Completely Dumb Ideas

[Imperator Knoedel]

1) Make Babylon respawn as Iraq in 1930ies
2) Include a sumerian civ, and make it respawn in 1970ies as Kuwait
3) Gulf War!

(Bonus : Assyria to respawn as Kurdistan in order to increase the mess here)

I will not consider this mod complete until there are two Palestinian civilizations, one for the Gaza strip and one for the West Bank.

 

[Dannimal]

Democracy: every 5 turns can change a civic with no anarchy. Also one random civic is also adopted every 5 turns.

 

[Derdan]

Give a Great Merchant to the first to complete the Internet to simulate a savvy businessman buying up all the cool domain names.

 

[brett0007]

Give a Great Merchant to the first to complete the Internet to simulate a savvy businessman buying up all the cool domain names.

Do you one better every 10/15 years after the internet is created a great merchant is born that on activation costs you 500 gold to simulate the "internet bubble cycle" the dotcom bubble, the crypto bubble and the current generative ai bubble

 

[Dannimal]

Disagree - should be great prophets. Founding cults, social movements, or "crowd sourced fundraising" is generally their purview.

 

[Derdan]

Great Influencer - has all the actions of a Great Prophet and Great Merchant.

 

[FraggleJock]

and -10000 research

 

[Dracosolon]

There should be a National Wonder version of every building. National Abattoir, National Supermarket, National Sewer...

 

[Imperator Knoedel]

There should be a National Wonder version of every building. National Abattoir, National Supermarket, National Sewer...

National Lighthouse, National Levee, National Walls...

 

[banzay13]

With National Barracks you can train Sarduakars

 

[trexeric]

The Asatru pagan religious victory condition should be to have five level five units die in battle, send them to Valhalla, that way Odin is ready with elite troops for Ragnarök.

 

[Imperator Knoedel]

Negative events were brought up in another thread, and that got me thinking about Negative Great People, or Awful People if you will. How about an Awful Merchant who has an "Increase Government Efficiency" action, and all it does is remove beneficial effects from all buildings in your empire.

Just an idea I came up with, no relation to any actually existing people or events of course.

 

[Apple111111]

Negative events were brought up in another thread, and that got me thinking about Negative Great People, or Awful People if you will. How about an Awful Merchant who has an "Increase Government Efficiency" action, and all it does is remove beneficial effects from all buildings in your empire.

Just an idea I came up with, no relation to any actually existing people or events of course.

“Awful People” can be created in cities using espionage, replacing the GP points with Awful Person points, and the player has no idea if they’re awful or not until they actually use them.

New Russian UP: Create 5 awful people in the Europe and American regions.

Further expanding this wonderful idea…

Awful Scientist: Spread “Alternative” Science: Destroys aqueducts, hospitals and broadcast towers in the city. After discovering microbiology this also causes a plague.

Awful Artist: Create Kitsch “Masterpiece”: -50% culture in this city

Awful Merchant: “Increase Government Efficency”: No more tax in this city. Its maintenance is reduced by 1% and it gives 3 unhealthiness. If used as a trade mission, the merchant leaves the country and brings half the treasury with him.

Awful Engineer: “Reconstruct” Wonder: An obsolete wonder in this city is “reconstructed” making it give Awful Artist points and no more culture.

Awful Prophet: Found new “Religion”: Kills three of your population via death cult.

Awful Statesman: Establish “Exceptionalism”: -4 relations with the other country if used as a diplomat. 1 unhappiness in all other religion cities if used internally.

Awful General: Enact “Mandatory Scorched Earth Policy”: Any units that would’ve got experience instead get “Scorched Earth” promotion, which causes all cities to be conquered by the unit to be razed. If used on your own city, he falls off his horse / accidentally shoots himself and dies.

Awful Spy: Spill “Secrets”: Reveals all unit, city and tech data to the rival if used on a rival. If used internally, he gets another great person in the city killed on accounts of “being a foreign puppet” (he will never kill his fellow Awful People, however)

 

[Dracosolon]

The scoreboard should include a death toll based on population of cities conquered/razed/sacked/etc + battles + pillaging + starvation + expansion on foreign or native land.

 

[Imperator Knoedel]

With today's inauguration, "One more turn" has acquired rather sinister meaning... But DoC ends in 2020, so we will never re-live this history!

We should move the time victory year a teensy tiny bit. Let the game end on January 6th 2021 (Marathon Speed) and declare that the true end of history.

 

[brett0007]

We should move the time victory year a teensy tiny bit. Let the game end on January 6th 2021 (Marathon Speed) and declare that the true end of history.

Honestly it all ended that warm May afternoon in 2016...

 

[Dracosolon]

Game should end on whichever current year it is IRL. If your playthrough lasts past the 31th of December you get an extra turn.

 

[banzay13]

Supercomputers should get +1 per religion in city unhappiness unless you run Secularism
Discovering AI start anarchy, unless you run Secularism

 

[Derdan]

Discovering AI should cause anarchy and double and from corporations.

 

[SultanRedSnake]

Discovering AI should cause anarchy and double and from corporations.

The subsequent technology "Oops Ok So That Wasn't Intelligence In Any Meaningful Sense Sorry Lul" has to be researched (at 10x cost) to negate the effects.