Terrain changes

[Hawkster]

As a suggestion for future civ enhancements (lots of people have suggested ideas for civs/units etc etc) I propose the following:-

1.Natural disasters
mountains becomming volcanoes - earthquakes / floods etc - after all they happen in the real world - why not in civ world ?

2.Terrain changes
As we know changes can happen due the global warming - but what about introducing erosion - say mountains becomming hills or rivers changing course or lakes drying up? Or new volcanoes forming new mountains.Changing sea level perhaps ?

After all the world you get when you start is what you stick with - a chaning world I think would add to the game.

Opinions (said he ducking to avoid the flack)??????

 

[Zouave]

The changes you refer to take place in Geologic Time which lasts tens of millions of years, often longer. The Civ 3 AI can't handle six thousand years. Hmmm, although a nice large comet hitting the Firaxis programming dept. gives me ideas. . .


BTW, in the Atlantis scenario for Civ 2 we had a gigantic volcanic explosion. What the point was I never knew. It just ended the game if you were the Atlanteans, or wiped out a rival if not.

 

[Shabbaman]

Zouave's right. But it'd be interesting to see erosion due to unsustainable land use. This already happens to depleted resources, so why not? (because it's lame, that's why...)

 

[Lt. 'Killer' M.]

1.) Yes, would be nice! But a little hard to program in a way that would keep it from ruining game balance on very small maps. You'd need 'sized' volcanoes for each map size....

2.) as Zouave said - different time scale!