CivBE should have a "planetary council" like in SMAC

[SupremacyKing]

One of SMAC's best features was the planetary council. You could propose motions and buy votes from the other factions. I am really hoping CivBE has something similar.

 

[reddishrecue]

Civ BNW had a world congress,,,, Idk if that was similar..

 

[SupremacyKing]

Civ BNW had a world congress,,,, Idk if that was similar..

The World Congress was good but a little impersonal for me. I liked how in SMAC, you actually saw all the faction leaders with their votes under them, it felt like you were actually meeting in a council.

 

[KrikkitTwo]

One of SMAC's best features was the planetary council. You could propose motions and buy votes from the other factions. I am really hoping CivBE has something similar.

It will not,

And that makes sense as you don't have the City States that Civ5 had.

Instead Diplomacy will be faction-faction.

 

[spammikone]

It will not,

And that makes sense as you don't have the City States that Civ5 had.

Sense how? SMAC didn't have city states either you .

 

[reddishrecue]

That's really complicated to understand.

 

[3of5]

"Understanding is never complicated, explaining is"

- some neo-zen master i'd totaly have to make up

 

[Fabio1701]

I think the UN/planetary council is not being added because they think they cannot do it justice as a fun feature. If the feature is not fun then it's just another annoying click to be made.

In civ5 I find it OK, with city states it makes it slightly interesting and you can get some cool buffs with the games and what not. But it is not a UN like we all wish it could be, a multi nation forum where you can do some real stuff. In SMAC it was fun because you had a small group of personalities who really new eachother personally and in combo with social engineering it really made natural alliances stick. in civ5 the nations are so psychotic in their decisions that your choice of society makes little difference: eventually everyone hates you because you made DoF with the wrong person 2000 years ago.

For now I am fine with it being gone. maybe it can come back in an expansion when CBE has matured a bit and there are some fresh ideas on how to implement it.

 

[awesome]

I'd be extremely surprised if BE had any expansions

 

[3of5]

I'd be extremely surprised if BE had any expansions

we could name it "Alien Crossfire" and it could feature live progenitors.

Oh wait, that was another Civ spinoff expansion.

 

[reddishrecue]

Yeah, that would be something new... i expected be to be a stand alone expansion to bnw...

 

[SamBC]

Yeah, that would be something new... i expected be to be a stand alone expansion to bnw...

It would be plausible to argue that it should be considered that - slip a 'V' into the name and it would fit perfectly as one. I guess it was decided to present it as more separate.

 

[KrikkitTwo]

It would be plausible to argue that it should be considered that - slip a 'V' into the name and it would fit perfectly as one. I guess it was decided to present it as more separate.

Except bnw is an expansion.. not a game

be is definitely not an expansion of civ 5 as it radically changes the fundamental type of game (you can no longer start in the stone age and make your way to the space age, you do not have an earth-like environment, you do not have historical techs, civs, units, etc.)

bnw and g+k still have the same basic type of game as vanilla civ5 (and major types of content-civs for example are carried over)

be Could have been an expansion if it opened up a separate game after getting a space race victory... but that would have been complicated.

I wouldn't be surprised if BE got expansions, but I also wouldn't be surprised if it didn't. (it largely depends on how well it does and if they think new stuff is better in an expansion or in BE 2)

 

[SamBC]

The term in question was "standalone expansion", a term that has been used for, for instance, Civ4Col.

 

[s0nny80y]

A planetary council is pointless for spacefarin...

...my bad, a supremacy virtue almost rabbled on.

 

[GeoModder]

Must be a sligh(t)ly wrongwritten response algorithm...

 

[reddishrecue]

That's right.. there isn't a civ5be... there's a civ be... there was a civ4col and civ4bts not civ col..