IMBC2
"Friends of Eidolon" lead
- Joined
- Aug 17, 2006
- Messages
- 79
Life on other planets totally intrigues me!
In fact, even I have found it quite a stretch to have a town on Nona that could feed 18,300,000 people (Size 60 city)!
If, during the time that the Lalande 21185 Sci-Fi scenario takes place, we could have people living on cold, sub-freezing, gas giant planets, and if it were possible to create a scenario using Civilization II: The Test of Time in which you could traverse up to eight maps:
(1) Could you see humans finding a way to live on Jacqueline (the closest planet to the Lalande 21185 sun according to the manual)?
(2) Humans finding a way to colonize one or two of the largest asteroids in the asteroid belt outside of Nona (Lalande 21185b)?
(3) Humans colonizing Lalande 21185c (the outermost gas giant planet beyond the asteroid belt as shown in the manual)? This planet may be similar to Nona but a bit colder.
At the current moment, I am still experimenting with creating "beneficial Gaia reactions" on Nona in my current Lalande 21185 game.
However, if someone could get past the 4-map "limitation" of Civ2TOT (hmmm... Civ2TOT source code petition, anyone?
), a faraway universe in which colonization of a Mercury-like planet, an Earth-like planet (Funestis), orbital stations (Orbit), a gray Mars-like planet (Naumachia), 2 asteroids, and 2 gas giant planets (including Nona) would make a killer scenario! 
(I know, I know, pipe dream... yet it's fun to imagine or to even write a story about... )
In fact, even I have found it quite a stretch to have a town on Nona that could feed 18,300,000 people (Size 60 city)!
If, during the time that the Lalande 21185 Sci-Fi scenario takes place, we could have people living on cold, sub-freezing, gas giant planets, and if it were possible to create a scenario using Civilization II: The Test of Time in which you could traverse up to eight maps:
(1) Could you see humans finding a way to live on Jacqueline (the closest planet to the Lalande 21185 sun according to the manual)?
(2) Humans finding a way to colonize one or two of the largest asteroids in the asteroid belt outside of Nona (Lalande 21185b)?
(3) Humans colonizing Lalande 21185c (the outermost gas giant planet beyond the asteroid belt as shown in the manual)? This planet may be similar to Nona but a bit colder.
At the current moment, I am still experimenting with creating "beneficial Gaia reactions" on Nona in my current Lalande 21185 game.
However, if someone could get past the 4-map "limitation" of Civ2TOT (hmmm... Civ2TOT source code petition, anyone?
), a faraway universe in which colonization of a Mercury-like planet, an Earth-like planet (Funestis), orbital stations (Orbit), a gray Mars-like planet (Naumachia), 2 asteroids, and 2 gas giant planets (including Nona) would make a killer scenario! (I know, I know, pipe dream... yet it's fun to imagine or to even write a story about...
)
To understand why, I recommend reading Venus by Ben Bova. The alien life in that book was creepy, terrifying, and I hope Bova follows it up with a sequel... 
