What's up with Radio?

[dmanakho]

Is it a bug or is it a feature of C3C?
Anytime I start new game and no matter which civilization I choose (I always use random) one of the technologies that is given to Civ is Radio...
It sounds kinda stupid, you have masonry and pottery and Radio in 4000BC..
is it just me or someone else saw that too??
What is this all about?

 

[HellboundHeathcliff]

One of the patches did away with the radio tech and what you are seeing is a bug with the way it was handled. The 1.22 patch fixes some of it.

 

[dmanakho]

Thanks,
I thought i applied patch, I will have to double check it....

 

[HellboundHeathcliff]

just fire up the game and check the lower left corner of the main menu.

 

[Bootstoots]

Why was radio removed?

 

[Smellincoffee]

Probably to make the industrial era less crowded..

 

[KingTux]

It was more of a design issue thing. I remember reading in another thread that it was because it didn't match up the tech tree logic of the other eras (You can build a decent unit for attacking fairly quickly if you choose the lower route, or you can have a superb unit if you're willing to wait a while on the upper tract and get culture along the way). It's for some reason like that. If you don't like it, remember that it can always be modded in fairly easily .