Nuukov
Warlord
- Joined
- Aug 23, 2009
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they were not productive at all. productivity of labour was 5 times less compared to US/european farms. thus SU came to importing canadian grain.
Leader could be Khrushchev as he was a chairman at the peak of the cold war
Trait could be 'World Revolution': zero turns resistance on occupation, +2per broadcasting tower
I understand about the Collective Farms. I did quite some research on it to make sure, but as you have said, the results were grim.
So I was not sure what to do. So I just thought this up, seemed to fit the work 'collective' =P
I know Civilization is about having civs that are accurate to history, but if the USSR was like to it's real counterpart in history, then no one would play as it

(Well, maybe they would play it juts for the sake that they invented Tetris... Tetris is cool

So I would like it to be more of 'what it was all about'.
Either that or focus on more positive parts of the nation. But as it seems all good (or at least most) was born out of bad, e.g. the massive growth... due to mass starvation.
The only thing I can think of is the absolute refusel to give up when being invaded by the nazis, but a combat bonus in friendly territory I don't think would cut it enough. Would be nice to have (something like +10% bonus when fighting in the homeland), but I think that alone can not do it.
I think the trait I came up with is fine, it simulates (to an extent) the massive game of 'catch up' that the USSR did. Plus their huge amount of natural resources.
I am not sure with the Collective Farm, I will try to think of something...
EDIT: I really don't know what to put for it. Since the USSR was screwed up in many ways, although (in it's defense), not all were in it's control. The Embargo on the USSR did not help. Plus the technology of the time was not sufficient. A modern day computer may be able to plan an economy, but even if it could, there is a saying I have: 'You can plan an economy, but you can't plan people'. I guess that is another reason it was bad for citizens, the planners did not take into account all their needs and changes in needs, plus they were given outdated information a lot of the time. But that is all gravy now. I will try to think of something. Might change most of what I thought up.
But just one thing I need to know... when you reseach lasers, can you still build tanks? Or only Modern Armour?