I'd like to play with a game that's like Civilisation, but when you start, you don't know what world you're playing in. You only know what your ruler sees and hears. You may send your Columbus across the Atlantic, and you will see him arrive to India in the East. Later on you may learn that he instead discovered a new continent. Maybe. Maybe he really landed in India in your game. Or maybe he was a fraud and found nothing, and all the lands he reported on will disappear from the map when you send more ships to follow his route.
Similarly, you wouldn't know which technology would work in this world and which not. Maybe alchemy would be real, and you could develop it to mass produce rare materials. Maybe it would turn out to be fake science only. Similarly, magic and religion may work as either basic mind tricks and psychology that enlightenment would mostly cancel out, or be part of the reality of the world, and you could get gods fighting on your side Greek mythology style, or wizards casting spells even deadlier than tanks and nukes.
I guess this system would be already a bit too hard to implement, but if I could keep wishing freely, it would be awesome if you could actually govern by writing whatever law you want. So you wouldn't just click a button to switch from feudalism to theocracy or communism, but you would actually have to come to an agreement with power figures (or classes) in your society on how your state would work. You could grant rights to tax trade routes in exchange of doing military service for example. And later you would need support from some other group if you would like to abolish this system.
Similarly, you wouldn't know which technology would work in this world and which not. Maybe alchemy would be real, and you could develop it to mass produce rare materials. Maybe it would turn out to be fake science only. Similarly, magic and religion may work as either basic mind tricks and psychology that enlightenment would mostly cancel out, or be part of the reality of the world, and you could get gods fighting on your side Greek mythology style, or wizards casting spells even deadlier than tanks and nukes.
I guess this system would be already a bit too hard to implement, but if I could keep wishing freely, it would be awesome if you could actually govern by writing whatever law you want. So you wouldn't just click a button to switch from feudalism to theocracy or communism, but you would actually have to come to an agreement with power figures (or classes) in your society on how your state would work. You could grant rights to tax trade routes in exchange of doing military service for example. And later you would need support from some other group if you would like to abolish this system.