Originally posted by lz14
So Britain should use communism, where Russia shouldn't, right?
Since the British colonies are spread out, where Russia's land are sticked together. This is ... !?
Well, it all depends on what you consider the productiveness of parts of the empire(s) to be. if you want to see the world in civ3 tinted glasses, you can make it work with a bit of juggling.
If you look at the contribution of the colonies and dominions to British
manufacturing output, it's actually pretty small for the 19th century. Indian had a large population (so lots of food, in civ terms, but that's not affected by corruption so that's ok) but there's a noticeable absence of Indian industry in the sense that the UK had it. (Partly as a policy decision of course). So you could model Victoria's empire as a civ democracy and not be too far wrong.
Similarly, Nikolai's Russia we'll probably consider a monarchy in civ terms. But the october revolution overthrew a republic, which was falling apart under war-weariness (thats ok by civ terms) and was replaced by communism, where the economy if anything got worse, but the reds were able to form armies somehow (draft!) and keep order of sorts (military police limit increase).
Actually I think of the communism government as really being a "command economy" - in which case the UK certainly did become communist in civ terms during WW2 (and arguably WW1) when the dominions, in particular, made very large contributions.
Another question is , when the AI ask something like world map for world map, if I didn't do it, will their mood drop.
I've not noticed it drop. But, of course, it won't go up, which a successful trade might cause, so it could be a lost opportunity for improved relations.
