Throne Room and Advisors

[Bigben34]

Hi,
I really enjoyed the throne room feature of the single player game. It added an extra motivation for getting a high score, and could include different styles of servants, women for a harem, court jesters, etc. I think it would really make it fun to give the player such choices, in addition to the usual choice between different classical columns, bushes, walls, etc.

With modern graphics these servants should be shown in 3-D interactive video. For example, when still at a primitive score, the player might get to choose from 3 different servants, who at low scores will provide very poor service and be more likely to mock the ruler than obey him. And of course the quality and number of women for the harem would have to improve with the score as well!

This could also be meshed with the advisor screen, so that your advisors would sit in your throne room (or throne cave as it may be...) and offer advice (or sarcastic comments) as you scroll over them.

Cheers

 

[Jarlaxe Baenre]

That sounds cool... just, what's the point of it?

 

[Maniacal]

The point is it is awesome, it represents your growing influence, power, technological advancement and victories! I would love to be able to fill my throne room with various important artifacts from defeated civilizations and various models of particularly awesome technological advances (like a miniature steam engine, the wheel, a model ironclad ship etc).

I'm not too worried about having servants and various court-hangers on, though a harem would be nice

 

[Soduka]

That sounds cool... just, what's the point of it?

What's the point of this game existing? Same thing.

 

[Bigben34]

Ya, no point really, just pure coolness. Of course, maybe the devs wouldn't be interested in such things...

 

[TorreyH]

I want them back, too. It might not seem that important, but I for one will be terribly disappointed if they don't make the cut again. The Throne Room and the High Council were among my favorite things from Civ II, and its about time they were restored to the franchise, in suitable 3D glory.