With a sudden inspiration, I think the game needs to add leadership characters such as the town mayor, military commander, and scientist. They have personalized game bonuses, as well as lifespan and growth potential, and exclusive models. For example, different town mayors have different talents, such as agriculture, commerce, or public security, and can have different office buildings. Scientists can be placed in colleges to accelerate research, especially with their exclusive research talents. There are also different military commanders with different skills, and when generals fight, they charge into battle. There are many things that can be designed for the leader or hero character system, and that’s all I can say at the moment. I’m really looking forward to it.
I like the idea in concept, but how do you envision it working?
Keep in mind that we already have the guild hall to affect different production aspects.
We have the monuments that enhance either economics, culture or military. Similar in effect to what you described as mayors.
I also think the town center could act as the mayor’s office instead of an additional/new building.
So how would the addition of a mayor integrate into the existing guild hall and monument features?
I haven’t thought about it in detail yet, it’s just a concept or a brainstorm. But I think this is exactly what makes it a diversified system base, er, a necessary foundation. So, to answer your question, let’s say, let’s say you compare it to the guild hall in the game. It’s like various buffs that have different bonuses, right? Then you can understand it as the relationship between the mayor of London and the London Steel Association. What can you clearly perceive? That is, the mayor, scientist, or military commander of this small town is a living person, right? Instead of being some kind of a buff, a controversy, or an indicator. This person, besides managing industry production, also has many other responsibilities such as public security, entertainment, and many other aspects, right? For example, managing science and so on, er, managing military affairs, right? Let’s take the mayor as an example. He may have many positive buffs, including economic buffs, right? Ah, and also many negative buffs, right? Negative buffs, for example, let’s assume how to obtain a mayor. He can be hired, randomly chosen, or elected, right? He may have many negative buffs. For example, if you accidentally encounter a mayor in this game round who is relatively weak in military affairs, your defense pressure will be greater. Or if his public security situation is good, there will be more brawls, right? And moreover, this mayor can be captured, right? Ah, if bandits come and kidnap him, they can demand ransom, right? If you don’t pay, he will be executed and you have to replace him. And moreover, as this mayor grows older, he will have many positive and negative attributes, right? Ah, but this is just a lot of initial concepts. I’m just saying what distinguishes it from the guild hall in the game, which is a purely additive effect. For example, let’s say the military commander. He is a living, movable combat unit with an independent model. He can also be elected, hired, or grow through battles, etc. Ah, he has many auras, right? For example, what about the attack speed increase for cavalry within a 300-meter range? What about the mobility or defense increase for infantry within a 500-meter range? And there’s also the issue of arrow tower shooting speed, right? And he also, and you, as a bandit, have a leader, a second-in-command, and a third-in-command. After killing them, you can obtain many treasures, supplies, spoils, and so on.
And what else? Let’s say we’re talking about scientists, right? Scientists have talents, and they have lifespans. They might be alcoholics, right? They might demand high salaries, ah, monthly or annual salaries, right? They might bring about, ah, you need to redesign the talent system in this game. They might bring a physical talent, for example, if they’re a metallurgist, with them, you can quickly advance in metallurgy talents, you can leapfrog, right? You don’t need to level up to level two in the headquarters to unlock level two talents, ah, you can even save talent points. They can also bring special bonuses. For example, if you happen to have this unique scientist in your game, you can have different talent points from other games. These talent points are only possessed by this scientist, and they can speed up progress, right? That is to say, he has his own unique, ah, rare skills, or rare talents, right? And then these scientists, ah, you have to grasp one concept, that is, they are living people. They have many attributes. They can even get married, right? They can resign, escape, and complain. Right? He is a heroic underlying system, rather than a simple building. You can add many random possibilities to him, such as growth possibilities, and the possibility of him being captured by enemies. This system is very rich.
If you would allow me to summarize, and please correct me if I am wrong:
You are suggesting an elected official (Mayor) that will:
- provide different positive and negative global affects on a wide variety of game aspects, depending on their individual characteristics.
- this official would be ‘elected’ (selected) from a list of candidates with their effects (+/-) noted.
- the official can be replaced either via a term limit, when they die, or as the player desires.
- the official would deteriorate over time due to aging.
- the official could be captured with various negative demands by the captors
Some of these are already included within the game.
Guild Halls: allow enhancement of selected production chains
Monuments: enhance economic, civic or military features
Policies: can be toggled on/off that include both positive and negative effects. (similar to electing a new mayor)
Knowledge Tree: allows player control over acquiring new buildings and bonuses (i.e. ‘scientists’)
These existing game features provide most of items 1, 2 and 3 from the summary, although with less focus and diversity than your suggestions.
Although our citizens do age, I’m not in favor of having an age related curve of performance. Tracking the performance curve for a thousand citizens would be tedious at best and not ‘fun’.
Having raiders capture/kill the official is similar to what happens when raiders destroy buildings. If we had a mayor it would have much the same results.
I’m all in favor of expanding the number of things that can be enhanced or degraded, and perhaps an elected official (mayor) would provide that. However, in my opinion much of what you suggest is already included in some way. I do like the idea of an elected official that can be (s)elected, but not sure how it would integrate into the existing game features.