Nope. If you set the speed higher, your opponent also cranks out units faster, builds faster, and gains (proportionately) more from things like chopping. Still, the game does not slow down - it goes faster.
I am sorry for I should have made it clearer.
When I say the game won't get faster (because your opponents also get stronger), I am refering to the speed of one's progress towards winning the game, not the speed of how everything can be done.
Lets take war for example:
In a fight, when both parties have bigger army (in power, size and movement speed like unlimited rail movement), that does not means the war is going to finish faster.
And yes, the time take to build each unit is faster (since cost of building remain the same as in the past, but revenue of players are boosted), but then situation will force you to build bigger army before invading because, if you don't, your small size army can be easily outnumber by your opponent's (since it is also quicker for them to produce defending units)
It's inescapable - if you increase all the rewards equally, you haven't changed anything, unless you keep costs of production and research and so on the same.
Yes, my 2nd remark in Post#36
If you do that, all you've done is the same as what happens when you set the speed higher. The only difference is that instead of speeding up the game by lowering production costs, you've kept production costs the same and increased all output - just a different way of doing the same thing.
I think you have started to see what I am looking for but there is still one thing wrong with your idea where EVERYTHING will go faster. To me, it means, each individual building (of structure or unit) go faster, the quantity and quality of everything get bigger and most importantly, the game won't end sooner. Anything involve conflict between 2 parties (or more) will take longer if not the same. For example, borders push one another harder (though they each grow faster when no contact), war won't take any shorter (you have relatively stronger opponents) and so on.
As far as Superman goes, I only need to remind there were other crucial elements of the character, without which he would've been even more boring than he already is:
I don't really mean to use Superman movie to craft the next CIV's shape.
But I think it is a real good example to let many see exactly what and why I have requested right at the very beginning of this thread.
BTW: Superman movie does not end sooner than other type of movie -- even though it take Superman much shorter (and easier) to do everything, say go round the world, punch a guy to the moon and so on.
for instance, kryptonite and Clark Kent. Superman didn't just walk around like he was in perpetual "cheat mode" ... if that's how you perceive the story, you've completely missed the point.
For what I have requested, if implemented in Civ5, it doesn't mean you can just sit there and your empire expends, your army grows automatically... You will still need to explore and build as normal. I just want those process to be easier so we can reach the conflict part quicker and then the conflict take higher magnitude.... and longer ... and ... more intersting.
There is one more crucial factor, that makes me foresee longer war (where, everything else as you have said get done faster), do you know what is it?
Think it yourself.
Don't be at war while building the bridge, building cities along the bridge and not having open borders if neccesary, I think it would be fairly easy to exploit.
So, you are suggesting building land bridge at peaceful time and it will become an exploit, right?
Let me tell you, not long after you start building your land bridge, you see 3 ships (or more, be they battle type or civil) in one row, right in front of you, they just stay there, still. What will you do?
1. You can send ships to attack them and break the peace. The story continue with what I have mentioned as in my previous reply to you
2. You can go horizontal a bit in an attempt to bypass them (I don't think it is wise). SO they again shift they location to block you again... I think it wil take you forever to reach where you want your land bridge go. (You better choose 1.)
3. You can of course stop build the bridge and go do something more fruitful.
Btw,
You have mentioned the poison word -- Exploit, which have poisoned the designer of Civ3 and Civ4 so far...
Since capturing a city gave u a tech you were sure never to lag behind.
(just kidding)
