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Hello, new forum member and new player with roughly 75 hours in just the last week lol, I have quickly grown to really like this game, both as a survival game, a life sim, and a society simulator.

The last one in that list is what this suggestion relates to most, and stems from a discussion I started on the discord when trying to think about features that should (hopefully, you never know) be on the easier side while also being high impact to gameplay diversity:

Primitive Government's / Leadership Type Diversity

By that I just mean have variety in the way leadership and property is distributed.

Leadership seems to mostly be concerned with titles, delivering orders, exiling evil-doers, (and potentially property?)

I believe we can have four distinct types of leadership, I will split these up into four categories: Nobility, Tribe, Democracy, and Anarchy.

All four of these can be chosen by an Eve at the start by simply saying "We are a (Monarchy/Tribe/Democracy/Anarchy)" it can also be changed by any leader at any time, although once changed it can't be changed again in that characters lifetime. If no type is picked it defaults to a tribe.

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Monarchy
Would represent the most authoritarian leadership type, it would be a strict matriarchy with a queen that passes down matrilineally to the first born daughter or other next of kin (pretty much only ending up with a king if that's the only option) the next heir would have the title princess or prince, other kids would not have those titles.

This leadership type would be able to make orders as normal but can kill any ally without exiling them. And anyone who owns property following a queen automatically revokes their property rights to give to the queen. So the queen owns all property of her allies.

Tribe (Default)
Would represent the most vanilla leadership type and what an eve family defaults too if they don't pick one specifically. It picks a leader from all allies based on who has the highest gene score, and can be manually granted to another player before death. The leader can be man or woman, titled chief or chieftess.

This leadership type would be able to make orders but have to exile someone to kill them as normal. Property is kept by all the original owners unless no owner is found in which case it goes to the tribal leader.

Democracy
Would be the most socially active type of leadership. The leader is elected in a 1-2 minute voting period after the previous leader leaves. Voting is not required but the person who gets the most votes becomes the new leader for life or until they type "I retire". If there is a tie it picks the person with the highest gene score. The current leader can't decide the next leader. Leader is called the president or mayor.

This leadership type can make orders and exile as normal, but have no priority on property in the family which will always go to next of kin of whoever owned it or just disappear outright.

Anarchy
Would be either it's own leadership type where anyone and everyone can make orders and exile however they wish, or simply a way to disband all allies by declaring anarchy leaving everything as every man for themselves. If it's its own government type then all property owned by the allies is allowed to be opened by all allies. But if it is not then property just follows normal next of kin rules.

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This would not have any asset additions or changes, it would be a purely leadership update that changes titles and the way leadership functions and is passed down. I think it would have good mechanical purpose in giving players agency and diversity on how they want their families to be run, further deepening the dynamics of this society simulator, and it would also allow roleplay opportunity and make being born into different towns at different times feel more distinct and interesting.

Depending on the way leadership and property works it may not be super easy, it is definitely an overhaul, but one that I think could make for a pretty big update title and greatly increase diversity combined with different racial families and town layouts. Lemme know what everyone else thinks.