Open Borders

[Oni]

Shouldn't Open Borders be the opposite?
I mean until you can even conceptualize borders and what not, people just went where they could survive.
Until writing is acheived people should be able to wander freely in any territory. Then when they obtain writing their lands are off limits to anyone, unless you negotiate an open borders with them.
So if you have writing and someone else doesnt you can go in their territory but they not in yours.
I think it would make for interesting game play early on.

 

[Tavenier]

Shouldn't Open Borders be the opposite?
I mean until you can even conceptualize borders and what not, people just went where they could survive.
Until writing is acheived people should be able to wander freely in any territory. Then when they obtain writing their lands are off limits to anyone, unless you negotiate an open borders with them.
So if you have writing and someone else doesnt you can go in their territory but they not in yours.
I think it would make for interesting game play early on.

Interesting. But you would get a rush to writing in each and every game.
You now often have a rush to religious techs, but once you see that another civ has founded Confucianism, then you won't pursue CoL until you want it for other reasons.
With your concept everybody will always want to get writing, and it will turn into something like the Literature-rush in Civ3.

 

[Oni]

Well it could be made so that once you have the tech, then you need open borders to go into any lands (and any civ needs it with you to go in your lands).

This would make it a desirable tech to keep civs out of your lands but will greatly limit your exploration capabilities. Atleast up until other civs get it. Then you are certainly limited.