There's something else that came to my mind: wouldn't it be more appropiate if Knights are unlocked with Feudalism rather than with Guilds?
And require the Vassalage civic to be built?
Unless we come up with a similar unit to replace the Knight
Great Prophet:
Meditation
Polytheism
Priesthood
Monotheism
Theology
Divine Right
Mysticism
Masonry (Warlords patch & BTS)
Code of Laws
Civil Service
Monarchy
Literature
Music
Writing
Philosophy
Printing Press
Drama
Aesthetics (BTS)
Alphabet
Paper
Education
Liberalism
Calendar
Masonry (Vanilla & unpatched Warlords)
Animal Husbandry
Construction
Future Tech
From that above list you can see that if you don't have meditation a great prophet will give meditation. If you do have meditation a great prophet will try and give you polytheism. If you have meditation and polytheism then the prophet will go down the list (from top to bottom) until there is a tech you can research that the prophet can give you.
Note if you don't have prerequisites for a tech then the great person will try and give you the next tech on the list that you can get.
eg.
If I didn't have masonry and had techs meditation, polytheism, priesthood, mysticism and code of laws then a great prophet would give me civil service as monotheism requires masonry, theology require monotheism, and divine right requires theology.
eg. (from the above list)
Great Prophet:
Meditation // Have it
Polytheism // Have it
Priesthood // Have it
Monotheism // Requires masonry so isn't allowed to be researched
Theology // Requires monotheism
Divine Right // Requires theology
Mysticism // Have it
Masonry (Warlords patch & BTS) // Still playing vanilla Civ4
Code of Laws // Have it
Civil Service // Great prophet will be able to give me this
Monarchy
Literature
Music
etc.
Yeah, but it doesn't go into detail where the absolute list of priorities ultimately comes from.
Another suggestion -
I have never seen a settled city on islands such like Taiwan, Crete, Cyprus, Sardinia. However, these regions are very important from geopolitically point of view (especially Taiwan, also Cyprus). Maybe in RFC these islands should be settled? If not directly from an AI, maybe automatically from Independent leader after some year? Then, they can be an imporant matter of congresses (and wars).
I don't think it's a good idea to spawn too much speculation/discussion before that's really something that I can work on.Also, is there a civ diary about future civs? Because even if I know there's pretty much not being a new civ anytime, I'm interested in a probable/confirmed as not being civ list.