Another idea that struck me while writing an AAR.

[BigJMoney]

Yeah, I know about the autotax feature, which is one of the reasons I got caught in a semi-contradiction above. On one hand, I was trying to place my idea in the light of Dominions 2 when I said, "all you have to do is play with the tax rate ..." and on the other hand, I was trying to place my idea in context with Dominions 3 by saying there would effectively be no micromanagement involved. I should have proof-read my post a little better and cleaned it up. With the autotax feature, there would be no micromanagement. Really, this means I have nothing to reply to Graeme Dice about.

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That wasn't even a coherent statement. Nobody has suggested anything contrary to the way things work right now. In essence, all I said is that it seems thematic that when a peoples' god is physically present, they are less likely to misbehave. Think about it. Right now, there are absolutely no inherent bonuses for having your pretender god present among the people. That's probably why the idea came to me in the first place; to fill a "realism" need.

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