Things in Civ3 that would make no sense in real life

[Hygro]

YNCS wow I knew bronze was around that old, but I had no idea about the armor! I was partially refering to the civ3 civilpedia which specifically talks about the 600 B.C. period for babylon. I knew about it's earlier days, but was unaware of the advanced level of bronze that they had.

 

[America444]

I agree with you totally sim one. There are some pretty unrealalistic things in Civ. Like it takes you years and years to sail across an ocean and you can instantaniously airlift from city to city. Or that marines and paratroopers need oil when they are human units. And marines cost has much shields as transports now I think that's pretty wrong. There are some fluks in this program but still I think it's a great game.

 

[Dark Yoda]

Quote - Maybe Physics should be an ancient tech, and the current Renaissance physics should be replaced with a tech like "Newtonian Mechanics."

yeah, and then you could have einstienian physics.

why are there no anti-tank weapons or assault helicopters?

 

[Henry_X]

Originally posted by America444
... that marines and paratroopers need oil when they are human units. ...

Maybe the need a lot of grease for their guns

 

[NewDestroyer]

yep

 

[nmcul]

What about Infantry and rubber? Where would the infantrymen of the world wars been without their spectacular... rubber... ...thingies??

 

[dguichar]

Originally posted by nmcul
Maybe Physics should be an ancient tech, and the current Renaissance physics should be replaced with a tech like "Newtonian Mechanics."

Or just Mechanics...

The only artillery of ancient times was the stone thrower.

Keep civilized

David

 

[YNCS]

Why don't Riflemen need saltpeter? The Rifleman animation is obviously patterned after a U.S. Civil War soldier. Black powder was used during the Civil War, smokeless powder (which still needs some type of nitrate) wasn't invented until the 1870s and didn't come into common use until around 1890.

Or am I being too picky?

 

[Hygro]

Paratroopers need oil to simulate the planes that they are dropped from. Marines don't need oil.

 

[DiamondzAndGunz]

Originally posted by nmcul
What about Infantry and rubber? Where would the infantrymen of the world wars been without their spectacular... rubber... ...thingies??

Duh! They need them for their rubber boots!

 

[Illustrious]

Originally posted by DiamondzAndGunz


Duh! They need them for their rubber boots!

What? Infantrymen in wellies? No. The [/i]modern[/i] infantry boot might have a rubber sole, but even as recently as WW2 the basic boot had a leather sole studded with iron nails. My father wore them through Normandy.

Given that the Infantry unit is supposed (or so the Firaxis civilopaedia claims) to represent military technology at around the start of the 20th century, we're still back with nmcul, trying to identify what are these spectacular rubber thingies that are allegedly indispenible to infantrymen... (if it weren't for forum rules I could speculate... ).

 

[nmcul]

Thanks for the insight on boots, and thanks to your dad as well. But do you really think that ...uhmm, your theory is a modern phenomenom? 'Cause if you do I've got news for yah.

If a picture is worth a thousand words, then give me a picture of the Gettysburg Address.

 

[DiamondzAndGunz]

Ok ok... how about for the rubber tires for the trucks that transported the infantrymen? Don't tell me they didn't have rubber tires back then... or trucks... Cuz then I'd be all out of ideas. Except, of course, for that there speculation....

 

[Hygro]

Diamond, thats what I was thinking--except then you'd need oil for the trucks too, and combustion is not a required tech.

Maybe it's rubber for all the extra things needed to support the infantry, like the whole hospital scene and whatnot... actually the more I think about it the more confusing this gets...

 

[Pembroke]

I don't know about the infantry but marines needing rubber makes perfect sense. Without rubber they would all be in the sick bay the following morning they got a leave.

 

[Zachriel]

You need vulcanized rubber for "modern" factory machines (for belts, among other things). Factory production is what made Infantry possible, Infantry being the mass-produced soldier. At the start of WWI, there were enough uniforms stockpiled for every man in Europe.

(By the way, Latex Lances are still an important weapon for the modern soldier. http://www.safersex.org/condoms/atwar/ )

 

[Zachriel]

BRITANNICA

In 1881, at the Midvale Steel Company in the United States, Frederick W. Taylor began studies of the organization of manufacturing operations that subsequently formed the foundation of modern production planning.
. . .

At the same time, Frank B. Gilbreth and his wife, Lillian M. Gilbreth, U.S. industrial engineers, began their pioneering studies of the movements by which people carry out tasks. (Cheaper by the Dozen ).
. . .

Much of the credit for bringing these early concepts together in a coherent form, and creating the modern, integrated, mass production operation, belongs to the U.S. industrialist Henry Ford and his colleagues at the Ford Motor Company, where in 1913 a moving-belt conveyor was used in the assembly of flywheel magnetos.

 

[Persepolis]

i didn't read the whole thread, but here's my thing that would make no sense in real life:

launching a SS around 1800 (i think i did it some earlier in my game)

 

[Ram]

-Now here's something weird: you can't learn two technologies at the same time. Well, forgive me, but as far as I remember, Rocketry and Nuclear Power were studied at quite the same time (Manhattan Project, V-1 and V-2s - both in World War II).
-Also, the Intergrated Defence idea was designed somewhere around the 1970's - before Genetics, or Robotics.

 

[Persepolis]

i think u can only study 1 tech at the time because if u say 2 people will say 3(because Rocketry and Nuclear were not the only 2 things studied @ the same time)... bringing it to an unlimited state(3-4 4-5 etc) (hope i said this right)