Monarchy or Republic?

[No.Dice]

Which of the two do you prefer and why? At what point in the game do you usually switch out of Despotism?

I've chosen the Republic route in all of my games, not really aware if i was missing out on anything in Monarchy.

Monarchy comes slightly before Republic, but usually i'm in no hurry to change governments due to the advantage of rush building with pop in despotism.

Monarchy provides resource support for your units, while being a Republic usually gives you enough gold to still come out slightly ahead after paying for their support. The extra commerce allows this.

Republic offers lower corruption.

Monarhy offers the option of military police, but i seldom need it. Luxaries and the token entertainer keep the mob happy.

You have to deal with war weariness under Republic.

Examining the AI in past games they seem to either all choose Monarchy, or all Republic.

I'm rather new to the civ series, anything i missed?
Thanks

 

[The_Clash]

Well, I always goto Republic as soon as I can, that way you can be the most high tech, and sell the techs to the other civs. Read another thread.

 

[exorcist]

Well it depends on my civ.

If I am religious, I will go to republican and if a war comes around, I will hit it over to monarchy (btw, people say that being able to switch governments is not that great but I have countless evidence saying that that is one of the best gimmies).

If I am not religious, one of two things happen.

If I am on a small island with one other opponenet, I will belt it to monarchy and beat the crap out of the other guy so I can take over his cities and become a republic.

If there are lots of people on my continent, then I will hopefully beat my weakest (and hopefully best territorial) neighbor, before I can get to the republic so I can become a republic and already be done with my major war of the time frame and from then on, I will be peaceful and science broker my other neighbors.

Pretty simple for me:crazyeyes

 

[tetley]

If there are people on your continent, Despot-rush them until they're dead. Then I'd suggest Republic. After that, if I'm not religious I'm perfectly happy staying Republic the rest of the game.

OTOH, Monarchy is nice if you're religious and either: a) you rushed to Monarchy for the Hanging Gardens and don't have Republic yet, or b) you pissed off your citizens so bad during your Despot-rush that you need police for awhile.