what technology do you want to see?

[Krajzen]

I tough about it for a while and maybe I found something.

I'm not sure if it's a tech or something else that could be said as civic stuff like in civ5 but anyway:





Socialistic Market.

kill it before it lays eggs

Christ please Firaxis no communism in BE, this game is supposed to be optimistic (looks through the window on peaceful Polish city still haunted by remnants of socialistic poverty and opression)

 

[Epic Eric]

Technologocial Singularity (where computers exceed human intelligence, and develop themselves even more powerful computers). Not sure how it could be implemented, but it'd definitely be fun (or scary?) to stumble on it end-game.

 

[MrBlack103]

Orbital. Drop. Pods.

Seriously. Do it Firaxis. DO IT.

I'd probably implement it as some kind of satellite with airport-like mechanics. Pick your units to drop, which disappear for one or more turns, then pick the location for the drop and BOOM! Instant awesomeness. Kind of like paratroopers on steroids.

Some kind of technological singularity mechanic would be nice as well, as was previously mentioned.

Would also love to be able to gain access to cybernetic upgrades for my human troops. Perhaps as a specialised form of barracks building, that grants certain special promotions (with some suitably cool abilities).

And underwater architecture. I will be severely disappointed if this is not implemented in some way.

 

[Osmotic]

Control of watering for each individual plant by sensor+microchip: boosts agricultural production in arid biome.
Artificial rain by weather engineering satellite for arid biome.
Automatic earth/alien species genetic recombination to produce plants best suited for new planet and humans.
Faction-wide network simulated war-games to improve training and morale.
Personal infantry rocket pack- for tactical mobility

 

[vahouth]

Orbital. Drop. Pods.

Seriously. Do it Firaxis. DO IT.

I'd probably implement it as some kind of satellite with airport-like mechanics. Pick your units to drop, which disappear for one or more turns, then pick the location for the drop and BOOM! Instant awesomeness. Kind of like paratroopers on steroids.

Some kind of technological singularity mechanic would be nice as well, as was previously mentioned.

Would also love to be able to gain access to cybernetic upgrades for my human troops. Perhaps as a specialised form of barracks building, that grants certain special promotions (with some suitably cool abilities).

And underwater architecture. I will be severely disappointed if this is not implemented in some way.

Maybe you haven't heard yet, but Supremacy will be able to use satellites to mass teleport troops near firaxite resources all around the globe.
The other affinities will be able to teleport also but only in controlled territory (supposedly)
The teleportation method could vary from drop pods to "beam me up Scotty"

 

[RollingRocks]

Alien/Progenitors Archeology
Or Comparative Archeology of the Planet
Or Archeobiology of Planet. Maybe this tecnologies would fit for Harmony affinity
Maybe even Psycho Alien Biology

 

[Osmotic]

kill it before it lays eggs

Christ please Firaxis no communism in BE, this game is supposed to be optimistic (looks through the window on peaceful Polish city still haunted by remnants of socialistic poverty and opression)

'Socialist' and 'Market' are two words that, when joined, have produced only enslavement and poverty. As Krajzen said, " Kill it before it lays eggs." The only reason why a far future society on a exo planet would impose socialistic controls on the economy after the disastrous experience with socialism on Earth, is for temporary emergency reasons due to the need to survive. A faction who would want such controls to be permanent would definitely fall in the category of faction-controlled (ie national controlled) socialism. If it sounds bad, it's because it is. But in a dystopian scifi future, why not?

 

[Osmotic]

Maybe you haven't heard yet, but Supremacy will be able to use satellites to mass teleport troops near firaxite resources all around the globe.
The other affinities will be able to teleport also but only in controlled territory (supposedly)
The teleportation method could vary from drop pods to "beam me up Scotty"

Teleportation could radically change this civ experience. Some counter balance would seem desirable: teleported units need a turn to reorganize after landing unless they have an upgrade, or, such units could lose some deficiency in enemy terrain unless they had specific support: satellite, local resource, 5th column in an enemy city. Perhaps a limit to distance of teleportation or size of teleport able units?

 

[Lord Tirian]

Technologocial Singularity (where computers exceed human intelligence, and develop themselves even more powerful computers). Not sure how it could be implemented, but it'd definitely be fun (or scary?) to stumble on it end-game.

That's kind of what Supremacy is all about, isn't it?

 

[Epic Eric]

That's kind of what Supremacy is all about, isn't it?

Yeah, I had them in mind while I was typing it.

 

[KrikkitTwo]

'Socialist' and 'Market' are two words that, when joined, have produced only enslavement and poverty. As Krajzen said, " Kill it before it lays eggs." The only reason why a far future society on a exo planet would impose socialistic controls on the economy after the disastrous experience with socialism on Earth, is for temporary emergency reasons due to the need to survive. A faction who would want such controls to be permanent would definitely fall in the category of faction-controlled (ie national controlled) socialism. If it sounds bad, it's because it is. But in a dystopian scifi future, why not?

You are assuming socialistic means 'socialist-political controls on the economy'

What if (instead) it is a 'socialistic' as opposed to 'economic' markets ie markets in upvotes and likes instead of dollars, energy, credit, or gold. The application of the market to all social relationships.... The ability to determine the emotional ROI on a relationship to see if you should invest more heavily or put a short sell on your mother's love.

OR it could be market methods of achieving socialistic goals... ie a socialistic market is the tech/business model needed to prevent governments from reforming once they are abolished

 

[Osmotic]

You are assuming socialistic means 'socialist-political controls on the economy'

What if (instead) it is a 'socialistic' as opposed to 'economic' markets ie markets in upvotes and likes instead of dollars, energy, credit, or gold. The application of the market to all social relationships.... The ability to determine the emotional ROI on a relationship to see if you should invest more heavily or put a short sell on your mother's love.

OR it could be market methods of achieving socialistic goals... ie a socialistic market is the tech/business model needed to prevent governments from reforming once they are abolished

A society where human emotion is reduced to a sum of digital thumbs up or down that form the main currency is such a scary prospect that it certainly qualifies as a fine dystopian model to explore in a game like BE.

 

[3of5]

'Socialist' and 'Market' are two words that, when joined, have produced only enslavement and poverty. As Krajzen said, " Kill it before it lays eggs." The only reason why a far future society on a exo planet would impose socialistic controls on the economy after the disastrous experience with socialism on Earth, is for temporary emergency reasons due to the need to survive. A faction who would want such controls to be permanent would definitely fall in the category of faction-controlled (ie national controlled) socialism. If it sounds bad, it's because it is. But in a dystopian scifi future, why not?

Actually since he did not request communism this is not as bad as it looks to you. His asking for a market means that he probably aknowledges the parallel processing capability of innovation in market based systems, which is exactly not a planned economy like the one that was unable to manage anything but the most brute force effort of industrialisation in the UDSSR. But in combining it with the hallmarks of socialism is becomes a guided market, where the governement has some say about the direction it takes to protect ists citizens.

Its basically what we had in western europe for more than 60 years now (coupled with a democratic government). And i dare say it worked quite well for us. Its a balance act between promoting innovation and entrepreneurship and stewardship of social security for the citizens. But since that would not be a new technology i might have misinterpreted it. Or its just a new tech for the US based folks, who grab their fire arms and run for the hills when they just hear someone say "socialism"

 

[Osmotic]

Actually since he did not request communism this is not as bad as it looks to you. His asking for a market means that he probably aknowledges the parallel processing capability of innovation in market based systems, which is exactly not a planned economy like the one that was unable to manage anything but the most brute force effort of industrialisation in the UDSSR. But in combining it with the hallmarks of socialism is becomes a guided market, where the governement has some say about the direction it takes to protect ists citizens.

Its basically what we had in western europe for more than 60 years now (coupled with a democratic government). And i dare say it worked quite well for us. Its a balance act between promoting innovation and entrepreneurship and stewardship of social security for the citizens. But since that would not be a new technology i might have misinterpreted it. Or its just a new tech for the US based folks, who grab their fire arms and run for the hills when they just hear someone say "socialism"

Yes. It's called social democracy, or Christian democracy, it's alter ego from across the aisle: bland, boring systems that can muster neither political will on the international stage, nor significant rise in standard of living. But I digress. These are not very exciting systems to tinker with in a scifi inspired strategy game. Extremists and lunatics focused on technology, religion, ecology, business, philosophy, militarism or any mix of the above make for better entertainment. So why not add anarchists, communists, national-Bolsheviks, techno-fascists, Eco-nuts, etc with some fun flavor around each one to provide context to some interesting strategies, all the while making them sufficiently different from their historical inspiration to avoid triggering some bad memories in people like Krajzen in Poland who have suffered too much under left wing totalitarianism.

 

[s0nny80y]

http://noosphere.princeton.edu/

This might fall under a Harmony focused tech.

 

[3of5]

http://noosphere.princeton.edu/

This might fall under a Harmony focused tech.

looks more like esotherical than real science to me. It would be more interesting to look at levels of consciousness when processing data globally from a sociological viewpoint, since there are parallels between how an individuum processes data and how a culture does as a whole. But influencing RNGs by alligning a lot of people culturally? This mocks the very concept of a noosphere. This is not a princeton project, but a private project of a princton employee. And individual humans can be all kinds of strange

 

[Phii]

Maybbe the wrong thread, but i would actually like to see flying alien, that can only be attacked by ranged units and flying units..

Sence they have "Sea Dragon" maybbe we could get a Flying Dragon.. You know shwooping to kill satelites and ground units and attacking planes etc...

 

[SupremacyKing]

Maybbe the wrong thread, but i would actually like to see flying alien, that can only be attacked by ranged units and flying units..

Sence they have "Sea Dragon" maybbe we could get a Flying Dragon.. You know shwooping to kill satelites and ground units and attacking planes etc...

Your wish has been granted. In the live stream, Pete Murray mentions that there will be flying alien life form called the raptor that will fly around and specifically target your civilian units.

 

[Phii]

Your wish has been granted. In the live stream, Pete Murray mentions that there will be flying alien life form called the raptor that will fly around and specifically target your civilian units.

Uuh then i missed that.. (well english isnt mother tongue)... I do hope it looks mean.. Rly bad ass..

Maybbe form of European myths Dragons.. or something like that..

Rly to be feared.. Burning all the lands. eating your city members etc..



Actually now i am starting to hope that the "Dragons win" not aliens, not us but Dragons.. and well yeah Cats or "kittens"

 

[Siciliankid99]

Well my wish came true (kind of) as the the tech that leads from terraforming is planetary engineering which might be terraforming on a bigger scale I bet and also the 2 sub-techs are a supremacy and purity techs. I forget what the purity tech began with but the supremacy one began with geos... I have no idea what the supremacy tech does but the purity might be a tech needed for the promised land victory when it says terraform the planet into a mirror of Earth.