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Hi Everyone,
Back in the realm of Civ 3 I think it was Arathorn who started a thread with some ideas on variants for that version of the game we all love.
I've not seen one started on Civ 4, true that I haven't searched through all the threads in the forums but there aren't any stickied or frequently posted on threads out there with this in mind.
I'll start by just throwing out a few that I've thought of (not claiming that i made them up but I've never read them anywhere)
Single Great Person type generation: can only build wonders(small and great) and assign specialists of a certain type. There are five types of assignable specialists:
The Engineering degree.
Propheteering.
Free Artistry.
The Scientific Method.
...(can't think of a name for Merchants, 'Playing the Market' maybe.
The three Caste system assignable specialists are quite easy to generate the great people for. Prophets are a little bit harder unless you bag some of the early Great prophet type wonders. Engineers as we all know are the hardest to generate, you pretty much want to try and get all the Engineer wonders, of which there aren't many(Great Wall, Pyramids, Hanging Gardens, Hagia Sophia, Pentagon, Three Gorges Dam, and Ironworks)
These type of games can make you rethink the usefulness of some of the Great people, and can show how much you can rely on others namely Great Scientists.
Any one else got any?
Back in the realm of Civ 3 I think it was Arathorn who started a thread with some ideas on variants for that version of the game we all love.
I've not seen one started on Civ 4, true that I haven't searched through all the threads in the forums but there aren't any stickied or frequently posted on threads out there with this in mind.
I'll start by just throwing out a few that I've thought of (not claiming that i made them up but I've never read them anywhere)
Single Great Person type generation: can only build wonders(small and great) and assign specialists of a certain type. There are five types of assignable specialists:
The Engineering degree.
Propheteering.
Free Artistry.
The Scientific Method.
...(can't think of a name for Merchants, 'Playing the Market' maybe.
The three Caste system assignable specialists are quite easy to generate the great people for. Prophets are a little bit harder unless you bag some of the early Great prophet type wonders. Engineers as we all know are the hardest to generate, you pretty much want to try and get all the Engineer wonders, of which there aren't many(Great Wall, Pyramids, Hanging Gardens, Hagia Sophia, Pentagon, Three Gorges Dam, and Ironworks)
These type of games can make you rethink the usefulness of some of the Great people, and can show how much you can rely on others namely Great Scientists.
Any one else got any?
