WildWeazel
Carthago Creanda Est
Not a real project. Just something fun to think about.
I got to thinking about how to take the game a bit further into the future, with a longer 4th or hypothetical 5th era. It got a bit out of hand as you'll see with about 100 techs, listed here in vaguely chronological order beginning with late WWII.
Aside from a longer game this provides a few interesting concepts. First, the space race victory is spread out and pushed back, with more techs involved for a longer-term project. Second, there's more time to enjoy the features of modern units and buildings before reaching an inevitable endgame. Third, there's a phase of "going green" where it would be interesting to obsolete and replace a bunch of earlier improvements, causing the economy to lag temporarily while you push through to the really advanced stuff. This might give other civs a chance to catch up while the tech leader makes the transition to sustainable growth. And finally, lots of cool speculative tech to play with.
There's plenty of redundancy here, so many of these could probably be combined or removed, or converted to wonders. I've overlaid two themes in the later techs: space colonization, and post-humanist "ascension" as commonly found in sci-fi. Either could provide the path to science victory. I also thought of the latter replacing diplomatic victory and the UN, but it doesn't quite fit the model of making everyone love you.
Anyway, here's the brain dump.
I got to thinking about how to take the game a bit further into the future, with a longer 4th or hypothetical 5th era. It got a bit out of hand as you'll see with about 100 techs, listed here in vaguely chronological order beginning with late WWII.
Aside from a longer game this provides a few interesting concepts. First, the space race victory is spread out and pushed back, with more techs involved for a longer-term project. Second, there's more time to enjoy the features of modern units and buildings before reaching an inevitable endgame. Third, there's a phase of "going green" where it would be interesting to obsolete and replace a bunch of earlier improvements, causing the economy to lag temporarily while you push through to the really advanced stuff. This might give other civs a chance to catch up while the tech leader makes the transition to sustainable growth. And finally, lots of cool speculative tech to play with.
There's plenty of redundancy here, so many of these could probably be combined or removed, or converted to wonders. I've overlaid two themes in the later techs: space colonization, and post-humanist "ascension" as commonly found in sci-fi. Either could provide the path to science victory. I also thought of the latter replacing diplomatic victory and the UN, but it doesn't quite fit the model of making everyone love you.
Anyway, here's the brain dump.
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