sir_schwick
Archbishop of Towels
My personal opiion is that for simplicity we should assume that attitude become more progressive, as we define progressive.
I would agree that real nations are seldom as ruthless as a civ player, they are still very aggressive. In the modern age all warfare is economic, except for some limited skirmishes around the globe. THat is something that is represented horribly in civ, unless you count resource denial as a form of economic warfare.
As for peaceful development, the only time in history I can remember peaceful development is when Rome intimidate everyone, when people could not find each other, and after the development of Nuclear Weapons. History rewards the strong, not the devleoped, as the Moors and Incans learned in terrible ways.
I think the reason that civ players tend to war alot in the modern age is that nuclear weapons are not potent enough. A couple ways to fix that would be the ability to strike-back the instant they launch their nukes. THink MAD. I know this is discussed in a thread labeled 'Missle Silos'. Another would be make nukes cheaper. Large arsenals would definitely dissuade all but the crazy guys to fight on the marketplace.
I would agree that real nations are seldom as ruthless as a civ player, they are still very aggressive. In the modern age all warfare is economic, except for some limited skirmishes around the globe. THat is something that is represented horribly in civ, unless you count resource denial as a form of economic warfare.
As for peaceful development, the only time in history I can remember peaceful development is when Rome intimidate everyone, when people could not find each other, and after the development of Nuclear Weapons. History rewards the strong, not the devleoped, as the Moors and Incans learned in terrible ways.
I think the reason that civ players tend to war alot in the modern age is that nuclear weapons are not potent enough. A couple ways to fix that would be the ability to strike-back the instant they launch their nukes. THink MAD. I know this is discussed in a thread labeled 'Missle Silos'. Another would be make nukes cheaper. Large arsenals would definitely dissuade all but the crazy guys to fight on the marketplace.