nzcamel
Nahtanoj the Magnificent
I voted no to both.
I don't mind if it's an optional mode because even if it is I can have it turned on all the time. Also I know there are people who don't want it and they are really game changing like the Apocalypse mode.
I also find it weird that you can basically get six governor titles in the Ancient Era. I think the solution should be is that when you discover a secret society you should be able to only use that governor promotion to appoint the secret society you want, and not appoint and promote other regular governors.
That way there would be no need to move Secret Societies to be discoverable in later eras.
I don't think it is as game changing (flood of gov promotions and vampires aside) as Apocalypse mode. It's adding a bit more nuance and tension to diplomacy and your abilities. Fix the promotion thing and make the vampire a little more historically plausible (some blood cult); and it will fit in nicely.
I am starting to feel the cup overflows in the early game.
There is no growth of mechanics through the game beyond a world congress which feels alittle early but does provide something to plan for.
I just feel that while SS were around earlyish they really only started having a historical effect in the medieval times.
Personally moving SS to the medieval and world congress to the industrial seems more balanced than what we have now.
Yeah, 100% to both these suggestions Victoria!


If you meet all 4 SSs you get 4 extra Gov titles.
The SS governor has 4 promotions. Yes you could ignore SS altogether and take the promos for your regular Govs but that seems a bit perverse, and you're missing out on the powers of the SS.
Overall, assuming you want to promote your SS governor all the way, there are no extra titles, they just come sooner.
Ah, maybe I have misunderstood something here. I thought you got their promotion automatically when they entered the appropriate era. When you are probably right that the promotion becomes available then, but you still have to spend a Gov promotion to get it. So if that is the case, I stand very corrected.
Having said that, they should give you the extra gov promotion at the point the new promotion becomes available (or just give you the promotion automatically as I assumed they would) rather than give you them at the beginning of the game, as @Alexander's Hetaroi says above. Or this could be another solution:
Just make it such that you don't require a governor promotion to join. (and so make it stop giving governor promotions)
Just one click to join, and then to level these governors up later maybe you need to spend faith (voidsingers), gold (Minerva), or production (hermetic)... and for the vampires maybe have the vampire get a certain number of kills.