Recent content by Praetyre

As stated in the last thread on this subject, I'd have it: Era Name Approximate Historical Scope Beginning Historical Events Example Technologies Neolithic 10,000-3000 BC End of the Ice Age, Neolithic Revolution Feline Domestication, Megalith Construction, Priesthood Ancient 3000 BC-500 AD...

I'm all in favour of a starting gateway tech (that everyone but certain NPC factions gets, of course); it would not only provide a useful thing to attach various mechanics to, it would also serve another useful purpose further down the line when the Neanderthal (and, I hope, other hominids like...

While I've long since abandoned any serious usage of my Long Chronology, I figured it'd make for interesting discussion fodder, even if it is extremely Eurocentric (Ancient Near East centric prior to classical times): Past that, it's the same as my previous post. I'm not sure how to tackle the...

Agree with you on the former, but I feel the latter is already covered (icon and all) by Minority Rights (in fact, I can see a case for renaming that tech to Civil Rights, although I can also see a case that at least some elements of the latter should be a Renaissance era tech ("Rights of Man"...

Another name possibility that avoids any potential issues with "folk" and makes the proto-moral part of the tech more explicit, while still allowing a broader interpretation: "Customs and Mores". I agree on the horse thing; I feel the same way about leather armour (which I'm told is generally...

Forgive me if this comes across as tacky self-promotion, but this discussion of some aspects of the Prehistoric (an era I consider myself to have something of a dilettante's knowledge in) reminds me of my own plans for a C2C modmod; where one notable design philosophy difference is that (both in...

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I was originally going to do this on Discord, but for various reasons I've decided to go with this medium instead. This is very much in the spirit of Hydro's old suggestions back in the days of Rise of Mankind: A New Dawn, as well as VictorAzurian's sadly never realized modmod Empire Earth. This...

I don't normally post here, but since this happens to be a major interest of mine (both from a Civ and general historical/worldview perspective), I figured I might as well give my tuppence. I like the idea of starting Civ off in the Neolithic (specifically, the tail end of the last Ice Age)...

I'm in favour of a 300,000 BC start; it dovetails nicely not only with the Jebel Irhoud remains, but the beginning of the Middle Paleolithic, and (to a lesser extent) the emergence of Homo sapiens neanderthalensis. The mentioned issues are part of the reason why my own (yet to be released)...

I was under the impression that the Kardashev scale referred to the total gross energy harnessed by a civilization, rather than perfectly efficient (if such a thing is even physically possible) extraction from a particular source. So something like the galactic civilization in Star Wars (be it...

The problems with the existing name system, as i see them (bearing in mind many of these are inherited from vanilla BTS and the Civ series in general): To summarize, the way I'd do it for C2C proper would be: More to the point, though, I think any split to current-Prehistoric is going to be...

Just FYI, the edits adding that aren't by me; TV Tropes is an "anyone registered can edit most articles" wiki. Nothing stopping me from correcting it, of course, especially given I'd count as one of the creators (developers) of the work (C2C) in question.