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Civ Fanatic
I think future techs should remain in the game (I don't like an abrupt-ending tech tree, and I don't like the wasted science that so much time and resources were spent to build), but it definitely needs to be seriously revamped (I also don't like spending all of those resources on something that just increases my score by 5, with no in-game benefits). I like the concept of future techs simply representing the future, rather than creating sci-fi like or unrealistic/uncertain made-up future techs.
My proposal would be to create several different future tech categories that can be researched and produce subtle, but distinct, in-game advantages; each category could be researched so many levels deep. For instance (Note: all suggested benefits are for demonstration purposes only, and have not necessarily been balanced or explicitely recomended; categories borrowed from Rise of Nations):
Military Future Tech:
Level 1: All units 10% Cheaper to build
Level 2: Grant all units +2 Defense
Level 3: Grant all units +3 Attack
Level 4: Grant all units +1 Movement
Level 5: Grant all units +1 HP
Commerce Future Tech:
Level 1: One-time bonus of 10,000 gold
Level 2: Corruption reduced by 10%
Level 3: Unit support costs reduced by 10%
Level 4: All maintenence costs reduced by 10%
Level 5: All cities +1 gold income
Civic Future Tech:
Level 1: +1 Culture for all cities
Level 2: City radius increased by +1 for all cities
Level 3: +1 Happy citizen for all cities
Level 4: Population increase of +1 for all cities
Level 5: +10% food for all cities
Science Future Tech:
Level 1: All research reduced by 10%
Level 2: -50% Pollution
Level 3: Waste reduced by 50%
Level 4: City improvements/wonder cost reduced by 10%
Level 5: Science can be diverted to income, or some other resource (at a reduced rate)
The cost of these future techs should be relatively high (increasing dramatically with each level) such that it is next to impossible to research all of them. In the rare or exceptional case where they are all researched, nothing else would be available, but any 'wasted' science could be converted to resources (as per Science Level 5).
This proposal, in my opinion, would create subtle but distinct (and potentially powerful) advantages to the future technology, while still maintaining it's intended purpose of representing unknown future technologies.
Suggestions? Questions? Comments? Critisizims?
Mods: While this is a duplicate post (with some minor changes) of a reply I posted earlier in the 'Say NO to Future Techs' threads, I felt that it merited it's own thread, as it has a drastically different tone and direction than the aforementioned thread. If you disagree, feel free to close, delete, or move this thread and/or any of it's replies. Thanks.
My proposal would be to create several different future tech categories that can be researched and produce subtle, but distinct, in-game advantages; each category could be researched so many levels deep. For instance (Note: all suggested benefits are for demonstration purposes only, and have not necessarily been balanced or explicitely recomended; categories borrowed from Rise of Nations):
Military Future Tech:
Level 1: All units 10% Cheaper to build
Level 2: Grant all units +2 Defense
Level 3: Grant all units +3 Attack
Level 4: Grant all units +1 Movement
Level 5: Grant all units +1 HP
Commerce Future Tech:
Level 1: One-time bonus of 10,000 gold
Level 2: Corruption reduced by 10%
Level 3: Unit support costs reduced by 10%
Level 4: All maintenence costs reduced by 10%
Level 5: All cities +1 gold income
Civic Future Tech:
Level 1: +1 Culture for all cities
Level 2: City radius increased by +1 for all cities
Level 3: +1 Happy citizen for all cities
Level 4: Population increase of +1 for all cities
Level 5: +10% food for all cities
Science Future Tech:
Level 1: All research reduced by 10%
Level 2: -50% Pollution
Level 3: Waste reduced by 50%
Level 4: City improvements/wonder cost reduced by 10%
Level 5: Science can be diverted to income, or some other resource (at a reduced rate)
The cost of these future techs should be relatively high (increasing dramatically with each level) such that it is next to impossible to research all of them. In the rare or exceptional case where they are all researched, nothing else would be available, but any 'wasted' science could be converted to resources (as per Science Level 5).
This proposal, in my opinion, would create subtle but distinct (and potentially powerful) advantages to the future technology, while still maintaining it's intended purpose of representing unknown future technologies.
Suggestions? Questions? Comments? Critisizims?
Mods: While this is a duplicate post (with some minor changes) of a reply I posted earlier in the 'Say NO to Future Techs' threads, I felt that it merited it's own thread, as it has a drastically different tone and direction than the aforementioned thread. If you disagree, feel free to close, delete, or move this thread and/or any of it's replies. Thanks.
