the WORST optionnal tech

[mastertyguy]

Folowing the recent succes of the best optinnal tech, here comes the sequel : the worst optional tech. Mine is advanced flight.

 

[thetrooper]

Fe-clads.

 

[Bartleby]

Republic

 

[nebuchadnezzar]

ironclads.. dumb AI always research it

 

[Sparta]

The tech for Shakespeare's Theatre. So useless I can't even remember the name.

(No I've never gone for 100K/20K victories).

Got Fe-clads accidentally once from TOE. Not cool either, although at least I could upgrade my Fe-clads later. Shakespeare's is completely useless post-C3C, IMO.

 

[mastertyguy]

ironclads.. dumb AI always research it

Right! even if I don't have C3C, what I know about it is clear, I think it is useful for archipelago AW, or continent.

 

[CaTa]

ironclads - such a stupid idea, better in civ 3 when you could just get it included in that steam thingy

 

[Tatran]

I would say Fascism.
It's either Republic or Monarchy/Communism.

Ironclads can be handy if you don't have saltpeter.

 

[denyd]

Advanced flight - I do not remember ever using paratroopers or helicopters in any game that I have ever played.

 

[mastertyguy]

Advanced flight - I do not remember ever using paratroopers or helicopters in any game that I have ever played.

HA!!! some one says like me. This happened once the best op tech . I'm not always wrong.

 

[Theoden]

Advanced Flight. I have never researched it and I don't intend to either.

 

[Pentium]

Advanced Flight, Amphibiuos Warfare (CivIII)
What can you do with a 8 attack unit, if you have a 16 one?

 

[thetrooper]

Attack from the sea

 

[Theoden]

What can you do with a 8 attack unit, if you have a 16 one?

Capture that annoying one square island city due to amphibious assault.

 

[Pentium]

I never play archipelagos, that explains it all. So no 1-square island cities.

 

[Lockesdonkey]

Ironclads. Advanced Flight is OK; it gives you radio towers in C3C 1.22 and up, I beleive. Amphib war's usefulness is mixed. So Facism is probably the next-worst: totally useless, I'm a non-warmonger, it's even bad for warmongering. So I wait for one AI to sell it, then sell it to all the other AIs.

 

[777]

Republic

Your words hurts me ;'[

Ironclads, facism, bunch of techs needed for demo, Advanced Flight, plus other various techs. I really can't understand why they're messing techs in Civ3 and afterwards in C3C.

 

[Tomoyo]

Hmm... I don't like Advanced Flight...

 

[greekguy]

Ironcalds is the most worthless tech.

 

[MrRats]

Music Theory/Free Artistry.
What's the point in wasting a tech to build a wonder when you can buy the tech right when it is researched from another civ and build the wonder before the civ you bought it from?