Dawn of Tommorow: Modern and into the Future: Development thread

[Sword_Of_Geddon]

Really? So would you reccomend using Hikaro's unit?

 

[Blue Monkey]

Really? So would you reccomend using Hikaro's unit?

 

[Sword_Of_Geddon]

Other units we can expect to see in the Nano age:

-Bhitta's Mechwalker
-Laser Infantry of some sort
-Hikaro's Dreadnought
-Antimatter Missile
-Space Fighter
-Space Bomber
-Advanced Robot

 

[Blue Monkey]

Other units we can expect to see in the Nano age:

-Bhitta's Mechwalker
-Laser Infantry of some sort
-Hikaro's Dreadnought
-Antimatter Missile
-Space Fighter
-Space Bomber
-Advanced Robot

Are you going to have a "grey goo" bomb?

 

[Sword_Of_Geddon]

I was thinking more on the lines of having the Grey Goo enable Nano Clouds as a unit, I have a particular graphic in mind for this unit, I'd have a Grey Goo bomb, but that unit isn't availible at the moment..

 

[Blue Monkey]

I was thinking more on the lines of having the Grey Goo enable Nano Clouds as a unit, I have a particular graphic in mind for this unit, I'd have a Grey Goo bomb, but that unit isn't availible at the moment..

A Nano Cloud like in Michael Crichton's Prey would be even cooler than a Goo Bomb.

 

[Sword_Of_Geddon]

What do you have in mind?

Kerero care to chime in again? I always enjoy your posts in this thread.

 

[Keroro]

Well, I must admit that I have never seen / read prey, but I doubt that a unit would be available for either idea at the moment. The nano cloud should work OK if we could get a unit from somewhere. Maybe you could have a go SoG, or NavyDawg might be able to whip up something nice.

 

[Sword_Of_Geddon]

Well I thought I'd use the tornado unit someone made along time ago, it was a little known unit, hardly used, as a nano cloud.

 

[Bluemofia]

Not mastered, but if we define anti-gravity as an application of any one of the four fundamental forces* (strong nuclear, weak nuclear, electromagnetic, gravity) to counteract gravitation, rather than negative gravity, then a research level prototype has been demonstrated.

* noting that one effort of theoretical physics is to unify these into one fundamental force.

Oh, well yeah, I know about those levitaty things.

There's using magnetic fields, high frequency sound waves, superconductors, etc. But I was taking his post literally, with literal anti-gravity, not stuff that counters gravity.

And yes, Hikaro's Air Dreadnought is a definite yes. (You could steal star wars stuff and call it a repulsolift battleship or something)

 

[Virote_Considon]

Well I thought I'd use the tornado unit someone made along time ago, it was a little known unit, hardly used, as a nano cloud.

I remember that unit. I think a nano cloud could be a good use for it, or maybe some kind of "weather-control" unit?

 

[Blue Monkey]

Have you seen Spacer One's chaos theory tech icon (posted in the competition thread)?

 

[Sword_Of_Geddon]

Not much into Chaos theory myself, not sure where I could fit it in, but thanks for the suggestion anyway Blue, its appreciated.

 

[Kumquat]

Hmm how about lunar, Mars, and Alpha Centauri colonies, they would be sm wonders and generate income. Maybe mining rights for the asteroid belt could be a great wonder. Are you doing anything with perpetual motion? That could easily be a great wonder. Oh how and deep sea exploration that would make a nice costal city inprovement. I better stop...um how a space port that works like a commercial dock but adds commerce to every tile?

 

[Blue Monkey]

Not much into Chaos theory myself, not sure where I could fit it in, but thanks for the suggestion anyway Blue, its appreciated.

chaos theory math/modelling applies to anything to do with for example: weather prediction or manipulation, genetic manipulation, economics, quantum effects, or any other complex system that is sensitive to minute changes in initial conditions. The mathematician in Jurassic Park (Jeff Goldblum in the movie) was a chaos theoretician.

 

[Sword_Of_Geddon]

Interesting Blue. Its at least food for thought.

Kumquat: What is Perpetual Motion as it relates to being a great wonder?

 

[Keroro]

Well, perpetual motion is likely to be something that is entirely impossible - even the planets themselves are not perpetual. It would offer the possibility of infinite energy if it did happen.

 

[Kumquat]

It would probably be like smith trading and have free maintenance on some buildings.

 

[Bluemofia]

Kumquat: What is Perpetual Motion as it relates to being a great wonder?

Perpetual motion is pretty much impossible. You need to have 0 energy loss to friction. (which is fairly impossible, as there are those pesky individual atoms everywhere, and no lubricant can ever give you 0 friction.)

Then there are things transmuting into waste heat by distorting the object which is impossible to avoid. (every time a force is acted on the object, a small percentage of it is turned into waste heat by heating up the environment, object, or distorting it.)

We are 99.9999999999999999999999999999999999999999999999% sure perpetual motion is impossible.

If you would like it to be a GW, then it would require the tech "Absolute Physics control" or something that implies that we can edit the laws of the physics to suit us. (but then the implications are just too vast to simply contain it in the civ III engine... Such as reversal of time, expanding space, long distance strong force interactions, anti-gravity, no equal and opposite reactions such as bullets having zero recoil and infinite penetrating power, editing the fundamental constants so that carbon is unstable, etc.)

 

[Quinzy]

Sword, you should read some of Stephen Baxters books, like Vacuum Diagrams- all sorts of sciency physicsy stuff in them.