i feel like this is different as
also obsolete does not really make sense without resource levels
as we don’t track resources, there no reason or no way to make them obsolete
I see that waiting was a good choice, as the spirit for the game has risen and people became interested again. Unfortunately, due to school matters, the game won’t resume right now, but I might write up the new round integrating all these ideas in a week, but it might take longer since I’m going to learn how to use these new mechanics in engaging and fun ways.
So there’s no new round any time soon, but probably in 1-2 weeks when I have more free time.
yes, i am interested, but idk if i have the mental gut to actually do it
I will do it!! its the way
Become a country in western Asia! I want neighbors!
I will think about that, need more time
Here is a tapestry depicting the history of Mongolia up until Laws were formed.
The symbols on top are the stamps of the ruling dynasty
(the first image is the creation of the world.)
its looks amazing! and well detail
So i am just going to some problems with current design of the game, these are my opinion and so you might disagree with me but if you have ideas to fix these problems please let me know as i don’t have any ideas right now
Going from tribal to steam engine in only 28 turns is too fast of a progression
The progression of the game is way too rapid for and we are way too far in the “technological tree” for where we should be right now. While being a little bit ahead is fine and expected as this is alternate history and we don’t really have a equivalent to the 2 dark ages. The progression is still too fast even accounting for that and i think there are few reason for why this happened.
While my explosive growth from the meteor did let me to rapidly research technology and get ahead technologically. Mongolia is only a few turns away few turns away to research the steam engine too without any external help.
So the problem is more internal and a problem with the current mechanics then anything that happen in-game. I think the current action system, lack of any real obstacles, and the lack of any other types of progression.
The current way to gain action is very broken as once you build one or two you can very easily just have an explosive growth. While that suppose to happen, there were no real way to stop it or really limit it beside the 10 action limit and the new cities and there were no upkeep/ consequences for it. I think the explosive growth is vital for a sense of progression but with all that new power there needed to be some sort of consequence or new problems to handle.
The lack of problems brings me to my next point of no real problems, the game is very easy which i do enjoy but does not make for a compelling game play beside a power fantasy. The only problems mainly came from other players or just bad rolls which cause events. There needed to be problems to be solved to help distract the player from pure progression.
Which brings me to my final point of a lack of alternative actions. While the game is basically free form but there no reason to do anything but progress, there no real distraction to prevent from just doing that. Which helped to contribute to the rapid progression.
The classic problem of “what to do next” or even just “now what”
While the free form nature of the game is arguably one of it strength. There is always a problem of too much freedom which this game have. While i don’t think we should limit the player action i think having some sort of guidance in this game would be appreciated.
One of the reason why this happens i think is the huge amount of actions we have. So solving the first problem can help to reduce this one too.
This one is kind of short as i don’t really know how to address this one so this problem is one where i really wish for your solution to it.
"Would you be interested in a trade agreement with England? " - Civilization V
Right now i feel like there is a lack of any real political strategy in this nation simulator. While we do have trades and war and even alliances, there is not really any in depth interaction with these mechanic. I might be a little biased as i am a isolationist and don’t really seek out other people but i think we need more in depth strategy.
One of the problems i think this happen is the fact that resources are infinite so there are no need for trade, if you can make it yourself. there also have not really been any real war beside the bananarama war as diplomacy has always saved the day. We need some sort of mechanic to push us to trade and war and other kinds of political actions.Our solutions does not even need to be new mechanics we can expand the existing ones.
" War never changes. War is like winter and winter is coming. " - Ulysses S. Grant (maybe…)
With the advent of guns, we are reaching a point where our current battle system does not make sense. But that not the only reason why i think the battle system need to change. The battle system feels X to me which is not bad but i think it can be better.
I am not a aggressive civilization (i never been in a war yet) so maybe my view is skewed. But i think that battles should be more strategic and we should more control over them like being able to set tactics. I think changes should allow more strategy and control over battle beside just preparing for them.
I don’t know what else to put in these quote section lol
I think the greatest design decision the game had was the population/division of labor system, it gave so much depth in a very simple and easy to understand mechanic. But as the game progresses dividing up your population becomes more and more undesirable as you gain more actions. Which really takes out one the key strategic element of the game.
I think it good that it was faze out as it give a sense of progression and make us feel like we going from controlling a small groups of people to an entire nation. But i think the sense of strategy and optimization game-play is something we should keep
I think adding new mechanics to help add optional strategic elements like the division of labor system would really help with improving the game-play of this stage. I think the early game strategic element was fine but i think the new mechanic should apply to the mid to late game. I think these strategic elements should be optional as some players might not want to deal with that type of stuff and that okay but having it to optimize your nation is a good idea.
I dont like your checkpoint idea. I feel that if some world-ending event happens, we should either have to try and stop it, or lose everything.
I know. Losing everything if we dont protect ourselves is incentive to make us work together to solve the problem. If we fail to do so, then we should restart.
Maybe making it so that researching a technology made far from the game’s date would take longer would help, but i don’t really like that idea, so any other idea would probably be better.
I think that the more a nation expands, the least stable it becomes, especially when expanding by invasion. So maybe that coul be done, and annexing enemy cities would make them resist your occupation, unless they’re of the same culture group as you, and expanding by creating cities would make you slightly less stable, which, if an extreme expansion is done, would have an important effect on your stability. If you become unstable enough, the people will revolt, making you even less stable, but after the revolt (Or revolution) ends, you become stable enough to not break apart, and maybe your government changes.
I would use a resource map to know where each thing is located (Mainly minerals), so that a player needs to trade for a certain resource to get something like bronze, or they could colonize a region for the same resources. And also, because i desire the spice trade, make it so that spices make food last longer, taste better, and basically do something to your population.
For this, i would make it so that the people have needs you need to fulfill, like hunger, health, education, random tasks (Like wanting toilets), or something like that. My main idea with this is hunger, as it would make it so that you need to feed everyone, and if you don’t have enough to feed all, a famine could start, it’s intensity depending on your lack of food. This could also make it so that an enemy nation could destroy all of the crops and start a famine.
Also, i don’t usually give ideas, so this might be just a list of bad ideas.
An official design document for the war balloons found in Hollow Sand (it is not the actual document, because this version was the one translated to English after some anthropologists discovered it)
That isn’t really how war balloons work. it is a big balloon shape in order to hold all the hot air in. Also, I don’t think a hot air balloon could be hold up that much metal
In reality, its too heavy to even make it out of the dirt (the metal if too tine, its will be useless for defense , on the opposite, will be to heave to “fly”) . but its look like its build like a glider , but heavy one.
