Say NO to future techs

[Pathetic Leader]

yes to future... no to future techs. Give them proper names, give them units and buildings, give them effects.

maybe even add the universe.

example the near future would allow us to colonise the moon and possibly terraform mars whilst searching forr ET. How we would portray the extra maps I don't know. The far future would become accessable once Hyperspace/Warp/FTL (call it what you will) technology has been introduced. This could liven up the race to Alpha Centauri as a FTL cruiser built many years AFTER a standard rocket ship could possibly reach AC BEFORE said rocket ship.

Obviously the known galaxy would be a good starting point and if anyone has the maps from either Frontier Elite II or Frontier First Encounters, You hve an ideal model universe to try and conquer.

Obviously this is really expandinhg the scope of the game and would be more difficult to impliment as we would need to get to grips with 3 dimensional movement...

Unless we don't actually see the space between the planets and just "goto" ships. Once there, colonisation begins again... but we have advanced aliens to deal with, unique technologies that can only be researched by contact with alien culture, just think... you are on the way to alpha centauri, you are just assimilating the last eartly colony that stands between you and 100% domination and all of a sudden an alien tribe springs up.

 

[sealman]

Say No to the whole Future Era Concept.

If it must be included, make it a senario but not part of the core game.

 

[Pathetic Leader]

Being able to reach the moon is part of history (although some people still think it is fake) Once you have reached the moon what are you going to do?

The poll for yes/no to the future age is further down the page, this is designed to be ideas for a possible future age not another should we have one or not threrad

 

[sealman]

Being able to reach the moon is part of history (although some people still think it is fake) Once you have reached the moon what are you going to do?

The poll for yes/no to the future age is further down the page, this is designed to be ideas for a possible future age not another should we have one or not threrad

My apologies, I mis-interpreted the basis of your thread. (I have already voted in the poll.)

But in answer to your question - you build the spaceship and go to Alpha Centari.

 

[Pathetic Leader]

apology accepted.


the idea regarding AC was that

A: Aliens could be introduced (esp if respawning civs was turned off).

B: someone that waits and puts all their effort into FTL tech rather than building a rfocket ship and blasting it off may beat the other civ to AC even though they built their ship many years later.

 

[warpstorm]

Say no to future anything in CIV.

 

[The Last Conformist]

No to a Future Era.

Yes to Future Techs - they're lame, but having the tech tree simply end without anything to replace it would be lamer.

Instead, I'd suggest that a) the associated score bonus is cranked up big time, b) they're given some in-game effect. Extra happiness or tax revenue, perhaps.

 

[Bibor]

1 future tech = 1 policeman effect in all cities (reduces corruption and waste)

somewhat pays off, since reserach costs cca. 2000 gpt at this moment...

-kirby

 

[dh_epic]

This is my version of future tech ideas:

more powerful units! no wait, even more powerful units! what about the most powerful units my imagination can think of? 24/24/5!!! wow that would be so much cooler than 16/10/3!!!

more buildings. wait, even better, more wonders! no wait, a wonder that makes even more people happy! whoa, what if there was a wonder that made everyone happy! that would be awesome!!!

railroads that get you from point A to point B in the same turn aren't fast enough. neither are airlifts. teleporters would be TOTALLY different!!!

oh yeah and there would be technologies. what would they do? hmm, they could give you a new unit! and more wonders! and we all know how cool those are!!!

wow the future is AMAZING!!!

 

[superpelon]

oh yeah and there would be technologies. what would they do? hmm, they could give you a new unit! and more wonders! and we all know how cool those are!!!

wow the future is AMAZING!!!

HAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA

I think it is a bit one-sided here. No to future techs. A few techs, that reduce pollution, waste, corruption, war wariness might be ok... but another CTP?? No thanks.

Space? no thanks...

Underwater?? mmmm maybe... but just to add mining colonies, for oil and such.

I bought and played both CTP games, they had GOOD ideas, like bombard and stacks and ranged units... and naming units... and diffrent levels of terrain improvments. but once you got into the future in those games... things went from OK to bad... then to worse.

 

[MSTK]

It would really be horrible to just have the tech tree...end.

 

[troytheface]

I agree with the Call to Power comments...really liked that game until ..future techs (and that u can easily beat it on the hardest level) But it offered a great lesson in so far as historically based games...keep it historical, not fantasy.

 

[Bibor]

I agree with the Call to Power comments...really liked that game until ..future techs (and that u can easily beat it on the hardest level) But it offered a great lesson in so far as historically based games...keep it historical, not fantasy.

I concur.

(a riot shouting)

We want SMAC 2!

We want SMAC 2!

We want SMAC 2!

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[warpstorm]

I would love SMAC 2, but I think that it should be its own game.

 

[Aussie_Lurker]

I think a tech tree which goes a little bit into a putative future would be a good thing (not to the ridiculous extreme of CtP!), and I think the ability to add eras should be vital for those players who DO want to have lots of future technologies.
As for everyone else, I think that once you have exhausted your standard tech tree, then your science output should perhaps be 'converted' to something else, to reflect how 'science unchained' is improving the wealth and welfare of your people!
Anyway, just a thought!

YOurs,
Aussie_Lurker.

 

[Drakan]

No future techs please. This is civ and let's keep it historical. If you want aliens and hyperdrives let them design SMAC2.

 

[Pathetic Leader]

I respect your comments. I have not played CTP and do not know wgat SMAC is.

However, as I ponted out above. The poll for yes/no to a future era is below. This thread is to discuss ideas for a possible future era.

Maybe my thoughts were a bit drastic... but they were based on the idea that everything just stops when you get to the modern age and all you can do is research future tech after future tech.

Yes I know it ha to stop somewhere, and maybe colonising the universe is a bit much. But i would like to see something in place of future techs. They really bug me something cronic.

Having said that I don't want to be able to build one uber unit that can destroy everything around it, nukes are bad enough.

The ideas of FTL travel were for getting from planet to planet only, not on planet travel.

 

[Jawn Henry]

Some people (many, AFAI saw) disliked the "unlimited railroad" movement. Limiting RR moves would be good, but maybe some future tech could give give unlimited RR moves. That indeed would be a future tech...

JH

 

[Diogenes183]

Future Tech: Sounds cool but probably would make the game less fun.

 

[Blackbird_SR-71]

i think maybe we should just add going to the moon instead of Alpha Centiur. going to the moon is historical and when you go to the moon you can add a base their and get resources their. maybe you could launch unmanned probes that explore space that to is historical. their is lots of ideas for this but this is mine.