Starting work on Slavery Mod. Looking for suggestions.

[patrick.nagel]

Don't make an "integrated slave" a simple +1 population. Rather, make it increase the food reserve by.. err... 30?

Also, we need a mechanic regarding slave revolt, that's for sure. You need to have a healthy slave number in your empire if you want to avoid backdrafts.

Hmm.. we could replace one of the Social Policy tree to include Slavery. A high Slavery notice would be something like the Roman society: a slave is eventually freed, and can become a citizen in his full right. That would decrease the caused by slaves.

Okay, I'm at lost wits about what could be the caused by too much slavery. I want something nice. Maybe a random event that causes [X]% of slaves integrated in your cities revolt around your empire, causing each of those cities to be reduced by [Y] population (where Y is a number in function of how many slaves you have integrated). The revolted slaves are weak, but numerous military units that are of your level of technology. Be careful, these slaves can span a Great General like Spartacus!

Soylent Slave for the modern and future eras is in.

As far as slave revolts go, what I've settled on is the spawning of barbarian "slave" armies comprising a random number of units led by a great slave general. The armies will have a (small) random chance of spawning each time a slave action is performed, and the probability of spawning will be influenced by various social policies; e.g., if any player has adopted Freedom, probability of revolt is doubled.

 

[SolkaTruesilver]

Soylent Slave for the modern and future eras is in.

I always thought that the stockpile of food isn't really the equivalent of accumulated food, but accumulated population created by the surplus of food. Until you have ennough population surplus to assign someplace else.

Ergo, a slave unit could represent a quick addition of X additional population, but not ennough to warrant a population increase.

I like what you do so far. Are you planning to have the slave revolt % increase with higher slave population %?

Plan to have additional slavery civic?