Goverments

I've just moved up to regent and won two games staying in Monarchy for most of the game. WW isn't a problem and as I wasn't religious, I avoided those long anarchy periods later in the game. I do think Communism is awesome for any domination/conquest games.
 
Monarchy Rocks! OK maybe you don't have as much tax output as Demo or Repub and you definitely have more corruption but you have to admit that it's nice to be able to declare war and not have all your cities break down and have your country go into anarchy. Also less tax output and more corruption is offset by unit support (you can use the gold to rush production). Overall I have to say that I like Monarchy best (though Communism is nice). I need to try Feudalism though.
 
I find myself staying as a democracy in peacetime, and a monarchy in times of war. I like to think of it as a constitutional monarchy... though I suppose that would be more of a republic/monarchy.

I like to play religious civs, partially because of the easy government transitions.
 
OK OK... Now this:

My point of view is that Democracy is like an Upgrade of Republic. That's why I choose Demo, and like kroni said, is a chose that comes from the Play style.
 
OK, Desert, but it isn't working as an Upgrade because its drawbacks are greater than its improvements... at least in my opinion (I'm playing vanilla, I do not know if they work the same in C3C)
 
I think unless I get more lux next game I will stay in monarcy instead of republic. I was recently in a war at emp level and my people started tripping out... Size 16 cities starved down to size 12... But I had to stay at war with the evil russians so I could take away their coal and use it to build my railroads... Maybe when I am done I will let them have moscow back :)
 
digitalgoodtime said:
... But I had to stay at war with the evil russians so I could take away their coal and use it to build my railroads... Maybe when I am done I will let them have moscow back :)
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Just curious, why are they "evil russians" ? In my book, there are only "evil french" deleted...

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As weird as it sounds, I've grown somewhat fond of Monarchy. There's been many o' game where I simply don't have the luxuries and/or "happy" city improvements to warrant a move to Republic. I tend to rely on my MPs heavily during the early game (I have an obsession with never moving my lux slider above 0% w/ the exception of very early game expansion).

If I have a mid-sized empire, w/ good production and access to several luxuries, in a moderately peaceful environment, I'll switch to Democracy. If I'm looking at a big/huge empire, I'll switch to Communism. But, all in all, I use Monarchy the most.

To my knowledge, I've never used any of the other gov't types (with the obvious exception of Despotism).

Does anyone regularly use Fuedalism or Facism?

-V
 
I will confess to using democracy a lot. Then again, I go for a lot of culture wins. As long as I can buy peace with everyone else, everything is A-OK. If I plan to go to war, I'll change to communism. If I'm attacked and I'm not a religious civ, I'll try to gut it out in democracy.
 
War is very possible in Democracy, so long as you're the defender. Especially if it's against a common foe that you've constantly been to war with.

Just make sure you don't lose any cities, and don't lose too many units out side of your territory.

I used to do this all the time, getting the AI to decare on me, and could handle relitively long (for demo) wars.

But it's easier to do in Republic. I'll only go to war in Democracy if I'm not a religious civ and I know that I can pwn the AI.
 
Kronis said:
Just curious, why are they "evil russians" ? In my book, there are only "evil french" deleted...

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cause every time I am next to them they try to force me to pay tribute which eventually ends in my saying hell no and blowing the deleted out of the deleted

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but the french can be real deleted or they can be real deleted but in general we get along :devil2:

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digitalgoodtime said:
cause every time I am next to them they try to force me to pay tribute which eventually ends in my saying hell no and blowing the deleted out of the deleted
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but the french can be real deleted or they can be real deleted but in general we get along :devil2:[/QUOTE]

Ya know, I do seem to recall that the deleted Russians will pull that one. The English, too are real deleted deleted, by stating how generous they are "for not crushing your puny civilization". The deleted deleted.

What's more, the English aren't the only ones listed as "aggressive", who will pull this pay-me-or-I-will-declare-war-on-yo-deleted. Russians, Aztecs, Japanese, Hittites, and Zulu are repeated offenders.

Anyone else know of any deleted examples ?

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If you're playing religious civ then you can switch every time you learn a new gov't tech.

Otherwise, the penalty for switching is too high and I settle for Monarchy for warmongering and republic for building.
 
earthguido said:
Does any of you know the real differences between Rep an Demo? I know:
- Both have no unit support
- Rep has less corruption
- Demo has workers at 150%
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Only your last point is completely correct. In C3C, Republic supports 1/3/4 units per town/city/metro. Once over the limit it's 2 gold per unit, whereas Demo is still 0/0/0 plus 1 gold per unit. Democracy has slightly lower corruption. The other big difference is war weariness. Democracy suffers more unhappy units and can eventually be ovethrown into anarchy.

Personally, it's all Republic for me unless I feel like conquering the world, in which case I'll probably switch to Communism.
 
Thanks. I am playing vanilla so unit support is 0 for both, but you're right. Didn't realize that Rep had in fact more corruption than Demo.
 
Yes, but it's not really bad. You do notice it quicker, but it's not as crippling as Monarchy is.
 
Everyone's talking about dem,r ep etc. But has anyone here ever used Fascism? I tried it once or twice but I dislike the feel of it compared to other total-power govs like Monarchy and Commie.
 
Yes, I've used it. I don't like loosing the pop with the initial switch, and I don't like that you have to have 'ethnic superiority' in a given city to generate culture from it.

But I do like the 200% worker rate.

I probably won't use it again. I did it the one time, and it was okay, but I didn't see much special about it.

However, for the warmonger it would be good. Excellent unit support/MP/draft rate. The extra fast workers means you can get your rail network in quicker, and clean pollution quicker. So it does have it's uses, I'm just not fond of it.
 
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