ShadowWarrior
Prince
- Joined
- Jun 7, 2001
- Messages
- 411
I like the idea of city specialization over building every single kind of districts in each city. The current game mechanics however kind of requires that we must have every kind of districts in every city if we want our empire to do well.
I like to suggest some changes to make specialization a viable and worthwhile alternative.
Districts can be worked by as many citizens as I want instead of just one. The only limitation is food requirement.
District's enhancing effect grows over time, much like how hamlet in Civ IV yield more and more gold as turn passes. For example, just building a district itself currently gives me X number of output. But after twenty turns, the district will give me X+5 number of output. After fourty turns, the same district will give me X+10 number of output.
The above enhancing effect is also present in the citizens who work in that district. A district by itself gives me X number of output. A district worked by one citizen gives me X+5 number of output. After twenty turns though, that same district worked by one citizen will give me X+15 (instead of just X+5) output. Remember, we can put more than one worker in each district.
The underlying idea is that a district specializing in an area of expertise will turn into a cluster much like Silicone Valley is a tech cluster, NY is a cluster of global trade/finance, Hong Kong and Singapore is a cluster of shipping, and Honzhou, in ancient time, used to be the center of silk production. Experience accumulated through time will make this cluster even more productive. And when we have people working in the cluster for generations, the expertise is deepened exponentially, leading to even more increase in output.
Of course, we can continue to choose to spam district all over all our cities. However, the reward is not in spamming all kind of districts. The key reward is in putting our citizens to work in those districts and watch their expertise and productivity grow over time. And while we can spam all kind of districts in all our cities, can put our citizens to work in all those districts, the food requirement will put a severe upper limit on how much we can do that.
In another word, we will really have to pick and choose.
I like to suggest some changes to make specialization a viable and worthwhile alternative.
Districts can be worked by as many citizens as I want instead of just one. The only limitation is food requirement.
District's enhancing effect grows over time, much like how hamlet in Civ IV yield more and more gold as turn passes. For example, just building a district itself currently gives me X number of output. But after twenty turns, the district will give me X+5 number of output. After fourty turns, the same district will give me X+10 number of output.
The above enhancing effect is also present in the citizens who work in that district. A district by itself gives me X number of output. A district worked by one citizen gives me X+5 number of output. After twenty turns though, that same district worked by one citizen will give me X+15 (instead of just X+5) output. Remember, we can put more than one worker in each district.
The underlying idea is that a district specializing in an area of expertise will turn into a cluster much like Silicone Valley is a tech cluster, NY is a cluster of global trade/finance, Hong Kong and Singapore is a cluster of shipping, and Honzhou, in ancient time, used to be the center of silk production. Experience accumulated through time will make this cluster even more productive. And when we have people working in the cluster for generations, the expertise is deepened exponentially, leading to even more increase in output.
Of course, we can continue to choose to spam district all over all our cities. However, the reward is not in spamming all kind of districts. The key reward is in putting our citizens to work in those districts and watch their expertise and productivity grow over time. And while we can spam all kind of districts in all our cities, can put our citizens to work in all those districts, the food requirement will put a severe upper limit on how much we can do that.
In another word, we will really have to pick and choose.
