Resources spotted: Uranium, but middle ages?

[sela1s1son]

http://image.com.com/gamespot/images/2005/257/reviews/919352_20050915_screen009.jpg

If you look just above the top city, it seems like you can see "green rods" sticking out of the ground, which would suggest Uranium. Looking at the city, it's far from modern times. Perhaps we can see resources either A: from the beginning, or B: X amount of time before we can use it.

Thoughts?

 

[Goombaz]

The way I see it there are 3 possibilites.

1) It's in debug mode. For me, this is getting harder to beleive.

2) Resources can be seen no matter what.

3) The building graphics are not age specific

 

[Raggamuffin]

Debug mode. There's no other option/possibility.

 

[Goombaz]

Debug mode. There's no other option/possibility.

I sure hope you are right, because 2 or 3 would be terrible. As for the idea that 2 AND 3 could be true at the same time, that would be too horrible to speak of.

 

[Obssesed Nuker]

#2 actually makes sense. People probably knew about oil since the beginning of recorded history, just until the invention of the internal combustion engine and refining they didnt know what to do with it. The same was probably true for Uranium.

 

[KrikkitTwo]

Well there is possibility 4
Fission has already been discovered by the middle ages (in the tech tree as it is now Fission can be researched after Astronomy)

 

[knupp715]

Has anybody considered that it is a new luxury/resource than in previous Civs? This could very well be a possibility. In C3C there was a few scenarios that had jade in them as a luxury.

 

[knupp715]

I also don't think it is a de-bug mode. Looks more like a luxury to me. And I don't think they employees at Firaxis would ever decide to make resources avalaible to see even in the beginning. That would't make sense because then people would know where to settle. I guess we will have to wait to play the game.

 

[Goombaz]

Has anybody considered that it is a new luxury/resource than in previous Civs? This could very well be a possibility. In C3C there was a few scenarios that had jade in them as a luxury.

But would they make Jade glow?

 

[nullspace]

Debug mode. Fog of war is turned off in most of the screenshots.

 

[knupp715]

But would they make Jade glow?

I'm not sure if it is even jade. But they have make a whole new 3D engine and many of the terrain and bonuses (whales and fish) have come to life and our animated.

 

[Stile]

I thought it could be animated corn growing, but it is definitely glowing and I can't seem to find another screenshot of corn to compare it with. I don't see the problem with it being debug mode.

 

[letis]

1) It's in debug mode. For me, this is getting harder to beleive.

2) Resources can be seen no matter what.

3) The building graphics are not age specific

Or

4) it's not uranium but something else (emerauds ?)

regardsn

 

[sela1s1son]

Another possibility or two (and I'll refer to Civ III for simplicity sake).

I can't recall the tech tree, so bare with me...

The first tech where anything makes use of Uranium is Fission, but... let's say one to some odd number of techs before you have Fission you can see it before that. For example, at a certain point in technological development scientists start talking about theories of the Atom, etc... and they notice "Hey, this substance has some really unique qualities/properties... perhaps it could prove to have some sort of interesting function or functions?"

Remember how Marie Curie 'accidently' discovered radition?/how X-rays are (from what I remember0 accidently discovered? Uranium is radioactive, and perhaps they notice "Oh look what happens when we.. blah blah" and they begin studying it, thus leading to a reason for research into fission (and thus a discovery and application) to be discovered?

So in this case, perhaps a tech we'll call it "Atomic Model" or something similar allows you to see Uranium. This could be near the researching of Fission. Perhaps we could take it one step further, as there is a flexible tech tree in Civ IV (so no one specific tech is likely vital), perhaps to research fission you *need* Uranium. You can't see Uranium until you're near that point, so you may have a handful of turns to try and seize it, but not the whole game.

Thoughts?

 

[KrikkitTwo]

Just a reminder: Fission Is a middle Ages tech with Civ IVs current Tech Tree

 

[Gogf]

I'm sure the buildings don't change by age, as there aren't ages anymore .

 

[sela1s1son]

I'm sure the buildings don't change by age, as there aren't ages anymore .

Perhaps, but even in Civilization II there'd be "Building era 1" then with Industrialization the cities would have and "Industrial/Brick" era... and then a "Modern Steel/Glass Building era" with the discovery of (Automobile?).

So, while era may not exist, the cities should reflect (to a degree) a very general idea of where the civ is in technological development.

 

[Sparrowhawk]

I doubt you'll be able to see resources before your civ has the tech to use them. Sure, your people may have known about them before then, but not to differentiate them from many useless 'resources'. For example, Marie Curie also discovered polonium and radium, which are also radioactive, but are not useful in the same way as uranium. Only with an understanding of the use of a resource should it show up on the map.

 

[Ulyaoth]

Another possibility or two (and I'll refer to Civ III for simplicity sake).

I can't recall the tech tree, so bare with me...

The first tech where anything makes use of Uranium is Fission, but... let's say one to some odd number of techs before you have Fission you can see it before that. For example, at a certain point in technological development scientists start talking about theories of the Atom, etc... and they notice "Hey, this substance has some really unique qualities/properties... perhaps it could prove to have some sort of interesting function or functions?"

Remember how Marie Curie 'accidently' discovered radition?/how X-rays are (from what I remember0 accidently discovered? Uranium is radioactive, and perhaps they notice "Oh look what happens when we.. blah blah" and they begin studying it, thus leading to a reason for research into fission (and thus a discovery and application) to be discovered?

So in this case, perhaps a tech we'll call it "Atomic Model" or something similar allows you to see Uranium. This could be near the researching of Fission. Perhaps we could take it one step further, as there is a flexible tech tree in Civ IV (so no one specific tech is likely vital), perhaps to research fission you *need* Uranium. You can't see Uranium until you're near that point, so you may have a handful of turns to try and seize it, but not the whole game.

Thoughts?

That actually makes some sense. Maybe when you start researching a tech that would allow the use of a resource, the resource pops up on the map?

 

[wombatoftruth]

It looks to me like the green things are crystals. My first thought was emeralds, or some other jewel, though the glowing does make one think uranium.