Techs & WH History & Religions etc.

[Arexack_heretic]

No problem Ploep.
Actually, the reason I was able to put this much effort in is that I am supposed to write a thesis.
I have a januari deadline, so that really needs some more effort.

The above techtree is my final version for now.
(I have not revised techreferences in the unitInfo or BuildingsInfo files.)

 

[Psychic_Llamas]

@AH: Great

just one question:
why are goblins illiterate? (no access to writing) i mean they ARE the most inteligent of the greenskins.

@ ploe: no problem

 

[Arexack_heretic]

they are illiterate because I only recently started thinking about having the gobbo's on top.
The current list represents the mixed golinoid society in a savage state (aka Orks daBoss)

suggestions are welcome.

There is a workaround for polytheism, which is required for Da big Waagh!
But I haven't thought too much about other writing-dependent techs....'spellbinding' (magicItems) will be a problem.
litterature...I think that doesn't draw all the way back to writing. This is unnatural.

 

[Psychic_Llamas]

Oh, i see now. god its hard not having the latest game cant wait for my comp

well, perhaps instead of preventing Greenskins from researchin Literature, give them a 'cave painting' building there, which acts as a Library (which i assume comes avaliable for the other races at writing) so they can still research it, but get a smaller benefit from it.

why must spell binding be writing dependent? Orcs and gobbos have their own form of 'writing' albeit, a very basic, one, used convey very simple ideas, such as "bash heads" so the Gobbos, who are pretty inteligent for a greensking, could scribble some magic cave drawings on weapons etc to give the same effect. so theres really not much need to avoid 'spellbinding' either.
(plus i dont really think its the symbols of writing which gives it meaning, only substance. spells could work and last if they were done verbally, but they would be stronger if they had a physical shape or object to bond to. (such as writing) sorry, that was some of my philosophy on magic )

oh, and why is banking pink?

 

[Arexack_heretic]

You are right about writing.
But I think alphabet would be beyond orks.
(we just need to disable libraries etc for 'the horde' civic. Or have a research handicap)

Purple is a reminder for me that I changed it after writing xml.
The uploaded xml is up to date. So the colour should be yellow.

 

[Psychic_Llamas]

i agree, no libraries for Greenies. they can comprehend symbolt which represent things, but not alphabets. that just requires far too many brain cells, of which they are lacking greatly in

so is that the new tech tree complete then? good work AH