Make Civ Great Again - with SIMS vibes?

[Lazy sweeper]

Imagine you can start the game normally, your Leader, is also your King, or Princess, or just "The Leader". Maybe it's an Immortal Leader, son of God, like an Egyptian Pharaoh, or Alexander the Great...
The you can play the game normally, but enter "SIM" mode any time you want, on any unit, and look at the world from their perspective, maybe add a "free roam mode" and also some minigames like
the early Sim City 2000 (Drive the tank to the Military Base", etc). But the most important feat, would be to get into your Leader as a Sim.

Now you have your Palace, with the throne room, and you can expand your palace, your city, and move around freely.
Invite leaders of other nations in your Palace, and go to other Leaders Palaces!!!

Every Palace would look different inside and outside, and you would look at it in 1st person. Sit on your throne, and watch the emissaries or other Kings in front of you, with all the scenery your Palace and meeting place happens.
If you are Egypt, and have built the Pyramids, maybe a Huge Open space could open and when visiting another player Throne room, you could see these Majestic wonders in the distance...

This is not a dream, it can be done.
These "Leaders" have nothing of unique. Is it time for a change?
Is it time for the Throne room to come back in Epic style?
Is it time to get back to "criss-cross" genres a little bit?
Like... Sim City 1st person driving Helicopter expansion... It wasn't in the base game...
You want it? You buy it separately.... then it could sell well or not... based on that then it could be standard or not for consequent games....

But it is a fact that they took away the Palace construction, and the Throne Room, and the Leader personalised scenery setting.
Leaders could be very much a "SIM-like" mini-game at this point.

It could be done with Art, or with prejudice.
If prejudice took over everybody, then there is no hope.
Art means love.

How much of a "Sim" are civfanatics going to accept?

 

[Nikolai II]

Eh, no.

 

[TylertheDestroyer]

This ain't it chief

 

[Haig]

You should also be able to ask other leaders to a date!

 

[Vandlys]

It could be done with Art, or with prejudice.
If prejudice took over everybody, then there is no hope.
Art means love.

What?

You should also be able to ask other leaders to a date!

Yes and imagine the leader being able to start up a pc in the modern age and logging into an account and playing Civ on that pc! Then we can play Civ in Civ! And in that Civ we could then play Sims again, in which we can play Civ! And in that...

 

[MutilationWave]

If you read sweeper's posts as performance art they're very entertaining.

 

[GeneralZift]

Imagine you can start the game normally, your Leader, is also your King, or Princess, or just "The Leader". Maybe it's an Immortal Leader, son of God, like an Egyptian Pharaoh, or Alexander the Great...
The you can play the game normally, but enter "SIM" mode any time you want, on any unit, and look at the world from their perspective, maybe add a "free roam mode" and also some minigames like
the early Sim City 2000 (Drive the tank to the Military Base", etc). But the most important feat, would be to get into your Leader as a Sim.

Now you have your Palace, with the throne room, and you can expand your palace, your city, and move around freely.
Invite leaders of other nations in your Palace, and go to other Leaders Palaces!!!

Every Palace would look different inside and outside, and you would look at it in 1st person. Sit on your throne, and watch the emissaries or other Kings in front of you, with all the scenery your Palace and meeting place happens.
If you are Egypt, and have built the Pyramids, maybe a Huge Open space could open and when visiting another player Throne room, you could see these Majestic wonders in the distance...

This is not a dream, it can be done.
These "Leaders" have nothing of unique. Is it time for a change?
Is it time for the Throne room to come back in Epic style?
Is it time to get back to "criss-cross" genres a little bit?
Like... Sim City 1st person driving Helicopter expansion... It wasn't in the base game...
You want it? You buy it separately.... then it could sell well or not... based on that then it could be standard or not for consequent games....

But it is a fact that they took away the Palace construction, and the Throne Room, and the Leader personalised scenery setting.
Leaders could be very much a "SIM-like" mini-game at this point.

It could be done with Art, or with prejudice.
If prejudice took over everybody, then there is no hope.
Art means love.

How much of a "Sim" are civfanatics going to accept?

Its a little over the top. But personally there is a degree to which I agree - my favourite part of Civ5 (as a novice) was meeting the leaders for the first time, interacting with them, listening to all the various voiced lines, it was very cool.

Plus their palace doubles a set piece, so when they declare war, the camera zooms out slightly, that follows some exaggerated facial expressions and aggressive but decisive voicelines.

So in some way, I enjoy that aspect.
But, playing the Sim of the entire game? It's very much too far fetched and most people wouldn't make too much use of it if it were in.

You should also be able to ask other leaders to a date!

My toxic trait is I agree