New Governments

[Synthshadow]

I think there should be governments that allow you to build colonies over continents witout crippling corruption, I know there are ways around this in CIV 3 but to have an Imperial Government would be great. So the old Empires of the British, Spanish, French could be effectivly played out. Anyone agree?

Any thoughts?

 

[Garbarsardar.jr]

what would be the downside to such a type of gov.?
how would it be differet from other low corruption alternatives?

 

[Synthshadow]

Hmmm good point.... Could be that imperial Gov would limit economic growth for the colonies causing unhappiness that if not dealt with has a higher chance of defecting to a foreign Civ? Or Creating an Indipendent Civ of its own?

 

[dylanhatesyou]

This is a good idea.

"Colonial Palace" can be a small wonder, and you can only build it after you've discovered Magnetism, and have a city that is over 30 tiles(?) of ocean from your capital. This will be somewhat like a forbidden palace, however.

In terms of colonial revolt, this Colonial Palace will serve as a bastion of your loyal imperial rule. Think Canada during the American Revolution. The rest of the English colonies were in revolt in N. America but the faitful Canadians stuck by the English to bitter end.(well, in war terms, anyway)


This could mean that perhaps only this city remains faithful(to insure that if your colonies all revolt and declare independance, you have at least a small chance of taking them back).

ALSO, this city, if it has a habor of its own, can have land/sea routes with other Civs and your actual Capital, even if your actual Capital has no sea or land routes to them. I'm thinking this might make some pretty fun scenarios(British Indian colonialism, etc)

 

[dylanhatesyou]

A government type for imperialism is a bad idea IMHO.

 

[sampedestal]

no.... conquest added gov'ts already, and i've never even considered using those. its just too hard to balance out that many gov'ts. if there were lots of options, most of them would be obviously cruddy, leaving u with the original good ones. we need a custom government system like in SMAC

 

[Dr. Broom]

I feel we do need some sort of government that actually allows colonialism and more importantly some of the current governments need to be made better so that it isn't just democracy or communism/fascism for everyone in the game. Despotism, Monarchy, Republic, and Fuedalism need to be made much better so that some people will actually want to use them and so that there is no best form of government. Also favored and shunned governments should actually have an effect on the game. Maybe democracy and communism should be taken out of the game too since they are both unreasonable and don't really exist in the world in their true forms.

 

[dh_epic]

Maybe democracy and communism should be taken out of the game too since they are both unreasonable and don't really exist in the world in their true forms.

Damn, Broom, you're speaking some gospel right there.

You're hitting me with ideas so good that I'm wondering "why the heck didn't I say that?"

Keep em coming.

 

[sampedestal]

democracy probably refers to a US-esque democratic-republic. communism though... if a more dynamic gov't setup became available, i'd like to have the option of attempting to run a communist country.

 

[Dr. Broom]

Damn, Broom, you're speaking some gospel right there.

You're hitting me with ideas so good that I'm wondering "why the heck didn't I say that?"

Keep em coming.

I am glad somebody likes my ideas, thanks for the support.

democracy probably refers to a US-esque democratic-republic. communism though... if a more dynamic gov't setup became available, i'd like to have the option of attempting to run a communist country.

The US is a republic although it used to be more democratic.