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CIVILIZATION II Microprose published Sid Meier's Civilization several years ago, yet it continues to rate in the top five in a list of the most discussed PC computer games on the internet. It also rates in the top ten on a list of the top 100 currently played PC games. The game is designed well enough that it could remain on these lists for a long time to come. Because of this strong following, it is almost assured that a part two to this game would be very well received. The gaming community would appreciate a fresh new version of their favorite game, and Microprose would make a great deal of money. This is Microprose's chance to make a really innovative, high tech addition to the gaming industry. If they have not already begun work on a version 2 of Civilization then they are missing a huge potential profit. This document is a list of ideas presented on the internet by Civilization players. It is hoped that this list might provide some sort of stimulus to the creation of a Civilization II. GAME SYSTEM CHANGES AND NEW CONCEPTS ------------------------------------ - Variable Sized Worlds: In the customization menu at the beginning of the game there should be an option for world size ( Tiny, Small, Medium, Large, Huge ). A medium sized world would be about the size of the Earth. - Variable Complexity Levels: If all the additions and rule modifications addressed in this document were implemented, the game could become too complex for a novice user. Therefore, it would be wise to allow the user to select a complexity level. Level 1 would be for people who have never played Civilization or for those who would like to play an entire game in one afternoon. Level 1 would cut down on the number of units available (no caravans, diplomats, etc.), make Wonders of the World unavailable, and so forth. Level 2 would be the same Civilization we all know, though perhaps with a few new advances and units. Level 3 would incorporate many of the additions listed in this document. Level 4 would add the space travel advances, units, wonders, and city improvements, as well as new rules to deal with multiple planets, spaceship combat, and so on. - Multimedia: Digital audio, video, and other special effects. Maybe have advisors actually talk. Sound effects on disasters. Music that changes according to the technology level. - More Space: Increasing the number of squares in the world would give more land to explore, settle, and fight over. This would increase the resolution of the game. If in version I a square was, say 100 miles across, in version II it would be 50 or 25 miles across. Thus the size of the world would not change, but there would be many more squares on the map. If Variable Sized Worlds [above] is used, then different sized worlds would have different numbers of squares. - Better Map Design: A spherical model for the world would be too difficult to implement, but some sort of work should be done to allow crossing the icecaps. Circumnavigation at the poles should be shorter than circumnavigation at the equator. - New Terrain: Add some new terrain types and modify existing ones; for example, some coal squares could put out extra production beyond normal (these should be very rare, like 0-3 per planet). Have ice bergs that move around the ocean and run into ships (would work like barbarians.) Also, when a planet is generated there should be more clumping of resources, so that several coal resource squares could end up in the same vicinity. This would be a major benefit to a city placed in this region. It would also promote trade between civilizations, as one civilization could have an excess of production units, but lack in food, and could trade with another civilization with the opposite problem. - City Growth: Depending on the size of a city, it is classified in one of five categories. Different actions are required to change a city from one classification to another: Villages - Population 1-3; city display limited to only five squares. Cannot build any city improvements, but can make units (like a settler). Cannot make taxmen or scientists. Symbol is a little brown hut. Town - Population 1-5; city display limited to nine squares. Created by a settler. If settler's square is empty, creates a town with a population of 1. If settler is on a village, creates a town with a population equal to the village's population + 1. Can make taxmen or scientists only if population >= 3. Symbol is a small cottage. A town can only make a few of the major improvements (like the Cathedral, Power Plant, City Walls, etc.) and can only make the Ancient Wonders of the World. There are no restriction as to the units that can be created. City - Population 6-20; city is the same as in current game: display == twenty-one squares, symbol is one city square. Is created automatically when a town reaches a size of 6. Allows creation of almost any unit, improvement, or wonder. To increase to size 11-20 requires an aqueduct. Metropolis - Population 21-40; created from a City of size 20 which must have a courthouse and hospital. To become a Metropolis, a settler must move into the city and 'B'uild. A new city square will blink into being. It can be set either to the east or the west of the original square. Any improvements on that square is lost (Bulldozed under to make shopping centers and mini-malls, no doubt ;) ). Now city symbol is 2 city squares side by side. In the City display there are five more squares available (for a total of 26). The Architecture advance is required to build a metropolis. Megopolis - Population 41+; created from a Metropolis of size 40 that must have a power plant, and either the Freeway improvement or the Mass Transit improvement. The Corporation Advanced is required before a Megopolis can be built. To become a Megopolis, a settler must move into the Metropolis and 'B'uild. Two new city squares will appear and can be put either to the north or to the south of the original two city squares. The city display now shows 32 squares available for use. Here is a pictorial representation of city display sizes: Village Town City Metropolis Megopolis ### #### #### # ### ##### ###### ###### #v# #t# ##c## ##mm## ##MM## # ### ##### ###### ##MM## ### #### ###### 5 9 #### 21 26 32 {Might want to eliminate restriction on regular shapes, so that a city can be spread out in an irregular pattern.) - Variable Start: Allow the player the option of starting at a more developed level. Each civilization starts with a few cities, some random advances, city improvements, and units. - Scenarios: Rather than randomly generated worlds, geared scenarios would be challenging and fun. Save the Roman Empire from destruction at the hands of the barbarians, or Europe from the Hun and Viking invasion, or found USA while defending it from England and the indians and try to turn it from a small collection of colonies into a superpower. - Zooming: Would allow different views of the game world. Level 1 is a map of the entire planet, like the world map currently available. Level 2 looks like the display of squares used for the main screen in the current game. Level 2 is a detailed close-up of four or nine squares showing additional things like cities, battle fields, etc. - City Display: When in city display, might allow a SimCity type of interaction, where you can build multiple buildings (police station, houses, etc.). - Planetary Conquest: At higher tech levels, can colonize other planets, engage in war/commerce/etc. with alien cultures. In a multiplayer Civilization II, players would be allowed to start on different planets from each other. Alien invasions/contact could occur early in the game. To avoid letting super-technology fall into the hands of low tech civilizations, it should not be possible to take advances from a defeated ET city (the alien writings are just too indecipherable to us Earthlings). - Underwater Explorations: The submarine would be more useful and it would make way for different technologies and military units. Civilizations at higher tech levels could build underwater cities. Resources could include mining, fishing and even cultivation of the ocean floor. - Rivers: Split rivers into rivers and streams. Rivers can be navigatible by most ships, but streams are too shallow for navigation. Rivers cannot be crossed by land units except at fords, cities, or bridges. - Orbital Cities, Moon Base, Subterranean Cities - Multiple Game Systems: Civilization can prepare "scenarios" for use with separate "game modules" which would allow the player to act out the action in more detail. For example, a battle could be carried out in more detail using a wargame simulator. A SimCity-type interface would make customization of the cities interesting. Of course, these modules would be entirely optional - the player need never use them; however, by acting out the battle (or whatever) in this detail the player has a better chance of doing really well if he or she is good at tactical games like this (of course, if the player isn't very good, the battle could turn out much worse). By making several different modules, a really skilled player can take the game to new levels. This is similar to what MindCraft is doing with games like Rules of Engagement, an Interlocking Game System. RULE MODIFICATIONS ------------------ - Ranged Combat: Artillery shouldn't have to touch a unit to attack it. Maybe only if there is a friendly piece adjacent to the enemy can the artillery make an attack. - Supported Attacks: Some units could act together to produce an attack of higher attack strength than either are capable alone. For example, calvary, phalanx and legion, or musketeers and artillery. - Supported Defense: Some units' attack strength should give a bonus to defense in certain situations. For example, Cannon, Fighters, or Archers in a city or fort, or Engineers in a forest. - Communication: The game should somehow consider the speed of communication, perhaps basing the maximum number of cities off it. Speed of Communication refers to technologies in use: road, horseback riding, ships, railroad, automobile, flight, satellite, etc. Will be important throughout the game, especially when communication forms a bottleneck, such as in the early stages of the game until the development of railroad, and in the spaceborne portion of the game when the player must deal with the difficulties of sub-light communication. - Scientists: Somehow there should be a way to work on multiple advances simultaneously (maybe at least one per city?) Every once and a while there should be a genius somewhere who makes a breakthrough, delivering an advance earlier than predicted. - Cheating: There are several 'bugs' or 'undocumented features', called 'cheats' by the gamers, which allow the player to take advantage of the game system. Two of these 'cheats' are a little too obvious: the 'Settler Cheat', where a player can make a settler build an improvement in a single turn, and the 'Sentry Cheat', where a player can regain all movement points for a piece by placing it on sentry in a city and then unsentrying it. These should be either eliminated or modified so they do not unbalance things. - Experimental Mode: Some people enjoy a game more when they can get inside it and fiddle with it without playing by the rules. For these people, an experimental mode would be useful. The player could give himself huge amounts of money at the beginning of the game to make it easier, or could give his enemies better pieces to make it more difficult. Entire armies could be picked up and moved to the other side of the world. In other words the player would be more like a god then a world leader. - Programmable Strategy: Allows player to design a strategy for an enemy civilization's leader or for a governor of his own civilization, or for a particular unit (see meta-commands, below). This would allow people to design an enemy strategy, and then share it with other people. - Non-City Disasters: Floods, Mega-Floods, Volcanoes, Earthquakes, Global Epidemics, Forest Fires, Ice-Age, Famines, Hurricanes/ tornadoes/ tropical storms. ARTIFICIAL PLAYERS ------------------ - Increase the number of enemies from 7 to 12+. Have an option that will allow new civilization to replace civilizations already defeated. - Major Barbarian Hordes - Leaders: Chinese = Sun Yat-sen; Maybe allow leaders to change over time or with changes in government (like how the advisors change depending on government type and technological level) so that the English have King Arthur as leader during ancient despotism or monarchy, William the Conqueror for classical despotism or monarchy, then King Henry for renaissance despotism or monarchy, Elizabeth for renaissance republic or democracy, Cromwell, Churchill, and so forth. Might be a tad bit confusing, but also might make the game more interesting as your opponent changes to meet the needs of an ever changing world (King Arthur was great on the battle fields, but would be lost leading a battalion of tanks or cooperating with a republic, for instance). - Cheating: The computer should not be allowed advantages that are not available to the player. Resource costs should not be reduced for items purchased by the computer civilizations. Also, combat odds should not be weighted in favor of the computer just to make the game harder unless the odds are similarly weighted in favor of the player at easier levels. Still, the Emperor level should be very difficult, maybe even more difficult than it is currently. - Artificial Intelligence: The computer players in the current game are very well done. They each act in a way that fits their 'personality': they form alliances and they conduct trade and war with each other. For Civ. II, we would expect this artificial intelligence to be brought to new levels. Different civilizations could team up on a player (one civilization attacks you east front; once you have moved all your pieces from the west to the eastern battlelines, the other civilization attacks you from the west). To increase the artificial intelligence would require the computer to do more in-depth analysis of potential moves. This would result in more lag time between turns at the higher (King, Emperor) levels, but this would be acceptable, especially since most computers these days are more powerful and faster than before. - Economics: A must! Trade agreements, embargoes, and other bits of economic warfare are badly needed. Split trade into several different resources (for example: energy, minerals, organics, and spices). A more complicated economic system instead of the 'arrows' will make the game more interesting. Different kinds of food should be produced in different cities so trading between cities through the new economic system will be enhanced. - Alliances: When making peace with another nation, there should be ways of increasing the bonds between the civilizations. Allies should be allowed to carry each other's forces, or use railroads passing through each other's territories. PLAYER INTERFACE AND PLAYER FUNCTIONS ------------------------------------- - Multiplayer: Should at least be able to play two player games. Would be nice to be able to play over a network or modem, as well. - Players could initiate technology swaps instead of waiting for the computer player. - Trade agreements: Would increase value of trade with the other civilization. Maybe modify AI so that loss of this trade would have some effect on computer civilization's propensity to conduct sneak attacks. - Deficit Spending: Significantly increases the number of unhappy people in government, and increases likelihood of civil war, revolution, etc. - Subvert government: Similar to Subvert City, but would affect all opposing civilization. - Barbarian Turn Off Option - Goto Command: MUST be made to work better so that a piece takes the optimum route between two points and uses railroads whenever possible. Should be able to set up link so that a city produces armor units and automatically moves them to a port city. You would get a message that the unit had been completed, and the unit would start life with a goto command. Should also be possible to set several points for the unit to pass through, so you can control the path taken somewhat, so that if the optimum route is through enemy territory you can give an alternate route. - Meta-Commands: Let player give a general command to a unit, such as "Repair pollution anywhere in this area," or "Build a railroad from here to here." Some government types (Federalism, Feudalism, Cyberocracy) would allow player to give limited instructions, such as "Maximize production of ____," or "Defend these cities against ____." This would be invaluable in a Space version of the game, as the player could land colonists on a planet, help them get started with a few cities, and then appoint a governor to "settle the planet" and forget having to micromanage the planet. - When choosing next unit for the player to move, should do it in a more organized method, such as choosing the closest piece to the current one. Also, should have option to *not* jump to the next piece. UNITS ----- - Engineers: Engineers can make roads, bridges, fortifications, mines, fences, border stations, and irrigation, perform sabotage on enemy cites like diplomats, but can't build cities; also might have better combat values or some special combat ability (units stacked with engineers increase attack strength by 50% (?) ); cost for engineers would be the same as for settlers. - Explorers/Scouts: Explorers could move at 3, have an attack strength of 0, defense of 1, and could "Meet with King" like diplomats; cost for explorers would be the same as for phalanx. - Spies: Can steal production units, food, or trade from cities. Also, spy actions could be more interactive, so that you have some power over what gets destroyed in a city (along with a higher probability that the spy will be caught in the act and executed, of course) - Fishing Fleet: Can harvest food production from squares outside the city periphery. Gets one food per turn on ocean squares, two on fish resource squares, and can hold upto 10 food. These can be "programmed" to travel between a particular city and a particular fishing site, so user can ignore the piece after getting it started. - Oil Rig: Can drill for oil in offshore areas. - Refugees: A new type of unit (mv:1, att:0, def:0). Does not need to be supported. It is created when a city is attacked or taken over by an enemy. Also can be voluntarily created by player so cities can be moved if they are in danger or are in a bad position on the map board. To create one refugee unit requires 2 population points. Refugees have only one ability: they can build a Village (see below) or can increase an existing city by one population point. Refugees will be disbanded after a few (5-10) turns if they are not put to use. When a city goes into disorder and stays in disorder for several turns, then there is a chance that people will desert it. A random number, say 5-25% of the population, become refugees. The refugee unit(s) thus produced will be unaligned with any civilization (like the barbarians), and will travel to a nearby city that is better in some way to the one they just left (happier people, larger population, more excess food, more city improvements, or whatever), even across oceans (with the help of 'barbarian' ships). - Chariots and Cavalry should have reduced strength when attacking fortified positions. - Militia and other primitive units should change their appearance to something different as the technology levels increase. For example, militia should start as half-clad warriors with sticks, change to indians with bows, then to Viet Cong with rifles. - Chariots and Armor should not be allowed into forests, mountains, or swamps, or at least should have the movement cost doubled. - Forward Observer: Move at high rate (like 5), have attack value of 0 (1 for veteran), defense value of 1 (2 for veteran). Can be used to call in attacks from artillery, or increase the success of the attack. - Headquarters: Provide an alternate base for units to be based out of? If HQ is destroyed, units assigned to it will have reduced combat values or will Disband. - Satellites: Shows exact information about enemy units and cities. Also, provides more entertainment to people. Increases trade and gives information. [Should this be a City Improvement?] - Space Shuttle: For carrying satellites and ? - Space Ships: Building the spaceship is tedious. It should only be displayed once per turn. Spaceship component should flash if you already have enough of them. When you have enough of them any cities building them should come up on the screen just like what happens now with Wonders. - Cargo Transports: Can carry troops or other units at increased movement rates over certain terrains. - Helicopters: Transports and attack, low defense factor. - Cargo Airplanes: Can carry/drop other units. - SOSUS: Undersea sonar array for detecting ships and submarines in the oceans. - Radar Station: Used to make an array of radar posts for detection of enemy aircraft. - Hovercraft: Fusion-powered hover-tanks with antimatter cannons. - Phaser Platoons: Phaser armed with rocket packs. - Stealth Bombers, Stealth Fighter, Stealth Ship: Hard to detect, high defense value, very high cost to build. - Paratroopers: Can attack the same turn they are dropped rather than waiting a turn. - Marines/Amphibious: Can attack same round they are set on shore by a ship. - Cruise Missile: Unit fired from another unit (Ship, plane, missile launcher) which could travel a long distance (say 5 squares) and attack a unit or city. Has a high attack strength, can only be hit by a fighter or SDI, is good for only one use (is destroyed whether or not the attack succeeds), and is destroyed at the end of a turn if it hasn't hit a target. Benefit is low cost to produce. - Strategic Nuclear Weapons: Allow complete destruction of anything they hit and cause serious devastation of the surrounding landscape. Primarily used for excessively blood-thirsty players. Computer should be able to handle a "cold war" - Ogre: Artificially intelligent nuclear powered tank capable of sustaining a thermonuclear blast dead on and keep moving. - Berserker: Artificially intelligent space craft capable of destroying all life on an entire planet with little difficulty. Very unpredictable and can learn from its mistakes. - Repair Yards: The idea of repair should be added to the game. Give things the same offense and defense power they have now, with the offense number also representing the number of points of damage the unit does. The defense number could also represent the number of points of damage a piece of equipment could take. Thusly, tanks can still kill tanks in one shot, but a lucky shot by a phalanx would no longer terminate your battleship. With this repair idea, allow there to be a new building called a repair yard that could be built in a city. Units could be brought to this city and 'fixed'. Also, you should be able to take certain units, such as militia/musketeers /settlers, bring them back to a city, and spend 'x' resources on them to upgrade them to the next class, rather than disband and start from scratch. (Planes and such would obviously have to be totally rebuilt, as most of this expense is equipment). There should be training for non-veteran units, and more unit attributes than just veteran or non-veteran. And when automobile is developed, movement rates for older pieces should be increased. - Reserve: In a republic or democracy, units can be placed in reserve. The units stop requiring support, but cannot move, attack, or even defend. To bring a reserve unit to active status requires extra support and a few turns to prepare. (Might want to make it possible to use reserve units to quell unrest in a city - it worked in L.A.!) - Forced Work: The ability to make a settler construct something in a single turn is useful sometimes. Maybe this could be done as 'forced work' where the unit can continue building or moving, but suffer some penalty, such as reduced attack/defense strengths, take damage, lose next (or some future) turn, cause unhappiness in home city, require double resources, or have a chance that the unit will be disbanded. - Unit Design: Can design a unit based from sets of abilities. Able to set the attack/defense/movement points, as well as special abilities; also can draw own icons. This could be set up as part of an external game editor, as an integral part of the game that can be used during play, or both. If it is made part of the game, then certain restrictions must be made: cannot make pieces that are better than the units currently available, can only design units after a certain technology(s) (Repair Yard?) has been achieved. New advances could be created to allow additional abilities to be used with designed units. Anyhow, the computer uses these specifications to figure out the cost of the unit. - Patrol: Either a function for certain units, or a quality of a separate piece unto itself. Would allow borders to be better defended by building border stations that would send out a unit to meet an enemy automatically. A piece stationed only a couple spaces from the home city should not cause unhappiness in the city. - Border Patrol Stations: Build a station that keeps sentry over about 4 squares and sends out an attack unit if it sees a hostile unit, thus allowing concrete borders. - Improved capabilities: At higher levels, should be able to build more efficient mining, farming, etc. - Air-to-air refueling. - Airports: Non-city place for planes to land. Built by engineers. - Supply Lines: A piece that is surrounded by other units with no way to trace a route back to a friendly city could be made to disband after a few turns. CITY IMPROVEMENTS ----------------- - Walls: Like barracks they should require occasional updating. Also, it should be more difficult to attack walled cities without some sort of combined arms style attack. - Bookstore: Increases happiness in city. - Stadium: Like Colosseum. - Hospital: Needed to increase city size above 20. - Research Center: Available at high tech level. Acts like university. - TV Station: Increases happiness in city. - Radar Station: Increases intelligence. Can see all units within X squares of the Station. - De-salination Plant: Requires refining and electricity, adds one more food production on each ocean square. - Space Lab: Increases light bulbs. - Fusion Reactors: - Satellite: [See above in Units] - Hydroponics Lab: City always produces enough food to sustain the population. - Switching Production: There should be a penalty-factor (5-10% ?) each time you switch from one production to another one halfway. This is to discourage the "caravan-build-wonder-then-change-to-city-wall" type of abuse. Also, should be able to purchase part of a unit's or an improvement's development (like increasing barracks from 10% done to 50% done). - Prospecting: Allows for creation of new resource squares. The obvious oilfields, gold mines, and coal sources get used up earlier in the game; by prospecting new places for resources could be found. - Automated City Functions: Selling the barracks just before they become obsolete is tedious. They should automatically be sold; Similarly for the factory when you build manufacturing plant; if you hit F5 and click on Universities you should go to a city that has one instead of being forced to look at every city to find it. Finding the city where the earthquake just destroyed the cathedral is tedious. Disasters should bring up the city screen. - Railroads: It looks really ugly to have the web of black lines when a bunch of railroads have been created. How about separating the movement effect from the economic effect of railroads. Then rail lines would be made only for movement and something else could be done to improve production of a square. Also, railroads should require a cost per turn per rail for maintenance. It might be a good idea to limit the number of moves a unit can make on a railroad, perhaps 20. It should be possible to move a huge distance, but not an infinite distance. - Freeways: Faster than roads. - Canals: Built by settlers (or engineers). Could be used like rivers, but would also allow sea units to move through land. - Tunnels: Underwater tunnels to connect nearby land masses. Like the Chunnel Tunnel. - Bridges: Can be built across short straits (one or two squares) of ocean or lake. - National Treasury: Must be built in capital. Prevents units from being disbanded because of lack of support in home city. Units that cannot be supported by one unit are automatically reassigned to a different city. Only if no other cities can support them are they disbanded. - Shipping: Ability to automatically send excess goods (food, production) to another city. This would reduce the time spent moving caravans from one city to another. Perhaps this could be available after a suitable advance, or maybe it is only possible after a caravan has linked the two cities with a trade route. A city receiving food or production in this way would have to spend, say, one coin per good (or maybe more, depending on the distance between the two cities). - Suburbs: In addition to mines and farms, suburbs would increase happiness, research, or trade directly. Other types of improvements should be possible, as well, such as vineyards, orchards, commercial zones, etc. ADVANCES -------- - Shamanism: Needed for Mysticism. - Crafting (Pottery & Bronze): Needed for Music, Construction ... - Weaving (Crafting & Construction): Increases Move of sail units. - Music (Crafting & Alphabet): Help makes people happy (?) - Drama & Poetry (Music & Writing): Needed for Mysticism - Monotheism (Religion & Feudalism): Allows Cathedrals and Theocracy. - Manufacturing (Physics & Engineering): Needed for Industrialization. - Architecture (Masonry & Crafting): Needed for ??? - Microtech (Robotics & The Corporation): - Satellites (Microtech & Rocketry): Shift 5-6 cheat. - Stealth Technology (Advanced Flight & Computers): Allows building of stealth units. - Aquaculture: Build roads, railroads, cities in sea areas, and make improvements to sea squares. - Metaphysics (Nuclear Fission & Superconductor): Needed for Research Center and Grand Unified Theory WoW. - Cybertechnology (Genetic Engineering & Microtech): ??? - Nanotechnology (Metaphysics & Microtech): Solar Power Satellites - Artificial Intelligence - Gravity Manipulation (Grand Unified Theory WoW, Metaphysics, Nanotechnology): Anti Gravity, Black Hole WoW - Weather Control: - Hyperspace (Gravity Manipulation & Advanced Space Flight): Spaceships - FTL Communication (Hyperspace & Advanced Communication): - Advanced Hyperspace (FTL Communication & ???): - Solar Power Satellites: - Calendar: Requires Astronomy. Increases the yield of food once developed. - Paper: Requires Writing. Allows construction of library. - Printing: Requires Invention and Paper. Allows building of Bookstore. Increases effect of library. - Telegraph: Increases speed of communication. - Modern Communication System: Requires Printing and Electronics. Allows building of TV Station and Radar Station. - Photonics - Lasers: Star Wars Defense, Faster Communication (+Science), requires computers and nuclear power. - Advanced Lasers: Metaphysics and lasers. Allows laser weapons. - Antimatter: shock troops with energy weapons? Provides a good power source for high tech things. - Terraforming: Higher tech levels should allow the ability to knock down mountains, reclaim land from sea, change the course of mighty rivers, and make deserts bloom. - Biology: Allows biological weapons, better farming techniques, etc. - Theocracy: No corruption, low science development, but prices for temples, cathedrals, and religious WoWs are lower. - Charismatic Dictatorship: ala Saddam Hussein, Hitler, et al. Units do not require support. Trade is the same as in monarchy. Units can quell unhappy people, but there are more unhappy people than usual. (This is an improved Despotic Government.) Maybe Despotism becomes this after development of invention? - Constitutional Monarchy: Grasslands, Rivers, and Hills are as productive as they are under a Monarchy. Also, an additional trade unit is generated wherever at least one trade unit already exists. Military units each require one resource for industrial support. Settlers require two food. Corruption is higher than under a Monarchy or Republic. Military units cannot be used to quell dissent in cities. In addition, the Parliament of your government accepts any peace offer made by another civilization. - Feudalism: Turns over control of several cities to a local lord. Allows monarchy-style government, but over a larger number of cities. Also, decreases corruption in cities far away from the capitol. Further, it makes the computer take control of those cities and units associated with those cities, thus freeing up the player to concentrate in other areas. The player issues a list of general orders for the lord to carry out. Drawbacks would be increased likelihood of civil war in some circumstances, need for a palace in another city, need for giving gifts to local lord. Governors have different capabilities and personalities, so one might be very militaristic, and another more willing to negotiate; one might be very efficient and able to govern his cities better than the player himself, while another is less efficient, with production and trade going to less useful things and increased corruption. Under Feudalism, removing governors would be difficult and would probably result in civil war. Portion of trade converted to production (because you don't have the power to tax one city heavily to pay for construction elsewhere. Not possible to change the home city of a unit. If a governor is likely to rebel, the player would get a message such as: Sir, our sources indicate that Duke Charles of Normandy is gathering military strength. We believe he may intend to rebel! - Federalism: Similar to feudalism, but operates more like republic. Less variation in governor personalities and capabilities, and is easier to remove governors from office. Trade not converted to production, so taxation is easier, but still is not possible to change the home city of a unit. - Cyberocracy: Fully computerized government. Allows all benefits of democracy, but also allows computer assisted government like feudalism and federalism. Since no governors, government always works as the most efficient and capable governor. Certain improvements (Courthouse, for example) have reduced maintenance costs. Computer takes over a major portion of the control of player's civilization. Drawback is that all military units have a monetary maintenance cost. - Alteration of Building Times: Gaining tech should allow one to complete tasks faster; a civilization with automobile in 1000BC shouldn't need 80 years to build a road (4 turns with no cheats). The turn length shouldn't depend solely on the year, it should be tied into the most advanced tech level, and the "number of turns" it takes to do something should be delegated into actual number of years/months or whatever and tied to tech levels. So a civilization with automobile and fusion could, say, reforest in twenty years, while it would take a civilization with math and perhaps metallurgy 80-100 years, instead of 10 turns. (Also, there could be further advances introduced at this point, regarding biology and other areas, which would allow for more rapid development of land, and would decrease the amount of time needed. - Alteration of Learning Times: The more contact you have with a civilization, the easier it should be to gain the technology that they have. When a civilization begins researching a new advance, you would get a percentage of the advance up front, depending on if it were already known. The rule would be something like: 10% for each ally with the technology, 5% for each trading partner with the technology, 2% for each civilization with the technology that your civilization is at peace with, and 1% for each civilization with the advance that you are not at war with. (The percentages are not cumulative, of course.) Also, different types of governments should modify this bonus. Civilizations could voluntarily restrict allowing other civilizations from getting this benefit from their own technology by turning off a switch. Also, it should be possible to steal another civilization's technology without causing war (see Spy unit above). WONDERS OF THE WORLD -------------------- Ancient ------- Colossus Pyramids Hanging Gardens Lighthouse Oracle Stonehenge: (Calendar) Helps crops, so increases food production in city. Expires with development of Astronomy. DuJinagYan: A massive irrigation project that increases food production on all irrigated squares by one. Is made obsolete by the Republic. Classical --------- Great Library Great Wall Archimedes' Engineering: (Alphabet) Gives two additional advances Plato's Republic Aristotle's Science: (Writing) Increases scientific production. Voided upon development of University. Holy Text Sun Tzu's The Art of War Renaissance ----------- Copernicus's Observatory Shakespear's Theater Isaac Newton's College J.S. Bach's Cathedral Magellan's Expedition Michelangelo's Chapel Constitution Industrial ---------- Darwin's Voyage Hoover Dam Woman's Suffrage United Nations Statue of Liberty: Would attract refugees from dissatisfied cities Nobel Society: Requires explosives (or university?) Olympics Electronic ---------- Hollywood: Increases happiness throughout civilization, and attracts refugees. Manhattan Project Apollo Program Human Genome Project Atlantis: First underwater city Mars Expedition }- This accounts for space station, moon base, space shuttle, etc. Grand Unified Theory Interstellar ------------- Voyage to Alpha-Centauri Interplanetary Council: Peace with aliens. Black Hole Experiment Terraform Protoproject: One planet is fully transformed to an Earth- like environment. The Pan-Society Paper: Expresses philosophic ideals in universal symbolic logic CAN I HELP? ----------- Of course! Most of this FAQ was compiled from other people's ideas. As the compiler of this list I made many decisions about areas other people failed to address, and I fleshed out many other people's ideas, but I've tried to avoid dictating what goes in and what goes oout. I want to get as much input and feedback as possible from as many people as possible. I have plenty of ideas already, now what I need now is criticism. Tear it apart. Tell me why a certain approach won't work, or that a certain idea is silly or stupid. Tell me to forget about doing certain things because they are too hard to program or that they would change the nature of the game too much. Also, I want to see arguments on some of the more controversial ideas. The more discussion I see about a certain thing, the better I'll be able to decide whether or not to include it. Finally, if you really like an idea or two, say so! Many people liked the idea of aquatic cities, so I'll make sure it stays in. Some people dislike the idea of having colonies on multiple planets, while others love it, so maybe Space Civilization could be a supplement put out later, after the initial release. And if you have new ideas, then post them. More than anything else, this is a brainstorming session. I am not designing Civ II, I am just putting together a database of ideas that someone can draw from to make a sequel. The more ideas we have, the better! CONTRIBUTORS ------------ Thanks to everyone who shared ideas. I wanted to credit everyone who made contributions, but the list was just too big. In particular, Thank you to Shadow for his excellent and detailed submissions, Dave [Rubicon] for the FAQ, and Bob 'o Bob, Paul Brinkley, and Toshi Tsuboi for their many posts.