KILLING ICS: Governance

[Camikaze]

While it isn't really doing a great job, ciV already has the Shafer scale (global happiness) to control ICS.

The only way to make things worse is to add yet another scale to control city sprawl.

If Firaxis chooses to bring back city maintenance, they need to abandon the Shafer scale. But we all know that ain't gonna happen.

Fair enough. I can see that point, although I don't think it would be too outrageous to add in city maintenance on top of the happiness mechanism.

BTW, even if a minimum population for a particular building is arbitrary (which I don't necessarily think it is), is it any more arbitrary than city maintenance or global happiness?

City maintenance and global happiness are acceptably arbitrary, as they are based on other factors within the game, and don't actually limit your possibilities. Setting a floor below which something simply cannot be built seemed to be not based on any other game feature in particular, and does limit your possibilities.