Great Philosopher

[Impaler[WrG]]

I had an idea for a new type of Great Person, the Great Philosopher.

Philosophers would not have a specialists asosiated with them, or any building that produces GPP for Philosophers, their wouldn't be any way to control the creation of Philosophers. Rather everything a GreatPerson of any type would be born their is a (just off the top of my head) 10% chance a Philosopher is instead created (Philisoplical trait might give a higher %).

Now for the neat part, Philosophers dont do anything, their only ability is to permently transform themselves into any of the other types of Great Persons, esentialy they are Wild Cards that can be cashed in to get the GP of your choice. Great for thouse situation ware you need to get a specific GP for a late GA.

Dose this sould like a cool idea?

Note my main motivation is to figure out a way to have my favorite philosopher Fredrick Neitzche in the game.

 

[PeteT]

Now for the neat part, Philosophers dont do anything.

Speak for yourself!

But I think this is a nice idea and my favourite philosopher is Gottlob Frege:

http://plato.stanford.edu/entries/frege/

 

[Ploeperpengel]

Frege!? Oh goodness! Nietzsche is at least fun to read. But I never read anything that boring and nitpicky like Frege.

 

[Agent 009]

I think this is a great idea. I'm not so sure how it would be added though.

If someone could get this to work, I'd certainly be interested.

As for Frege, I've never even heard of him.

Nietzsche is well known at least. As for my favourite Philosopher, that's a difficult one. There were many great philosphers of the past such as Plato, and Aristotle. I'd think they would be on the top of my list.

 

[CyberChrist]

So a Great Philosopher would have the ability to become any type of Great Person of the players choice?

If I understood this part correctly then I think it would be a nice addition to the Great Person system as it would allow you to get exactly the Great Person you had the most need of at any given time(and thus definetly have an impact on strategy).

As always, making the AI understand and make proper use of this is very important in order for it to not be unbalanced in the favor of human players.