VoiceOfUnreason
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The Beeline Book
Big Brown Bear, Blue Bull, Beautiful Baboon, blowing bubbles, biking backwards....
Beeline Index
[size=-2]Click the links below to jump to the beeline[/size]
Rocketry
Astronomy
Liberalism
Mass Media
Fiber Optics
Future Tech
Introduction
The-Hawk's G-Minor 12 report inspired me to begin looking at the tech tree poster. My goal was to identify the mandatory techs for Future Techonology. Clicking on the Scientific Advisor allows you to have a research path lit up, but I found it difficult to identify where the alternative paths might be for the optional techs.
A text file, Perl, and a touch of insomnia later, I've got a script to navigate through the tech tree. Now all the world looks like a nail.
The Beelines presented are those which apply in Warlords 2.08.
Reading the Beelines
These Beelines begin with the techs of the Ancient Era, and move forward. Techs that are researchable without deviating from the beeline at all are listed alone on a single row:
Mysticism
When there is a choice of prerequisites to discover, the options are listed in parenthesis after the name of the required technology.
Monarchy (Priesthood, Monotheism)
In this version, I don't make any effort to try to ennumerate possible paths. For instance, the complete Monarchy beeline looks like
Mysticism
Monarchy (Priesthood, Monotheism)
Obviously, there are more choices; Priesthood (Meditation, Polytheism) for example. Listing the alternatives is a recursive but otherwise straight forward exercise; I'm not convinced that the returns justify the investment. The optional paths I've looked at thus far have been pretty straight forward.
Also, I'm not making any effort to guess what order the Scientific Advisor would propose were you to simply click on the goal technology.
Future Updates
I've picked a handful of somewhat commonly described beelines to begin. Later, I may update the entries with annotations. If your favorite beeline isn't here, sing out - adding another one is only a cut and paste of effort.
. If you want I can send it to you.
