So the smaller culture having more of an influence during the merging? That does sound fairly likely, an alternative history where the mongol culture influences china a bit more for example. But I’d be the less likely option, so in rare scenarios or when the player tried to have it go that way.
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Yeah that’s what I meant, if it would be possible though not necessarily common.
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Would social cohesion depend on the distribution of a population around a planet? Like if they are located on a Pangea-like continent, versus multiple continents spread out throughout the world?
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That would obviously have an impact, alongside stuff like biome boundaries and stuff.
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Of course it would, but it’d be more of how is your land spread out, also including the effect of terrain.
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If you’re a stone age underwater civ, would the stuff be inversed?
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No, I think it’ll have the same effect, more land ~=~ less cohesion, and there’d be an effect of terrain but it wouldn’t be as significant.
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I meant inversed as in water and land switch places for their case…
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Oh as in the effect of having land across bodies of water would be similar to that of land if you’re an underwater civilization? Yeah it probably would.
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Though would depth of water work the same as height of terrain?
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Yeah more or less, it depends if your species can swim for prolonged periods of time and if they can tolerate more pressure ect.
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By the way, in the late space stage should ascension gate construction be a process that increases or decreases cohesion?
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I’ll compare it to the moon landing to simplify it. So when it comes to it, the moon landing was a competition between two superpowers trying to prove that they’re better, with every major advancement they got closer to proving their superiority.
So I think the ascension gate would be a project that should take multiple stages, with each one increasing cohesion (even more if you’re the first) but it would decrease it if you’re the only one even close to making it (to simulate the effect of international competition), especially if the rest of your society isn’t doing too hot, since making an ascension gate doesn’t make rent cheaper.
This would make both a lot of sense, and make for better gameplay, if course they’d be other effects to consider but this is when it comes to cohesion.
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I recall it was said most space empires would attack you for constructing an ascension gate because if it goes on, they are doomed.
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Yeah, that would make sense, every empire would try to beat you to it or beat you for it, and if course they’d be internal strife like I mentioned.
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Maybe some groups would think only the ruling would become gods and start rebellions?
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part of it yeah, the same idea as “this is isn’t going anywhere” mentality.
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If the gate is successfully destroyed one time, would the response be stronger the next?
Well, they’d try to throw everything at it both times, so if they got stronger the response would be stronger next time.
And that would continue until the gate is created at some point?