Odd Earth Relic

[SupremacyKing]

Maybe I'm just too optimistic, but as the build times in the demo last week where so fast, maybe the initial settlement has some unique buildings after all. Maybe the later cities get other 'monument" type buildings.

I'm sure there will be other culture buildings later in the game, the old earth relic is just the "monument", meant to give you early culture. Just because something is easy to build, does not mean that it is only for your first city. In civ5, if you build a new city later in the game (say 1800 AD), you could still build a monument in it.

I do think people are taking the name too literally if they think that you are actually building a relic from scratch. Clearly, it makes more sense that you are building the housing for the relic that you brought from Earth.

 

[Minor Annoyance]

Anything could be an old earth relic. A Brittany Spears CD will one day be a relic to be displayed in a museum.

 

[ShaggyCan]

It would be most interesting to have your buildings behave differently depending on your level of Affinity. So a Supremacy barracks would be a whole different creature than Purity one. Same with old Earth Relic, if you gained many level of Harmony it would probably cease to function, since your people no longer have any attachment to that old Planet. Where a relic in a Purity settlement would become the focus of the city and a rallying point, and much more potent.

 

[defiler]

The idea of different buildings or buildings changing from the ideology is interesting, but it is possible for it makes sense into different ideologies too.
The Old Earth Relic for instance could be :
Purity - Anything, since they love the old times
Supremacy - Deep Blue, A Google Server, any relevant piece of tecnology
Harmony - Any plant or organism, like the White Pine in Gaia's Landing from SMAC

 

[Dargoth]

The obvious Old earth relic would be the Lander they made planet fall in, it would be like the Mayflower to the colonists and would probably be preserved along with the landing site.

 

[Arkangelus]

On the 'Britney Spears CD' topic - it'd even make sense if the 'relic' itself was digital. Music from Earth, photographs, something like that. The construction on the new planet would be more the physical effort and infrastructure into making it a public display.

 

[Josephias]

Anything could be an old earth relic. A Brittany Spears CD will one day be a relic to be displayed in a museum.

Elodie dissaproves this ;p


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[Casworon]

If the great mistakes happen after our current time period then the time we are living could be looked back upon as a golden age. Stuff like Britney Spears CD's, as much as some of us hate them now , i could see becoming relics of our golden age considering how popular she is. Even culture snobs like Elodie could be loving it and bobbing their heads along with the music

 

[SupremacyKing]

Elodie dissaproves this ;p

Yep, the only item that is allowed in the Old Earth Relic is an authorized copy of The Canon!

 

[defiler]

Also on the clip Oops I did it again, it shows an astronaut finding a Britney's CD cover on the first expedition to Mars.
Maybe in two centuries it goes lost in the translation and people may think that it was true