Robi D
Minister of (Dis)Order
There have been many thread about brutal dictators in real life and there inclusion in the game, or non inclusion as the case may be. While its all good and well to be scornful of the likes of Stalin, Mao and co. and their regimes i want to know how you would rate your dictatorship in the way you play civ.
Let's face it you are a dictator, you rule with no political opposition for 6000 years and everything you say goes. So are you benign and kind to your people or a saddist willing to sacrifice them to achieve your goals.
Here are some signs of brutality
-Running Slavery and Whipping (you are killing your own people here in case you didn't notice)
-Running Nationalism and forcing people into the army (not very nice, especially if you then hurl them into battle to get killed)
-Running Police State (Suppressing your peoples will by force)
-How about throwing units into war you have initiated to die (especially where the odds were below the 50% mark) so you could have that resource or city under your control
-Then there are the softer things like Caste System where you determine a persons future at birth (sure you assigned the next Einstien as a street cleaner but the streets need to be clean and someones going to do it)
Ok i'm sure you get the picture here, so we have established how you treat your people but how about people of other nations?
-Offensive wars for a resource(s) and/or city(ies)
-Using Nukes
-Razing cities (your comitting mass genocide here, that Population that disappears doesn't suddenly appear in another city)
-Then the softer things like having Vassals ect.
So how did you go? Would Mother Teresa be proud of you or would you have even Stalin turning in his grave? And be honest, after all these arn't real people so don't stress the International criminal court wont come knock on your door anytime soon
Oh and one more thing, Whipping your own people to death because of imminent threat to your nations survival is not a valid justification to discount those losses, afterall Stalin used that one to get the Soviet Union on par with the powers of the world at the time, such as Nazi Germany.
Let's face it you are a dictator, you rule with no political opposition for 6000 years and everything you say goes. So are you benign and kind to your people or a saddist willing to sacrifice them to achieve your goals.
Here are some signs of brutality
-Running Slavery and Whipping (you are killing your own people here in case you didn't notice)
-Running Nationalism and forcing people into the army (not very nice, especially if you then hurl them into battle to get killed)
-Running Police State (Suppressing your peoples will by force)
-How about throwing units into war you have initiated to die (especially where the odds were below the 50% mark) so you could have that resource or city under your control
-Then there are the softer things like Caste System where you determine a persons future at birth (sure you assigned the next Einstien as a street cleaner but the streets need to be clean and someones going to do it)
Ok i'm sure you get the picture here, so we have established how you treat your people but how about people of other nations?
-Offensive wars for a resource(s) and/or city(ies)
-Using Nukes
-Razing cities (your comitting mass genocide here, that Population that disappears doesn't suddenly appear in another city)
-Then the softer things like having Vassals ect.
So how did you go? Would Mother Teresa be proud of you or would you have even Stalin turning in his grave? And be honest, after all these arn't real people so don't stress the International criminal court wont come knock on your door anytime soon
Oh and one more thing, Whipping your own people to death because of imminent threat to your nations survival is not a valid justification to discount those losses, afterall Stalin used that one to get the Soviet Union on par with the powers of the world at the time, such as Nazi Germany.