Post Your Empire

[Royal Tenenbaum]

This is not an IAAR thread. This is a thread for DoC in which you can post pictures of your empire.

 

[Alexius08]

Had other users posted their snapshots of different games, then it would not count as a story. However, only you contributed to the thread.

 

[Royal Tenenbaum]

And that is.. my fault? Would you rather me make the exact same thread, with the only difference that I did not post in it?

 

[Imperator Knoedel]

I for one think everyone but Royal Tenenbaum is at fault (including myself), it would be horrendously stupid to blame RT for being the only one using the thread as intended.

 

[Imperator Knoedel]

Spoiler Inconsequential rant you can probably ignore, I'm just a little agitated atm :

G*d f*king dammit Opera! Sure, crash the one moment I don't have my post in the clipboard (I'm hitting Ctrl+C every five seconds whenever I'm writing longer posts to prevent exactly such a situation from happening) because I was pasting screenshots in Paint, no I don't mind at all having to retype two paragraphs from scratch.

Hear ye hear ye players of DoC and other readers of this post alike, petition for this thread to be returned to its correct subforum, for I intend to bring it back on track to the original purpose it had before being hijacked by RT's IAAR: The presentation of empires created in DoC.

*drumroll for the duration of the next paragraph*

However, what I am about to show you is actually the very opposite of an empire. I am going to introduce you to a world not ripped apart by petty nationalism and economic competition, but a world in which peace and harmony reign. A world in which humanity has given up on the silly idea of subjecting herself to chaotic market forces and the concept of private property. A world in which every human being, except for those few unfortunate souls still being oppressed by the small number of reactionary regimes desperately clinging to the old order, can make their own destiny without living in fear of starvation, homelessness or unjust punishment.
Ladies and Gentlemen, I present to you a world under the guidance, but not the leadership, of the United Socialist States of America!

*drumroll ends, music in the video below starts playing*

Spoiler America the truly beautiful :

Link to video.

It has been almost a hundred years since the glorious revolution that liberated the peoples of North America from the yoke of Capitalist oppression, and much progress has been made to free the rest of the world as well. Just five years ago an organization named the United Nations has been founded to further international cooperation and the reach of emancipation. Its first but certainly not last big success was the unconditional ending of the second world war which has plagued the world for a decade. Even though some quick skirmishes broke out in Indochina the Communist Party is sure that from now on world peace will be the rule rather than the exception, especially now that capitalist nations make up only a small minority of the world community. Revolutionaries are working day and night to bring emancipation and liberty to even the most remote pockets of the planet, and it is but a matter of years until all of humanity is united under the red banner of the working class.

 

[Moai_Spammer]

that is absolutely positively the most beautiful thing I've ever seen, downloading the save now

but one question, why did you go urbanization instead of egalitarian?

 

[Imperator Knoedel]

but one question, why did you go urbanization instead of egalitarian?

Because Egalitarianism sucks as a civic. What am I supposed to do with an infinite number of specialist slots in a day and age when I have access to every building that provides them anyway? A point could be made for it if it at least had that unhappiness penalty for other civs like Emancipation does in Vanilla, but like it currently is it is just plain sucks. Capitalism would be the best civic from a gameplay point of view hands down, but obviously that goes against what I'm trying to achieve from a roleplaying perspective. Urbanization OTOH is a nice compromise that is both good out of character (Workshops, duh, and someone needed to build all those Workshops and Watermills as well) and in character (centralization of people in cities allows for easier providing of collective services like public transportation, education and so forth). The only problem I see is that this might lead to discrimination against people living in rural areas, but the government is trying its best to make advances in agricultural and information technologies, so that the same food output can be achieved by less people, allowing former farmers to migrate to cities as well, and to provide those people remaining in rural areas better access to the cultural life (as in lolcats and Friendship is Magic, considering I am about to complete the Internet soon).

Nevertheless, this society isn't perfect. It's way better than the totalitarian nightmares of the real life pseudosocialist regimes of Russia, China et al., sure, but a switch to Universal Suffrage and Egalitarianism at some point might surely be in order. Maybe a few years after the Internet has gained widespread popularity which would allow people living in more rural areas to make their complaints about feeling like second class citizens better known. Then again I might just decree those civics per UN resolution, because it was a pain in the *** to manually bribe so many civs to switch away from Capitalism and Autocracy, and some are switching back at the first opportunity anyway.

Maintaining world peace isn't as easy as it sounds either, just the very turn I made everyone make peace with the USSR and thus finally put an end to the last world war f**king Thailand became the Kingdom of Siam again and declared war on India. Fortunately there weren't any defensive pacts involved which would have set off yet another WW, so I just bribed Mongkut to make peace. Still, he made me very angry and I almost succumbed to my urge to just invade him and be done with that psychopathic warmonger.

I do hope to achieve a diplomatic or Space Race victory, either would entail the complete dissolution of sovereign nation states and the erection of a united Socialist World Republic in its place.

 

[Heerlo]

That's just.......insane! How did you get all those people as vassals like that?

 

[Imperator Knoedel]

That's just.......insane! How did you get all those people as vassals like that?

Who? Me? The only vassal I have is Poland.

 

[Heerlo]

Who? Me? The only vassal I have is Poland.

How do you see what all those people are researching, then(excuse my ignorance of Doc, as I've never been able to play it before)?

 

[Imperator Knoedel]

Espionage, duh.