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strategy game based on hex map and discoveries

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The basic gameplay loop is too poor, it does not let sufficient agency to the player to express his choices. The initial goal for the 'discovery' part was to draw...

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A big part of the growth of "civilization" was the increase of specialists (soldiers, merchants, priests, scribes, etc.) permitted by the increased food input and storage centralization. The game could...

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The 'empire' menu only applies to the player own, it should be possible to select another tribe/village/city and see their internal information. It should be reset to player empire when...

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You can setup protectorates and declare war but the impact is not explained on screen: - in the actions (for instance to declare war), also explain the gameplay impact -...

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Following reading of _Guns, Germs and Steel_ by Jared Diamonds, it would be interesting to discover the wild varieties for modern corn, wheat, etc. They would be pre-requisite for their...

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Civ5 is also working this way, as well as MoO2. It only avoids a click per turn but the game seems much more dynamic at the same time : you...

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The game is about discovery. Discovering technological/social/scientific/practical things. It should also be about discovering the map. The fog of war should hide territories outside - player empire - its neighbors...

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In game current state nothing (except for influence spread) happens on most of the turns. In a turn-based game it is boring not to have actions to make at every...

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Let say each tile produces some quantity of goods: FOOD (oat, wheat, beef, etc.), MATERIAL (stone, iron, wood, flax, etc.), LUXURY (gold, silver, wine, etc.) depending on its type. The...

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