Realizm mod

[Cyrai]

I found the time scale to be weirdest in SMAC with planes. On a huge map, it would take the planes somewhere around 3-4 years to fly across the world. IRL, this would be done in less than a few days. On even a small map it would take over a year. There were other points to this, but I forgot them with the time.

 

[Rotpar]

Ok, first off the time clock is a novelty to me, I place no real importance in it know it doesn't take 200 years to make a warrior. I use it to make jokes about having space travel in 1856 and airplanes since 1735.

Second responding to Rikhis, if spearmen bought AK-47s from arms dealers then they are no longer spearmen, they've upgraded to something else. On another civ board somebody claimed that Riflemen units were acutally just primarily compsed of Riflemen but also included artillery, medics, etc. I'd say that a unit is what it says it is, spearmen use spears not black-market rifles. Also I understand that low-tech units can beat high-tech, Custer's Last Stand for example, but Spearmen shouldn't beat a Tank and a Galley shouldn't beat a Battleship! I'm willing to assume Riflemen could destroy it with grenades or something but thick steel armor should lose to stone/bronze spearheads. As far as balance goes I think the rescources work fine, I've been driven p the wall unable to use advanced units for lack of Iron/Oil etc.

 

[lordroy]

Ok... what units should be changed in Ancient times?

Warriors?
Spearmen?

What else...

How about this, make them easily built but not upgradeable?

RoY

 

[Scipio Africanu]

I think all units should remain on thier current course of upgrade. The Romans during the late 300's and 400's A.D. had spent considerable money upgrading many of the still Imperial (Rome under Fascist rule) makeup of her Legions. This consisted of a new round shield with a bronze base topped with an iron front (the back was brass, the front was iron) and extending the size of the Pompie sword (it had replaced the Gladius Hispanesis) by several inches. So I think Ancient units should be just as upgradable as any other age, and should also stay at the same upgrade cost. A 40 peice gold upgrade is fairly substantial for that age.

However I think medievel units should require quite a bit more money to upgrade since making the switch from melee to ranged combat was quite expensive. As I said before their current course of upgrade I feel is substantial but prehaps their cost to upgrade can be modified to better represent the cost of making such a leap in military technology at the time. and modern units should require a much more substantial investment to upgrade such as tank to modern tank and inf to mechanized inf..