The first person who wrote against the actual usefulness of the death penalty and torture was Cesare Beccaria, an italian who is widely considered one of the greatest thinkers of the Age of Enlightenment because of his progressive ideas. Against the game's logic he actually wrote Dei delitti e delle pene, which is the book where he explained his ideas and its also his most famous one, during a stable time where culture and science were flourishing: I may understand the necessity for the game to make depend some civics unlockement on a low stability empire, but in this case 1) it's not realistic and 2) is almost useless (its already very rare to unlock the Punishment civic for a very similar reason).

Possible solutions:

1) Dedicate a whole update (or most of it) to update/rework the Stability and Revolution system (it may contain all of the other suggestions)

2) Change the prerequisites of Capital Punishment

3) Change the prerequisites of Punishment

4) Make disadvantageous building Garrisons/CQ (lowering their Stability yields/ making districts lower stability in proportion of the number of the ones already in the city) to increase the value of civics/infrastructures (ex: City Watch, Secret Police, Neighborhood Watch)

5) Lower the FIMS of the city when it's not stable for many turns (but give it a buff when it becames stable again); in my opinion making the city yields less static (but not too much) would make the player make feel the game less boring, especially when you are already familiar with the strategies/gameplay

If you have some preferencies over my suggested solutions you can vote them in the poll so to let the devs know of our perceptions

A1y0sh4 wrote:

2) Change the prerequisites of Capital Punishment

3) Change the prerequisites of Punishment

PS: I already wrote a thread some time ago suggesting some alternatives about their effects [Here is the link]

A1y0sh4 wrote:

The first person who wrote against the actual usefulness of the death penalty and torture was Cesare Beccaria, an italian who is widely considered one of the greatest thinkers of the Age of Enlightenment because of his progressive ideas. Against the game's logic he actually wrote Dei delitti e delle pene, which is the book where he explained his ideas and its also his most famous one, during a stable time where culture and science were flourishing: I may understand the necessity for the game to make depend some civics unlockement on a low stability empire, but in this case 1) it's not realistic and 2) is almost useless (its already very rare to unlock the Punishment civic for a very similar reason).

Possible solutions:

1) Dedicate a whole update (or most of it) to update/rework the Stability and Revolution system (it may contain all of the other suggestions)

2) Change the prerequisites of Capital Punishment

3) Change the prerequisites of Punishment

4) Make disadvantageous building Garrisons/CQ (lowering their Stability yields/ making districts lower stability in proportion of the number of the ones already in the city) to increase the value of civics/infrastructures (ex: City Watch, Secret Police, Neighborhood Watch)

5) Lower the FIMS of the city when it's not stable for many turns (but give it a buff when it becames stable again); in my opinion making the city yields less static (but not too much) would make the player make feel the game less boring, especially when you are already familiar with the strategies/gameplay

If you have some preferencies over my suggested solutions you can vote them in the poll so to let the devs know of our perceptions

I would say this total should be rethought. Because I find this thinking a bit outdated. Besides there are already plenty of sources like https://papersowl.com/examples/death-penalty/ that have analyzed the death penalty and come to a result, this one actually isn't human and shouldn't exist.