You know how features can be made to shrink and grow at different rates, such as Ice and Jungle and Forest. Well, with a graphic change to, say, Ice you could do an Atlantean continent that tended to shrink and that would form the time limit for the game. Atlantis (for game purposes should be the expanded Cyprus version) has a tech advantage (it gets a Medieval start when others are Ancient) over the surrounding other civs, but its big green-ice continent is shrinking.
here it is: Atlantis
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Leatherneck
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Jeez folks everybody knows that Atlantis is in the alley behind the deli of 123rd St and Tuscora Ave in Cleveland.
I remembre watching a TV show about theories on Atlantis. They claimed that there was good evidence that Atlantis was in the middle of the Atlantic, because as well as all the European legends of a land to the west, there were Native American legends of a land to the east. At no point did any of the "experts" consider that just maybe they were talking about each other...
Osymandias
Grand King of Apes
i've also read that birds which where travelling into the south were cycling over a empty place in the middle of the atlantic ocean for some days before they leave again and so some scientist believe that there was land a long time ago.
perhaps atlantis?
also, that just came into my mind: what if atlantis was an orbital spacestation over the atlantic ocean that falls, because of a malfunction, into it?
perhaps atlantis?
also, that just came into my mind: what if atlantis was an orbital spacestation over the atlantic ocean that falls, because of a malfunction, into it?
Osymandias
Grand King of Apes
hehe...yeah, i think nr 2 is somewhat unlikely....but not unimpossible 
only just if i think to the indian myth of the 2 fighting god-races. i don't know if you know what i'm tallking about:
in india there's an old myth, happend about 10,000BC, that says that 2 old god-races have had a big war. and this war was done with "flying wagons" and "weapons of pure energy. they're so mighty, that everything burns emidiately and that the land is unusable for ages. it looks, as if a second sun have risen..." (rough translation by myself)
sounds cool, eh?
i think that we all should be more open for some "unconventional" ideas about history. it isn't just wrong because it "doesn't fit to our meaning of history..."
i will look after it, because it is some time ago that i have read that myth, then you can read it for yourself.
only just if i think to the indian myth of the 2 fighting god-races. i don't know if you know what i'm tallking about:
in india there's an old myth, happend about 10,000BC, that says that 2 old god-races have had a big war. and this war was done with "flying wagons" and "weapons of pure energy. they're so mighty, that everything burns emidiately and that the land is unusable for ages. it looks, as if a second sun have risen..." (rough translation by myself)
sounds cool, eh? i think that we all should be more open for some "unconventional" ideas about history. it isn't just wrong because it "doesn't fit to our meaning of history..."
i will look after it, because it is some time ago that i have read that myth, then you can read it for yourself.
Leatherneck
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Here, here, if you are going to say Atlantis is/was real then back it up with facts. Not some blog or fantasy website. Provide unbiased links to some place like ... oh I don't know.... Archaeology Magizine, National Geographic, Smithonian, Cambridge, etc etc.
Nothing worse than this "I have a freind that heard from this other guy at the club that he saw on a website or something that Atlantis is real and it's just a stones throw from Oz and the land of lollypops. Really it's true!" Please!!!
Facts, hard facts, evidence, not fables and stories. I personally would be thrilled to know Atlantis was real and they really found a Stargate in Eygpt. But I'm a hard sell a few stones underwater, some lines in the coral and old stories does NOT a civilization make. For me Atlantis is in the lines of Utopia, Shangala, Eldorodo, Ni, et al a fantiful place that makes for good fiction.
Nothing worse than this "I have a freind that heard from this other guy at the club that he saw on a website or something that Atlantis is real and it's just a stones throw from Oz and the land of lollypops. Really it's true!" Please!!!
Facts, hard facts, evidence, not fables and stories. I personally would be thrilled to know Atlantis was real and they really found a Stargate in Eygpt. But I'm a hard sell a few stones underwater, some lines in the coral and old stories does NOT a civilization make. For me Atlantis is in the lines of Utopia, Shangala, Eldorodo, Ni, et al a fantiful place that makes for good fiction.
http://www.newscientist.com/article.ns?id=dn1808
http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/world/south_asia/1768109.stm
Found ages ago, obviously research is still going on at this site.
Also in response to that earlier thing, isn't about just picking one theory, makes bad history.
http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/world/south_asia/1768109.stm
Found ages ago, obviously research is still going on at this site.
Also in response to that earlier thing, isn't about just picking one theory, makes bad history.
turquoiseninja said:Yeah, Ive heard that too, that Plato or something taught it too his students as a stupid moral lesson. If thats true I would be very dissapointed.
I am sure Plato would be pissed of that a fable he made up to try to teach his students about greed was in fact taken as the truth and discussed thousands of years later.
Osymandias
Grand King of Apes
how do you know it's a fable?Sobsob said:
every fable has a true core...
