I dislike the name "superstition" for an initial civic, because superstition is more of a default state of ignorance and guesswork than anything else. What about "unified mythology" or "Mythologies" something like that, to reflect that the stories about creation and gods became more codified by generations further from the inception of those stories?
I like Mythology...changed!
Also, it appears that "Oligarchy" and "Civil Engineering" are dead ends. "Patronage" seems like it comes too far into the tree; it was practiced in classical times. I'm also unsure about "Opera and Ballet" leading to "Marxism", "Ideology", etc.
I really like the majority of the changes, though. Well done.
Whoops, fixed those dead ends.
My justification for Opera and Ballet leading into Marxism/Ideology etc is that those political philosophies have strong cultural roots, and while Opera and Ballet may not specifically fit the best it's the end of that particular chain of Civics, AND I couldn't really figure out where else to put it
I realize that Patronage was practiced far before the Renaissance Era, but I still think it fits well given its ubiquity and results during that era. Plus, I like it there, so there may be a bit of personal preference involved
Video Games could be added as a late Atomic Era civic between Professional Sports and Social Media.
Likewise, Virtual Reality could be added after Social Media but before Utopia, while Wiki could be added after both Social Media and Globalization but before Utopia. Note that USENET (available since the early 1980s) is the earliest form of Social Media, as implied in the Civlopedia.
I don't feel that "Video Games" fits particularly well, but I do think Virtual Reality would be interesting...I went ahead and added that.
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Here's the redesigned Civics Tree. Governments, Buildings, Diplomatic Actions, and Units have all been assigned, Policy Cards have not yet been overhauled.
The Icons are giving me trouble for some strange reason. The Tech Tree icons update just fine, but the Civics Tree doesn't seem to want to accept any icons for new Civics at all atm. Hopefully I can figure it out!
A quick word on the Buildings I'm adding: I don't particularly like the idea of adding an enormous number of buildings just for the sake of adding buildings as I want to maintain a mostly-Vanilla experience with this mod...just balanced, improved, and extended. To that end I'm not planning on adding all that many buildings. Having too many buildings would also simply further increase the importance of production.
So here's my plan: add 1 new building to each district that already has buildings (other than the Aerodrome) and add several new building chains to further flesh out the City Center with +food, +building/district/wonder production, and +growth effects.
Comments, suggestions, complaints?
