Duke Maynard
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So I've never played a previous civ, the only other 4x was Galciv 2, which did not have corporations. I do not have the slightest clue as to how corporations functioned or didn't function in Civ 4, or if they were even in before. So, saying that, here's my idea for Corporations and Economic victories in a hypothetical Civ 5 expansion, Tycoons and Empires.
Corporations would begin to form slowly and randomly once a civ has researched a technology called Joint-Stock companies sometime halfway during the Renaissance. Each corporation would be based on a particular industry, and there may be only 1 corporation per industry per game. Corporations will not initially be aligned with any Civ.
There would be a a certain number of industries, maybe 16, 24, 32, who knows. Corporations continue to spawn until every industry has a major corporation assigned to it. This will not happen until sometime in the future era. Each industry is based around a certain aspect of the game or a certain set of resources. For example, Defense Contractors is based on military, Livestock based on Cattle, horses, pigs, sheep, Petroleum on oil, etc. etc.
The primary factor in determining relationships with corporations and Civs will be measured in influence points. The primary way of increasing influence with a corporation is to acquire resources relevant to that corporation. For example, having large numbers of railway tiles will increase influence on a railway corp, improved gold and silver with a precious metals corp, large numbers of units with a defense corp, etc.
Each corporation has 100 stocks each. When they first spawn, all those stock belong to themselves. If you have high influence with a Corp, you will get a large discount on stock. Stock can also be traded as a commodity with other Civs in the diplomacy screen. Having more stock in a corp will earn you extra GPT in dividends every turn, as well as increasing influence even more with that corporation.
Throughout the game, corporations will grow and grow in size. As they grow, their stock will become for expensive, it will become more difficult to gain influence, and their dividends will increase as well. The rate of growth is dependent on the stockholders acquisition of the relevant resources for that corps industry. For example, a stockholder Civ that mines a ton of coal for a coal corp with 70 stock will have a very large effect on growth, causing it to grow very quickly. It is therefore advantageous, if you take your economy seriously, to try to acquire through diplomacy or warfare what you need in order to have your favorites grow quicker.
Reaching certain thresholds of influence will also give you minor bonuses to the particular industry, for example 5% less maintenance for reaching a high level with a defense contractor corp. You can also increase influence by giving a corp tax breaks, which severely reduces dividends in exchange.
As you seek to acquire stocks from more and more industries, develop and bargain for resources, making sure they grow, and protecting corps from hostile economic takeover, they will eventually grow to 'monopoly' status. Having controlling stake(51%) in more than half the industries (possible ones, not the current number. so if there are 24 possible corps but only 17 have appeared you still need 13) that have also reached 'monopoly' size will give you global economic hegemony, securing you an economic victory.
Thoughts?
Corporations would begin to form slowly and randomly once a civ has researched a technology called Joint-Stock companies sometime halfway during the Renaissance. Each corporation would be based on a particular industry, and there may be only 1 corporation per industry per game. Corporations will not initially be aligned with any Civ.
There would be a a certain number of industries, maybe 16, 24, 32, who knows. Corporations continue to spawn until every industry has a major corporation assigned to it. This will not happen until sometime in the future era. Each industry is based around a certain aspect of the game or a certain set of resources. For example, Defense Contractors is based on military, Livestock based on Cattle, horses, pigs, sheep, Petroleum on oil, etc. etc.
The primary factor in determining relationships with corporations and Civs will be measured in influence points. The primary way of increasing influence with a corporation is to acquire resources relevant to that corporation. For example, having large numbers of railway tiles will increase influence on a railway corp, improved gold and silver with a precious metals corp, large numbers of units with a defense corp, etc.
Each corporation has 100 stocks each. When they first spawn, all those stock belong to themselves. If you have high influence with a Corp, you will get a large discount on stock. Stock can also be traded as a commodity with other Civs in the diplomacy screen. Having more stock in a corp will earn you extra GPT in dividends every turn, as well as increasing influence even more with that corporation.
Throughout the game, corporations will grow and grow in size. As they grow, their stock will become for expensive, it will become more difficult to gain influence, and their dividends will increase as well. The rate of growth is dependent on the stockholders acquisition of the relevant resources for that corps industry. For example, a stockholder Civ that mines a ton of coal for a coal corp with 70 stock will have a very large effect on growth, causing it to grow very quickly. It is therefore advantageous, if you take your economy seriously, to try to acquire through diplomacy or warfare what you need in order to have your favorites grow quicker.
Reaching certain thresholds of influence will also give you minor bonuses to the particular industry, for example 5% less maintenance for reaching a high level with a defense contractor corp. You can also increase influence by giving a corp tax breaks, which severely reduces dividends in exchange.
As you seek to acquire stocks from more and more industries, develop and bargain for resources, making sure they grow, and protecting corps from hostile economic takeover, they will eventually grow to 'monopoly' status. Having controlling stake(51%) in more than half the industries (possible ones, not the current number. so if there are 24 possible corps but only 17 have appeared you still need 13) that have also reached 'monopoly' size will give you global economic hegemony, securing you an economic victory.
Thoughts?
