I'll take ANY suggestions.
And I'd appreciate them a lot.

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A.Home Countries:

1.Portugal- Brazil.
2.England- United States, India.
3.Spain- Argentina, Great Colombia, Peru, Mexico.
4.Ottoman Empire- Greece.

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B.Countries that don't give "offsprings":

1.France
2.Russia
3.Austria-Hungary
5.Italy
6.Germany

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C.How is the "offspring" thing going to work:

I am using Billman's idea for some sort of button that changes your technology tree to the "offsprings" technology tree. You don't have to change if you don't want to. If you do, your Home City and tech tree will change. The tech tree won't change much, but it will change. This offspring thing also gives a lot of strategy. Each civ. is going to eventually be completely different. They are going to have different advantages and upgrades. So, sometimes rebelling might not be a great idea. This somehow also gives an advantage to the one who waits. How? Well, if you wait a while and you have seen if your enemy has rebelled or not, you could decide if it is going to be more to your advantage to rebel or to not rebel. Of course, the one that is ahead has the advantage that they are ahead of you. Therefore, they are stronger, but strategy is going to be extremely necessary.

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Other questions.

1. What about the Technologies?

The technologies you've learned, you'll keep. That's what's going to characterize your nation as being closely related to (Britain, Spain, etc.). Eventually you get your own technologies, and no, your units do not stay the same as they were when you where a mother country.

2. Home City, how can I improve it if the game branches out?

You'll only get points and things for your Home City with whatever civilization you win the game as, but you'll still get some points to your mother country. For example, if you start out as Spain, but end up as Peru, all the experience and points will go mostly to Lima, but you'll get a very minimum amout of things for Madrid(That's depending on how many things you did as you were playing as Spain). Still, the Mother Nations will never get as much pointage if you rebeled from them.

3. I still don't quite get it?

To clear your mind, the experience points are not much at the first ages. They get to a "normal" game status after the Revolutionary age.

Your shipments will change from lets say "London" to "Washington D.C.". Your people might also change their way of speaking a bit. The shipments will change, and you'll have to re-stable yourself, but that is going to be done during the Classical Age. So, there is really no problem.
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D.Ages:

Colonization.- Era that sort of starts you at a preImperial Age. Here you make some advances, but not all.

Napoleonic.- Era that gives more advances, the US gets the chance to rebel. This gives the US a bit of a head start. The Units are still partially British, but they get some especial units and some technologies. This is the only chance the US gets to rebel.

Revolutionary.-This is where the rest of the Civs. get their chance to rebel, in part this is also a bit helpful since they have some upgrades the US doesn't get because they broke off from the British, the US does get some unique things. The countries also don't change much, but they get their famous revolutionary troops.

Imperial.- This is were the empires get most of the upgrades they'll need to fight themselves to the death. If a stalemate is reached, then the next age will break it off. This age is cheaper for the rebels, but they don't get as much upgrades as the Mother Nations will.
In this era, the mother countries have a stronger military, and their upgrades are almost over. The rebels are still going to get more techs and units that differ from that of their mother countries.

Classical.- Only available to the Rebel countries, this age gives you an era to make the rebel countries more competent to that of the mother countries. The mother countries don't get this Era, and thus, save more resources. This is a very important era for the Revolutionaries, though. It is also very cheap considering how much the Imperial Age would cost. So it is not very hard to get to Classical Age.

The one that gets a bit more of advantage would be the U.S., but each country is still going to differ, and maybe there is a country that can "counter" the U.S.'s tech tree. The downside would be that the cost of the classical age will be a bit more to the US.

Pre-WW1.-All the Countries are at their peak now, getting to this age is extremely hard and by now all of your Empires should be hyper powerful. This is not going to be WW1, therefore there will not be things such as airplanes and the other advanced machinery that appeared in WW1. There are going to be some more advances though.

Summary of Ages:

*Colonization: Only European Nations.
*Napoleonic: European Nations and US.
*Revolutionary: European and Rebel Nations
*Classical: Only Rebel Nations.
*Imperial: European and Rebel Nations.
*Pre-World War 1: European and Rebel Nations.

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E.Home Cities.

Mother Countries:

Spain- Madrid.
Portugal- Lisbon.
England- London.
Ottoman Empire- Istanbul.

Indepence Countries:

United States of America- Washington D.C.
India- New Delhi.
Brazil- Rio De Janeiro
Argentina- Buenos Aires
Peru- Lima
Mexico- Mexico City
Great Colombia- Bogota
Greece- Athens

Non-Offspring Countries:

France- Paris
Russia- St.Petersburg.
Austria-Hungary- Vienna.
Germany- Berlin.
Italy- Rome.

You'll be able to get shipments from your homecities!!!

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Well, I would like to Improve this topic, but first I need some opinions. Like I said above, I'll take any ideas. Tell me if you like the ages and if you have your own idea for an age tell me. Also, don't forget to tell me if you'd like to see a Civ. or if I have something you'd like for me to take out.

I HOPE YOU LIKED THIS.

[This message has been edited by Novoa20 (edited 02-18-2006 @ 02:20 PM).]