Multiplayer Democracy Game

An idea: how about playing the next democracy game with multiple civilizations?

The participants could form several nations competing against each other instead of against AI opponents. People would play out their roles within a nation like in the single nation democracy but in addition there would be real international diplomacy and relationships. As a democracy game is more like a RPG it would probably bring out events and situations not thought about and not easily found in the normal multiplayer game where "win the game" is more an issue. Imagine two groups (nations) having a heated discussion that slowly accelerates the situation into a war, or having ethnic minorities in conquered cities represented by real people!

Heck, maybe we could even simulate the missing civil war feature by using "spare civilizations" who are then given the appropriate cities and techs when part of a group wants to split. ("Spare civ" = civ with just the original settler, controlled by the host, and sleeps until needed.)

That idea has already been discussed in the first Civ3 demogame. And, I know Thunderfall wants to wait to see how PTW/MP goes first. There can be variants here, too, like a Team Mode Demogame. (of which I have an idea for one. )

That's what Markos is trying to do over at 'Poly. Most people want to have a multi-board Demo Game, but we have too many people and it gets boring.

Originally posted by Trip
That's what Markos is trying to do over at 'Poly. Most people want to have a multi-board Demo Game, but we have too many people and it gets boring.

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We don't have enough. But, I can see how multi-site would be cumbersome (and long).

We have 400, want some?

A multi-site demo game would be fun, but agonizingly slow. The beaurocracy over at 'Poly is amazing, and we'd get no more than a turn done a week. A turn!

Originally posted by Trip
We have 400, want some?

A multi-site demo game would be fun, but agonizingly slow. The beaurocracy over at 'Poly is amazing, and we'd get no more than a turn done a week. A turn!

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Did you see our demogame lately? We're averaging around (if not less than) 5 turns per week! We have yet to have a full 10 turn turnchat. It's bueracracy-city, and it's just 1 local game!