I was looking at AoA's new posts in our General Info. thread and was disappointed at the lack of information given about our cities. Several cities which are not up for an immediate change in production were left out, and the ones we did see had part of the screen covered up by the list of possible production choices. This makes it hard for governors to check on their cities to make sure everything is OK, and also difficult for the rest of us to make such choices as where to build MC because we don't know which is the most productive city. If a city has to have a citizen changed to an entertainer to keep it happy, then maybe the production should be switched from whatever was last voted on to a temple, but as it is we don't know how all our cities are doing.
I thought back to Ducky and how he posted shots of all the cities, and then realized that for AoA it has already become a big job to post shots of each city and their production options. This job will only get bigger. What are we to do later on when we have dozens of cities all needing production choices made? It will get very complicated, and we need to find a solution soon.
Another issue that can be grouped in with this is our settlers and what they are doing. Currently the President is able to control all the settlers at his discretion, and choose when to stop them from improving the land and to build a new city. Originally this was going to be part of the City Planner's or Governors' jobs, but it would be too much work for the President to post shots of all of our terrictory for the Governors to look at.
My idea for this is to have the President send the saved games to our Governors. This would allow them to look at their provinces, see into their cities, and get a closer look at the settler jobs. Then they can post polls on the cities that need them, knowing exactly what those cities could produce and what they were in need of. Also, for global build orders such as where to place a wonder, the Governors would each know which was their most productive city and could post its information in the wonder's thread, each wanting the wonder in their province for the prestige. Of course, this would pretty much take away any remaining powers from the City Planner position. I think the City Planner position should be done away with at the end of this term, and when a global build decision is needed then whichever Governor comes first can start the thread. Later on in the game when we have many cities, the Governors can post a general poll or two for their province, being fully informed on the status of each of their cities.
The Governors can also either poll people or just PM the President with what to do with the settlers that their cities are supporting. This may need to be discussed more, because the Governors probably wouldn't want to give up their settlers to go build a city in some other province, and also we'd have to decide whether they make the decisions for the terrain development or post polls on it.
I think it would be safe to have our Governors have the saved games, because they would be under the same binding laws that our President is. We elect these officials not only based on ability and commitment, but also honesty and integrity to not play ahead in the game or use the cheat mode to reveal the map or other unscrupulous ventures.
What are your thoughts and ideas on this? How are we to bring the democratic process to our ever-growing numbers of cities?
I thought back to Ducky and how he posted shots of all the cities, and then realized that for AoA it has already become a big job to post shots of each city and their production options. This job will only get bigger. What are we to do later on when we have dozens of cities all needing production choices made? It will get very complicated, and we need to find a solution soon.
Another issue that can be grouped in with this is our settlers and what they are doing. Currently the President is able to control all the settlers at his discretion, and choose when to stop them from improving the land and to build a new city. Originally this was going to be part of the City Planner's or Governors' jobs, but it would be too much work for the President to post shots of all of our terrictory for the Governors to look at.
My idea for this is to have the President send the saved games to our Governors. This would allow them to look at their provinces, see into their cities, and get a closer look at the settler jobs. Then they can post polls on the cities that need them, knowing exactly what those cities could produce and what they were in need of. Also, for global build orders such as where to place a wonder, the Governors would each know which was their most productive city and could post its information in the wonder's thread, each wanting the wonder in their province for the prestige. Of course, this would pretty much take away any remaining powers from the City Planner position. I think the City Planner position should be done away with at the end of this term, and when a global build decision is needed then whichever Governor comes first can start the thread. Later on in the game when we have many cities, the Governors can post a general poll or two for their province, being fully informed on the status of each of their cities.
The Governors can also either poll people or just PM the President with what to do with the settlers that their cities are supporting. This may need to be discussed more, because the Governors probably wouldn't want to give up their settlers to go build a city in some other province, and also we'd have to decide whether they make the decisions for the terrain development or post polls on it.
I think it would be safe to have our Governors have the saved games, because they would be under the same binding laws that our President is. We elect these officials not only based on ability and commitment, but also honesty and integrity to not play ahead in the game or use the cheat mode to reveal the map or other unscrupulous ventures.
What are your thoughts and ideas on this? How are we to bring the democratic process to our ever-growing numbers of cities?
Does anyone else have this problem?
