Olothontor
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14 years ago - Fortresses and Civilization centers: Races distributed amongst the two randomly after they are placed during map generation (majority should be found in civ centers and not forts). Fortresses should give bonuses to either Attack, Defense, or both.
- Historical Figures and Legend: Generator picks one or two people from each race and gives them a few points of "legend". They gain legend for participating in battles and surviving, and for becoming important political or social leaders or whatnot. After a certain amount of Legend points are acquired, that person becomes able to lead armies into battle and other such stuff. Basically becomes a major force within the history generator; anything he does should affect a lot of events and set off these epic wars or times of peace or whatever (poorly phrased explanation, go).
- More Terrain Features: Each terrain feature could give bonuses or penalties to certain races, making combat more dynamic (thus meaning that each race should have its own favored terrain). To be worked out later if approved by h0rs3r4dish.
- Governments and Political Systems: If done simply, these should be assigned to each civilization and should occasionally be overthrown by angry mobs. The overthrowing of governments should contribute to the Legend points of historical figures. Alternatively, each civ will have a "happiness rating" which be affected by laws passed by these governments. If the rating reaches a point too low, rebellion will begin, thus sparking a small civil war within that civilization. Upon the institution of a new government, that civilization's welfare rating should skyrocket for a while, despite other factors.
- Commerce: Civilizations and even cities and towns within them should be able to trade capitol or goods (or both :P), and the amount of capitol or goods within the civilization should contribute to that civ's "welfare rating", which determines the overall standard of living. Standard of living should then affect the happiness rating of the people in that civilization; again, if this drops too low, rebellions start happening.
- Population: The second factor that contributes to a civilization's welfare rating. The welfare rating gradually decreases as the population increases. Should there be a drop in population for whatever reason, then the population penalty on the rating will decrease to fit whatever the population level is now.
- Weather: Weather patterns should affect civilizations. Heavy rains should increase the amount of goods that a city/town/civilization produces, lack of rain for an extended period of time should cause the welfare rating to drop, and cause penalties to goods production. Also, weather patterns should affect the death rate temporarily; heavy snowstorms, blizzards, lightning storms, baseball-sized hail, and others should all increase the mortality rate of any town or city caught within it.
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