Olympic Games

I don't know if this would work but what about having fall and summer olympic games. If your having a war it will stop to go to the games. You can also decide how mutch effort and money you put into a sport or all sports in general.

Well, not nessecarily olympics, but some kind of sporting event should exsist. It also would bring great wealth to the nation that hosted the global games.

Well I'm glad you like my idea.

Well if we already have sports as part of the culture then if they become popular enough a sort of Olympic games type deal could arise.

Poisson wrote:

Well if we already have sports as part of the culture then if they become popular enough a sort of Olympic games type deal could arise.

Exactly what I was thinking, also mabye even an olympics minimgame. Of course it would only be entered through organism mode.

Poisson wrote:

Well if we already have sports as part of the culture then if they become popular enough a sort of Olympic games type deal could arise.

I agree. It should only occur on sports-oriented planets.

If you were to negotiate with enough nations, all sorts of things like this will be possible.

Good concept, we may even go as far as your organism playing in them? Maybe??

YourBreakfast wrote:

Good concept, we may even go as far as your organism playing in them? Maybe??

You can always enter ORG mode.

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YourBreakfast wrote:

Good concept, we may even go as far as your organism playing in them? Maybe??

also, what about theater/plays? probably nothing too complex, but it'd be nice to have some sort of theater art...

Slathazer wrote:

also, what about theater/plays? probably nothing too complex, but it'd be nice to have some sort of theater art...

Types of arts will be procedurally generated and will be able to be viewed in the player's Nation Editor. Arts, like sports and religions, will be arbitrary. They will be given random names and traits, among which "Performed" will be present.

US_of_Alaska wrote:

Slathazer wrote:

also, what about theater/plays? probably nothing too complex, but it'd be nice to have some sort of theater art...

Types of arts will be procedurally generated and will be able to be viewed in the player's Nation Editor. Arts, like sports and religions, will be arbitrary. They will be given random names and traits, among which "Performed" will be present.

Perhaps, if this isn't too silly to suggest, we could tag them in the culture editor for where/when they are usually performed? For example, I always pictured my Caelumnen absolutely covering their road with street performances. (Poetry, Theatre, Music, Dance, etc.)

This could also account for differences between castes. Upper classes might be patrons of Epic Poetry, while the lower classes might prefer song.

Tenebrarum wrote:

US_of_Alaska wrote:

Slathazer wrote:

also, what about theater/plays? probably nothing too complex, but it'd be nice to have some sort of theater art...

Types of arts will be procedurally generated and will be able to be viewed in the player's Nation Editor. Arts, like sports and religions, will be arbitrary. They will be given random names and traits, among which "Performed" will be present.

Perhaps, if this isn't too silly to suggest, we could tag them in the culture editor for where/when they are usually performed? For example, I always pictured my Caelumnen absolutely covering their road with street performances. (Poetry, Theatre, Music, Dance, etc.)

This could also account for differences between castes. Upper classes might be patrons of Epic Poetry, while the lower classes might prefer song.

right. there are only a handful of places for performances...

streets
theatre(building)
theatre(outdoors)
rich persons house

and then a caste system...

lower class
middle class
upper class
leader class(usually only one of these)

Slathazer wrote:

right. there are only a handful of places for performances...

streets
theatre(building)
theatre(outdoors)
rich persons house

and then a caste system...

lower class
middle class
upper class
leader class(usually only one of these)

Castes will be selected and edited by the player. You can have as many as you want.

There are miriads of places. The court, the school, hell, even ships have sea-shanties.
Places also includes times. What about festivals? Parades? Holidays? Enaugurations? Coronations? Weddings? Funerals? Religious conformation/baptism/conversions?

Tenebrarum wrote:

Slathazer wrote:

right. there are only a handful of places for performances...

streets
theatre(building)
theatre(outdoors)
rich persons house

and then a caste system...

lower class
middle class
upper class
leader class(usually only one of these)

Castes will be selected and edited by the player. You can have as many as you want.

There are miriads of places. The court, the school, hell, even ships have sea-shanties.
Places also includes times. What about festivals? Parades? Holidays? Enaugurations? Coronations? Weddings? Funerals? Religious conformation/baptism/conversions?

yes, there are many reasons, occasions etc. but can you think of any more PLACES than
streets
theatre(building)
theatre(outdoors)
rich persons house
(and add on space ship)

I agree, there should not be rigidness. but these are just a general classification of places.

Too complex. There will probably only be one set of animations/displays for each type of art (performed, music, 2d), and these will only be seen in Org Mode regardless. If you want to have your arts performed in a certain place, you can use the tag "Entertainment: (name)" in the Tech Editor. Is that exact enough for you?

US_of_Alaska wrote:

Too complex. There will probably only be one set of animations/displays for each type of art (performed, music, 2d), and these will only be seen in Org Mode regardless. If you want to have your arts performed in a certain place, you can use the tag "Entertainment: (name)" in the Tech Editor. Is that exact enough for you?

Thats exactly what I was thinking of.

US_of_Alaska wrote:

Too complex. There will probably only be one set of animations/displays for each type of art (performed, music, 2d), and these will only be seen in Org Mode regardless. If you want to have your arts performed in a certain place, you can use the tag "Entertainment: (name)" in the Tech Editor. Is that exact enough for you?

M'kay. However, if we include any sort of 'Special Events,' we'd need to have the ability to tag certain types of entertainment.

As to animations, I was of the mind that it would vary from form to form. Theatre would play out just like org. to org. interactions. Dances would either be created by the player or procedural. Music would be procedural for vocals, but the player would have to animate any org./insturment interaction.

And why wouldn't we be able to see these in strategy? Wouldn't we be able to zoom in? Strategy has more levels than the over-arching Civ. style we've been discussing.

Tenebrarum wrote:

M'kay. However, if we include any sort of 'Special Events,' we'd need to have the ability to tag certain types of entertainment.

As to animations, I was of the mind that it would vary from form to form. Theatre would play out just like org. to org. interactions. Dances would either be created by the player or procedural. Music would be procedural for vocals, but the player would have to animate any org./insturment interaction.

And why wouldn't we be able to see these in strategy? Wouldn't we be able to zoom in? Strategy has more levels than the over-arching Civ. style we've been discussing.

Special Events? Do you mean like Olympics? Because i believe that is just inviting other nations to participate in one of your sports, isn't it?

The terms you're using are a little narrow. Performed is basically any movement physically done by the organism (this means mime, theatre, dance, opera [although that would also have a music tag]). I think we need to discuss Art Types somewhere else, people.

You can zoom in, yes. But do you really expect the game to be able to run all of these animations at once? In the same way that the people will disappear as you zoom out, so will the animations. And i meant that in Strategy Mode you would see basic animations that encompass everything, we really can't ask more than that of the game or we are just going to melt computers. Also, it may be hard to display things happening inside buildings.

US_of_Alaska wrote:

Special Events? Do you mean like Olympics? Because i believe that is just inviting other nations to participate in one of your sports, isn't it?

I mean holidays, festivals, celebrations, feast, so on and so on.

US_of_Alaska wrote:

The terms you're using are a little narrow. Performed is basically any movement physically done by the organism (this means mime, theatre, dance, opera [although that would also have a music tag]). I think we need to discuss Art Types somewhere else, people.

I know, I haven't said EVERYTHING yet.

US_of_Alaska wrote:

You can zoom in, yes. But do you really expect the game to be able to run all of these animations at once? In the same way that the people will disappear as you zoom out, so will the animations. And i meant that in Strategy Mode you would see basic animations that encompass everything, we really can't ask more than that of the game or we are just going to melt computers. Also, it may be hard to display things happening inside buildings.

Okay, that's what I thought. It's just, the way you said that made it sound as though strategy mode wouldn't include these at all.

Tenebrarum wrote:

I mean holidays, festivals, celebrations, feast, so on and so on.

They wouldn't be under Arts or Sports. I don't really know what they would be under, but most of them come off religion, yes? Theses would just be represented by -production bonuses that religions give.

Tenebrarum wrote:

I know, I haven't said EVERYTHING yet.

I knew that. I was criticizing your choice of theatre and dances as a game term.

Tenebrarum wrote:

Okay, that's what I thought. It's just, the way you said that made it sound as though strategy mode wouldn't include these at all.

Yeah, sorry. Sometimes i get it in my head that people know what i know.

US_of_Alaska wrote:

Tenebrarum wrote:

I mean holidays, festivals, celebrations, feast, so on and so on.

They wouldn't be under Arts or Sports. I don't really know what they would be under, but most of them come off religion, yes? Theses would just be represented by -production bonuses that religions give.

I'd imagine most would be cultural. Xmas for example is supposedly a christian holiday, but nearly everyone celebrates it. The ability to create and edit them would give a great sense of life to the cultures people create.

Tenebrarum wrote:

US_of_Alaska wrote:

Tenebrarum wrote:

I mean holidays, festivals, celebrations, feast, so on and so on.

They wouldn't be under Arts or Sports. I don't really know what they would be under, but most of them come off religion, yes? Theses would just be represented by -production bonuses that religions give.

I'd imagine most would be cultural. Xmas for example is supposedly a christian holiday, but nearly everyone celebrates it. The ability to create and edit them would give a great sense of life to the cultures people create.

That might be true, but is simply too in-depth for most players. I imagine that there would be very few people interested in doing this all the time. Leave it to a mod, Rex. Someone will surely make one to edit religions, sports and arts. Holidays and festivals are the next logical progression of that.

If we do an olymics-esque game, how would the host country be determined? By the most economically powerful nation? Anybody have anyother ideas? Thats the only one I can think of at the moment.

sumwun18 wrote:

If we do an olymics-esque game, how would the host country be determined? By the most economically powerful nation? Anybody have anyother ideas? Thats the only one I can think of at the moment.

Randomly.
Boom, arbitrary mechanics.