To adress your questions:

1) about the planet settings, I meant add it as an in game feature, rather than having to mod the thing myself.

2) I'm not sure... Comunism, environmentalism, maybe a colective?

3) what I mean is the "styles" of ships, in the dark avatar expansion, there is an "Create ship style" button but it has never worked for me.

Any other ideas?

1 = Ah I see what you mean. Less cumbersome that way.

2 = Commune is a good idea but should probably be restricted to certain races like the Torians or Drengin (highly patrotic and loyal races).

3 = Ah so you mean a TYPE of vessels ie Terran Alliance style etc? kewl. How would they make it "easier" tho?







Not necessarily. Communism failed because of Mankinds inherent greed.

If a Commune could be established by patriotic and honest people then concievably its probably the fairest form of government there is.

Remember the "communist" states in real life werent really Communisms but more Party Dictatorships.

1. Yeah I agree, noun verb thing would be a nice addition and one I surprised they have not done already doesnt seem to be a tricky issue or anything.

2. I totally agree. I have mentioned it before. Not only would new goverments like communism be neat but how a bout changing the tech tree. I hate that I have to go from empire to republic to federation. I mean really if I am evil do I really want to be a Evil federation? I say keep the governments and add some new ones and have each government have its own tech tree for example:

Empire (aliment evil)
Warlords ---> Cheifton ---> dictator ---> Lordship ----> Empireor ---> Supreme Imperator

It would be more or less the same perks of advancement that the current government tech tree has right now but it would be more national personality specific and considering TA is all about making the tech tree more species specific why not. I again really Dregin Star Federation??? I dont think so.

Also I think it would be neat to see the diplomatic issues that could arise yeah right now evil and good dont get along but imagine Capitalist/industrialist and Communists staring each other down.

4. Please have a off line ship editor, I dont know if that is what you meant but I would just like to be able to create ships outside the game cause it takes forever to sometimes build the huge super capital ships I want to mess around with, especially if its for a custom race I want to play against not with.

Well yeah the words are the same more or less in meaning there just place holders for advancement through a specific form of government.

So Imperial government
Pros: military production bonus
Cons: larger upkeep on colonies

Each section betters the pros and cons

Warlord Empire
---Basic Empire

Cheifton Empire
---Increased central control (increases Military production like 5%)

Dictator Empire
---Increased politcal control (Papraganda centers and increased happyness)

Imperator Empire
--- Increased influence, stong military tradition 10& soldiering)

Grand Empire
--- Increase happyness, influence

So their the same but its the organization that improves so that the evil empire does not have to become a evil star federation to get some government bonuses. I figure they could be different for each type of government.

Empire
Republic
Federation
Communist state
Kingdom
Mercantile state (trade federation or corporate state)

why?


why couldn't this be reversed?


why couldn't they both be good, evil, or neutral

I'd like to jump in and add to Orca777's list of wishes for custom races of the future by adding the following:

*) The ability for your custom race(s) to select 'natural dislike' for some other race, whether custom or non-custom...like the Torians & Drengins claim to have. I know you can kinda manipulate that with "Pacifist...Aggressive" settings but I'd like to be able to make, say, two neutrals have a deep-seated mistrust of one another - so deep they would never in a million years form an alliance.

Did that make any sense?

What do you mean?

In the Gal Civ universe all civilizations have an alignment from Pure Evil (1) to Neutral (50) to Pure Good (99); the Drengins are Pure Evil (1). Thats canon.

My examples were mere suggestions of the type of "civics" or social engineering that the AI Drengin (and Terrans) would prefer - the Player would be free to choose any combination i suppose.

I've asked before if there can be different government types. I've even tried to mod them but turns out the governments are hard coded. Imperial, Republic, Democracy, and Federation are all well and good. I think we just need more. Perhaps they should be race specific as well.

For instance, Terrans can have their form of democracy/communism or whatever while the Krynn have a religious type government line of techs.

Political parties could use some more variance as well, but it would be great for more government types.

Mmm... someone mentioned SMAC... i wish it's UN and Social engineering were in GC2...
Sorry Off-topic

May i?
I took the liberty to insert 10 of those in X-Worlds. Lemme tell you, they aren't anywhere near what the defaults use. If the Universalists can use FOUR different abilities, so could mines. And beyond!

- Zyxpsilon.