GalCiv & Reality

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I am completely impressed how GalCiv manages to capture the very real aspects of "global" development and warfare. As someone involved in the field of global development I must say that the interaction between war, trade, and the development of a single society is captured more perfectly than any one game can do.

For example, if my "super power" human government goes to war with a relatively weak Drengin government, it still has a massive impact on my social development. It probably took me 40 turns to recover economically, socially, and in R&D after making war on 3 Drengin planets (and I had something like 12 or 15 moderately well developed planets of my own). In addition, it negatively impacted my relations with another civ. That's the way it works in the real world boys and girls. Kudos to Stardock. :D
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Reply #1 from Stardock Forums Top
Thanks. Many of us on the GalCiv team are quite into military history and political history.

Sometime I'll put together a list of books we used to research ways of having the various aspects of the game meld together.

All of the basic foreign policies of the game take into account Jacksonian, Wilsonian, Jeffersonian, and Hamiltonian philosophies. I.e. they role a random 0..3 and then based on what they pick it helps determine what path they take in dealing with other civilizations. Lots of very subtle stuff in there to try to make the game feel like you're dealing with not just other human players playing a game but a bit of realpolitik.

~SDC~
Reply #2 from Stardock Forums Top
"Guy Arcuri", very interesting post, thanks for sharing it!. Most of us overlook these aspects of the game, and the response by Brad proves how much effort is put into this game. :)
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Reply #3 from Stardock Forums Top
Yes, I've noticed the interplay and appreciate it very much. And once we close various loopholes in the game, I think people will begin to see even more the vision that was brought to the game.
Reply #4 from Stardock Forums Top
Hey Guy thanks for the post. It's fun to get Frogboy talking about the game. I had no idea that much thought was put into AI foreign policy behavior. I'm sure there's a lot more going on behind the scenes than we realize.

~SDC~
Reply #5 from Stardock Forums Top
Hey Frogboy, did you only implement American policies? I noticed a little reference to Ancient Greek in the Democracy Tech text...

~SDC~