Turn Excess Capital into Prestige through Culture
Posted: Fri Sep 23, 2011 3:04 am
I have an idea that I hope will improve this game: As a player I've been frustrated that my sucessful economy has been penalized, sometimes I think punitively, by "New Business Emergence", which is the decay factor for Capital. Yet I struggle in sometimes contorted ways to gain the true game currency, which is Prestige Points (PP). Why not make the game true to the history of the time, when capitalists with excess profits on their hands erected cultural monuments to themselves, with the expectation that new theatres, opera houses, hospitals, public parks, churches, orchestras, art museums, libraries, stock exchanges, monuments, cultural societies and the like would add lustre to the nation as well? In other words, don't just throw away those hard-earned pounds, let us create such things for fun, and reward both the players and AI-controlled countries with prestige. I don't really think that it would be very difficult to write the code for this, and it would make the game more rewarding.
