Rise and Collapse - Would this work in a game?
Mar 11, 2017 19:15:53 GMT
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Post by mitobox on Mar 11, 2017 19:15:53 GMT
When it comes to 4X games that encompass centuries of development, you start out small with one settlement, and that settlement (often treated as your capital) stays with you for the length of your playthrough.
When you look at history, things aren't so pretty. The fact that entire ancient cities have to be excavated shows this. Why weren't there people already there sweeping out the sand?
Things get really ugly when you look at wide-scale destabilization. Case in point, the Late Bronze Age Collapse, where the seemingly immortal empires along the East Mediterranean became nothing but scorched ruins.
Here's the question, though; does this sort of turbulence belong in Thrive? Sure, mass extinctions are necessary to drive change in the Multicellular and Aware Stages, but it's not so fun when you're trying to prevent an empire from collapsing when it's in its nature to do so.
Basically, what I'm getting at is this: What is our "game over" condition for the Society Stage?
When you look at history, things aren't so pretty. The fact that entire ancient cities have to be excavated shows this. Why weren't there people already there sweeping out the sand?
Things get really ugly when you look at wide-scale destabilization. Case in point, the Late Bronze Age Collapse, where the seemingly immortal empires along the East Mediterranean became nothing but scorched ruins.
Here's the question, though; does this sort of turbulence belong in Thrive? Sure, mass extinctions are necessary to drive change in the Multicellular and Aware Stages, but it's not so fun when you're trying to prevent an empire from collapsing when it's in its nature to do so.
Basically, what I'm getting at is this: What is our "game over" condition for the Society Stage?
) when a civil war broke up, you got to choose a side. Something like that could be made in thrive to make the player switch the capital city.
