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Even without barbarians disabled, the Minor Civs are still active, no? If the AI is fighting Minor Civs, it could still be AI promotions? (I have no idea!)
On a slightly different note than the unfortunate CTD, here's some more... ideas.
a) - Culture-bonus from ideologies should be replaced by happiness/hammers/food
When I earlier came up with some suggestions for ideologies, some were specifed to have culture bonuses. Since the border expansion is going to be handled differently, this should be replaced. Extra happiness or hammer- or food-bonuses are the ones that makes the most sense.
b)- "Upgrade" ideologies through events OR buildings
I also proposed that the early ideologies would auto-upgrade when particular techs are researched. Since Isolation is an event instead of a tech, perhaps the trigger for "auto-upgrades" could similarly be events -- or buildings. The latter would be an indirect result of a tech discovered under the player's direct control, which usually is a good thing. The reason why I proposed auto-upgrades is that it reduces Ideology-spread-micro-management and eliminates ideologies that don't make "sense" later on in the game.
c)- No separate Ideology civics-category
In my opinion, there's no real need of a separate Ideology civic-category; the Social (or Legal) category should more or less fill the same function. Some civics could allow for a state ideology (Social Engineering), some could not (Free Speech), some could even have a bonus from choosing a state ideology (Xenophobia).
d)- Upgradable civics through buildings
With fewer civics, variety could be introduced, similarly to ideologies, directly through technologies or (preferrably) through buildings. The less "fillers", and the more relevant choices the better, IMO. To hopefully clarify, here's an example of what I mean by upgrading civics through buildings:
Say, there are only three government civics -- the "classical" distinction between autocracy, oligarchy and democracy. When the tech "Communism" is discovered, a national wonder, Secret Police HQ, becomes available. If the wonder is built;
democracies get
autocracies get
oligarchies get
(more or less)
e)- Cross fingers and hope that the AI can compute
Other than the heavy modding needed (not the least to the interface, I suspect), the AI might not quite catch on. Then again, it might.
On a slightly different note than the unfortunate CTD, here's some more... ideas.
a) - Culture-bonus from ideologies should be replaced by happiness/hammers/food
When I earlier came up with some suggestions for ideologies, some were specifed to have culture bonuses. Since the border expansion is going to be handled differently, this should be replaced. Extra happiness or hammer- or food-bonuses are the ones that makes the most sense.
b)- "Upgrade" ideologies through events OR buildings
I also proposed that the early ideologies would auto-upgrade when particular techs are researched. Since Isolation is an event instead of a tech, perhaps the trigger for "auto-upgrades" could similarly be events -- or buildings. The latter would be an indirect result of a tech discovered under the player's direct control, which usually is a good thing. The reason why I proposed auto-upgrades is that it reduces Ideology-spread-micro-management and eliminates ideologies that don't make "sense" later on in the game.
c)- No separate Ideology civics-category
In my opinion, there's no real need of a separate Ideology civic-category; the Social (or Legal) category should more or less fill the same function. Some civics could allow for a state ideology (Social Engineering), some could not (Free Speech), some could even have a bonus from choosing a state ideology (Xenophobia).
d)- Upgradable civics through buildings
With fewer civics, variety could be introduced, similarly to ideologies, directly through technologies or (preferrably) through buildings. The less "fillers", and the more relevant choices the better, IMO. To hopefully clarify, here's an example of what I mean by upgrading civics through buildings:
Say, there are only three government civics -- the "classical" distinction between autocracy, oligarchy and democracy. When the tech "Communism" is discovered, a national wonder, Secret Police HQ, becomes available. If the wonder is built;
democracies get
autocracies get
oligarchies get
(more or less)
e)- Cross fingers and hope that the AI can compute
Other than the heavy modding needed (not the least to the interface, I suspect), the AI might not quite catch on. Then again, it might.
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arrgg, this is the most annoying bug yet. Can you guys make a list of all the things that were changed since we had a working version.(and I mean everything. Its hard to find a bug when you no idea where to look for it and you can't repeat it easily)
D) can we rethink traits? Actually I really hate creative and we should (as Geo suggested) change 
to beakers.
