A Brief Summary of Issues with the Current NE

Alright, I think I've figured out how to do this, but it will require a fundimental rethinking of certain parts of the NE. If this is unacceptably complex, too difficult to add at this stage, or merely unneccicary, feel free to say so.

Basically, I have an idea for a culture editor.

The simplest way to understand a culture is to look at an induvidual going through their lives in it. As such, most of the culture editor consists of timelines and calenders.

The timelines detail how an organisms grows. The player adds and subtracts events that mark the life of the being. These events include coming-of-age ceremonies, education, when jobs are taken, marriage/unions, that sort of thing.

Ex.: Birth: Parental Juristiction.
Parental Care: Begins at 2 years, ends at event:[Public Education], End Result: Basic AI improved X%, Worker + Gatherer Specialist options unlocked.
Public Education: Begins at 4 years, Ends at 12 years, End Result: Basic AI improved X%, Literate, Military + Entertainer Specialist options unlocked.
CHOICE
Option 1: Higher Education: Begins at 12 years, Ends at 20 years, End Result: May Become Govener Candidate, Research Specialist option unlocked, Leave Parental Juritiction.
Option 2: Leave parental juristiction: Begins at CHOICE, Ends at Death, End Result: May become Specialist

This list goes on untill death. All things you can add to this list are saved under particular tabs and can be edited depending on what they are, and what catagories they fall under. For example, education could be edited to have multiple levels, as shown above, so that in the case of interuptions of the education, the org. can specialize right away. Education could also be edited to involve, say political propaganda, be class-based or one-to-one, government funded or private tuition. This list goes on.

Now, let's look at each induvidual part, shall we?

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Birth: Parental Juristiction.

Obviously 'Born' is a term that would have to be changed depending on the organism's reproductive system. However, when an egg, it still can be used in this system. The Juristiction part determines who will be caring for the child, whether it's communal, institutionalized, parental, etc.

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Parental Care: Begins at 2 years, ends at event:[Public Education], End Result: Basic AI improved X%, Worker + Gatherer Specialist options unlocked.

All events on the timeline with the exception of 'birth' and death, require a Begining trigger, an ending trigger, and a end result. Events will have defult end results, and these can only be edited within a certain degree. For example, Parental Care can only improve basic AI by a fixed amount, and this effect cannot be removed, but you can add the worker + gatherer specialist unlocks as they do not require much education. Adding these however will cause the education to require more time, so as to have the time to learn these extra skills.

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Public Education: Begins at 4 years, Ends at 12 years, End Result: Basic AI improved X%, Literate, Military + Entertainer Specialist options unlocked.

The most important part here is the effect of the org. becoming literate. All orgs. are classified as either literate or illiterate. Literate orgs. give minuet bonuses to research output, and happiness. They also have the ability to learn on their own certain skills not specifically taught to them in their lives. They also receive an AI bonus. All of this is tied to the amount of writting in your nation. Lots of books, signs, pretty much any writting on a TO, will add to these bonuses. Having very few means that you will see the opposite affects occur in a literate organism.

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CHOICE
Option 1: Higher Education: Begins at CHOICE, Ends at 20 years, End Result: May Become Govener Candidate, Research Specialist option unlocked, Leave Parental Juristiction.
Option 2: Leave parental juristiction: Begins at CHOICE, Ends at Death, End Result: May become Specialist

Occasionally, the player may add 'choices' these are randomlay selected based on cultural history (Less likely to take an option not present in the past. This disapates over time.) and whether or not the government is encouraging a particular choice. Leaving juristiction can either be an end result, or an event.

Castes unlocks the ability to make multiple timelines such as these. Aristocracy allows the player to select one cast and define it as 'superior' to another, using a basic pyramid.

In addition, you are able to select an over-arching cultural theme. These themes function as basic virtues that promote different ideologies, and have different positive and negative effects. These are chosen early on either by player-actions or selection in the editor. They cannot be changed without a relvolution. Examples include Honor (Sparta, Feudal Japan?), Love (Medieval Europe), Wisdom (Athens, Most Mayan cities), Liberty (America, Post-Cromwell England), etc. Effects will include bonuses and penalties for all SCs, units, and nation-to-nation interactions, as well as speeding up certain researches.

WOW... That's alot. I'm sorry I'm so vague. Discuss?

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