Do we need some competition within the game?

[RegentMan]

@Kentharu - That's a lot of calculating/record keeping. How would you do research using only your city's beakers and not the others'?

 

[eyrei]

the random selection of teams is great but how many? two? three? and perhaps(if the team number is just two)then the first two cities can be split
City #1 goes to team #1
City #2 goes to team #2
and the two teams go on their separate ways but they are still required to help out the other team if need be. The two cities would spawn of their own cities (with their own workers) and the wealth can be calculated from each city that goes to their respective teams so teams would have a budget and would spend accordingly
e.g. Team #1 gets 3 and then team #2 gets 4 gold total 7 gold but team #1 can only use 3 out of the 7(obviously) borrowing and all that can be done but the teams would have to pay each other back and what not... not sure if this would work though because tight records would have to be kept of money and people might get nasty about who has how much gold all the math people out there would be happy i guess
but this would give the game some heavy competition, random selection of teams of course.
comment would be really helpful

I don't really want anything from this proposal to directly influence the way the game is run. It might affect the decision-making process, but not what decisions need to be made.

And I was thinking 5 or 6 teams...

 

[Kentharu]

well i spent a long time thinking about how to calculate all the gold and adding the corruption and all of that... the city beakers would be a problem but again the two teams(or 5 or 6) would work together and come to a decision like eyrei said this would only change the way the decision making, it would make it harder to do a lot of things, but not in a bad way but i don't think it would be possible due to number of players being pretty low so scrap this lol.. im in a bit of a rush posting this (blockbuster calls) hopefully when i get back i can't tear myself away from the tv long enough to write a full description of this idea but odds are i won't be able to