Always Peace

[Spoonwood]

Since you said space for an always war, and I guess since I've mentioned OCCs, I felt reminded of the thread which had ideas for the most difficult game imaginable. The following probably wouldn't come out that difficult, but it might make things interesting. OCC Always War, all victory conditions enabled, but only acceptable victory condition comes as space, no trading whatsoever... we don't even open the trading screen, pangea (continents might work too, but a continent could lack uranium, aluminum, or rubber), no Great Library either, and I'd suggest The Spanish at Chieftian, Warlord, or Regent.

 

[DWetzel]

Even I am not that masochistic.

However, I am this masochistic, though I haven't worked out the details yet:

Each city, once it starts building a type of something, cannot stop until such time as the thing it is building is no longer in its build queue.

In principle, this should mean that once a city starts making military units, it's stuck making that specific type of military unit until such time as the unit is obsolete (or the resource for it is no longer available). Somewhat scarily, this includes settlers and workers (which will NEVER go obsolete--muahaha). So, if you start a city building warriors, it has to build warriors until warriors are obsolete (i.e. when the city gets iron hooked up)--then it can switch to whatever it wants. Wealth also never goes obsolete, so that is a non-option (until the very late game).

City improvements and wonders should be fine (you build the temple, then it's no longer in the build queue, so you can build something else). Ditto for wonders. However, this means no prebuilds for anything--once you start, say, the Great Lighthouse, you have to build it until you get it or it's no longer available.

This is just crazy enough for me to think it could be fun.

 

[Spoonwood]

I don't like the idea of having to build a unit in a city indefinitely.

 

[DWetzel]

Not indefinitely... just until it's obsolete. Which is easier than it sounds, in some cases.

(Sick of building swordsmen? Disconnect iron. Too many archers? Get Invention, and archers are no longer available--bowmen are).

 

[DWetzel]

(Longbowmen, that is.)