I don't know if I have mentioned this before but I have an idea that might help colonization and settlement in the mod. How about if we added in colonies based on the Space Port things from the Final Frontier mod that comes with BTS?
This could work similar to how it does in FF, which is where a worker spends X amount of turns building a colony near resources at a monetary cost (say 150 gold). This claims the territory for them but they would still have to defend it. The could then be an option to 'upgrade' the colony into a city, again with a monetary value and taking x amount of turns.
I think this would improve the game in the following ways;
1)Speed up AI Colonisation by making it easier for them to expand.
2)Help slow down the Tech rate by providing another incentive to get money instead of research
3)Speed up the game as territory could be claimed without building extra cities, reducing the amount of cities in the game.
4)Provide (yet another) unique and exciting aspect to RFC.
5)Provide a realistic way of representing important parts of empires that didn't have a high enough population to count as whole cities (for example most of the Portuguese empire outside of Brazil)
This could work similar to how it does in FF, which is where a worker spends X amount of turns building a colony near resources at a monetary cost (say 150 gold). This claims the territory for them but they would still have to defend it. The could then be an option to 'upgrade' the colony into a city, again with a monetary value and taking x amount of turns.
I think this would improve the game in the following ways;
1)Speed up AI Colonisation by making it easier for them to expand.
2)Help slow down the Tech rate by providing another incentive to get money instead of research
3)Speed up the game as territory could be claimed without building extra cities, reducing the amount of cities in the game.
4)Provide (yet another) unique and exciting aspect to RFC.
5)Provide a realistic way of representing important parts of empires that didn't have a high enough population to count as whole cities (for example most of the Portuguese empire outside of Brazil)