It may very well be that.

I was thinking that it would affect diplomacy too, you could customize the look of your sovereign and a few other perks.

This is the first time I have seen anyone attempt to apply abstraction to any characteristic of the GC series. GC has many characteristics which must have abstraction applied to it before one can really get into the game. The idea that a single image on a map represents a single item is a huge stumbling block, as can be seen time and time again with the misconceptions that appear on this forum.

The root of these misconceptions is rooted in the "one, two, three, ... many" syndrome that is quite common in humans. Having a picture of one ship representing thousands of ships, or a picture of one soldier representing millions of infantrymen can be daunting to the typical homo sapiens.  I can't imagine a General or Admiral becoming great without coming to grips with this problem in abstraction at some time in his/her life.

Much Karma to you ElanaAhova for pointing this out.

I find this a very interesting subject, that could be turned into a question: What form of government is best suited for a space faring civilization?

There are some being related environmental variables that would have to be considered in answering this question:

1) What is the communication delay between the political center and the outer reaches of an empire?

2) What is the response time of central enforcement or military forces to the outer reaches of an empire?

3) For some forms of government, how much tendency is there for diversity of attitudes between the political center and the outer reaches of an empire?

4) Others. I just can't think of them at the moment.

For example, perhaps the speed of communication was limited by some factor, such as how fast a starship can travel, was the most influential factor. In that case, it would seem that a feudal form of government would be a better system. To get a feel for this, think about how the speed of communication on our world has changed over the last two to three centuries, and how the change in communication reach has changed how effective governance can be.

Well, looking at GC2, logically, it would progress from an Imperium to a democratic type of rule.

1. Presumably near instant in faster than light travel

2. The bottleneck would be the maximum speed of the vessels in question, which with Stellar Folding is probably quite fast

3. Probably the higher the more democratic

Starship travel would not be the bottleneck. The question is how fast FTL communications can travel.

Civilization use to not have different leaders of the same civilization I think that really enhanced the game. I think that would enhance this game. We already pick our abilities when we start, so that wouldn't do much. 

What I propose instead is having different abilities for different leaders for the same faction, but after that doing the same thing they do already. I think that would work better.

As far as the age of leaders I agree that in other games that span 5000 years this would be unrealistic. In galactic civilizations this would only be a few years.

As far as governments go I feel that different factions should have different government options. I heard conspiracy that their are about 210 people that are planning the one world democracy to be feudalism.

I would like to see republic and democracy to work more like their governments, but I could see why other people don't want this.

I think that if we look at the game descriptions of Terran, Altarian, and a few other of the "good" societies, a democratic society is very probable.

By contrast, the Drengin are probably an autocracy or a military junta.

Edit: I've opened up a thread on it:

https://forums.galciv3.com/452229/page/1/

I agree with multiple leaders with different abilities for each faction. i would like to add that their could be political manuvering with the different leaders like in medieval total war. I think it would be a better 4x game for it. What I mean different leaders you would only pick one at the beginning of the game.

Ok unless you customize you actually add ability to some predefined abilities for each faction.

Ok like civilization 4 there are multiple leaders to a civ. These leaders are absolute leaders. Each leader have different abilities. Ok Galactic civilizations has even more options on different abilities than civilization giving a better option for this. After you pick your leader this would define the presets that are instead of the faction it would be leader based. Multiple leaders for all factions like civilization. Unlike civilization you would add abilities to this. This would work in sandbox, but not really in the campaign. Isn't that what the post about.

What I would like to add to this is political intrigue like medieval total war. Another turn based strategy game. This can be added to the above idea, or the regular game. This would work with the campaign.I will have to admit that they would have to figure out sci fi intrigue because this is not a real world example. I'm talking about space not the fact that there is no intrigue in the real world.

I like both ideas.

Oh your right I would like my idea better.

Though this is similar to capture the king optional game in Civilizations 3 where you can caoture the leader. I would not like this as part of the main game. This could be a optional game victory condition. This would speed up the game though.

IMHO GC is not Tropico, so I barely see any room for El Presidente Soberano avatar flying around planets, improving their performance in GC environment. It could be interesting addition, to have "envoy" ship, probably not carrying supreme ruler, but rather just representing him.

I need to slow down sometimes write clearly. and that post wasn't that time I did. (or now, I am having a terrible day to be honest )

the anarchy would be civ wide for one turn if the home world is lost. Nothing could be built for that time. Same thing for the the Elegant AIs. Civ had something similar, so I know it's not a new idea. And I typically don't like features that slow down the the game even for a few turns but I want to see the Korx squirm even more in when I kill them. (I really hate the korxs for some reason) and other reasons and things I just can't name at the moment.

DARCA