Completely Dumb Ideas

[mrrandomplayer]

An April Fool's Day update would be hilarious. I can only imagine what Leo would do... he might even add Venice for April Fool's Day!

 

[Royal Tenenbaum]

Can we censor the name Venice for a while?

 

[teriaky]

Can we censor the name Venice for a while?

Agree. Plus, if an Italian city-state had to be represented as an independent civilization, it should be Urbino!

 

[Royal Tenenbaum]

Firenze.

 

[Bair_the_Normal]

Because Brahms is the best composer (and coincidentally my favorite), I think that all music during the Industrial and Renaissance (since Mozart and Bach are dry and lack emotion and passion) should be replaced with Brahms music.

Spoiler :

To each his own.

While Brahms is indeed a good composer, I would be hard-pressed to call him the best. While his music often sounds very nice, I find his overarching style to be much too restrained and programmatic, unable to evoke the same kind of powerful emotive resonance, say, Debussy or Rachmaninoff [or, hell, even Chopin's etudinary pieces] can.

But again, to each his own.

 

[Royal Tenenbaum]

Gesualdo is the most underrated composer I know. His background is also poetically evil.

 

[Bair_the_Normal]

Listened to some of his music. Not a fan. Will give it a shot though. Murderers make interesting sounds.

 

[Chep]

has this ever been brought up before:

We should include a mechanic that wrestles controll over cities and civs away from the human and the AI:

The Freemasons/Illuminati/etc...

all of a sudden, production in a city changes and the owner of the city can't change it...gold disappears from the treasury, the research goal changes....

 

[mrrandomplayer]

Gesualdo is the most underrated composer I know. His background is also poetically evil.

Gesualdo was a madman, but he was an insanely awesome composer. I had to sing some Gesualdo and it had neither a mode nor a key, and everyone was stumbling including me, and normally I'm a pretty good sight reader.

 

[clanky4]

has this ever been brought up before:

It was mentioned before in one of the best suggestions in this thread

Spoiler :

DoC is too easy. Add a God+ difficulty with it's own unique features.

-Europe and the rest of the world get overrun by barbarian invasions very frequently, often at unexpected places. Specially Europe.
-It is almost impossible to get a reputation above 0
-The Seljuks are made much stronger. They are also scripted to invade Europe and even when Turkey spawns, they never collapse.
-Remove the independence feature. It is the silliest and it ruins first and third points.
-Seljuks build Galleons and sail to America. You know what happens next.
-New civilization: North Korea.
UU: Handsome leaders, replaces great general, 30 strength and 3 moves. 100% strength against Americans or anyone with Defensive Pacts on them.
UB: Same as Korea because I don't feel like going stereotypical or racist. Also I'm too lazy to investigate.
UP: The power of nukes. Speeds nuclear missile production by 100% and doesn't need uranium.
UHV 1: Conquer the area known as South Korea by 1950.
UHV 2: Have 50 nukes by 2000
UHV 3: Declare war on the U.S and get conquered by 2020. However if you conquer South Korea AND the U.S it also counts.

Once it spawns Korea is renamed to Worst Korea (North Korea is Best Korea). North Korea builds nothing but nukes and declares war on the U.S very often, launching it's nuclear missiles to them and to their allies.
-Like someone said, while you don't know about it, Illuminatis, Jews, Reptilians and other stuff made up by conspiracy theorists act behind your cities. The difference is, that you'll never know until it's too late and you randomly lose because they bribe the U.N to declare New World Order without any forewarning.
-AI spearmen get 1000% bonus against player tanks.
-Technological research of the player is capped at 11 p/turn.
-The player always starts on Unstable.
-The player collapses as the AI does.
-Aliens have 2 scripted appearances. One on the start of the game, where they build stuff for the nations instantly and help them on researching technologies until the Iron Age. However when someone discovers Mass Media all the technologies and buildings that were built or helped to finish generate 1- happiness. The second is on the 21st century where they eventually invade the world and have units with 100000 strength and 20 movement that ignore water and terrain costs. The Illuminati, Reptilians, Jews and Freemasons rise against everyone.
-Advertisings on the middle of the game, randomly. However, you can still play but not see the field so this will lead to accidental decisions.
-Add every single nation that existed on Earth. Must also be individual city-states (so instead of Greece you'd have Athens, Sparta, Macedonia, etc.)

If it's not hard enough, add a God++ mode that adds not only the stuff from above but all the suggestions from this thread.

Even better, add a God+++ mode that adds EVERYTHING above, as well as having effect on IRL politics and in the past. For example, if on 2013 China go to war against every nation on Earth, it happens IRL.

-Aliens have 2 scripted appearances. One on the start of the game, where they build stuff for the nations instantly and help them on researching technologies until the Iron Age. However when someone discovers Mass Media all the technologies and buildings that were built or helped to finish generate 1- happiness. The second is on the 21st century where they eventually invade the world and have units with 100000 strength and 20 movement that ignore water and terrain costs. The Illuminati, Reptilians, Jews and Freemasons rise against everyone.

 

[TheGryphonPrince]

It was mentioned before in one of the best suggestions in this thread

Also from here:

RFC-DoC - FFH merge.

Every game of DoC there's a chance for a random FFH civ to spawn outside of other civs' spawn area. What can be better then attempting to win Malinese UHV or something, while having to fight hordes of Pyre Zombies and Mobius Witches?

DoC: The Conspiracy.

Corporations of International Jews, Illuminati, Reptoids and New World Order henchmen appear in your cities. They secretly have a negative effect on your cities' output, but you can't know about their existence until you discover the Tinfoil technology.

 

[Royal Tenenbaum]

Add a new specialist, the Maid. Creates +1 health

 

[Lone Wolf]

Well, with the respectable middle-class professionals cheating on their wives with their maids, this can lead to an increase of STD's.

Of course, we can go all the way and add a Prostitute specialist. Adds happiness and unhealthiness.

 

[clanky4]

also adds plus 1 gold per lawyer specialist.

 

[citis]

also adds plus 1 gold per lawyer specialist.

We can change the spy (rename it) lawyer, politician or statesman specilasist.

 

[Daedwartin]

also adds plus 1 gold per lawyer specialist.

and +1 unhappiness.

 

[citis]

It should be posted in the URV thread...:

Let's add a Unique Antireligion Victory :

UaRV:
*Make sure there are no holy cities, shrines or Jerusalem in the world.
*No missionaries and no civ has a state religion or runs pantheon.
*No religion in any city of the world.

USatanistV:
*Raze half of the built cities.
*Raze all holy cities.
*Build Rock and Roll

It has been said that communism is a religion. Why not adding it?

UCommunistV:
*Spread communism all around the world. (all civs know communism)
*Dictatorship of proletariate: Make sure all alive civs run communism (state property)
*Abolishment of classes: Make sure all alive civs run Republic, Egalitarianism and Secularism.

If communism has UV why not Democracy and fascism?

UFascistV:
*Win a conquest vicotry
*Win a domination victory
*No city or unit other than yours in the world.

UDemocraticV:
*Make sure all civs run Republic, Represantation or Universal Suffrage, Egalitarianism and secularism.
*No vassal states in the world.
*All civs are alive.

UGreenV:
*All civs run environmentalism.
*No nukes.
*No forges, factories, assembly plants, coal plants or any other building that adds unhealthiness in any city.

UPeaceV:
*No wars.
*No unhealthiness, no unhapiness in any city.
*No furious relationship between any two civs.

UPhilosophyV:
*Establish more than five great prophets and engineers in your city.
*Be the first to discover Philosophy, Liberalism and Communism.
*Be the first to discover Mathematics, Scientific Method and Physics.

UMilitaryV:
*Win 100 battles.
*Acquire a unit with 100XP
*Acquire 10 great commanders.

UScorishV:
*Be the first at score for more than 200 turns (normal speed).
*Be the biggest empire.
*Be the strongest empire.

UGreaPersonV:
*Build an academy, a military academy, a shrine and scotland yard in your capital.
*Establish any kind of great person in your capital.
*Experience six golden ages. (GPs can cause 5, an other one (wonder, 2 UHCs,...) included)

UBarbarianV:
*Don't build any city.
*Destroy all others cities.
*Destroy all others (Celts, indipendents, barbs)
*(need the merchenary mechanism)

And finally why not adding a ULosingV:
*Be last in score.
*Experience every type of crisis.
*Collapse due to losing your core.

 

[Daedwartin]

It should be posted in the URV thread...:

Let's add a Unique Antireligion Victory :

UaRV:
*Make sure there are no holy cities, shrines or Jerusalem in the world.
*No missionaries and no civ has a state religion or runs pantheon.
*No religion in any city of the world.

can't raze holy cities and jerusalem.

USatanistV:
*Raze half of the built cities.
*Raze all holy cities.
*Build Rock and Roll

same issue as above.

It has been said that communism is a religion. Why not adding it?

UCommunistV:
*Spread communism all around the world. (all civs know communism)
*Dictatorship of proletariate: Make sure all alive civs run communism (state property)
*Abolishment of classes: Make sure all alive civs run Republic, Egalitarianism and Secularism.

so basically, true communism. ironically easiest by being the only civ.

UFascistV:
*Win a conquest vicotry
*Win a domination victory
*No city or unit other than yours in the world.

so every game of civ MP ever.

UDemocraticV:
*Make sure all civs run Republic, Represantation or Universal Suffrage, Egalitarianism and secularism.
*No vassal states in the world.
*All civs are alive.

will likely acheive via fascist victory, due being only civ.

UGreenV:
*All civs run environmentalism.
*No nukes.
*No forges, factories, assembly plants, coal plants or any other building that adds unhealthiness in any city.

impossible. you be destroyed because you dont have the hammers to build squat.

UPeaceV:
*No wars.
*No unhealthiness, no unhapiness in any city.
*No furious relationship between any two civs.

simple. kill everyone. no human shall be left alive.

UPhilosophyV:
*Establish more than five great prophets and engineers in your city.
*Be the first to discover Philosophy, Liberalism and Communism.
*Be the first to discover Mathematics, Scientific Method and Physics.

too easy to achieve.

UMilitaryV:
*Win 100 battles.
*Acquire a unit with 100XP
*Acquire 10 great commanders.

i dont think theres enough turns to do this.

UScorishV:
*Be the first at score for more than 200 turns (normal speed).
*Be the biggest empire.
*Be the strongest empire.

easy.

UGreaPersonV:
*Build an academy, a military academy, a shrine and scotland yard in your capital.
*Establish any kind of great person in your capital.
*Experience six golden ages. (GPs can cause 5, an other one (wonder, 2 UHCs,...) included)

easy

UBarbarianV:
*Don't build any city.
*Destroy all others cities.
*Destroy all others (Celts, indipendents, barbs)
*(need the merchenary mechanism)

see peace victory

And finally why not adding a ULosingV:
*Be last in score.
*Experience every type of crisis.
*Collapse due to losing your core.

so play china, and dont stop the mongolians.

 

[merijn_v1]

impossible. you be destroyed because you dont have the hammers to build squat.

Certainly not. You just have to do 2 things.
1. Build the UN and make sure that the "no nukes" and "everybody switches to environmentalism" options pass.
2. Build Recycling centres in all of your cities.

 

[ales_]

An interesting thread to post your 3000th post.