Mad Hab
Warlord
Shoud the Civ leaders be the best known to everybody or the most important to their people? I know there are lots of important russian rulers, but people like to play (or, more often, play against) Stalin 'cause they know him. Same for the French (Napoleon has much more appeal than Louis XIV, even if the monarch was more representative of France's tradition), and several other Civs (Aztecs, Germans, Egyptians...).
There is also the 'polictically correct' choices, but it's one with a very short memory (Hitler or Stalin were not much worse than Shaka or Genghis Khan - the difference is that no person alive remembers their time!). I understand players from Germany and Russia not wanting their civ to be associated with Hitler or Stalin (players from China were obviously disregarded, Mao is very politically incorrect), but I wolud much rather face Adolf or Josef in bitter negotiations than to talk to Bismarck or Catherine the Great (or Jeanne D'Arc). Am I the only one?
That opens the discussion: shoud Civ leaders be the ones you want to play with or the ones you want to play against?
Cheers!
Mad Hab
PS: It is unfortunate that civs in Civ 3 are very tight with their leaders (the high scores page show the head of each one), but their personalities are not well developed. It would be nice if they could be honorable or treacherous, good traders or isolationists, and try to win following their personality (Gandhi would never go for world conquest, for example)...
There is also the 'polictically correct' choices, but it's one with a very short memory (Hitler or Stalin were not much worse than Shaka or Genghis Khan - the difference is that no person alive remembers their time!). I understand players from Germany and Russia not wanting their civ to be associated with Hitler or Stalin (players from China were obviously disregarded, Mao is very politically incorrect), but I wolud much rather face Adolf or Josef in bitter negotiations than to talk to Bismarck or Catherine the Great (or Jeanne D'Arc). Am I the only one?
That opens the discussion: shoud Civ leaders be the ones you want to play with or the ones you want to play against?
Cheers!
Mad Hab
PS: It is unfortunate that civs in Civ 3 are very tight with their leaders (the high scores page show the head of each one), but their personalities are not well developed. It would be nice if they could be honorable or treacherous, good traders or isolationists, and try to win following their personality (Gandhi would never go for world conquest, for example)...
