Recent content by Aethervapor

If the AI does a good job of filling up it's own orbital space, they you wouldn't be able to get your transporters/carvers up until you managed to get an artillery unit within striking range of their satellites.

I actually like the idea of internal trade routes sending food and production both ways, and think it makes real-world sense as well. It illustrates the idea that trade is not a zero-sum game, and that by trading with each other both partners are (potentially) better off because you're able to...

If it worked this way in both directions, it would create the odd incentive that you'd want to send trade routes from your low-science cities to your partner's high-science cities, in order to maximize your science gain and minimize theirs. Maybe it'd be better for them to yield a percentage of...

Some additional rebalancing ideas: •By default, external trade routes only yield gold. A cooperation agreement adds science to their yield. An alliance boosts both yields by 25%. •Ultrasonic fences with reversed polarity protect all your trade vessels (regardless of city of origin) out to...

I think the fact that any leader can adopt any affinity put a major constraint on the kind of faction leaders they created, since they all had to be at least somewhat philosophically neutral. The SMAC leaders were a lot more interesting because they weren't at all philosophically neutral - each...

I'm actually glad to see them toned down a bit from Civ V. Some of the wonders in that game (Petra, The Great Library, The Hanging Gardens, to name a few) were so powerful getting them could make or break a game, and you could have entire strategies revolve around them. I think that was too...

In another thread somewhere, someone suggested making Terrascapes a unique Purity tile improvement, adding a unique Harmony tile improvement that can only be built on forests, and having the both buffed by Ecoscaping. The Harmony improvement could wind up with equivalent yields (+1 food +1...

What if you needed a cooperation agreement to get beakers from external trade routes?

The Red Mars trilogy by Kim Stanley Robinson, if you're looking for something serious. If you're looking for something less serious, the TV show Terra Nova is pretty close.