What do you think would be your country's traits if included in CIV?

[Mark Young]

Originally posted by scotland_no1
yeah but there is only 6 traits to choose from, even modern countries like the USA had to use the same traits in the game as ancient ones like babylon

I think that there should be more than 6 traits as what they are defined in the game and what they are at the moment can be different.
Take Britian for example, in civ3 it's Expansionist, commercial but you wouldn't define it that way at this moment?

 

[carlosMM]

Originally posted by scotland_no1

carlos mm the country you talk about is it france or germany?

yup......

and then you know where Mr B gets his agitationist BS from.....

 

[stormbind]

Originally posted by Sir Eric
Take Britian for example, in civ3 it's Expansionist, commercial but you wouldn't define it that way at this moment?

First note, I don't have PTW but to the best of my knowledge niether Great Britain (GB), or The United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland, or The United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland (UK) are represented in Civ3.

As independent self-ruling bodies, England, Great Britain and UK are 3 distinctly seperate nations from different eras in the history of the British Isles.

However, back to the issue: I would associate commercial with the current day UK, it's certainly not industrial. The economy is highly dependent on supplying international services in the form of consultation (in all markets), banking and such like.

There don't seem to be many places left to expand to, which would pretty much restrict every nation on this planet in the same way. However, the UK has in post Cold War years shown a reluctance to surrender any further influence of which it still retains considerably more than it's size would suggest.

Edit: In retrospect, although it has clearly behaved as such I'm not entirely sure when Great Britain was a pedigree "expansionist". Granting independence to the Dominions of the British Empire must surely be a sign of devolution. They then evolved into the Commonwealth of Nations which still exists but has been expanding but it's not Great Britain. Point being that it is hard to see a specific era when Great Britain was itself expanding and not simultanously shrinking. Did that make any sense? Probably not, I certainly didn't understand much of it

 

[Mark Young]

When Great Britain was at it's zenith it was said that the sun never sets on the British empire. Didn't the British empire include India, America, Hong Kong, Australia, South Africa and I pretty sure they had there hand in the middle east early on in the 20th century maybe Iran or Iraq and others if I've forgotten them.
Not all of those were at the same time mind you thats true, and some of them were colonies where others were subjugated vassals of the Empire.
All of them were a result of british expansionism.

Civ3 not PTW has the civilisation of the 'Britains' in it. Whether it is reffering to Great Britain (GB), or The United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland, or The United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland (UK), I dont know. I am ,however, reffering to the British empire.

My point being irregardless of whether its Great Britain (GB), or The United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland, or The United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland (UK) I'm sitting in Sydney today cause of British expansionism ( that and the fact that one of my ancestors stole a gate and was shipped to Tasmania).

 

[one_man_assault]

Welp Im an Ethiopian so If you added them in historicly they would be a Millitaristic/Religius civ but I was born in the Good Ol US of A and to represent both sides Ill include them in also. They would be a Scientific/commmercial today but historicaly they would be Expansionist/Industrious (wait thats what it is in the game right

 

[chocmushroom]

Sir Eric (He Ran away, he chickend out! )
That's what I said in a earlier post, for some countries it all depends on when in their history you take the Civ traits from.
I proved that good old England (don't even need UK & extra) could have been all of the traits in the past.

Whoever said that the traits should be taken as they are now. R U Mad How the hell could you take Greece as it is now, just another european country, when at one stage they had the best trained fighters in the world that no-one had beat without odds of at least 2-1 (All from Sparta) They also produced some of the worlds greatest EVER thinkers. Did you know that in ancient greece (think was around 500bc) they new the circumferance of the earth to within a 2% error margin & this was about 2000 years before most Europeans were still thinking that it was Flat
Civ is about the Civs when they were at their height of power & influence, to celebrate all it's achivements.


"She turned me into a Newt"
"I Got Better"

 

[scotland_no1]

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anyway britain wasnt in civ 3 it was england. i think britain would have been much better than just england. we could have had a leader that all four countries shared EG: winston churcill or someone famous like that

 

[Pangur Bán]

Scotland - scientific and religious

 

[Mark Young]

Originally posted by chocmushroom
Sir Eric (He Ran away, he chickend out! )

"She turned me into a Newt"
"I Got Better"

Sir Eric is Brave Sir Robins Minstrel. He's currently on his way back to castle Anthrax.

Sing along if you know the words.....
"Brave Sir Robin ran away. He bravely ran away away. When danger reared its ugly head he bravely turned his tail and fled. When brave Sir Robin turned about you can gaurantee he chickened out".

I've got that playing when ever I shut the pc off.


Scotland_no1
Hope it wasn't anything I said
When you are playing civ3 it's says England but in the manual (page 162) it says Britian which is where I was quoting from earlier.

 

[Communist Rebel]

For my country cuba i would say we were scientific and religious.

We are definetely scientific, for we have the best health and education service in the world. we also have a huge reasearch facility base which is also the best in the worl. we have discovered many cures for diffirent types of cancers, which the rest of the world cannot get because of the embargo the USA plcaed on us (just because Castro nationalised the industries which i think is a bit harsh)

we are religious because many people in our country are catholic and have a strong spiritual feelings but we are still very modern. many cubans try to look to religion to solve their problems like poverty (which is another factor that came out of the US embargo) i beleive if we were able to trade then our country would defenetely become a developed one as we would be able to trade our pharmesueticals all around the world. we would be able to become very rich and we would be able to stop our poverty.

P.S. i just want to say that cuba should have the embargo removed against it and the USA should stop making people poor in our country just because of their companies getting thrown out. our country was even poorer when the sugar companies of america were exploiting us. as soon as we try to make more money for ourselves they put an embargo on us because they earn less.

P.P.S also i dont want our country to be on the list of the 6 axis of evil countries.. what have we ever done to threaten the world.. we only wnat peace and equality for all, which is what our leader tries to give us but our country does not earn enough money. i would like to see some changes in cuba for us to become wealthier and for other countries to just accept that we are happy the way we are and if anyone was ever to threaten our existence then i would happily die for my country even though im only 15. and i beleive that so would all cuban's who are well and able to fight which is about 7.5 million of us. i would also like to see improved relations between us and the USA, we are only 90 kilometers away from you and our leader has on numerous occasions tried to improve relations but has only been turned down or sent back home.

sry that was what i hope for cuba in the future.

capital:La Habana
UU:Revolutionary
Leader:Fidel Castro

 

[Anti-EUA]

Communist Rebel - So do I!
But wouldn't Cuba be militaristic?

 

[Communist Rebel]

i wouldnt really say militarisctic..we dont have that large a military and they dont use it to police us. the military was only there after the revolution and then it just keps getting smaller. i think many people think we are militaristic because of our friendship with the soviots and the missle crisis

 

[sgrig]

Russia:

before 1917: religious & expansionist
1917-1991: scientific & militaristic
1991- present: looking for its civ traits

 

[Yndy]

For Romania: Religious. Only one trait, we're a small civ