entire world and has good prospects for the future, in spite of the constant crises: agribusiness, commerce, factories and tourism developed quickly in the XX century, along with the highest tax rate in the Western World, higher than in the United States. The natural resources, such as drinking water, are abundance in the rain forests and attract International interests. The worst problem of the country is the division of the wealth, resulting in favelas (shantytowns), urban violence, landless people, starvation and diseases. Because of this problem and its consequences, people say that Brazil is a sleeping giant.
The great leader of the Brazilians in Civilization 3 game is Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva, the Companheiro Lula (expression used by workers of industries that means "fellow"), former labor leader in the past, actual President of the country (2003 to 2006), elected by voting. Lula has ample popular support and fights against the bad situation of the majority of the population. After elected President, he started a Foreign Relationship plan between Brazil and other poor countries to combat together common problems and the aggressive economical politics of the rich nations, thus turning into a national and international leader.
In Civilizaton 3 Conquests, the Brazilians are considered Religious (the country has the biggest concentration of the Christian people around the Planet) and Agricultural (agriculture and extractives are important activities in the history of the nation). In the Vanilla and Play the World version, they are Religious and Commercial.

Civilopedia, Embraer Tucano (UU):

Embraer Tucano is the result of a national project started in 1978 to replace the older war airplanes of the Brazilian Air Force (FAB). Tucanos are building by Embraer, one of the biggest airplane companies in the entire world. The recently versions of Tucano are the best airplanes that use helix ever built, they are easy to be build and have bigger sphere of action. Some countries have bought this airplane, such as England, France, Iraq, Argentina and Venezuela.

uploads always in this topic

A versão em Português da imagem do post 01

Preview of Embraer Tucano, UU of the Brazilians




Use http://www.civfanatics.net/uploads7/Tucano.zip to download the old version, I hope construction a better one soon.

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This is really cool, im going to try it out, There are just suggestions you don't have to take them Maybe Brasilia should not be the first city being that it was built in the late 50s- early 60s, Salvador would be better being the first city in Brazil. Maybe you should make the leader D.Pedro II because Lula really hasen't done anything major (me being Brazilian living in Brazil I know this), and D.Pedro was the last monarch leader of Brazil before the republica velha. On the other hand, I really like the unique unit, and the scientific and military leaders are quite right, but don't use pele, he was a soccer player, make him anther great author, or president. The other thing, lower their aggrestion level...Brazil hasen't been involved sending troops to help a war, or in a war since WWII when they were very supportive towards the Nazi movement and the Fascist Movement in Italy. For C3C the shunned should be Monarchy, for the Brazilians did everything to rid themselves of the monarchy, including changing flags, national anthem, because to them the monarchy was evil. On C3C brazil should be Agricultural, thats good, and also Industrial, because brazil is one the fastest industrial developing nations at the moment. On Vanilla and PTW, agricultural should be commercial, thats good.

These few changse could be useful, as I mentioned, if you want to, ignore these suggestions, I can see where youre coming from for some things like aggression 4, being that brazil does have a strong army, but they use it for their own defense. Anyway, I'm still gonna download the mod, as I have seen you appear to do a pretty good job.

Nickname Lost, thanks for enjoying my project! Try later another one done by myself, The Tupis (Native Indians), coming soon available in CivFanatics and other forums around the Internet. The preview is yet available here, in Civ Fanatics forums. Oh, the Brazilian UU has some errors, I’m fixing them and I’m going post the fixed version this weekend. Here come the answers of my choices (major city, aggressive level…), if you disagree with my view, please, post a new replay:
- I chose Brasília as the capital, because the city is our capital and not much people around the world know that. That’s a way to teach them that Brasília is the capital, not Rio, neither Buenos Aires. I homage Salvador and Rio de Janeiro, our former capitals, putting them like Medieval and Industrial eras scenarios of Lula leaderhead. The ancient age has like scenario a beach from Porto Seguro, the official “discovery” place. If I would have to choice the first city founded in Brazil like the capital, I had to choose Capitania de São Vicente (nowadays São Paulo coast), not Salvador, the second city would be Porto Seguro. The city names listed by actual importance is a good choice.
- I chose Lula like the Great Leader on Civ, because Civ has few nowadays leaders, I think it is a good idea put some one to represent our modern era. I also thought about Dom Pedro I and II, Getúlio Vargas, Juscelino Kubitschek, Deodoro da Fonseca, Marques de Pombal and Fernando Henrique Cardoso. I think the Brazilian great leader must be a Brazilian, not a Portuguese as Dom Pedro II, he must be popular, not involved with dictatorships, corruption or domain classes and he must fight for a better country. Lula was born in Brazil, was a labor leader since the 70’, comes from the people and represent our era, so, I think he is a better choose between the other ones. I disagree with you when you say that he did nothing for the country, I’m not a “Petistas” and voted in his party just in few elections, but I think Lula fought for the people in the past and continues fight as the President. All the problems were not solved, but I think the country situation will be better when his government has ended. Beyond this, I think his external and economical politics are adequate for our actual situation.
- I putted Pelé as scientific leader, because he brought happiness to the country, he is popular, he is a leader, how he is not a military one, I putted as a scientific. Just a homage to the King! I had to add to this list Sérgio Buarque de Holanda and Oswaldo Cruz.
- The aggressive level comes to level 04, I explain it with two sad words: urban violence. Unfortunate we have one of the highest urban violence taxes of the entire Planet, if our people were pacific, we have not owned this too elevated taxes. Brazilians respects the foreign nations, but they don’t respect their own compatriots, using extreme violence to attack and defend themselves.
- I agree with you about Monarch Times being damage to Brazilian majority people, but when the Portuguese had came and started extract Pau-Brasil and cultivate sugar cane, like happens in Feudalist system, it hurt more the country then the Monarch times. So, Feudalism is worst then Monarch to Brazil.
- The original project shows The Brazilians with Industrious and Religious bonuses, after have read forums suggestions, I changed to Religious and Agricultural. I chose Religious, because the country has the biggest concentration of the Christian people around the Planet and chose Agricultural by the importance of the agriculture in the 500 years of the history. Today the industrious activity (including manufacture) is more important then the agricultural one, but for 450 years the agricultural ruled the country life. Soybean, cafe, sugar cane, the cattleman, extractives activities and agribusiness research are important today to national economy.

Nickname Lost, those are my explains, if you have more suggestions or disagree with them, please, post a new replay.

Thanks!!!

Daniel.

Don't forget Brazil has one of the strongest agricultures in the world. The only way the United States and European Union compete with Brazil in agriculture is by giving massive subsidies to their own farmers. If it weren't for the american and european subsidies to Agriculture, Brazil would so sell so much fruit, vegetable and livestock to these countries that many aspects of agriculture would not be economically viable in the United States or European Union (for example, oranges). I'm serious...
Agriculture does not reflect just the past of Brazil, it is also part of Brazil's present. Most countries in the world do not have even a fraction of the natural resources that Brazil has.

Anway, I'm finally downloading the civ... I look forward to playing it!

Hm, although I can see were did that come from, I do not believe it would be correct to represent Brazil as Religious really. We have, of course, strong religious manners, in our fashion. But our religious sense is no stronger than U.S.'s and they are not described as religious, are they? We are Agricultural, indeed. And commercial, I would say. Not religious, no.

Save that and the agression level, I found your work remarkable. I just thing it's funny, you know, to have brazilians and americans in early game, when we didn't actually exist. Unlike some European nations, who were built from the very beggining of man's civilization, I suppose... Well, we didn't. We are fruit of a mix (or, not being kind with words, domination), we were colonies.
I thing the game should include those concepts. Nations being born from nations. Like in some old civ I remember playing, that when you took the capitol city of someone, there was a chance of a new nation to rise. But, hm, I'm wondering of, am I not?
Huh, well done sir. And hello community. This is my frist post, after all.

Komori, thank you for your feedback. I'm posting to explain some choisen itens of The Brazilians:
- Brazil has too many Catholic people, here born one strong current of the Protestant religion (I'm talking about Edir Macedo), Church is present in the life of majority people and government, today and in the past. The Carnival born in a religious act, not Christian, but religious. For this reason I choose Religious like bonuses. Our country is unique, we could be Industrious, Agricultural, Commercial, Expansionists, and why not Seafaring (ports, large coast...), Scientifics (research in some specifics areas, like agribusiness and cure for tropical deseases) or Militaristics (the investiment in the army technologies was large in Military Dictadorship). The choose was Religious and Agricultural (Commercial to Vanilla and PTW).
- The 04 like aggression level is for the urban violence, it is not possible a pacific people has the taxs of the Brazilian one.
- Komori, I'm doing the civilization The Tupis, coming soon available in the Internet forums. In CivFanatics you can find a preview of the arts and other characteristics. If you enjoy older civs as the Europeans ones, you will enjoy The Tupis.

People, do not forget to check my new project out, the Argentinians, available in CivFanatics initial forum!!!

Regards and thanks for all the feedbacks! The projects (Brazilians, Tupis, Argentinians, Tucano...) just get better with your feedbacks!

D@nIe.l

The only thing I still strongly disagree with is 04 aggression, I don't believe that urban violence influences the aggression, because to me aggression was military aggression, and although Brazil does have a good army we don't get involved in wars. Maybe you just see aggression as how everyone acts and I guess we all have our own interpretationswhich is cool

hey , civ´s army , i see a problem. Dom Pedro II was brazilian and Princess Isabel too. They was the only monarchs who born at Brazil. Other thing , Getulio Vargas've attack too much the communism in Brazil. Then , i find which the bad government must be communism , and we have a revolution in 1964 who defend the country of the communism.

Greetings ,

mutante.

i believe monarchy should be the shunned government because of the radical reforms that occured after D.Pedro II was kicked out, like the flag change, anthem change, ive said this all before

I also believe that if you choose a certain leader stick to the era around the leader, if you choose lula have the rest be what brazil is like today being that he is our current preseident, if you use D.Pedro make everything like it was back then, its better this way because you limit yourself to what the place was like at the time and you assume the traits of what Brazil was like at the time.

I desagree with you two, the worst governement type is Feudalism. When the Portuguese arrive in Indigenas lands our country born. The government way used in these times was a "kind of Feudalism", where the wood was exported and the crops grew up in large latifundios. This era was the worst then Monarch times and a possible Communist times: just plant, kill native, slave work and wars. There is no investiments in culture, industries, urban buildings or anything who helps Brazil grows. The three ways would hurt the nation, Feudalism hurts more.
I'm not sure if Dom Pedro II is Brazilian, I have to research, but I prefer Lula as great leader, even DPII 'd born here.
Just a history correction: communists never had sufficient power to take over the government, the revolution of 64 (or military incision) used it as the motive, the real intention is rule the nation against former Getúlio Vargas allies.

Regards!!!

Er, the dictatorship of 64 (for I refuse to call it revolution) did not happen to defend us from communism, for christ sake, it was just a low level of socialistic tendences our president had. And we don't hate communist so much, or we wouldn't had elected former communist, proletarian and sindicalist Luis Inacio 'Lula' Da Silva.

That being said, I'd happen to agree with Nickname Lost (that could make a good game title. Or a movie) that I still find agression level too high. I believe we are very passive as a military force, if you let me say so. Another thing that just came to me... Don't we had more time under dictatorships and populist governments than in actual democracy/republic? I'm not sure there, I did abandon my History classes after all, but, hm, are we not like, more into populism than republic? Populism, for in-game reasons, should be represent by facism. Actually, We could do that government couldn't we? I mean, most of south america, if not all, had been under populist dictatorships for so long this century, it's a shame they forgot that government type.

That kinda made me start to do a government mod. If I happen to have good results, I'll post it here.

The peole claims, I heard and resolve to change:
- The aggressive level is now 03 (moderate).
- Pelé was removed to Scientific leader. Oswaldo Cruz and Sérgio Buarque de Holanda were added.
- The government types continues Republic and Feudalism, the Monarchy appears in PTW and Vanilla versions.

In sptie of Brazil had lived too many years ruled by dictadors I do not agree it is the best way of government to represent your nation, just 01 civ of the 31 has the best government as Facism, the Hatitis who do not exist more, it is complicate say one country has the Facism like prefered government type.

Regards!

PS: when a post a new version of The Brazilians, these changes will be upgrade.