Cool NEW idea

[tbear2520]

Hello everyone, I got a idea that would help make the game more real, and would also encourage the increase of barbarians. I don't know how to make this happen and for the most part I think it's totally possible.

If you have the technology of hunting and you kill a wild animal (lion, wolf, bear) and it's inside of your cultural boundary then the nearest city should get some additional food in it's store house. To help further the growth of your empire. Why wasn't this ever considered in the initial game? It drives home some of the main concepts that where behind the creation of Civ 4. Granted we would want this to not happen when killing regular barbarians. Cannibalism = bad idea

Any thoughts on this?

2520/10 = 252
2520/9 = 280
2520/8 = 315
2520/7 = 360
2520/6 = 420
2520/5 = 504
2520/4 = 630
2520/3 = 840
2520/2 = 1260
2520/1 = 2520

TBear2520

 

[Zurai]

Animals will only very rarely enter your cultural borders. I've actually never seen it but others say they have.

 

[Master Kodama]

Granted we would want this to not happen when killing regular barbarians. Cannibalism = bad idea

Hey, but what if you're playing as the Aztecs?

 

[Mongoloid Cow]

AFAIK, the Aztecs weren't cannibals

 

[Tunch Khan]

AFAIK, the Aztecs weren't cannibals

Not as in a way to feed themselves, but it was common practice to eat the heart of their human sacrifices. This was actually very common in most of the primitive societies. They would eat the heart or brain of their enemies to gain their strenghts or souls depending on approach.
At the same time primitive tribes like Aztecs were practicing ritualistic cannibalism, Crusader troops fighting under various French, German, English, Norman and Italian banners were eating human flesh and even boiling soups with human parts inside. Although this was not common practice of the time, their actions were recorded with disgust in both Muslim annals and also by Catholic historians, such as William of Tyre, who accompanied the first Crusade.
Later practices of cannibalism continued in remote parts of the world and were reported as late as 1961, when the heir to the Rockefeller Family, a young antropologist Michael C. Rockefeller, a Harvard graduate, was eaten by New Guinea cannibals.

 

[Fëanor]

Animals will only very rarely enter your cultural borders. I've actually never seen it but others say they have.

unless they changed the CIV4UnitInfos.xml they cant, thats what the <bAnimal>1</bAnimal> flag is for.

 

[aaronpark]

Not as in a way to feed themselves, but it was common practice to eat the heart of their human sacrifices. This was actually very common in most of the primitive societies. They would eat the heart or brain of their enemies to gain their strenghts or souls depending on approach.

I believe what they did was they cut the heart out of a person so that it kept beating after it was taken out but i don't believe it was part of the Aztek culture to eat the heart.

 

[Quinzy]

the high priest ate it as representation of the deity they were sacraficing to eating it.

 

[Tunch Khan]

I believe what they did was they cut the heart out of a person so that it kept beating after it was taken out but i don't believe it was part of the Aztek culture to eat the heart.

It is difficult to prove today wether if they actually ate the flesh or not, however, Aztecs were called the Cannibal Empire by it's contemporaries. What is proven today is that they were not only cutting the heart out, but also slicing the flesh into smaller bits and sending it as a gift to the nobles of their cities as well as neigboring city leaders.

 

[Drakken]

I think that the killing of carnivorous animals as a food source is negligable when feeding an entire city. Predatory animals are rare and would not provide a significant amount of food. It is always good to think of new concepts. Personally I think providing fur for happiness for a few dozen turns or a few extra hammers would be more realistic. Just my 2 cents...

 

[tbear2520]

Food, Fur either one is fine, Heck it wouldn't be a lot but sometimes those little things early on can give a huge advantage down the stretch.