Editor idea

[Freakwave]

In one of the videos the world builder was mentioned. In the video it was said that anybody would be able to generate maps to their liking. This got me thinking about the tech tree. Why not make a tech tree editor where you can drag and drop techs, units, wonders etc to the place in the tree where you want them to be. No text editing just drag and drop. Adding new units being made by modders? add a place where you can browse from a location to add them in.

Firaxis is already making a browser like structure to add mods ingame. This would be just an extension of it. Think of it. A modder made a new tech, corresponding unit and building. You then browse ingame to it, download it, go to the editor and add it to the place you want it Press Go! and play

 

[Bowsling]

Basically an in-game editor, so that you don't have restart the game every time you make a little change? That sounds like a good idea, I hope Firaxis does that. Also, about the tech tree editor that you were talking about, that has been done for Civ III, it is very useful.

 

[Freakwave]

Exactly, it would be an extention for the announced ingame mod browser.