Here is what I would like to see in a mod.
Purpose: A game focused on economic corporate warfare and unlike the crossroads game, there is no combat in the normal sense. A game focused on trading resources, technology and ultimately wealth.
It could be set in the Medici/Machiavellian Italian City States, The Ferrengi starfaring backdrop, or just be a grey abstract that represents "wall street" and the relative distance to each resource.
Combat MAY take place in the form of lawyers/traders attacking one another in 'deals' and the outcome is just as when you capture a worker, the victorious opponent can enslave the new unit.
EXAMPLE: Your Shrewd Lawyer with +20% buyout offers against other lawyers skill attacks and slays a "Land Developer". The Land Developer starts working for your faction. However, outright conquest should not be the game's approach.
If the Shrewd Lawyer had attacked another Shrewd lawyer and won, perhaps he would get a "Corporate Shill" or something.
I'd also like to see the game make you choose between two different improvements. If you want to build the R&D Center OR upgrade your factories. I always love those kinds of decisions. This could also be done via quests where the structure cannot be built, but if you solve a quest you can choose between the two.
Beef up espionage so that there are tons of corporate espionage options that also include things like spamming advertising for your product.
Gut the religion, so that religion represents different kinds of consumer goods. For instance, the Japanese in real life are definitely heavily in the "Electronics" religion. These religions would then provide happiness when you obtain certain resources and work synergystically with corporations. As what used to be "Temples" are built, they represent things like "G4 Television" that only serve to increase the consumer interest in their given product.
Purpose: A game focused on economic corporate warfare and unlike the crossroads game, there is no combat in the normal sense. A game focused on trading resources, technology and ultimately wealth.
It could be set in the Medici/Machiavellian Italian City States, The Ferrengi starfaring backdrop, or just be a grey abstract that represents "wall street" and the relative distance to each resource.
Combat MAY take place in the form of lawyers/traders attacking one another in 'deals' and the outcome is just as when you capture a worker, the victorious opponent can enslave the new unit.
EXAMPLE: Your Shrewd Lawyer with +20% buyout offers against other lawyers skill attacks and slays a "Land Developer". The Land Developer starts working for your faction. However, outright conquest should not be the game's approach.
If the Shrewd Lawyer had attacked another Shrewd lawyer and won, perhaps he would get a "Corporate Shill" or something.
I'd also like to see the game make you choose between two different improvements. If you want to build the R&D Center OR upgrade your factories. I always love those kinds of decisions. This could also be done via quests where the structure cannot be built, but if you solve a quest you can choose between the two.
Beef up espionage so that there are tons of corporate espionage options that also include things like spamming advertising for your product.
Gut the religion, so that religion represents different kinds of consumer goods. For instance, the Japanese in real life are definitely heavily in the "Electronics" religion. These religions would then provide happiness when you obtain certain resources and work synergystically with corporations. As what used to be "Temples" are built, they represent things like "G4 Television" that only serve to increase the consumer interest in their given product.
