06-08-2002 22:10									#1
	Government Types & Civilizations Tired of ads?

Do each of the civilization prefer to be under a specific governetment? (Example - Russia - Communism) If so does anyone have a list they can provide?

	06-08-2002 22:18									#2
	Support Apolyton, buy Civilization: The Boardgame

Each civ has a "favorite" and a "shunned" government. Look in the editor under the civilizations tab.

This definitely affects their relations with civs that have those governments, but they don't try very hard to be in their favorite government themselves. Russia will always try to be in Democracy during peacetime, for example.

	06-08-2002 22:20									#3
	Suffering from ads?

Each nation does havea 'Preferred' as well as a 'Shunned' government. It has been my experience, however, that these have little effect on what government they choose. Once the tech has been researched, the AI almost always picks a Republic/Democracy in peace and a Monarchy/Communist in war. While this is 'smart' of the AI (we humans do it after all), it leads to each AI Civ becomming a little less unique.

	07-08-2002 14:10									#4
	Increase the size of your Attachments

You mean that they do not use the 'Preferred' goverment type

	07-08-2002 18:58									#5
	Support Apolyton, pre-order Civilization IV

quote: Originally posted by Deathwalker You mean that they do not use the 'Preferred' goverment type

Which makes it a rather useless feature, unfortunately.

	07-08-2002 20:41									#6
	Support Apolyton, buy Civilization 2

quote: Originally posted by Amadan Which makes it a rather useless feature, unfortunately.

but OTOH civs like zulus with favored gov = despotism would never stand a chance of getting powerful past the ancient ages.

	07-08-2002 20:48									#7
	Support Apolyton, buy Civilization: The Boardgame

It's not a useless feature. It affects diplomatic relations, and hence gives each AI a different "personality".

	07-08-2002 21:00									#8
	Support Apolyton, buy Civilization 2

Think of it as the classic parent admonishment "Do as I say not as I do." They'll favor you if you use their favored government, but won't actually practice what they preach.

	07-08-2002 23:28									#9
	Support Apolyton, buy GURPS/ Alpha Centauri

Which is something that I do miss from SMAC (as though that hasn't been said a million times before). Each faction had a specific set of ideals and both followed them and cooperated with others who did so.

	08-08-2002 04:18									#10
	Support Apolyton, pre-order Civilization IV

Not totally useless. Japanese are the only civ I have found so far to prefer Monarchy over Communism during wartime. Even when their empire is particularly large. Quite suicidal if you ask me....

	08-08-2002 05:19									#11
	Support Apolyton, pre-order Civilization IV

I've seen it happen a couple of times as well. Heck, I've rarely seen the AI switch to Communism at all, opting for Monarchy or attempting to duke it out in Republic during wartime. Perhaps the AI calculates the corruption numbers between the Monarchy's high vs Communism's communialand compares the raw numbers.