Okay, now here's a question I'd like to hear some people's opinions on:
Every civilization has a list of unique names for each kind of great person. I tried to spread these names over the civilization's lifetime as much as possible, but now I have to decide, should the name of a great person be chosen:
1) in chronological order
2) randomly
from that list?
(1) has the disadvantage that there's less surprise involved. You'll always see Thomas Aquinas as the first Italian prophet, for example. Also, the number of great persons for each era has to be carefully adjusted for each civilization, i.e. if France gets one medieval scientist on average, but there are three in their list, it means we'll see those three anachronistic scientists in the Renaissance or industrial era. And I don't think it's possible to avoid these kind of problems.
(2) has the disadvantage that Stephen Hawking can be born to the English in the 10th century etc.
Currently, it's (2), because that's how GP names are handled in BtS anyway.
Thoughts?
Edit: Oh, and to keep you a little up to date, I've now decided not to wait for all bugfixes until I release 1.72, but wrap them up into an otherwise featureless v1.73. I've just finished changing the rebirth mechanism to what I intended it, so that I'll only do the Safavid respawn (shouldn't take long because they don't differ from Achaemenid Persia that much) and then release.
Every civilization has a list of unique names for each kind of great person. I tried to spread these names over the civilization's lifetime as much as possible, but now I have to decide, should the name of a great person be chosen:
1) in chronological order
2) randomly
from that list?
(1) has the disadvantage that there's less surprise involved. You'll always see Thomas Aquinas as the first Italian prophet, for example. Also, the number of great persons for each era has to be carefully adjusted for each civilization, i.e. if France gets one medieval scientist on average, but there are three in their list, it means we'll see those three anachronistic scientists in the Renaissance or industrial era. And I don't think it's possible to avoid these kind of problems.
(2) has the disadvantage that Stephen Hawking can be born to the English in the 10th century etc.
Currently, it's (2), because that's how GP names are handled in BtS anyway.
Thoughts?
Edit: Oh, and to keep you a little up to date, I've now decided not to wait for all bugfixes until I release 1.72, but wrap them up into an otherwise featureless v1.73. I've just finished changing the rebirth mechanism to what I intended it, so that I'll only do the Safavid respawn (shouldn't take long because they don't differ from Achaemenid Persia that much) and then release.