I know that the deities will not be personified in the game in the sense that they will not come down in material form and wreak havoc, except since they will be doing things such as casting lightning bolts etc, how about if your deity does it rancomly against your civilization if your favor fell too far below zero? As far as your favor falling below zero, your favor would be decreased by 1 point every so often if a certain amount of time has elapsed since you have last done something to gain favor. For example, if your favor is at 100, it would wind back down to 0 on its own in 30 minutes or so if nothing was done to appease your deity in that thirty minutes. Not only would doing something to gain favor accumulate favor, it would also reset the degeneration clock.
Imagine you let your favor fall below zero and all of a sudden metoers start crashing down on your units. Whatever the favor cost of the spell was, it would actually be added to your favor total as a sort of sentence served. For example, if your favor falls to -10 and a meteor shower costs 10 favor, your deity will smack your civilization with a meteor shower and your favor would be brought up to 0.
Could it work?
[This message has been edited by Newbie (edited 04-29-2002 @ 05:16 AM).]