Originally
posted by
TAN:
By update, I mean new bonuses and stuff. The game needs rejuvenation, we need more diversity in strats and how to play the game in order to fight off stagnation and keep the current player base interested. How about on top of governments, you can pick state religions and ideologies?
Examples:
IDEOLOGIES
Capitalist - +5% PCI, -1% market commission, -5% food production
Marxist - +5% industrial production, +5% population, +10% chance for disasters
Nationalist - +10% defensive spy bonus, +20 max turn storage, -5% military tech
Pacifist - +5% SDI tech, +5% military tech, -10% weapon tech
Militaristic...etc
RELIGIONS
Judaism - +10% business tech, -5% population
Islam - +5% population, +5% for population booms, effects of getting spy oped double
Christian-Catholic - Ideology bonuses and penalties doubled
Christian-Protestant - Can "declare peace" immediately, 1 second cooldown between attacks
Buddhist...etc
It is a great idea and one that I really loved. However, as Juice already mentioned and/or hinted at. This has already been done and proved not to be what was needed. Imho, that version of e2025 evolved more into its own game, and although similar enough for most old earthers to recognize, yet different enough that it was no longer the same game. Also, at least again imho, the attitude of the server(s) was more palatable for noob players.
Anyway, it has been done and although it may have helped attract some new players, it proved to be in the end not sustainable and as such, not the answer. I think the game needs at least some graphics to appeal to new players, even if they are just basic static graphics and/or background images. It also could use some kinda noob how to play UI, which guides them through the game the first set. A decent enough of a helper UI that would involve quite a bit of time setting up and coding. But sadly even if both of those are implemented, I fear the attitude in most servers here would still run most the new players out, so unless the attitude changed around here, I am unsure how effective anything new would be. At least the attitude here is not as bad as say mars, but still think it needs to be improved in order to keep players around long enough to give the game a decent try while trying to learn it.