Firaxis says there will be no rioting in Civ4. I WILL NOT BUY IT IF THIS IS TRUE.

[Snoopy]

Regarding what Jeff said, I believe the answer is that pollution will be in, just that it won't be like any of the previous Civ's.

I guess... the way it might work in cIV is that you won't go round cleaning up pollution, but rather you have to set government Acts that reduce the pollution % and build constructions that reduce pollution and at the same time give you a production advantage, just things like that I assume would be more plausible. So rather than do things 'singuarly' you do things 'globally' which is a far less micromanagement problem.

 

[chill888]

Bartleby said: I don't believe you can avoid pollution by "better play." Unless you consider not building hospitals and factories as better play.

Response. True, although I always build the Hoover Dam to supercharge production AND reduce pollution

 

[Jon Shafer]

There are other means of limiting an empire's power. Historically, the best means is by other empires having their own power. Sooner or later, an empire is going to run across another empire which will keep it in place. The Roman Empire's eastern expansion was halted by the Pathians. The Napoleonic Empire was defeated by a coalition of the British, Prussian and Russian empires.

I would agree with The Last Conformist that corruption is and has been a fact of life. I just don't like how Civ3 implements it.

Of course, I was just pointing out the fact that the only reason Corruption is implimented at all was for the purpose of limiting the strength of large empires (though I did not pass judgement on its merits).

I agree that there are better ways of doing it.

 

[Aussie_Lurker]

OK, I have to agree with Cmdr. Bello on this one. Yes, the current implementation of maintainance, corruption and pollution are HORRIBLY flawed and this implementation NEEDS to be removed for civ4. The underlying concepts, though, should be retained-but with much more fun implementation.

Yours,
Aussie_Lurker.