Heinz4lif
Chieftain
I think the Tech race would be made more interesting if the Civs could develop in different directions, instead of everyone following the same tech tree.
For exmple, if you start in ancient times in the center of a mountainous Pangea, what use is the shipbuilding techs right away?
What if your intent is to win cities over by popularity, instead of military force? Wouldn't you prefer a set of tecs that develop propaganda, rather than tanks?
What I'm saying is to have tech trees go in multiple directions, instead of just semi-linearly, and then once you change eras, you only continue down one path (some tecs should be present in multiple branches to be fair) until you reach another possible direction.
This could also make tech trade more interesting. When you choose one direction, you can only trade for the techs in the other branches. This way, it pushes you to research your branch so you can trade for other techs you can't research.
Also, it adds a little more variety to this segment of the game.
There are some kinks to this idea that would need to be worked out before it could be used, but I think it's workable.
For exmple, if you start in ancient times in the center of a mountainous Pangea, what use is the shipbuilding techs right away?
What if your intent is to win cities over by popularity, instead of military force? Wouldn't you prefer a set of tecs that develop propaganda, rather than tanks?
What I'm saying is to have tech trees go in multiple directions, instead of just semi-linearly, and then once you change eras, you only continue down one path (some tecs should be present in multiple branches to be fair) until you reach another possible direction.
This could also make tech trade more interesting. When you choose one direction, you can only trade for the techs in the other branches. This way, it pushes you to research your branch so you can trade for other techs you can't research.
Also, it adds a little more variety to this segment of the game.
There are some kinks to this idea that would need to be worked out before it could be used, but I think it's workable.