First off, introductions. I've been playing Civ IV for a year or 2 now and love it, even though I play RFC almost exclusively. I've been following your project for a few weeks now and it looks pretty interesting. I'll definitely give it a try when it's released. Good luck and keep up the good work!
I had an idea that seems like it would be fairly usable here. It's the idea of a least favorite civic. Every nation (or every individual leader if there are multiple for a nation) will have a least favorite civic that they hate more than any other civic. If your nation applies another nation's least favorite civic you suffer negative diplomatic relations with that nation, similar to religious tensions. If a nation applies its own least favorite civic it suffers a happiness penalty in its own cities but it gains peaceful relations with a nation who has its least favorite civic. So pretend Bush's least favorite civic is Communist. He might hate North Korea for it. But then Bush decides to switch to Communism himself. He now doesn't have the old negative relations with North Korea but now his population is growing angry with him. Maybe 2 or 3 for "We hate our current form of government!" or something like that.
Another idea on how this could be applied is a nation has negative diplomatic relations with any other nation with different civics, but exactly how bad the relations are depends on which civics aren't the same. So for example a Congressional nation might have minor negative relations with a Parliamentary nation but far worse negative relations with a Caesardom or Totalitarian state. Also the leader should help determine the negative relations so a very fundamentalist leader would be angrier at nations with different civics than a leader more liberal in his stance towards foreign nations.
Remember, these are just ideas, so input is very welcome. And again, good luck on the project!
I had an idea that seems like it would be fairly usable here. It's the idea of a least favorite civic. Every nation (or every individual leader if there are multiple for a nation) will have a least favorite civic that they hate more than any other civic. If your nation applies another nation's least favorite civic you suffer negative diplomatic relations with that nation, similar to religious tensions. If a nation applies its own least favorite civic it suffers a happiness penalty in its own cities but it gains peaceful relations with a nation who has its least favorite civic. So pretend Bush's least favorite civic is Communist. He might hate North Korea for it. But then Bush decides to switch to Communism himself. He now doesn't have the old negative relations with North Korea but now his population is growing angry with him. Maybe 2 or 3 for "We hate our current form of government!" or something like that.
Another idea on how this could be applied is a nation has negative diplomatic relations with any other nation with different civics, but exactly how bad the relations are depends on which civics aren't the same. So for example a Congressional nation might have minor negative relations with a Parliamentary nation but far worse negative relations with a Caesardom or Totalitarian state. Also the leader should help determine the negative relations so a very fundamentalist leader would be angrier at nations with different civics than a leader more liberal in his stance towards foreign nations.
Remember, these are just ideas, so input is very welcome. And again, good luck on the project!