gameDesignIdeas

Story Ideas:
Two Gods debate on the whether a being created from matter and given free will could persist. After coming to an impass, they decided to 
One resource: trees from 'magic forest' which regrows quickly. Player is a summoner from a village with a balance with 'the forest', thousands of years his villages has existed in balance, cut off from the rest of Ard.

Summoners will move from city to city to create units so that your 'tech' is based upon the positioning of your summoners.
Certain cities allow building of certain units
Units require resources to build
Resources can be(gold, wheat, iron, wood, etc?) More will make resource management more complex, less will make it easier...
Resource may need to be transported to the appropriate city as well... not sure about this
Summoners may have a 'strength' so that they can create units more or less cheaply
Rather than turn based, units have 'initiative'(like that gladiator game)
Summoners could also be wizards which can case storms and alter terrain and do other fun things
should have an econ balance similar to starcraft so that moving across a map takes a relatively short amount of time(compared to producing units)




Terrain:
hill/mountains like civ...?
deep water/lava should be uncrossable
rivers are crossable but difficult to cross
roads give extra movement



unit abilities:
worker
counters
spears beat mounted
mounted beat foot soldiers
foot soldier beats spears
catapult beats city defense
spash damage? i.e. damage an entire stack?
are units stackable?
perhaps only stackable on cities?
flying
archers beat flying
ranged
terrain bonuses(e.g. elephants cross mountains or archers shoot well from hills)
engineers build roads, destroy roads, raze cities?, build bridges, plant mines?
invisible? spy?
boats?
Long sight range? 
terran scan?
large siege engine, like a mobile city?
healer
poison
immobile
warp?
air to air/air to ground?
air/ground transition?(like SC2 viking)
ensnare
freeze
blink
slow
fast
enslave(charm)
hallucinate
knockback



unit ideas:
elephant
swordsman
spearman
mounted swordsman
mounted spearman
archer
ent
bat
orc
goblin
goblin rider
dwarf
elf
crossbowman
mounted archer
dragon
giant
cyclops
pastha(from gemfire)
wraith
engineer
gryphon
hydra
hound/dog
unicorn
owl
fairy
snake(giant?)
demon
stone-demon
water-demn
fire-demon
air-demon(elemental)
Giant Turtle
vampire
nymph
Pegasus
cat-man hybrid
aligator-man hybrid
Hydra(multiheaded dragon)
Ipotane - Horse-human hybrid, two-legged
Centaur
flying snake
giant bird
locusts
wolf
siren(succubus? nymph? temptress?)





tileset here:
http://forum.freeciv.org/viewtopic.php?t=787&sid=4361084684899f76fca82b3581deecb4