Iztvan
the Terrible
These are great thoughts. Any progress, Roundman, or are you awaiting the changes in Conquests?
Originally posted by Pirate
I totally agree with the changes to flight, but must disagree with your suggestion to move ecology. "Ecology" should not be cofused with "Environmentalism" - the post-nuclear movement you allude to. Ecology deals with the study of interconnected ecosystems and is a direct reaction to the poor environmental quality brought about by industrialization.
Solar Cells should follow Ecology and Space Flight. I would make cleaning up pollution take twice as long in the industrial ages and Ecology should double the rate of cleaning pollution, bringing it back to current game levels.
This would work very well with other proposals for environmental pacts as suggestions for future diplomatic agreements as pollution would play a much bigger role in empire management. (I also might suggest that pollution should act like disease and have a small chance of killing off population, but that is getting off topic)
Originally posted by Arizona_Steve
I disagree with the notion that solar power plants are dependent on photovoltaic (solar) cells. Many implementations of solar power actually rely on concentric rings of mirrors that are used to focus the sunlight onto a point, where the heat is used to boil a liquid, which in turn powers a turbine. I think this is the idea of solar power that the Civ guys are hinting at.
Originally posted by EddyG17
IMO, i think that the future world will be powerd by nuclear power or fussion(if invented)