Historically accurate leader victory conditions?

[Bast]

I think this will be a nice addition to the "custom game" options.

For example, if you're playing as Victoria you can only win by domination victory to recreate the Empire upon which the sun never sets like in real history. Or if playing as Alexander, you can only win by Conquest. Charlemagne can be religious victory etc... And for space race it can be the leaders that led during the Age of Discovery or modern leaders like Stalin maybe. I know it won't suit every single leader but still it can be fun.

What do you guys think for some other leaders and about this idea? It'll be like Rhye's and fall of civilization victory conditions I guess but more leader specific.

 

[PibbZ]

Could have a good idea, could be used as one of many (maybe even too many?) game options.

Dont think i would play it though, im stuck with my usual option combination

 

[sabo]

I was thinking of that the other day, I don't think every leader/civ should have the same Victory conditions. I mean it's sort of unrealistic and silly for the Aztecs to be able to win the space race, but not so silly for the Americans or Russians.

 

[onedreamer]

What do you guys think for some other leaders and about this idea? It'll be like Rhye's and fall of civilization victory conditions I guess but more leader specific.

I think it would be a bad idea because the victory you can aim to is too much dependant on your opponents and on your starting area. RFC has this successfully implemented because the map is not random.

 

[Seanirl]

For example, if you're playing as Victoria you can only win by domination victory to recreate the Empire upon which the sun never sets like in real history.

Yeah but in theory an Empire upon which the sun never sets wouldn't have to really be big or impressive.

Just have England, one city in India, some small island in the Pacific and 1 city in the center of Canada

Or equivalent based on the map.

 

[RedRalph]

Seanirl: Is your avatar the guy out of Das Boot?

 

[Yzman]

I was thinking of that the other day, I don't think every leader/civ should have the same Victory conditions. I mean it's sort of unrealistic and silly for the Aztecs to be able to win the space race, but not so silly for the Americans or Russians.

I hate when people say this. Who the civ is should have nothing to do with what they do/ how they are affected in the game. The whole point of civ is you recreate the civilization. If we are going by your logic, its unrealistic for the Aztecs to ever even make it to any age beyond the ancient era.

This would not make the game fun. The point of this game is to have the civs be unique but not have a predestined path due to what happened in real life. How many of your games actually would have ever happened in real life?

The answer? None of them. Not trying to sound mean I just don't like that notion.

However to the OP idea, it sounds like it might be a fun idea to be able to enable, but I am not sure how many people would use it and it would kind of limit options for a lot of games.

 

[Dominico]

The aztecs had space travel anyway. There pyramids were landing points. Thats why they had no metal by the time the spanish got there. They had used it all making rockets!!

 

[Evil Twin]

The aztecs had space travel anyway. There pyramids were landing points. Thats why they had no metal by the time the spanish got there. They had used it all making rockets!!

Unfortunately for them, the Anasazi stole their rockets with help from the vengeful Atlanteans, who's city was sunk by a Mayan giant robot with laser eyes.

 

[Dennis_Moore]

If you want to be historically accurate I suppose there is no such thing as victory, sooner or later everybody loses.

 

[Bluetooth]

You don't really need to have this as an option. If you play a custom game you only have to disable other winning conditions and you have the game you’re looking for. No need for changes IMO.

If you want more game mechanics changes it sounds more like a Scenario not custom game options.

 

[Dominico]

Unfortunately for them, the Anasazi stole their rockets with help from the vengeful Atlanteans, who's city was sunk by a Mayan giant robot with laser eyes.

I actually thought you were a professor in ancient history till you mentioned the Mayan robot with lazer eyes... Everyone knows the Mayen robots were armed with quantum diffusion beams!