Recent content by sugarfree

hi, I just started a new game (Nefertiti, Immortal, flexible difficulty, epic, ruthless AI, random personalities, Earth28 with minor modifications) and everything went well - I beelined to ceremonial burial for kemetism (because it feels right to have it as egyptian:)), managed to spread the...

Brief observation - socialism can be never achieved by truly democratic manners. The idea itself relieves people of personal responsibility and simply means limiting one's efforts in benefit of others. Free trade is currently the only functioning mechanism providing economical liberty, since...

Nothing specific right now, I think you did some really good job here. If I get some ideas, I'll let you know.

Actually, if you watch the proposed inflation formulla carefully, you can see that there is a way to cause disinflaion, resp. temporary deflation - by making huge budget surplus. In real world, deflation would cause drop of the consumption and investment, because people keep postponing...

I think the key is that the AI should tend to keep stable economy. That means somewhat balanced budget and not shocking the economy by crazy goldrushing. Or at least spread the goldrushes into few more turns so the process is little smoother. Maybe leaders' personalities could this affect...

I was wondering that it might be cool to remake the impact of civics on relationships, so it works more orderly and have greater effect on establishing diplomatic blocs. My idea is to create a formula that counts all civics adopted by a leader, and summarizes his political orientation...

Yeah I'd say definitely an embassy or Right of Passage, or even Open borders should be required. Those kinds of free trade zones are fairly exclusive and players should be very cautious signing them, because it might help their rivals to catch up in techs. IMHO also certain civics could be...

Btw since I have some time now (finished all exams), let me induce some new ideas. First of all, how about creating a new type of diplomatic agreement - "Free Trade Zone Agreement"? Let's see what the effects could be like: Free Trade Zone Agreement - +25% foreign trade routes yield - tech...

Good to hear that. However, a lot of betatesting is going to be needed if we apply the ideas as they are. What I know, Friedman proved that the phillips curve basically applies only in very short-term, but in long-term, simple inflation/unemployment ratio doesn't work out. But that's not...

Btw conradcabral, you asked me about the phillips curve. I am not the one to explain what's wrong with it, bur if you are interested, look for some of Friedman's work on this topic. He did great job analyzing it. I am his huge fan btw.

Hey guys, this place is dead. Any new comments or ideas? Aforess, would you need any help with implementing some of the changes in the game, just let me know. I am actually quite psyched to see it work :-)

Well, the state bank has already some +100% inflation, so even if the NRS gets +10%, the difference is huge. I was trying to balance all the civics. But +0% is fine, why not. I don't know man, this is so hard to imagine, because, as you pointed out earlier, the civ engine doesn't quantify...

Ok, it's your opinion. IMHO little but naive but valid :) I am conviced, that no matter what the CB's goals are, they are still driven by people, who have their interests, and can be easily influented from outside. If your CB in Brazil is immune to this, good for you. Under gold standard, unless...

Ok, but still FED is the only institution allowed to issue new dollars. What makes the difference? IMO once you give any bank ability to arbitrarily issue new uncovered money to lend it for interest, you won't ever get rid of the inflation. Btw Phillips Curve was proven to be kinda bu.lsh.t.

Yeah, as I stated above, the name is roughly inaccurate. I firstly named it Federal Reserve System so that players can imagine what does it mean. I think even "Independent Central Bank" is no good, since it doesn't describe the way money is created. I'd go for something like "Independent paper...