Few Thoughts

[Camikaze]

Only if you view fort spamming as a problem. Is it, if everyone can do it ? Or just a change in the overall strategic shape of the game ?

Well, why not just give every tile an automatic defence bonus and be done with it? This would basically mean that in every military action in the game, apart from naval, the defender would have a big advantage.

And it probably wouldn't look very pretty.

I suspect balancing it so you can afford a few but not huge numbers would be doable.

Agreed

 

[rysmiel]

And it probably wouldn't look very pretty.

Don;t tell me; you're one of those people who thinks every land square should not have roads or railroads on it, either, right ?

 

[Camikaze]

No, no. I spam railroads and roads. But aesthetic value is still important.

 

[rysmiel]

No, no. I spam railroads and roads. But aesthetic value is still important.

To my mind the defining aesthetic value witihin a Civ game is that the terrain and the units should clearly communicate what they are, whose they are, and the information the player needs about them to make decisions (like the health of a military unit, frex). So long as it gives that information to me consistently, it can go back to looking like Civ 1.

 

[Camikaze]

This should be the case, but with neat graphics as well. I don't think I would enjoy it as much if it was more a bunch of pixels. That being said, graphics aren't everything in the game.