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That is kinda what I am talking about though, there is no real reason for this. The government name itself has no influence whatsoever. It makes sense for the AI as it relates to their personality type and such. A player should be able to name it whatever they want since it's purely cosmetic now.
"Democratic Assembly for Peace and Harmony".
It isn't purely cosmetic. It's an indicator of what type of government they have. I mean, why are they called corvettes, destroyers, cruisers, and battleships? Why can't I call them shooty 1, shooty 2, shooty 3, shooty 4?
Why name anything at all in singleplayer? By definitions in this thread, the names of energy, minerals, traditions, weapon types, all cosmetic. Why not allow everyone to name everything? I'd just like a better reason to be able to custom name something.
This and there is probably some useful stuff for modding tied to it as well.
So why aren't you asking for energy or minerals to be able to be named by the player? Techs? Basic terms like pops and planets? What makes this mechanic different?
Actually gained something. We get to pick what bonuses we want and qualify for instead of having a select number of pre sets. The raw number of potential combos is far greater than the number of old governments.
Except that isn't needed in multiplayer at all. Other players can see your ethoses and civics. Comparing it to ship classes, whom one can name freely (thus undermining your argumentation) is a pretty bad strawman.
Most of those are tied to government embraced ethoses not the actual government. They do not check for <name of government> and then go by it. Anything that has a spiritualist ethos would do, doesn't matter whether it is called "Priesthood of X", "Divine Council" or "Non Atheists Incorp".
The flavour text is for Ai, as it eludes to their general behaviour and attitude. Which relates to their various scores and behaviour il.e slavery, robot liberator etc. The player is not affected by this in any kind of way. The game start text is down to ethics, not how your government is being called based on the Ai routine.
