bene_legionary
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The industrial revolution was a major event for world history, even if it was centred in Europe. At that point Western Europe pulled ahead of other major civilizations like China, Japan, Russia and Turkey, and had a large increase in population size as the inventions put out in this period caused farming to be able to be done by fewer people and be able to feed more at the same time, leaving many people to do other things, for example, go to university and discover more things. As people became educated they demanded more things like running water and human rights, as well as amenities that were originally only for the upper class.
This isn't represented at all in Civ 6, and the process of industrialisation is a simple technology in the tech tree. Are there any ideas on some sort of a possible industrial revolution in a future Civ game, or should it stay as abstract as it is?
Personally I think this event is too big to ignore. At this point, the consequences of industrialising could be your population demanding much more amenities, while they become more productive and scientific. At the same time you will have a lot more people, so providing jobs and making them specialists will be very useful. Knowing when to industrialise will help your civilization a lot.
Historically, countries that initially failed at industrialisation, like China in the 1860s onwards and the Russians before 1900s, resulted in them having protracted civil wars. Broadly speaking, China was in constant civil war between 1912 to 1949. Therefore the consequences of not industrialising at the best time are very rough. But countries that can industrialise well (Japan, America) will see themselves farther ahead than others.
Industrialisation in this way is a very meaningful decision which throws up the tempo of the game. Of course more work needs to be done to make it hard to predict when it's best to industrialise, but I think that it's a good base to start on.
This isn't represented at all in Civ 6, and the process of industrialisation is a simple technology in the tech tree. Are there any ideas on some sort of a possible industrial revolution in a future Civ game, or should it stay as abstract as it is?
Personally I think this event is too big to ignore. At this point, the consequences of industrialising could be your population demanding much more amenities, while they become more productive and scientific. At the same time you will have a lot more people, so providing jobs and making them specialists will be very useful. Knowing when to industrialise will help your civilization a lot.
Historically, countries that initially failed at industrialisation, like China in the 1860s onwards and the Russians before 1900s, resulted in them having protracted civil wars. Broadly speaking, China was in constant civil war between 1912 to 1949. Therefore the consequences of not industrialising at the best time are very rough. But countries that can industrialise well (Japan, America) will see themselves farther ahead than others.
Industrialisation in this way is a very meaningful decision which throws up the tempo of the game. Of course more work needs to be done to make it hard to predict when it's best to industrialise, but I think that it's a good base to start on.